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Content writing services billed by the post, not the hour
Four, ten or twenty-five researched articles a month from $350/mo, each written to a keyword and entity brief, revised, and uploaded to your CMS rather than emailed as a document.
In one line
A content writing service produces researched articles to a brief on a fixed schedule. Here that means a set number of posts per month at a stated word range, each with its own keyword and entity brief, a defined number of revision rounds, and publication into your CMS.
Content writing services and what each tier costs
Starter
4 posts/mo
$292/mo billed yearly
- 4 articles, 1,000 to 1,200 words
- Keyword + entity brief per piece
- 1 revision round
- Uploaded to your CMS
- Not included: Custom graphics
- Not included: Ghostwritten thought leadership
Growth
10 posts/mo
$650/mo billed yearly
- 10 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Starter
- 2 revision rounds
- Internal link mapping
Scale
25 posts/mo
$1,500/mo billed yearly
- 25 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated editor
- Content calendar managed for you
These content writing services are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. First draft within 5 business days of each brief. Every tier is billed monthly, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
Page one for this search is dominated by marketplaces and agency home pages. Most state a per-word rate or nothing at all, and almost none state how many revisions are included.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
4 posts/mo
Included
- 4 articles, 1,000 to 1,200 words
- Keyword + entity brief per piece
- 1 revision round
- Uploaded to your CMS
Not included
- Custom graphics
- Ghostwritten thought leadership
Growth
10 posts/mo
Included
- 10 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Starter
- 2 revision rounds
- Internal link mapping
Scale
25 posts/mo
Included
- 25 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated editor
- Content calendar managed for you
Which tier you actually need
The tiers are separated by output per month. The right one is set by how fast your side can approve topics and publish, not by how much content you would like in theory.
All three content writing services run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
A business publishing for the first time, or restarting after a gap, where four solid pieces a month is already a step change.
You are on this tier when: You currently publish less than once a fortnight, and approving four topics a month is comfortable.
Growth
A site with an existing content plan and a real keyword list, where ten pieces a month is the pace the plan needs.
You are on this tier when: You have a backlog of briefs or keywords longer than four a month, and internal links are becoming a real consideration.
Scale
A publishing operation: twenty-five pieces a month, a managed calendar, and a dedicated editor holding the standard.
You are on this tier when: You are coordinating multiple writers already, and the editing rather than the writing is the bottleneck.
Revisions are counted, not implied
Short answer
Starter includes one revision round, Growth includes two, and Scale adds a dedicated editor. Counting revisions is unusual on this search and it is the number that decides whether a cheap per-word rate is actually cheap.
A per-word price with unlimited implied revisions is how writing engagements go over budget on the supplier side and go slow on yours.
A revision round means one consolidated pass of your comments, not one comment. Two rounds is enough for almost every piece when the brief was agreed first.
What lands in your CMS
Every article arrives as a published draft in your own system, formatted, linked and ready to review.
- The article at the tier’s word range, with subheads and internal links in place
- A one-page brief showing the target keyword, the entities covered and the sources used
- Meta title and description written to length
- Image slots marked, with alt text drafted
What a content month actually contains
Content retainers usually quote a word count and leave everything else vague. This one quotes a cadence: briefs in, drafts back inside five business days, revisions bounded. Step through a month below.
What a content month actually contains
Day 0 — The brief goes in. Each article starts from a keyword and entity brief you approve: target query, angle, sources to use, and anything off limits. Nothing is written against a topic alone.
Within 5 days — First draft returns. Every brief returns a first draft inside five business days of approval. That clock runs per brief, not per month, so a batch does not queue behind itself.
Revision round — One structured pass. Starter includes one revision round; Growth and Scale include two. They are collected in the document and applied in a pass, because open-ended line-by-line revision is what turns a fixed price into an unfixed one.
Month end — Delivered and reported. The report lists every piece delivered, its word count, its brief, and its publication state. Anything not delivered is named, with the reason, rather than rolled forward silently.
Select any milestone to read what is produced at it. Every date is a published commitment from this page, not an estimate of results.
What the price buys at each tier
Billed monthly at the price shown. The yearly option is the same scope with two months off, and nothing here is quoted as a slice of your budget.
The count is the scope. Research depth, brief format and the five-day draft clock are identical at every tier, what you buy by moving up is throughput, not a better writer.
Prices resolve from the same source as the cards above. Switch metric to compare cost against volume.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Day 1
Topic list agreed
You approve the month’s topics before anything is written. Nothing gets drafted off a guess.
- 2
Per piece
Brief first
Each article starts as a brief: keyword, entities, sources, angle. You can reject a brief in two minutes rather than a draft in twenty.
- 3
Within 5 days
First draft
First draft within 5 business days of each brief being approved.
- 4
Then
Revision and upload
Your comments come back in one pass, then the piece is uploaded to your CMS as a draft.
What arrives with each article
Every piece ships with the paperwork that lets someone else check the work, which is what separates a commissioned article from a document.
If a draft does not match its approved brief, the rewrite is on us and it does not consume one of your revision rounds.
- The brief it was written against, with the target keyword and the entities covered
- The sources cited, each with a date
- Meta title and description, written to length rather than truncated by the CMS
- Internal links placed, and the pages they point at
Where AI sits in the process
Short answer
Research and outlining may use AI tools. Every published piece is written and edited by a person who is accountable for the claims in it, and undisclosed AI-only output is a vendor disqualifier under our content vetting criteria.
This matters commercially rather than philosophically. Unedited model output tends to be structurally identical to everything else on the search results page, which is the opposite of what a content investment is for.
If you would rather no AI touched the process at any stage, say so in the brief and it will be honoured.
Word ranges, and why they are ranges
Starter articles run 1,000 to 1,200 words. Growth and Scale articles run 1,200 to 1,500. A range rather than a target keeps the piece the length the subject needs.
Word count is a poor proxy for quality and a useful proxy for scope, which is why it is published here and not treated as the deliverable.
What a brief contains before anything is written
- The target keyword and the search intent behind it
- The entities and subtopics the piece must cover
- The sources that will be cited, with dates
- The internal links it should carry
- The reader takeaway in one sentence
The brief is the approval point. Once it is agreed, the draft is a mechanical execution of something you have already read.
How this differs from the usual arrangement
Neither column is a verdict on quality. The left is how this service is normally sold, taken from the pages ranking beside this one.
A typical content agency
- Price
- Per word, quoted on enquiry
- Revisions
- Unstated
- Brief
- Written after the topic is assigned
- Delivery
- A document in your inbox
- AI disclosure
- Rarely addressed
The Super Panel
- Price
- Per month, published, by post count
- Revisions
- Counted per tier
- Brief
- Approved by you before drafting
- Delivery
- A draft in your CMS
- AI disclosure
- Stated below
The three things buyers ask before ordering
Content is the service where expectations diverge most, so these are answered in writing.
How do you write about my industry without knowing it?
By researching it and citing sources, and by asking you for the two or three things only you know. Where a piece genuinely needs internal expertise, the brief will say so before drafting starts rather than after a weak draft arrives.
Is this AI content with a human name on it?
Research and outlining may use AI tools. Every published piece is written and edited by a person who is accountable for the claims in it. If you want no AI involvement at any stage, say so in the brief and it is honoured.
What if the writing does not sound like us?
The first month is calibration, from a style sample and any existing guidelines. Voice complaints in month one are normal and are fixed inside the revision rounds, not billed as a rewrite.
What this pairs with
The SEO package at Growth or Scale produces the briefs this service writes against, which removes the guesswork about what to publish next.
AI search optimization adds a second reason to publish: answer-formatted pages are what models cite. The two services share the same underlying pages, so buying both does not double the page count.
Content works best on a site that has already covered the small business SEO checklist.
When this is the wrong service to buy
Short answer
Volume content is a poor fit when nobody on your side can approve topics, when the value is in an executive’s own opinions, or when the site has unresolved technical problems that stop new pages being indexed at all.
- You want ghostwritten thought leadership in a named person’s voice. Starter excludes it, and it needs interview time nobody has budgeted.
- Your site has indexing problems. New posts will not fix that, and fixing it first is cheaper.
- You cannot approve a topic list inside a week. The cadence is what makes the price work.
- You want custom illustration with each piece. Graphics are excluded at Starter.
Questions before you order
How much do content writing services cost here?
Starter is $350/mo for 4 posts, Growth is $780/mo for 10 posts and Scale is $1,800/mo for 25 posts. Yearly billing charges ten months instead of twelve.
How long does each article take?
First draft within 5 business days of the brief being approved. The brief itself is usually same-week once the topic list is agreed.
How many revisions are included?
One consolidated round at Starter, two at Growth, and a dedicated editor at Scale. A round means one pass of your comments, not one comment.
Who owns the content?
You do, on delivery. It is published into your CMS under your name or your house byline.
Do you write in our voice?
Yes, from a style sample and any existing guidelines. What Starter excludes is ghostwriting in a specific named executive’s voice, which needs interview time to do honestly.
Do you publish the posts as well as write them?
They are uploaded to your CMS as drafts, formatted and linked. Hitting publish stays with you.
Can I change the topics mid-month?
Yes, before the brief is approved. After a brief is approved the piece runs, because the research is already done.
Do you provide images?
Image slots and alt text are marked in the draft. Custom graphics are excluded at Starter and included from Growth upward.
Is the content optimised for search?
Every piece is written to a keyword and entity brief with meta written to length. That is on-page work, and it is not a substitute for the technical and link work sold separately.
What if a draft misses the brief?
It gets rewritten, and that rewrite does not consume a revision round. A draft that does not match an approved brief is our error rather than a change of scope.
Sources cited on this page
- Google’s guidance on helpful, people-first content – Cited for the editorial standard, not as an endorsement.
- Google on AI-generated content – Cited in the AI section.
Start Content Writing from $350/mo
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
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