You bill clients for content and buy it per word from a freelance bench you have to manage. We sell the finished, professionally edited article at a fixed price, white-label, so the coordination stops being your cost.
Per finished, human-edited article. About 16.7 cents a word, with the editing and the project management already inside it.
The trial: ten articles for one client account, in thirty days, invoiced to you.
Seats your agency login takes in a client's own Austen workspace, so a client on their own plan can add you at no extra cost.
| One project per client | Each client gets their own project with their own style guide, brand voice and competitor set. Where a client has its own Austen workspace, your agency login joins it without taking a seat. |
| Their voice, from their own pages | Point us at what the client already publishes, or hand over the style guide you already hold. The engine writes against it and the editor checks against it. |
| You approve the brief | Angle, audience, search intent, structure, word budget. Nothing is written until you approve, so nothing arrives that you have to explain to a client. |
| A professional editor, every piece | Proofed edits each article and returns tracked changes. Your account director accepts or declines, then sends it on. |
| Your name on everything | White-label throughout. One invoice, to you. We do not contact your client and it is in the agreement. |
| Today | With Austen |
|---|---|
| Source, brief, chase and pay a freelancer per word, typically $0.10 to $0.14 | One fixed price per finished article, with a professional edit included |
| Editing is your account director's evening | Editing is done by a professional editorial firm before you see the piece |
| Bench management is a real, unbilled cost | One supplier, one invoice, one process across every client |
| Capacity is whoever answers this week | Ten articles in thirty days, per client, repeatable |
| Quality varies by writer | Two published scores per article plus a professional edit, every time |
Tell them what you tell them now about freelancers: that a professional editor works on every piece. Google's own published guidance says that sharing how content was created adds context for readers, and what it penalises is publishing many pages without adding value, whoever or whatever produced them. If a specific client contract forbids AI, do not use us on that account and we will not be offended.
No. One invoice, to the agency, never to your client, and never a copy to your client. It is written into the agreement, not just promised on a call.
That is what the style guide and the tone of voice step are for, and you already hold a guide for each client. Give us one and compare the result against your usual freelancer's before you commit to anything.
Brief approval before drafting, one professional edit included, and revisions at no charge until the piece meets the acceptance criteria you agreed at the start.
Ten articles for one client account, $2,500, thirty days. Pick the client where content is furthest behind. We run the competitor gap analysis on their site first, so the ten briefs come from a real map of their category rather than from a planning session. Bill it to your client at your normal content rate.
| You run it | Austen Pro at $299 a month for fifty articles across five projects, with human editing added per piece at $55 per 1,000 words. Past five clients, talk to us about Enterprise. |
| We run it | A done-for-you retainer at $2,000 to $2,500 a month for eight finished, edited articles per client. |
| Both | Run your smaller clients on Pro yourselves and hand us the two accounts where the volume hurts. |
Where we are, honestly. Austen is new and we will not invent a client list for you. The editing is done by Proofed, an established editing business whose own site names SoFi, Pinterest, Emeritus, Samsung, Substack, Forbes Books, the Financial Times, Fujifilm and JP Morgan Chase as clients of its editing work. None of them uses Austen. You would be early, and the trial is priced and structured so that being early costs you one client account for one month.