SEO automation with editorial control: the buyer’s checklist.
Editorial control means seven things you can test before you sign anything: a person approves every article before it publishes and there is no setting that removes that step, the facts the system may state about your business are the ones you approved, a draft that steps outside that registry is repaired or refused rather than flagged for you to click past, every publish is preceded by a snapshot you can roll back in one click, the checks that ran travel with the draft you approve, going quiet stops the queue instead of releasing it, and you approve the plan before a word is written. This page is that checklist, the test to run on each item, and the sourced answer from the tools you are comparing.
A third-party review that tested BabyLoveGrowth for 45 days scored it 7.8 out of 10 and concluded it is “Not ideal for YMYL content or teams needing editorial control.” That sentence belongs to the reviewer, not to us, and it names the thing this page is about. Tools in this class are built to publish for you, and most of them let you switch review on: RankYak offers live or draft publishing, where drafts wait for your review and go live only after you approve them. An option is not a control. What follows is how to tell the difference.
Every statement about another tool on this page was read from that vendor’s own pages, or from a named third-party review, on 2026-09-02, and each carries its source id. No adjectives about anyone. Where a vendor’s measured pages did not state something, the cell says that instead of guessing.
Editorial control is three parts, and only one of them is rare.
Buyers shop for one part of editorial control and are usually sold a different one. Separating the three is the whole job of this page, because a vendor can honestly say yes to the easy part while the part you actually needed is missing.
1. The registry: what the system is allowed to say
Before anything is drafted, you approve a list of the claims, prices, dates and credentials the system may state about your business. That list is yours. It is the only source of a fact about you, and everything outside it is off limits from the first article onward.
2. The gate: what happens when a draft breaks the list
Every draft is checked against the registry before a person ever sees it. A violation is repaired or refused. This is the part that is rare: the system cannot hand you a draft carrying a claim you never approved.
3. The approval: who releases it
A person on your side approves the publish. This part is common. Most tools in this category offer it, which is exactly why it is not the thing to shop for on its own. It is the last lock on a door, and it only matters when the first two are fitted.
Here is the honest version of the sales pitch, and we would rather print it than have you discover it in a demo. All five of the tools most often compared in this space offer a draft or approval mode: RankYak, Outrank, SEObot and Emplibot each let you hold articles for review, and Writesonic delivers articles inside its platform, so publishing there is manual anyway. Human approval before publish is therefore not what separates us from them. It is the default they let you switch off, and we do not.
What separates the products is the first two parts. None of those five tools, and no measured BabyLoveGrowth page, describes a registry of claims the client approved that the system is bound by. Three of them describe fact-checking, and they describe it accurately: RankYak states “Verified facts and cited sources”, SEObot states an “Anti typo hallucination and fact checking system, with citation of sources”, and Emplibot states that it leverages AI fact-checking and publishes content “verified against, and referencing trusted sources”. That is real work and we do not dismiss it. It asks a different question. Fact-checking against the open web asks whether a statement is true somewhere. The fact lock asks whether you approved saying it about your business. A licensed practice usually needs the second, and the second is what the checklist below tests for. The mechanism is set out in full on fact-checked AI SEO.
The checklist at a glance, with the test for each item.
Print this, or paste it into the email you send the vendor. Every item has a test that takes minutes and an answer that is either specific or evasive. Each one is expanded in its own section below.
| What to demand | The test you run | What a pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Approval that cannot be switched off | Ask where the setting for unattended publishing lives, and whether it can be locked. | There is no such setting, and the vendor says so in writing. |
| 2. A fact registry you approved | Ask whether you supply the claims, prices, dates and credentials the system may state, and whether it is bound by them. | You approve a list at onboarding and nothing outside it can be stated about you. |
| 3. Refusal, not a warning | Ask what happens to a draft that contains an unapproved claim. Flagged, or stopped? | The violation is repaired or refused before the draft reaches a human. |
| 4. Snapshot before every change | Ask what you do when a live article turns out to be wrong at nine at night. | A snapshot is taken before every change and rollback is one click. |
| 5. The checks travel with the draft | Ask what the reviewer sees besides the article itself. | The on-page grade, the readability result and the fact check arrive with the draft. |
| 6. Silence stops the queue | Ask what publishes if you take two weeks off and answer nothing. | Nothing publishes. The drafts wait for you. |
| 7. You approve the plan, not just the prose | Ask whether you see the keyword and topic plan before drafting, and whether your existing pages are checked first. | Research, clustering and a cannibalization check happen before a page is built. |
Approval before publish, with no setting that removes it.
This is the item everyone asks about and the one that tells you least on its own, because almost every vendor can say yes. The question that separates them is not whether approval exists. It is whether it can be turned off, and what the product does by default when nobody is watching.
How to test a vendor for it
Do not read the sales page. Read the FAQ and the documentation, and search them for the words auto-publish, auto-approve, live publishing and schedule. Then ask the vendor one question in writing: is there any configuration in which an article reaches my live site without a named person approving it first? A product built for volume will answer honestly that yes, that is the normal mode and review is a toggle. That answer is not a scandal. It is a fit test, and for plenty of businesses the volume mode is the right buy.
What the vendors state on their own pages: RankYak lets you choose between automatic publishing and drafts, and with drafts every article waits for your review and goes live only after you approve it. Outrank saves each generated article as a draft in your chosen platform first, and lets you pre-create scheduled articles up to seven days ahead to review, edit and approve before they auto-publish on their day. SEObot will email you a list of articles to accept or decline if you ask it to. Emplibot lets you choose to publish as a draft for further editing rather than posting immediately. Four yes answers, and all four are settings.
How Uncharted SEO does it
Human approval before anything publishes is not a mode here. It is the pipeline. Research, competitor scoping, drafting, the on-page and readability checks and the fact lock all run without you. The publish does not. There is no toggle, no auto-approve, no scheduled release that fires while you are on vacation, and no support ticket that can enable one.
That is a deliberate ceiling on what we sell. Unattended publishing is on our not-yet list and stays there until it has been proven on ground we can defend. Until then the approval step is a feature, and we would rather lose the buyer who wants the machine to run alone than pretend to be two products at once. The full walkthrough, step by step, is on how it works.
A fact registry you approved, not a web search the model trusts.
This is the demand almost nobody makes, and it is the one that decides whether automation is safe for a business with a license, a regulator or a published price list. Editorial control over a sentence you can see is worth something. Editorial control over what the system is permitted to say, before it writes, is worth much more.
How to test a vendor for it
Ask this: where does a fact about my business come from? There are only two possible answers. Either the system researches the open web and cites what it finds, or it draws from a list you approved. Then push once more. If I give you the list, is the system bound by it, or is the list advice the model may set aside when the web disagrees?
Read the published answers carefully, because they are precise and they are about the web. RankYak: “Verified facts and cited sources, so articles read like research instead of AI filler.” SEObot: “Anti typo hallucination and fact checking system, with citation of sources.” Emplibot: “Publish content that is verified against, and referencing trusted sources.” Those sentences promise verification. None of them promises that your own approved list is the boundary. On the pages measured, none of the five tools and no BabyLoveGrowth page describes a client-approved claims registry.
How Uncharted SEO does it
At onboarding you approve a registry: the claims, the prices, the dates and the credentials the system may state about your business. That registry is the only source of a fact about you. Everything else is out of bounds from the first draft, including things that are true but that you have not cleared for publication, which for a regulated practice is most of the interesting sentences.
That is the fact lock, and it is the reason this page exists rather than a page about approval. The system cannot publish a claim, price, date or credential you have not approved. Every draft is checked and violations are repaired or refused. The draft cannot be produced in the first place, and that is the one item on this checklist a competitor cannot match by flipping a setting.
A violation is refused, not flagged for you to click past.
A warning label is not a control. If the system notices a problem and hands you the draft anyway, the burden has moved to the tired human reading the twentieth article of the week. That is the exact moment editorial control fails in practice, and it fails quietly.
How to test a vendor for it
Give the vendor a specific scenario during the demo. Say: my registry contains no board certification, and the draft claims one. Walk me through what your system does. There are four possible answers and only two of them are controls. It can ignore it, flag it and pass the draft on anyway, repair the sentence, or refuse the draft and ask you. Ask which one, and ask to watch it happen rather than hear it described.
Then ask the follow-up that matters at volume: who is expected to catch it if your system does not? Outrank answers that question with a product, a “Human Curated Service” at $1,399 per month where professional human editors review, fact-check and polish every article before publication. That is a real answer, priced openly, and it tells you what human editorial attention costs when it is added by hand rather than built into the pipeline.
How Uncharted SEO does it
Every draft goes through the gate battery before it reaches a person: the fact lock against your registry, the on-page grade, and readability control. A claim outside the registry is repaired or refused. The draft does not arrive in your queue wearing a warning triangle you can dismiss at speed, because the draft does not arrive at all until the violation is gone.
We say plainly what this is not. It is not a promise that a language model never errs. It is a refusal mechanism sitting between the model and your site, and then a person with authority sitting after that. Two mechanisms, in that order, and the honest description of each is on fact-checked AI SEO.
A snapshot before every change, and rollback in one click.
Editorial control is not only about what goes live. It is about how fast you can undo it. Approval catches what you notice. Rollback covers what you did not, which in a content program is most of what eventually needs fixing.
How to test a vendor for it
Ask what happens at nine at night when a published article turns out to be wrong. Specifically: is there a copy of the page as it was before the change, who can restore it, and how long does that take? The weak answer is that you edit the post in your own content management system, which is true of every tool and is not a feature. The strong answer names a snapshot taken automatically before the change and a restore that does not require the vendor’s support team.
This is the item the category talks about least. On the vendor pages measured for this comparison, none of the five tools states a pre-publish snapshot or a rollback step. That does not mean their platforms cannot be reverted by hand. It means it is not something they sell you, so it is not something you can hold them to.
How Uncharted SEO does it
Auto publish to WordPress, with a snapshot before every change and one click rollback. Every deployment the pipeline makes is preceded by a stored copy of the page as it was. Restoring is a single action rather than a support conversation, and it applies to every change the system makes, not only to a first publish.
The limit, stated because it is a real one: we publish to WordPress. Auto publish to any other platform, Shopify included, is on the not-yet list. If your site is not on WordPress, several of the tools compared here will publish where we cannot, and that fact should settle your purchase before any item on this checklist does.
The checks travel with the draft, so approving is not guessing.
An approval step where the reviewer sees only prose is a rubber stamp with extra steps. If you are the person clicking approve, you need to know what the machine already verified, so your attention lands on what it could not.
How to test a vendor for it
Ask to see the review screen itself in the demo, not a screenshot of a finished article. What sits next to the text? A readability score, an on-page grade, a list of what was checked and what changed, the sources used? Or is it a preview window and a publish button? The second is common and it is honest enough as a product, but it means the reviewer is doing all of the verification with their eyes.
Where vendors describe the review surface, they describe a preview. Outrank’s articles wait as drafts in your own platform, where you review, edit or modify them in that platform’s familiar interface, and SEObot describes an accept or decline list delivered by email, adding “you’re in complete control”. Reviewing inside your own content management system is convenient. It also means the checks, if any ran, stayed behind in the vendor’s system.
How Uncharted SEO does it
The draft that reaches you has already been through the gates, and the result of that pass is what you are approving along with the words: on-page checks graded, readability controlled, and every fact measured against your registry with violations repaired or refused before you opened it.
The practical effect is where your attention goes. You are not scanning for an invented statistic, because a claim outside your registry could not have survived to reach you. You are reading for judgment, tone and strategy, which is the part no gate can do and the part you are actually qualified for.
Going quiet stops the queue, rather than releasing it.
Every content program has a bad month. Someone is on leave, a merger is in progress, a claim is under review by counsel. The question is what your automation does during that month, and the answer is set by the default, not by your intentions.
How to test a vendor for it
Ask the vendor to describe a two-week silence. You approve nothing, you answer no email, you do not log in. On day fifteen, how many articles are live on your site? If the answer is the full fortnight of scheduled output, the schedule is in charge and your approval was a courtesy. If the answer is none, approval is structural.
Read the scheduling language on this point, because it is usually explicit. Outrank’s scheduled articles can be pre-created up to seven days ahead, reviewed, edited and approved, then auto-publish on their day. RankYak holds each research run for your approval and offers auto-approve as a setting you can turn on. Both are reasonable designs for buyers who want the machine to keep moving. Both mean the queue advances unless you intervene.
How Uncharted SEO does it
Because human approval before publish is not optional, a silent fortnight publishes nothing. There is no queue advancing behind your back and no unattended release to cancel. Drafts accumulate, the daily rank tracking and Google AI Overview citation tracking keep reading your keywords, and the site itself does not change until you say so.
The cost of that design is real and we will not hide it. If you go quiet, your publishing cadence stops, and cadence is part of how this works. Editorial control is not free. It is a trade you are making on purpose, and a later section is about the size of that trade.
You approve the plan, not only the prose.
The last demand is the one buyers realize they needed in month three. Editorial control over each article is worth little if the machine has already decided to build forty pages that compete with each other and with the pages you already rank for.
How to test a vendor for it
Ask two questions. First: do I see and approve the keyword and topic plan before anything is drafted, or does the plan arrive as finished articles? Second, and this is the one that gets skipped: before you build a new page, do you check it against the pages I already have, so the new one does not compete with them in search?
Some vendors do put a gate at the planning stage. RankYak states that every research run waits for your approval, that you can reject what does not fit, and that auto-approve is available if you prefer. Outrank includes automated keyword research in its main plan. Research automation is common in this category. A documented check against your existing pages, run before the new page exists, is not.
How Uncharted SEO does it
Keyword research, SERP-based clustering, and cannibalization checks run before any new page is built. If a planned page would compete with something you already have, that is caught at the plan, where it costs nothing, instead of after publication, where it costs you both pages and the time to work out which one to retire.
Competitor scoping runs at the same stage: what the pages currently beating you actually contain, measured rather than assumed. You are approving a plan built from that reading, which is a different act from approving twenty finished articles you had no part in commissioning.
The seven demands, cell by cell, from their own pages.
Every cell below was read from the vendor’s own pages, or from the comparison matrix built out of them, on 2026-09-02. Cells are text rather than check marks so you can see the shape of each answer. Where a vendor’s measured pages do not address a demand, the cell says so. That is a gap in what they publish, and you should ask them directly rather than take our reading as final.
| Demand | Uncharted SEO | RankYak | Outrank | SEObot | Emplibot | Writesonic | BabyLoveGrowth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Approval that cannot be switched off | Mandatory. No setting removes it. | Optional: live or draft publishing, your choice | Optional: saved as a draft in your platform first | Optional: an accept or decline list by email | Optional: publish as a draft instead of live | Manual by nature: no auto-publish integration on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured |
| 2. A fact registry you approved | Yes. Claims, prices, dates and credentials you approved at onboarding. | None described on the pages measured | None described on the pages measured | None described on the pages measured | None described on the pages measured | None described on the pages measured | None described on the pages measured |
| 3. Refusal rather than a warning | Repaired or refused before the draft reaches you. | “Verified facts and cited sources”; the outcome of a failure is not stated | Human editors sold separately at $1,399 per month | “Anti typo hallucination and fact checking system, with citation of sources” | “Leverage AI fact-checking”, “verified against, and referencing trusted sources” | No fact-checking claim on the pages measured | “Citation-backed articles” in their FAQ |
| 4. Snapshot before every change, one click rollback | Yes, on WordPress, before every change the pipeline makes. | Not stated on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured | Not stated on the pages measured |
| 5. The checks travel with the draft | On-page grade, readability and the registry check arrive with it. | The draft waits for your review, with any edits you want to make | Review and edit in your own platform’s interface | Accept, decline or moderate from an emailed list | Edit the draft before it is made publicly available | Articles are delivered inside the platform | Not stated on the pages measured |
| 6. Silence stops the queue | Yes. Nothing publishes unapproved, so the drafts wait. | Auto-approve is available as a setting | Scheduled articles auto-publish on their day | Only if you ask for the accept or decline list | Only if you choose draft publishing | Publishing is manual anyway | Not stated on the pages measured |
| 7. You approve the plan, with a cannibalization check | Research, clustering and a cannibalization check before any new page. | Every research run waits for your approval | Automated keyword research is included | Not stated on the pages measured | Keyword finding by the week; plan approval not stated | Site audits by the month; article planning not stated | Site audit listed; plan approval not stated |
Sources: rankyak.com pricing, homepage FAQ and article-generation feature page; outrank.so homepage and pricing; seobotai.com homepage FAQ and pricing documentation; emplibot.com homepage FAQ and pricing; writesonic.com pricing; babylovegrowth.ai pricing and documentation; all fetched 2026-09-02. No score is assigned to any vendor in this table, because a score would be our judgment rather than their published words. The cells are their words. Draw the line yourself, and read the full comparison on RankYak alternatives.
What editorial control costs, bolted on or built in.
There are two ways to buy editorial control. You can buy volume and then pay people to read it, or you can buy a pipeline that cannot produce the sentence in the first place. Both are legitimate. They price very differently.
The bolt-on price is published. Outrank sells a “Human Curated Service” at $1,399 per month, where professional human editors review, fact-check and polish every article before publication, on top of a main plan at $99 per month. That is roughly fourteen times the base subscription to put human editorial attention on the output, and it may be the most useful number in this category, because it is what careful reading of machine output costs when you buy it by the hour.
It is worth reading what one vendor says about the variance that creates the need. SEObot’s own FAQ states: “Our article quality varies compared to human writers, sometimes matching average human quality, sometimes falling short, and occasionally exceeding it.” We quote that because it is candid, and because every tool in this category, ours included, is working with the same underlying variance. The difference between products is what the system does about it. A reviewer sold separately handles it after the fact. A registry and a gate handle the class of error that matters most to a regulated business before the draft exists.
Our two plans carry the registry, the gate and the approval step as standard, because they are not features that can be unbundled from the pipeline without changing what it is. Launch is $100 per month or $1,000 per year. Scale is $250 per month or $2,500 per year. Billed monthly or annually, cancel anytime, and annual billing is two months free. Both include SEO and AEO articles every month drafted against your approved fact registry, auto publish to WordPress with snapshot and rollback, daily rank tracking on your tracked keywords with Google AI Overview citation tracking, a full technical site audit, keyword research with cannibalization checks, and a monthly backlink opportunity report. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
Checkout opens when billing goes live. Until then, start with the free baseline audit below.
Editorial control is slower, and that is the point.
Every item on this checklist adds friction. The registry takes real time at onboarding. The gate rejects drafts that a looser system would have shipped. The approval step means a person has to look at something before your site changes. If you want the maximum number of pages live by Friday, this is the wrong product, and we would rather say so on the page than in month two.
Here is what the friction buys. It buys a site where every claim about your business traces back to something you signed. It buys a reviewer who can defend any sentence on any page, which for a law firm, a clinic, an advisory practice or a licensed contractor is not a nice-to-have but the condition of using automation at all. And it buys speed on the parts that are safe to automate, because the parts that are not have been fenced off by a mechanism rather than by hope. Regulated verticals get their own treatment on YMYL SEO automation.
On timing we hold the same line as the rest of this category rather than trying to beat it. BabyLoveGrowth’s own documentation says “Optimal rankings and consistent traffic typically appear at 3-6 months.” Most sites see movement in three to six months, and ours is the same answer. Search results depend on your market, your competitors and your site’s history. Nobody can promise a position or a date, and a vendor who does should worry you more than one who does not. What the approval step costs against that timeline is minutes per article. What it protects against does not run on a schedule.
What you get inside the wait is measurement rather than reassurance. From the first approved publish, every tracked keyword sits in a daily rank series and a Google AI Overview citation report: whether an Overview appears, who Google quotes in it, and whether that is you, refreshed continuously. You read the trend as it forms rather than waiting for a quarterly summary. Dated readings from sites the pipeline already runs are published on our proof page, with their sources and their caveats attached.
What we do not do, at least not yet.
A page about editorial control that hides its own gaps has failed its own test. These are the things this product does not do today. Several of them are things the tools compared above do well, and if one of them is your requirement, buy the tool that has it.
Publishing beyond WordPress
Auto publish runs to WordPress only. Shopify and every other platform are not supported today. Several tools in this comparison publish to many more targets, and that is a real advantage of theirs.
Backlinks or a link network
We do not run a link exchange and we do not place links. What exists is a monthly backlink opportunity report: domains linking to two or more of your competitors and not to you, with outreach targets exported for you to pursue.
Prompt tracking across chat models
We track Google AI Overview citations on every tracked keyword. We do not track ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini prompts, and this page will not imply that we do.
Community agents
No Reddit or Quora agents. Not offered today, and not promised on this page.
Multi-language content
English only today. Several tools here publish in dozens of languages. If you need that, they are the answer and we are not.
Unattended publishing
Every publish is human approved. That is the point of this page, and it is also a limit: if you want the machine to run without you, we do not sell that today.
Run the whole checklist in one afternoon.
You do not need a procurement process to test any vendor in this category, including us. Five steps, about two hours, and the answers are either specific or they are not.
Read the FAQ, not the homepage
The homepage sells the outcome. The FAQ and the documentation describe the mechanism, and that is where publishing modes, approval settings and fact-checking scope are actually written down. Every vendor statement on this page came from that layer.
Send the seven demands as seven questions
In one email, in writing, so the answers are on the record. A vendor who answers all seven specifically belongs on your shortlist whether or not the answers are yes.
Ask for the violation scenario in the demo
Give them a claim your business cannot make and ask to watch the system handle it. Description is easy. Demonstration is the test.
Ask what publishes during a silent fortnight
The answer tells you who is really in charge of your site, and it takes one sentence to give.
Ask who carries the risk of a wrong sentence
If the answer is that you review everything, price your reviewer’s hours into the subscription before you compare it to anything else. That is the real cost of the cheaper option, and it is the number a comparison usually leaves out.
If you want our answers to all seven in the order the work actually happens, that is how it works. If you want the mechanism behind demands two and three, that is fact-checked AI SEO. If a regulated vertical is yours, start with YMYL SEO automation.
SEO automation with editorial control: straight answers.
What does editorial control mean in an SEO automation tool?
It means three things working together, and buyers usually get sold only the third. First, a registry: a list of the claims, prices, dates and credentials you approved, which is the only source of a fact about your business. Second, a gate: every draft is checked against that registry before a human sees it, and violations are repaired or refused. Third, approval: a person on your side releases the publish. Approval on its own is the weakest of the three, because it puts the entire burden on a tired reader.
Is human approval before publish enough on its own?
No, and this is the part most comparison pages get wrong. Approval is offered by every tool commonly compared in this category, usually as a draft mode you switch on. If the draft that reaches you already contains a plausible but unapproved claim about your business, approval only helps if you catch it, every time, at volume. A registry and a gate remove that class of error before the draft exists. Approval then covers judgment, tone and strategy, which is what a person is actually good at.
Can I get editorial control by just turning on draft mode?
Draft mode gives you the third part and neither of the first two. RankYak, Outrank, SEObot and Emplibot each publish their draft or approval options on their own pages, so the answer to whether you can review before publish is yes across the category. The questions draft mode does not answer are where the facts about your business come from, what happens to a draft that breaks your rules, and whether the schedule keeps advancing while you are away. Those are demands two, three and six on this page.
What is a fact registry, and who writes it?
You write it at onboarding, and you approve it. It holds the claims, prices, dates and credentials the system is permitted to state about your business. The system cannot publish anything outside it: every draft is checked, and violations are repaired or refused. The draft cannot be produced in the first place, which is why it is the one item on this checklist a competitor cannot match by changing a setting.
Does editorial control slow publishing down?
Yes. The registry takes time at onboarding, the gate rejects drafts a looser system would have shipped, and every publish waits for a person. If maximum output by Friday is the goal, this is the wrong product. What the friction buys is a site where every claim traces back to something you signed, which for a regulated business is the condition of using automation at all rather than a preference.
Can Uncharted SEO publish without my approval if I fall behind?
No. There is no auto-publish setting, no auto-approve toggle and no scheduled release that fires while you are away. If you approve nothing for two weeks, nothing goes live and the drafts wait for you. Rank tracking and Google AI Overview citation tracking keep running in the meantime, so the measurement does not pause even though the publishing does.
How long until an editorially controlled program shows results?
Most sites see movement in three to six months. BabyLoveGrowth’s own documentation gives the same range, and we would rather match that honesty than promise faster. Results depend on your market, your competitors and your site’s history, and no vendor can promise a position or a date. What you get inside the wait is a daily rank series and a Google AI Overview citation report on every tracked keyword from the first approved publish.
What does editorial control cost if you buy it separately?
One vendor publishes that number. Outrank sells a Human Curated Service at $1,399 per month, where human editors review, fact-check and polish every article before publication, on top of a $99 per month main plan. That is what human editorial attention costs when it is added by hand after generation. Here the registry, the gate and the approval step are part of the pipeline rather than an add-on, so the plan price is the price.
Do you publish anywhere other than WordPress?
No. Auto publish runs to WordPress only, with a snapshot before every change and one click rollback. Shopify and other platforms are not supported today, and several tools compared on this page publish to many more targets. If your site is not on WordPress, that fact should settle your purchase before any item on this checklist does.
Updated September 6, 2026