Sources

Add optional material that can make selected Ideas and Articles more specific and grounded.

Sources can contain product facts, approved language, internal research, or examples. They are optional: you can build a Strategy and generate Ideas from the Site Profile alone. When you do use Sources, review every generated claim against the original material.

Use material responsibly. Add only content you have the right to use, keep sensitive information out of Sources, and remove outdated material. Saved context can improve a brief, but it does not guarantee factual accuracy or complete retrieval.

First-Party Sources

The Source library contains reusable first-party context for the current Site.

Your uploaded files, pasted text, and pages imported from the Site's own website can be selected for later Idea and Article work.

Each Source shows one of these origin labels:

File: A document uploaded from your device.
Own Site: A public page imported from the current Site's domain.
Paste: Text entered directly in Tallpine.

External pages discovered during Article research are run-scoped. Tallpine searches for current public sources each time, uses them during that Article Pipeline, and does not add them to this reusable library.

Add a Source

Open Sources, choose Add Source, and select one of three methods.

Upload

Drag files into the upload area or browse your device. You can queue multiple supported files and review the upload result for each one.

PDF (.pdf)
Word (.docx)
Plain text (.txt)
Markdown (.md)
HTML (.html)
CSV (.csv)

The maximum size is 10 MB per file. Password-protected, empty, unsupported, or damaged files may not be extractable.

Import URL

Enter the URL of one publicly accessible page from the current Site and choose Import Source. Tallpine extracts the page and labels it as Own Site. Competitor and other external pages are researched fresh during Article generation instead of being saved here.

Use Site Research when you want to discover and review multiple pages from your own website rather than importing a single known URL.

Paste Text

Add a clear title and paste the approved text directly. This works well for notes, interview excerpts, messaging guidance, or short material that does not need its own file.

Processing and Review

Uploaded and imported material is processed before it is available to planning and generation. The Source row shows its current state:

Extracting: Tallpine is still preparing the content.
An origin label: the Source is ready and its provenance is visible.
Needs Attention: extraction failed; inspect the message, then replace or re-import the Source.

Open a Source to inspect its saved text, origin, date, and length. This is the best time to catch navigation clutter, incomplete extraction, or outdated claims.

How Source Selection Works

Sources do not feed the Content Strategy. Adding a Source makes it available for Idea generation, but does not automatically attach it to every future Article.

When you generate Ideas, choose the specific Sources that should ground that Idea batch.
Tallpine records that selection with the generated Ideas.
An Article created from one of those Ideas inherits the same selected Sources. Create Articles does not ask you to select them again.

A Source carries into an Article only when it was selected for that Article's Idea generation run. See Ideas for the complete review and approval workflow.

Choose Focused, Current Material

Start with authoritative product guides, case studies, research notes, customer language, FAQs, or approved messaging.
Prefer a few Sources that directly answer the Article's question over a large, loosely related set.
Use authoritative first-party Sources for claims about your business.
Keep dates, prices, product names, and policy details current.
Review the final Draft even when the right Source was selected. Relevant material can still be omitted or interpreted incorrectly.

Delete a Source

Deleting a Source removes it from future planning and Article work. Existing Articles remain unchanged. If a first-party Source informed the imported Site Profile, Tallpine marks that Site context for refresh.

Deletion cannot be undone. Open the Source first, confirm its origin and title, and replace it with current material when future work still needs the same context.