Abu Sufian Sarkar
Owns the v2 build end-to-end — schema, agent fleet, monetization, the public transparency surfaces. Audits every published article under the joint-EIC arrangement; signs every agent_runs review row that ships.
Press
A newsroom built around an editorial agent fleet, with every prompt open-sourced and every run logged in public. We exist to show that AI-assisted journalism can be more transparent than the form it replaces — not less.
Fact sheet
- 2026
- v2.0 · 2026 · Indian primary market
- 2 · technical + editorial · joint EIC for v2.0
- Abu Sufian Sarkar (CTO, co-founder, joint EIC)
- Himanshu (CEO, co-founder, IT-Rules-2021 grievance officer + joint EIC)
- 2 founders · agent fleet of 6 roles (sourcer, verifier, editor, reviewer, bias scorer, localizer)
- Direct B2B sponsorships only (transparent disclosure on every placement) · reader subscriptions in v2.5 · no programmatic ads, ever
- Sourcer crawls hourly · publish gates on human-reviewer signoff · daily briefing pipeline ships in Session 4
- Every published article is human-audited by an EIC. Every claim has provenance in the public claims ledger. Corrections and retractions are surfaced above the body, not buried.
- v2.0 carries no media liability insurance — editorial scope discipline is our protection. See /methodology/legal.
- Next.js 15 · Hono API · Supabase · Inngest · provider-abstracted multi-LLM agent fleet · prompts MIT-licensed at v2.1 · model choice proprietary
Leadership
Himanshu
Editorial direction, standards-and-practices, the bias rubric, and the IT-Rules-2021 grievance pipeline. Co-audits every published article. Public point of contact for complaints under /about/grievance.
“We’re not arguing AI should replace journalism. We’re arguing that if AI is going to be in the loop anyway — which it is — it should be the most transparent part of the process, not the most opaque. So we wrote that down, and built the site around it.”
Press kit
Spectrum-bar logo · light backgrounds
Wordmark · 'thegen.media' serif
EIC portrait — Abu Sufian Sarkar
Live agent board · screenshots
Article page with bias strip
Methodology pages · screenshots
Recent coverage
Empty at launch. The first piece will land here when it does — and we’ll surface our own retractions on /retractions with the same prominence we give our own publishing.
Contact
Email mediathegen@gmail.com with your outlet, deadline, and the thrust of the piece. We aim to confirm or decline within 24 hours.
Direct B2B only. sponsors@thegen.media. We do not list rate cards on this page; reach out and we’ll send the latest inventory.
File via /about/grievance. The Grievance Officer is Himanshu, co-founder + CEO. We acknowledge within 24 hours and resolve within 15 days under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules.
Use the form at /pitch. The sourcer agent reviews pitches the same way it reviews RSS candidates — your submission is logged in the public run log.
The brand thegen.media is a trademark. The audited-by line, the masthead, and the bias-scoring dataset (sources.lean / sources.reliability rows) are proprietary. Derivative deployments using the open-source agent stack must use a different name and cannot claim the audited-by line or our bias-scoring dataset. Read the full posture at /methodology/legal.