Write for us

Artifipedia publishes long-form writing about how AI systems actually behave, from people who work with them. Practitioners, researchers, students, founders and specialists in the domains where these systems get deployed. If you have something specific to say that you can source, we want to read it.

We do not pay. Nobody is paid to write here, including the editors. What a published piece gives you is a permanent, properly edited, fully sourced article under your own name and bio, on a site that does not take vendor money and does not publish promotional content. In a field where most writing is marketing, that is not nothing, and it is the whole of the offer.

What we publish

The strongest submissions are ones only the author could write. That usually means one of four things.

• Something that failed, documented. A deployment that did not work, why, and what the numbers were. This is the most valuable and least written thing in the field.
• Evidence from your domain. What AI is actually doing in medicine, law, education, manufacturing, agriculture, logistics or anywhere else, from someone who is there rather than someone reading about it.
• A measurement problem. A benchmark that does not measure what it claims, a metric that hides a failure, an evaluation that cannot support its conclusion.
• A correction. A widely repeated claim that does not survive checking, with the checking shown.

What we do not publish

• Tool round-ups and best-of lists. They date within a quarter and there are thousands already.
• Prompt technique articles. Commodity content with a shelf life measured in model releases.
• Anything promotional. If the piece would work with your company's logo on it, it is the wrong piece.
• Introductions to well-covered topics. A general explanation of transformers is not needed from anyone.
• Predictions. Say what is unresolved and why. Let the reader extrapolate.

Originality, plagiarism and AI

The work must be yours, unpublished, and mostly your own thinking. These are not formalities and each one is checked.

• Plagiarism ends the conversation permanently. Submissions are checked against published sources. A single unattributed passage means the piece is rejected and no future submission from that author is read.
• The ideas should be yours. Synthesising other people's work is fine when the synthesis itself is the contribution and the sources are credited. Restating someone else's argument as your own is not.
• Unpublished, and exclusive on publication. We do not accept pieces that already exist elsewhere, including on your own blog or on Medium. After publication you may link to it anywhere.
• On AI assistance. Using a model to check grammar, tighten a sentence or catch an error is normal and fine. Submitting text you did not reason through yourself is not. It is also easy to spot: the argument holds no position, the examples are generic, and the citations do not support what they are attached to. Those go back unread after the first page.
• Every claim needs a source. Cited inline, primary where possible. If a number cannot be traced to something specific, cut the number.

About links, which is where these pages usually go wrong

Author bio links carry rel=nofollow, and there are no links in article bodies to commercial sites. This is stated plainly because it matters to both parties.

Guest posting is one of the most abused link-building tactics on the web, and search engines treat article links placed for that purpose as a violation. A site that hands out followed links to anyone who submits an article is building a liability, and a contributor who wants one is not a contributor. Your bio links to your LinkedIn and one personal or professional site, nofollowed, and readers who want to find you will.

If a followed link was the point of the submission, this page has saved us both some time.

What gets published with your piece

Your full name, the profession you give us, a short bio in your own words, and a link to your LinkedIn profile. The byline is permanent and the piece is not altered after publication except to correct an error, which is logged on the corrections page.

How the edit works

The edit is real. Structure, sourcing, clarity and length are all in scope, and pieces frequently change substantially between submission and publication. Every article carries a counter-argument section and a statement of what remains unresolved, because that is the house standard and it applies to everyone. Nothing publishes without the author seeing and approving the final version.

Send us a pitch

A pitch is better than a finished draft. Tell us the argument and we will tell you quickly whether it fits, which saves you writing something we cannot use.

Common questions

Do you pay for guest posts?

No. Nobody is paid to write here, including the editors. What a published piece gives you is a permanent, indexed, properly sourced article under your own name and bio on a site with a strict editorial standard, which is worth something in a field where most published writing is promotional.

Who can write for Artifipedia?

Anyone who works in or studies the subject and has something specific to say. Practitioners, researchers, students, founders and specialists in domains where AI is being deployed are all welcome. What matters is a defensible argument you can source, not a title.

What kind of article gets accepted?

Something you know that is not already well covered. A failure you can document, a measurement problem you have hit, evidence from your own domain, or an argument that a widely repeated claim does not hold. The strongest submissions are ones only the author could write.

Do you accept AI-written articles?

No. Using a model to check grammar, tighten a sentence or catch an error is fine and normal. Submitting text you did not think through yourself is not, and it is usually obvious: the argument has no position, the examples are generic and the sources do not support the claims. Those are rejected without a second read.

Can I include a link to my company or product?

Not in the body. Your author bio may link to your LinkedIn profile and one personal or professional site, and those links carry rel=nofollow. Articles that exist to place a link are the main thing this page is designed to filter out.

How long should a submission be?

Long enough to make the argument and no longer. Most published pieces run 1,500 to 3,500 words because that is what a properly sourced argument takes. A 700-word overview of a topic already covered elsewhere will not be accepted at any length.

What are the sourcing requirements?

Every factual claim needs a source a reader can check, cited inline. Primary sources are strongly preferred over coverage of them. If a number cannot be traced to something specific, remove the number or remove the claim.

How long does a response take?

Pitches usually get an answer within a week. Full drafts take longer because they are read properly. If you have not heard back in two weeks, send a follow-up rather than assuming a rejection.

What happens after a piece is accepted?

It gets edited, and the edit is real. Structure, sourcing and clarity are all fair game, and nothing publishes without the author seeing the final version. Your name, bio and photo run with the piece, and the byline is yours permanently.