For journalists
A personal CRM for journalists — your source book, on your device, owned by no newsroom.
Source protection isn't a policy, it's an architecture decision. Endearist keeps your contacts, ground rules, and who-knows-whom notes locally on your machine — not in a newsroom tool, not in someone's cloud, not one subpoena away from a server you've never seen.
Notes about sources never touch a server you don't control
A note that connects a name to a leaked document is the most dangerous text you own. Endearist is local-first: everything lives on your device, full stop. If you want it on a second device, sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted with a key only you hold — the relay never sees plaintext. No vendor can be compelled to hand over what it cannot read, and no analytics pipeline ever learns who you talk to.
Ground rules, per source, written down once
Was that ministry official on background or deep background? Did the lawyer agree to be quoted by role but not name? Memory is how those promises get broken. Endearist's relationship journal gives every source a timeline: the ground rules you agreed, what was said at the off-record coffee in March, what you promised in return. When a story finally runs eight months later, you can check exactly what you're allowed to use.
Who-knows-whom is the real beat map
The press officer used to work in the minister's office. The compliance consultant who tipped you off was introduced by a lawyer you met covering an entirely different trial. Stories break along these introduction paths. Note in Endearist who introduced whom, who used to work where, who owes whom a favor — and when you need a way into a closed institution, you can trace the two-hop route instead of cold-calling the front desk.
Keep slow sources warm before you need them on deadline
The forensic accountant you call twice a year, the union insider who only talks when trust is fresh, the retired regulator who knows where everything is buried — these contacts are worthless if your first message in eighteen months is a request. Per-contact cadence lets you set each source's natural rhythm, and the warmth score shows whose trust is quietly expiring. Check in when you need nothing; that's what makes the deadline call answerable.
Your source book survives every newsroom you pass through
Outlets fold, desks merge, staff jobs become freelance ones. The newsroom CRM, the shared address book, the Slack — all stay behind. Endearist lives on your personal device from the start: import existing contacts via CSV or vCard, and export everything as plain Markdown that any text editor can read in 2040. €69 once, no subscription tied to an employer's expense system. A career in journalism is the contacts you keep; keep them somewhere that's actually yours.
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