Story-centric editing
Typed segments for anchor reads, VOs, SOTs, packages and live. Live co-editing with cursors. Timing at each anchor’s own reading speed. Word-level history and approval gates for editor, legal and managing editor.
Neo Newsroom
The story
is the atom.
The script, the prompter, the web article and the post are all views of one story. Change it once. It changes everywhere. From the first wire to the last post, nothing is ever copied, and nothing falls out of step.
Five ideas behind Neo
Five ideas.
One newsroom.
The story is the atom
Script, prompter text, web article, social copy, graphics and media live in one story. The rundown and every platform show views of it, never copies.
Every change is an event
Each edit is recorded for good. History, undo, audit and reports all come from the same log.
Air is sacred
Nothing automated reaches air or a public platform without a named person’s approval. AI proposes; journalists decide.
Open at every edge
MOS to playout, graphics and prompters. OpenAPI and GraphQL for developers. OAuth 2.1, and the Model Context Protocol for AI agents.
Your news language
News in English, Hindi or Tamil, chosen once at install. An English interface everywhere, so training and support are the same.
See it
Built for the minutes
before air.
Real screens from Neo: a rundown on air, a Hindi story with its prompter preview, and the rundown on a phone.
Capabilities
Everything the newsroom touches. In one place.
The assignment desk, the anchor’s prompter, the control room and the digital desk, finally looking at the same thing.
Rundowns and live timing
A fast grid for bulletins of 200 rows and more. Back-timing to a hard out, floats, locks during air, breaking-news insert, and each row’s cued, playing or played state straight from playout.
MOS to air
MOS 2.8.3 and 2.6 to playout servers, graphics systems such as Vizrt, and prompters, with story-level updates and automatic resync after a reconnect.
Ingest and wires
Agency FTP, feeds, mailboxes, WhatsApp forwards, uploads and live feed recording, all in one queue with a breaking-news lane. Nothing unverified reaches air.
Media checks and AI
Black, freeze and loudness checks on every file. Transcripts in English, Hindi and Tamil and text-in-picture reading, on your own servers.
Publishing
Website, YouTube, Facebook, X and Instagram from your own accounts, each with approvals, quotas, scheduling, embargo and a kill switch.
AI that proposes
Fourteen story tools, from drafting and translation to headlines and fact checks. Every result is a proposal a person confirms, with personal data stripped before any request leaves Neo.
Secure by design
Two-step verification, sign-in that works when the internet is down, per-desk permissions, a full audit trail and protected sources.
Built for the Mac
Your whole newsroom.
On one Mac.
Neo’s single-server edition puts the entire newsroom (stories, rundowns, MOS, ingest, media and publishing) on one Mac mini with Apple silicon. In Skycast’s own stress test, a 16 GB Mac served 60 people working at once.
88% cheaper
A small newsroom of up to 60 people and ten bulletins a day runs on one Mac mini. No server room to build first.
87% less power, 95% quieter
Apple silicon sips power and runs near silent, so Neo can live in the newsroom itself, not behind a locked door with the air conditioning.
Keeps working offline
Sign-in works when the internet is down, and Neo can answer its own name on the network, so the newsroom keeps going.
Backed up as it goes
Continuous database archiving and point-in-time restore, so every story is safe the moment it is written.
Neo Newsroom on a Mac mini
Rock-solid, 24/7.
For a fraction of everything.
A complete Neo newsroom runs on a Mac mini. Here is how that compares with a typical broadcast server built on an Intel Core i9 and an NVIDIA RTX 5070.
- 88%cheaper
- 87%less power
- 98.4%less space
- 95%quieter
| Mac mini (M4)1 | Typical broadcast server | |
|---|---|---|
| Price5 | ₹80,000 | about ₹6,50,000 |
| Power | 4 W idle, 65 W maximum | Core i9-14900K up to 253 W plus RTX 5070 250 W, on an 800 W power supply2 |
| Noise | 5 dBA | about 50 dBA under load3 |
| Size | 12.7 × 12.7 × 5.0 cm (0.8 litres) | 4U rack chassis, 43 × 18 × 64 cm (49 litres)4 |
- Apple’s published specifications for Mac mini (2024) with M4: power measured at the wall, typical sound pressure at the operator position, and size.
- Manufacturers’ ratings for the Intel Core i9-14900K (253 W maximum turbo) and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (250 W total graphics power). A complete system draws more.
- Supermicro’s rating for a 4U server under high load. Perceived loudness roughly halves with every 10 dB, so a 45 dB gap sounds about 20 times, or 95%, quieter.
- A typical 4U rack chassis.
- Typical purchase prices in India.
Mac and Mac mini are trademarks of Apple Inc.
Works with
Connects to the gear
you already trust.
Ready-made device profiles for leading playout, graphics and prompter systems, and open interfaces for everything else.
Playout over MOS
- Meridian
- Karthavya QuickEdge
- Grass Valley
- Etere
- Primestream
- SI Media
- Sony
Graphics
- Vizrt Gateway
- Viz Media Sequencer
- Viz Pilot Edge
- Pilot Data Server
- WASP3D
- ClassX
- Any MOS graphics system
Prompters
- Autoscript
- Cuescript
- Telescript
- Samvad
- VSGP
- Neo browser prompter
- Plain-text feed
Publishing and messaging
- WordPress
- REST content systems
- YouTube
- X
- WhatsApp Business
- Microsoft Teams
- Slack
Ingest
- SFTP
- FTPS
- FTP
- RSS
- Atom
- NewsML-G2
- NITF
- JSON and XML
- IMAP
- Microsoft 365 mail
- Gmail
- Resumable uploads
- SRT
- MPEG-TS
- RTMP
- NDI
Editing and developers
- Adobe Premiere Pro panel
- REST (OpenAPI 3.1)
- GraphQL with subscriptions
- Signed webhooks
- OAuth 2.1
- Model Context Protocol
A device profile is a starting point; each device’s settings are confirmed with its vendor on integration day. All product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Editorial
- One story record, many versions: broadcast, prompter, web, Facebook, YouTube and short video
- Typed segments: anchor read, VO, SOT, package, live, graphic and break, each timed
- Live co-editing with presence, full history and word-level comparison
- Approval gates for editor, legal and managing editor, with named sign-off
- Cue cards showing each graphic and clip’s device state, in, duration and out
- Your own story formats, categories, regions and daily story numbers
- Production checklist flags and an air window on every story
- Pools of ready stories, comments and threads, trash and restore
Rundowns
- A fast grid for bulletins of 200 rows and more, with custom columns per show
- Live timing, back-timing to a hard out, over/under, floats, blocks and breaks
- Locks during air with producer override and audit
- Air state from playout: cued, playing, played, and media readiness per row
- Automatic bulletin lifecycle; read-only after air, reopen with a reason
- Show schedules that create bulletins days ahead and refuse studio clashes
- Breaking-news insert in one action
- Print and PDF with correct Hindi and Tamil shaping; CSV, Excel and JSON import and export
MOS and broadcast
- MOS 2.8.3 and 2.6, profiles 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7
- Playout, graphics and prompters on one rundown, at once
- Story-level updates with strict acknowledgement and automatic resync
- House clip IDs, house-file rendering and delivery to the playout server
- House format XDCAM HD422 MXF 1080i50; ProRes 4444 for keyed material
- Optional Neo Viz Gateway service; HTML plugin host in the story editor
- MOS simulator included for testing and training
Ingest and media
- Agency landing zone with one locked account per agency and growing-file support
- Per-source queues with a breaking-news lane; deduplication and event clustering
- Language detection and provenance on every item; nothing unverified reaches air
- Live feed recording over SRT, MPEG-TS, RTMP or NDI
- Black, freeze, EBU R128 loudness, frame rate and alpha checks on every file
- H.264 proxies for browsing; C2PA content credentials read on arrival
- Rights, expiry and embargo enforced at every output
- Where-used tracking before any media is archived or deleted
Media AI, on your servers
- Speech to text in English, Hindi and Tamil with whisper.cpp
- Text-in-picture reading of lower-thirds, captions and tickers in all three scripts with Tesseract
- Object and scene tags on a few keyframes per clip; Neo never identifies people
- No audio leaves the building
AI assistant
- Fourteen tools: draft, translate, rephrase, change register, grammar, summarise, shorten, headlines, tags, lower-third, social post, fact check, duplicates and slug
- Every result is a proposal with a comparison view, confirmed by a person
- Fact guard flags changed numbers, names, places, dates and times
- Personal data replaced before any request leaves Neo; every request audited
- Instant off switch, model per task and a monthly budget
- MCP server: six read tools and four proposal-only write tools
Publishing
- Website, YouTube, Facebook, X and Instagram from your own accounts
- One job per platform, so one failure never blocks another
- Tiered approvals, quota budgets in priority order, pre-flight checks
- Clips cut from air by timecode, loudness-normalised, vertical renders and captions, C2PA-signed
- Scheduling, embargo, kill switch and takedown; every platform starts in sandbox
Collaboration and planning
- Desk channels, direct and group messages, and a thread on every story
- Notification centre; Teams, Slack and WhatsApp connectors with approve actions
- Assignment desk, planning calendar, contacts with protected sources, guest booking
- Stringer register with rate cards and monthly reports
- Reports by newsroom, desk and person; story ratings
Security and privacy
- Neo accounts with 2-step verification; sign-in works when the internet is down
- OAuth 2.1 for apps, services and AI agents
- Twelve built-in roles plus custom roles, with per-desk permissions
- Full audit trail, including reads of sensitive material
- Per-record encryption of contact data; erasure on request; consent records
- Signed webhooks, rate limits and a content security policy
Clients
- Web app for desktop and tablet, with a phone layout for reporters and approvers
- Browser prompter with mirror, speed and size controls and an offline fallback
- Control-room wall board
- Android and iOS app with biometric lock and remote wipe
- Adobe Premiere Pro panel (Premiere Pro 25.6 or later)
Platform
- Native on macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon
- The whole newsroom on one Mac: 60 people at once in Skycast’s stress test on a 16 GB Mac
- Server: Node.js, Go, PostgreSQL and NATS JetStream
- Continuous backups, point-in-time restore and a training instance
- Delivered on USB with checksums; no licence keys
Languages
Your news.
Your language.
English, Hindi or Tamil, chosen once and honoured everywhere: the keyboard, the spell-check, the timing, the print. Anything that arrives in another language is flagged and offered for translation before it can go anywhere near air.
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நிதிநிலை அறிக்கை இன்று தாக்கல்
Budget session begins today
Deployment
Yours. Not rented.
Every newsroom runs its own Neo on its own hardware, and a small newsroom’s whole system fits on a single Mac. It arrives on a USB drive with its documentation and checksums. No licence key. No surprises.
Watch a bulletin come together.
From the first wire to the last word on air. We’ll show you every step.
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