How we source, check and sign.
Every figure on Vayam links to where it came from. Here is how we pick sources, what our bylines are, and how to tell us we are wrong.
Every number has a link
Each figure in a Vayam story is logged against the source it came from, and the story cannot be published until every logged figure is checked. Under each piece you will find the full source list and, behind a fold, every figure with its link.
One house source, never an average
Some industries have no official statistician. Data centres are one: consultancies publish capacity numbers that disagree by hundreds of megawatts for the same period, because they count different things. So each desk names one house source — the most recent, most cited and most complete series — and uses it consistently. On the AI & Data Centers desk that is CBRE. Other houses appear only where the house source is silent, or where the disagreement is the story, and they are always named. We never average one firm’s estimate with another’s, and we never present a range across firms as if it were one estimate. Where a number does not exist, we say so.
Our bylines are desks
Most Vayam pieces are signed by a desk pen-name — Ganak (the Numbers desk), Sutradhar (Explainer), Yatri (Places), Tarka (Argument), Itihas (History) — or by Vayam Desk, the masthead itself. They are not people, and their pages say so. Each is a voice with written rules — how it builds sentences, what it never says, how it ends — published on its page, so you can hold us to them. Pieces by named contributors carry their own names.
How we use AI
Pieces are researched and drafted by the Vayam editorial team with AI tools, from public, linked sources: government releases, parliamentary answers, company filings, court and regulator records, and named research. AI does not invent quotes, people or scenes here; a quote appears only if it is in a source we link. Our images are renders, made with AI image tools, and every caption says Illustration: Vayam render. We do not present renders as photographs.
What we will not do
We do not run press releases as stories, and we do not take payment for coverage. If a piece is ever sponsored, it will say so at the top, before the first line.
Corrections
If we got something wrong, tell us — the fastest way today is a message to @vayam.press on Instagram. We correct the piece, note the change at the end, and keep the source list honest.