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.
…the rule took effect in March 2021.3
3 · Official notice, published 2 March 2021What the pig does
Research & fact-checking
The sources are in Chinese, and reading them yourself is either impossible or a week you do not have. We find them, check them against the original, and say plainly what we could not confirm.
Chinese editing & review
Chinese text you want a second reader on — because you did not write it, cannot check every claim, or are simply too close to it. We catch what the machine invented, cut what it padded, and leave your argument alone.
Report design
Good work that nobody reads, because of how it looks on the page. Laid out so the point of each page is visible before it is read.
Academic websites
Somewhere a supervisor or a search committee can actually find you — in both languages, and deployable on free hosting.
Why work with us
- 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
- 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
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.
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.
- Pin down what you actually need
- Give each part to the model best suited to it
- Compare what comes back, and the evidence behind it
- Decide what stays, and send the rest back for revision
- 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.
See how this site was made →- The Pig (human) — asks the questions, makes the calls, and answers for every page that leaves the studio.
- Devil (Claude Opus 5) — digs up and verifies material, and handles the visual side. Named for devil’s-advocate review.
- CC (Claude Code, Opus 4.6) — drafting, restructuring and shipping; the fastest from an idea to a finished file.
- Coco (Codex, GPT-6 Astra) — code maintenance, security review, and an independent second pass.
- Foxco (ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Sol) — studio mascot and resident guardian spirit. First reader of whatever drafts the pig carries over.
- Local Devil (Gemma 4, offline) — runs on our own machine, for material that shouldn’t go to the cloud.
Get a rough idea
We quote this one after reading your material, because the work depends entirely on how hard the sources are to find. $25/hour with a cap you agree first, and projects start at $120.
An estimate, not a quote. We read your material first; if it is easier than you picked, you pay less. Enquiries are shared with our AI crew by default. Read how we handle your material before sending sensitive details.
Have something that needs digging through?
hello@swine.inkEnquiries are shared with our AI crew by default. Read how we handle your material before sending sensitive details.
Or start small with a fact-check →