Publisher & systems lead
BYO
Owns the product, deployment, source integrations, correction workflow, and final operating decisions. Contact routes through the public correction and contact pages.
Accountability
The people and systems behind the briefing.
Travel Risk Calculator is operated by BYO as a small independent product. We publish accountable roles and review boundaries instead of inventing a large newsroom or fictional experts.
Source desk
Official-source collection
Scheduled services collect State Department advisories, CDC notices, GDACS alerts, and weather or air-quality data. Unavailable feeds are labelled unavailable, never “clear.”
Data desk
Scoring & quality review
Baseline scores, confidence, source notes, and page quality are stored separately. Every valid canonical destination can enter the sitemap; quality scores rank what the team should deepen next.
AI assistance
Synthesis with a hard boundary
AI can summarize a source pack and propose grounded editorial enrichment. It does not create official advisories, override the calculator formula, or turn missing evidence into a safety claim.