How a Stories walk is made

Stories makes self-guided audio walks and drives in the United States. AI models write and narrate them from public sources, a second model grades every story, and a fact-check compares each story's most specific claims with those sources. Here is each step, plainly, including what it can't promise.

Who makes Stories?

Winding Labs (Winding AI Inc.), a small company in Mill Valley, California. We pick the walks, build the software that writes them and answer every email to support@winding.ai.

How do you choose where a walk goes?

We start from what people already look for: the walks and drives people search for, city by city. The route runs on real streets and paths from OpenStreetMap, stop to stop, and each tour page gives its distance, its time and where it starts and ends.

Where do the facts come from?

Each stop starts from public sources about that place: its Wikipedia article and Wikidata entry, and the official and historical sites they cite. The sources for every tour are listed at the end of its page, so you can read them yourself.

Who writes the stories?

An AI model from Anthropic (Claude) writes each stop from those sources, as a story you hear while you look at the place: who was here, what happened, what to look for. A model from a different lab, OpenAI, then grades every story for interest and accuracy. A story that grades badly is rewritten, held until one of us reads it, or dropped.

How are the facts checked?

A fact-check pulls up to 10 of the most specific claims from each story (names, dates, numbers, firsts) and compares each one with the sources. A claim no source supports is rewritten out of the story before the tour is published. That is 10 claims a story, not every sentence, so we never say "every claim checked". Tour pages say when they were last checked.

Whose voice is it?

A synthetic voice. Nobody reads the stories aloud; an AI voice narrates them, so a new walk can be heard the day it is written.

What about dates, hours and prices?

Our city guides and holiday pages give this season's dates, opening hours and costs from the official sites, and each one says the day we read them. They change, so check the official site before you go.

What if something is wrong?

Tell us at support@winding.ai with the tour and the stop. We check it against the sources, fix it and reply.

Read about prices, refunds and phones on Help & support, or see every tour.