Swine & Syntax

Research, editing and clear presentation.

Chinese-language research, careful editing, well-designed reports and academic websites — directed and reviewed by a human editor working with a crew of AI models.

RESEARCH

…the rule took effect in March 2021.3

3 · Official notice, published 2 March 2021
EDITING
10,000 字
2,500 字
Cut to what’s needed. Arguments and evidence stay.
REPORTS
One chart, one line on what it means.
WEBSITES
Bilingual scholar pages
What we deliver · illustrations, not client work

What the pig does

01

Research & fact-checking

Chinese-language sources found, verified and organized into a report where every claim points back to where it came from.

02

Chinese editing & review

You already have the Chinese — AI-generated, translated, or built on sources. You want to know whether it actually holds up. We give it an independent second pass: errors and made-up claims flagged, filler cut, and the rest made to read naturally.

03

Report design

Messy notes and data turned into a clean document. One chart per point, each with a one-line reading of what it means.

04

Academic websites

Personal sites for researchers and graduate students: bilingual, fast, and deployable on free hosting.

See pricing and turnaround →

Why work with us

IF YOU’RE TIRED OF…
  • Having to book a call first
  • Not knowing if, or how, AI was used
  • Being told it’s “done”, with no word on what couldn’t be checked
  • One person checking their own work
  • A final file, and no record of how it was made
  • Asking for a quote before seeing any price
SWINE & SYNTAX
  • Everything in writing, no calls
  • Open about which AI we use, and you can choose
  • Every delivery says what we checked, and what we couldn’t confirm
  • Models check each other; a human decides
  • A full work log of every step, on request
  • Starting prices on the page, and a $24 trial
“…such was the unperturbed state in which the wise man should keep himself.”— Pyrrho of Elis, pointing at a little pig that went on eating through a storm at sea. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers IX.68

Pyrrho founded a school of philosophical skepticism, and his philosophy goes much further than anything on this page. We only borrow a working attitude from the story.

Check before you believe. And when everyone else is panicking about the storm of information, keep your head down, like the pig, and get on with the work.

The pencil behind its ear is blue, the colour editors have always used to mark up a page.

Who “we” is

THE HUMAN

One editor with a background in journalism

Runs every project: sets the goal, decides which model does what, weighs what comes back, sends work back when it isn’t right, and signs off on every page.

THE MACHINES

A small crew of AI models

Do the legwork: searching, sorting, first drafts, cross-checking. Fast and tireless, and never trusted without a second look.

HOW THE PIG RUNS A PROJECT
  1. Pin down what you actually need
  2. Give each part to the model best suited to it
  3. Compare what comes back, and the evidence behind it
  4. Decide what stays, and send the rest back for revision
  5. Check it through and deliver

Models often disagree about the same piece of work, and sometimes they agree on something wrong. Neither settles it: the pig weighs their views against your goal and makes the call. Not every model works on every project — the line-up depends on the job.

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Confidential material? Say so in your first email, before attaching anything. Everything is agreed in writing before work starts. Direct projects are invoiced in US dollars, payable by card or bank transfer. Prefer to hire through a platform? We are also on Upwork.