BSC AI Factory — Call 2 · Barcelona
StorIA
Journalism-first AI.
Transparency by default.
Storydata
Company
Communication
& Media Sector
storydata.cat
🗞️💥
The Problem
Newsrooms
under
pressure
- Media revenues collapsing — no sustainable model
- Journalists fired, verification cut, quality suffers
- Social media bots + AI → disinformation spiral
- Many outlets now funded by governments, losing independence
01 / Problem
The AI Problem
AI is the
new search
engine
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — trained on opaque data mixing true and false — are replacing Google for millions of citizens.
74%
of media leaders fear
traffic loss to AI
+50%
Wikipedia bot traffic
feeding AI models
Reuters Institute, 2025
02 / AI Crisis
The Stakes
Opaque AI fed with disinformation is a threat to democracy
Gartner (2018): by 2022, fake information would surpass real news in Western countries. AI amplifies this exponentially — with frequent hallucinations and no source traceability.
03 / Stakes
Our Solution
Meet
StorIA
An AI agent embedded inside data-driven journalistic stories. Readers interrogate verified sources, datasets and methodology in real time. Journalists accelerate production without sacrificing accuracy.
📰
Data Story
→
🗄️
Curated
Datasets
→
🤖
RAG Agent
(StorIA)
→
✅
Verified
Answer
04 / Solution
How it works
Journalism-first AI.
Not AI journalism.
- For journalists: query verified datasets, accelerate fact-checking
- For readers: ask questions about sources & methodology, live
- RAG architecture grounded in curated sources → hallucination-resistant by design
- AirOps + LLM (Claude/Anthropic) pipeline with full public methodology
- Explainable algorithms — no black boxes
05 / How it works
🏛️
Live Validation
VictorIA
is live
Pilot for CSIC — Residència d'Estudiants. Publicly accessible. Validated by the institution. Cross-referencing data surfaced historically invisible women — proving StorIA's potential beyond journalism into knowledge discovery.
mujeresid.residenciadeestudiantes.com
06 / Validation
The Team
Few but loud 📣
👩💻
Eli Vivas
CEO · 100% dedicated
Journalist UPF + Linguistics UAB. Co-founder of Verificat. BBVA-Civio Innovadata Prize. Prof. UPF, Blanquerna, CEU.
👩🎨
Cristina Claverol
Lead Visualization Designer
30 years infographics at El Periódico. SND & Malofiej Awards. Dashboards for Generalitat & Diputació.
📊
Carlos Albaladejo
Data Journalist & Developer
Built VictorIA. Python, D3.js, SQL. EU project LIBECCIO. Automated workflows for ACN.
📣
Nerea Aparicio
Communications & Social Media
BA Journalism. Digital News Report, Reuters Institute / Oxford University.
📣
Núria Molins
Communications & Research
BA Journalism + Economics. Digital News Report, Reuters Institute / Oxford University.
07 / Team
mujeresid.residenciadeestudiantes.com
Live · VictorIA × CSIC
08 / Live Pilot
Traction
Numbers
that speak
€150K
Next Gen EU Grant
(women-led tech)
900%
Academy growth
7→17+ courses
€220K
2026 revenue
projected
Clients: Generalitat de Catalunya (Health, Justice) · Diputació de Barcelona · Forbes · ACN · Reuters Institute/Oxford · EU LIBECCIO Interreg-Euromed
10 / Traction
Why BSC AI Factory
ALIA + HPC
= Sovereign AI
for journalism
- Fine-tune ALIA (Salamandra 40B) for verified data journalism via RAG
- Replace proprietary API dependency with open, auditable, EU-sovereign agent
- HPC access for training · Data Space for dataset management
- Only team combining data journalism + AI + visualization in the ecosystem
- On-site 3+ days/week at Pier 07, Barcelona
11 / BSC Fit
StorIA · Storydata
Let's build
the future of
verified
journalism
"Data is forgotten. Stories are not."
storydata.cat
12 / Gràcies · Thank you
