About Plaintext

Plaintext uses AI to uncover underreported stories across finance, technology, and healthcare.

We look for patterns, anomalies, and stories that no one else has reported. When we find something, we do the deep reporting to tell it properly: with narrative, specificity, and the full weight of evidence.

Our editorial models are the Wall Street Journal's front-page features, Bloomberg Businessweek's long reads, and ProPublica's deep reporting. We write for informed, curious readers — investors, policy professionals, and engaged citizens who want original reporting they can't get anywhere else.

What we cover

We publish across three verticals:

• Financial — Corporate accounting patterns, regulatory filings, economic data divergences, and the stories hidden in quarterly reports.
• Technology — Research breakthroughs, patent filing patterns, tech antitrust and IP litigation, and forces reshaping the industry.
• Healthcare — Drug safety signals, clinical trial outcomes, FDA regulatory actions, and the business of healthcare delivery.

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