Gathr

Gathr's premise sits in the heading of a section on its own site: the information "already exists", and the problem is "turning it into something usable". The same concert shows up on the organiser's website, on a social media page, in an RSS feed, in a PDF press release, in an API response and in a CSV export — each with its own format and its own noise, and the date written five different ways. The platform runs all of those sources through one five-stage flow — monitoring, extraction, normalisation, deduplication, publishing — and delivers a single structured record at the end.

Monitoring covers six kinds of source — web pages, including those that load content as you scroll, social media pages and events, RSS/Atom feeds and sitemaps, JSON-LD data and ICS calendars, email and APIs, PDF documents — in scheduled runs with a volume cap per run. From each source it extracts the fields that matter for the domain and leaves menus, ads and cookie banners behind. Normalisation turns "14.10", "Oct 14, 7:00 PM" and an ISO timestamp into the same date, and deduplication recognises the same information under different titles, URLs and formats and merges it into one record more complete than any single source, with every source kept and traceable. The record then goes to a website, a feed, a newsletter or an app, with SEO and Schema.org structured data already filled in.

Editorial control is one of the three principles on the About page, summed up there in one line: "the platform proposes; the human decides". A change arriving from a source shows up as a per-field diff and waits for the client's decision, manually edited content is not overwritten on reprocessing, and every run, change and publication stays in the history with its source, time and author. The client also chooses, source by source, how far the text goes — a faithful import, an adaptation to their own editorial style, or a new article built from the facts of several sources — and, under the terms, carries the obligation to configure only sources they have the legal right to process. The same platform is adapted to twelve verticals, from events and e-commerce to public procurement, EU funding and legislative monitoring.