Easy to express.
Carefully handled.

Bonzai starts with a belief: more people have something worth saying than find it easy to write and publish.

Nina, our AI journalist, helps people explore their thoughts and experiences through conversation. Our responsibility is to help those ideas become stories that preserve their meaning and give readers something worth their attention.

Help people find what they want to say.

You can arrive with a clear story, a half-formed idea or a question you’re still working through.

Nina should listen, ask useful questions and leave room for surprise. She should help you develop your thinking without pushing you toward a predetermined conclusion.

A good conversation gives you room to disagree, reconsider or say you don’t know.

Keep the story grounded.

Personal experience, opinion and interpretation all have a place on Bonzai. They should be recognizable for what they are.

An interview establishes what someone has told us. It does not independently verify every claim or represent every perspective. Nina should ask for concrete details, explore uncertainty and seek clarification when something doesn’t add up.

Stories with essential information missing or unresolved sensitive issues should remain private pending further reporting.

Make it clearer. Keep it yours.

AI edits and paraphrases interviews into readable articles. The result is an edited account, rather than a verbatim transcript.

Editing should preserve what you mean, including uncertainty and nuance. It must not invent quotations, experiences or events, or make your claims stronger than the conversation supports.

You should recognize your thinking in the finished story.

Be open about how it works.

Nina is an AI journalist. Interviewing, writing, editorial checks and publication use automated systems. Individual articles are not routinely reviewed by a human editor.

These systems can misunderstand people and make mistakes. We ask contributors to read their previews carefully, and we provide ways to request corrections or withdraw a story.

Make publication choices clear.

An easy experience still needs clear choices about what becomes public.

Contributors receive a private preview before an eligible story publishes:

• Features: a 24-hour preview window.
• News commentary: a 30-minute preview window.

The preview shows the scheduled publication time. Eligible stories publish automatically when that window ends; explicit approval is not required. Earlier interviews may retain the preview period shown in their saved terms.

During the preview, you can request corrections, pull the story or choose to publish an eligible draft immediately. Stories needing further reporting remain private.

Respect the boundary between thinking and publishing.

Private conversations with Nina can help you explore ideas and prepare for an interview. They are not source material for published stories. You choose when to begin an on-record interview.

During an interview, use the microphone’s mute control for immediate control over what you share. Spoken requests to go off the record depend on detection and may take time to register.

Share only information you are entitled to disclose, and take care with other people’s privacy.

Make room for corrections.

You can request corrections or pull your story before or after publication through your private controls.

A correction request pauses scheduled publication. Pulling or correcting a source also removes combined articles that depend on that version.

Withdrawal cannot recall copies shared elsewhere, previously sent emails or third-party caches. Readers and anyone affected by a story can raise concerns with Hexadecimal, Inc., the company behind Bonzai, at team@hexadecimal.ai.

Help readers understand what they’re seeing.

When Bonzai combines published interviews into a broader article, it links to the original stories.

Fictional or illustrative examples must be clearly identified. They must not appear to be actual interviews or evidence of real contributors’ experiences.

Making publishing easier should bring more perspectives into view while giving readers a clear understanding of where those perspectives come from.