Submissions

Contributor Terms.

These terms explain what contributors should expect when sending pitches, drafts, media, code, or other materials to AI Engineering Collective.

Updated June 8, 2026

Submission package

Send a finished draft or a focused pitch to aiengineeringcollective@gmail.com. Include a short summary, proposed title, intended reader, main argument, what the reader will learn, your Medium profile, draft link if available, relevant sources or demos, and whether the work has appeared elsewhere.

The full public guidelines are available on Medium: Write for AI Engineering Collective.

Originality and rights

By submitting work, you represent that the material is original to you or that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit it. You must not submit plagiarized, scraped, lightly rewritten, infringing, or unauthorized material.

You retain copyright in your original work unless a separate written agreement says otherwise. If accepted, you grant AI Engineering Collective a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, publish, archive, distribute, display, excerpt, promote, and format the work in connection with the publication.

Editorial review

Submission does not guarantee publication. We may decline work for fit, quality, originality, accuracy, rights, tone, disclosure, or editorial capacity reasons. Accepted work may be edited for headline, subtitle, structure, clarity, grammar, formatting, tags, images, and minor wording. Larger edits may be returned to the author for revision.

Disclosures

You must disclose relevant relationships, including employers, clients, sponsors, investments, products, open-source projects, companies, or other interests that readers would reasonably want to know about. We may require disclosure language in the article.

Media, code, and sources

Images, diagrams, charts, screenshots, code, repositories, benchmarks, and datasets must be accurate, attributed where needed, safe to share, and free from exposed secrets, private credentials, or confidential information. Technical examples should be tested where possible and limitations should be stated honestly.

Payment and platform terms

Unless separately agreed in writing, submissions are unpaid. Articles published on Medium or another platform may also be governed by that platform's terms, monetization rules, moderation policies, and account requirements.

Removal and updates

Published pieces may remain in publication archives. We will consider reasonable correction, update, attribution, privacy, or removal requests, but we may preserve public-interest, archival, editorial, legal, or integrity records where appropriate.