How QuoteWorthy protects journalists from irrelevant pitches

We are on the journalist's side

If you post call-outs on Qwoted or SourceBottle, you already know the problem: one good query can trigger a flood of pitches, and too many of them are off-topic, out of scope, or clearly written by a bot that never read your request.

QuoteWorthy helps experts respond to your call-outs, so it is fair to ask whose side we are on. The answer is: yours as much as theirs. A pitch only helps our user if it actually helps you. So the system is built to surface the few genuinely relevant opportunities and to hold people to the boundaries you set, not to help anyone blast every query in sight.

Here is exactly what our system does, and does not, allow.

Only relevant pitches get encouraged

Every call-out is scored from 0 to 100 against the expert's real, structured profile - their topics, credentials, and proof points. Weak, tangential, or off-topic matches are filtered out and never surface as something worth pitching. We do not reward "spray and pray"; the whole point of the product is to cut the noise down to the handful of requests where the person can genuinely add value.

That means fewer pitches reaching you, and the ones that do are far more likely to be on point.

Your location and eligibility limits are respected

When your call-out restricts who can respond - "UK-based founders only", "must be a licensed therapist", "US teachers only" - QuoteWorthy reads that as a hard boundary, not a suggestion. If the expert plainly does not match, the call-out is filtered out of their queue and its relevance score is capped low, so the system never presents them with a strong-looking match for a request they are not eligible for.

Most call-outs set no such rule, and those are untouched. But when you do set one, we will not nudge the wrong person to pitch you anyway.

"No AI" means no AI

AI drafting is off by default in QuoteWorthy - matching is the product, and drafting is an optional assist a user has to switch on deliberately. On top of that, if your call-out asks for human-written responses only, or says you screen replies with an AI detector, QuoteWorthy will not generate a pitch for it - at all, even for a user who has drafting switched on. There is no draft button to press and no "generate anyway"; the call-out is clearly flagged so the expert knows the rule. If they want to respond, they write it themselves, in their own words.

AI drafting stays off unless a user turns it on, and your "no AI" request overrides it even then. We would rather never generate a draft than hand you an AI pitch you explicitly asked not to receive.

We never scrape, never auto-generate, and never send

QuoteWorthy never scrapes. It cannot log into the source platforms and has no access to any mailbox - no OAuth, no password, no scraping of any kind. It only ever reads the digest emails an expert voluntarily forwards to their own dedicated QuoteWorthy address; if they do not forward it, we never see it. It also never auto-generates pitches - AI drafting is off by default and only runs if the expert deliberately turns it on. And it has no send button, so nothing leaves the system on its own. Every pitch is written or edited by a real person and sent from their own inbox, to you, deliberately. You are always hearing from a human who chose to reply, not from an automation firing on a schedule.

If a pitch still misses the mark

No tool can control what a person does outside of it. If someone ignores your boundaries, copies text elsewhere, or pitches you against your stated rules, that is their own choice, made outside our guardrails - not something QuoteWorthy generates, encourages, or enables. Inside our system, an out-of-scope or no-AI call-out simply does not get a pitch.

If you ever receive something that does not respect the boundaries you set, we want to know. It helps us keep tightening the guardrails on our side.

Questions?

If you are a journalist or reporter and want to understand how your call-outs are handled, reach out through the help widget on this site. We are happy to walk you through it.