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  "id": 17011714,
  "title": "The e27 Contributor Programme: Using AI, submitting, and growing your readership — Part 2",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/the-e27-contributor-programme-using-ai-submitting-and-growing-your",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-29T04:30:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "e27",
    "slug": "e27",
    "url": "https://e27.co/the-e27-contributor-programme-using-ai-submitting-and-growing-your-readership-part-2-20261029/"
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  "account": "This guide assumes your draft is already complete. Now it's time to move from a draft to a published article. The process involves using AI intelligently, picking the right image, submitting your work, and maintaining the article's value beyond its initial publication.\n\nFirstly, use AI as a tool to assist your thinking and writing, not to create the content for you. Your unique experience, judgment, and perspective are crucial to making your article worth reading. To generate topic ideas, give AI a clear prompt that highlights your specific insights and experiences. For example, \"I'm a fintech founder in Singapore... suggest 10 article ideas for the e27 Contributor Programme. Focus on specific insights... rather than promotional topics.\"\n\nUse AI to test your article's angle. Ask it to challenge your approach, narrow a broad topic, or find questions your experience can answer. For instance, \"I'm starting with [idea]. What are three stronger or more specific angles I could explore and why would they be useful to startup founders or operators?\"\n\nResearch is another area where AI can assist. It can help you understand what information you need for your topic and identify gaps in your knowledge. For example, \"I'm writing about Southeast Asian startups expanding into Japan... provide a research checklist covering market size, customer behavior, regulation, competition, funding, and talent.\"\n\nWhen you've got your idea, research, and argument, use AI to shape them into a clear structure. Give it your argument, not a request to create one. For example, \"Here is my initial idea... create a logical article outline... don't add new arguments. Suggest where I could use examples, data, or my own experience.\"\n\nNow you have a draft, use AI to improve clarity and flow. Ask it to review your article, highlight confusing or repetitive sentences, and suggest improvements while preserving your meaning, tone, and point of view. Be mindful of AI's tendency to make writing more formal and predictable. Avoid phrases that sound overly corporate or generic.\n\nRemember, AI is not your fact-checker. It can help you identify claims that need verification, but you should verify all factual claims yourself. Ask AI to review your draft and list every factual claim that requires independent verification.\n\nFinally, let AI act as a second pair of eyes. Ask it to identify the strongest parts of your article and areas that need improvement, focusing on argument, clarity, specificity, and reader value. You can also request help with headlines, weak sections, or overly complicated paragraphs.",
  "summary": "Part one of this guide ended with a draft. This one starts there. A finished draft is a bit like a packed suitcase: the hard decisions are made, but you can still leave without your passport. Plenty of good contributor articles stumble in this last stretch, with an AI edit that sanded away the author’s […] The post The e27 Contributor Programme: Using AI, submitting, and growing your readership —…",
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        "published": "2026-10-28T18:12:13.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Amazon warns against tokenmaxxing, telling engineers that using more AI doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing better work",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/amazon-warns-against-tokenmaxxing-telling-engineers-that-using-more",
        "published": "2026-10-28T18:46:38.000Z"
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        "outlet": "TechRadar",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/amazon-warns-engineers-just-using-more-ai-doesnt-make-them-more",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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