Automated publishing platform

Your content operation.
On autopilot.

WorkSmartNotHard discovers stories worth covering, researches and writes them in your voice, publishes them to your website, and turns them into newsletters and short-form video — automatically.

You decide what gets automated.

Find stories automatically Publish to site, email and YouTube Keep complete editorial control
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Views
18,204
Likes
742
Retention
63.4%
Avg watch
27s
VideoLengthViewsRetention
Coral reefs found thriving at record depths42s3,91471.2%
The quiet rewrite of the publishing rulebook38s2,61064.8%
Why every newsroom is suddenly hiring prompt editors1,47258.1%
Open-source models close the gap51sAwaiting data
DiscoverResearchWritePublishRepurposeDistribute
What it produces

One story, every format

Each story the platform picks up becomes a published article — and then whatever else you want made from it, without anyone opening a second tool.

Articlesto your websiteNewslettersto your subscribersShort-form videoto YouTubeImagesgenerated per story

One platform instead of six subscriptions

A typical content stack is a writing tool, a publishing integration, a newsletter platform, a video tool, an image generator and an analytics dashboard — each billed separately, none of them aware of the others. This replaces the lot.

Writing and researchCMS publishing automationNewsletter creation and sendingShort-form video creation and publishingImage generationPerformance analyticsWebsite hosting — optional
How it works

From source feed to published, in every format

01Discover
Monitor RSS feeds and trusted sources around the clock. Relevant stories are identified automatically — and if you don’t know which feeds to follow yet, describe your subject and the platform will find and verify them for you.
02Decide
Your editorial preferences determine which stories are worth covering and which should be ignored.
03Research & create
The platform researches the topic and produces original content in your publication’s voice, using the models you prefer — Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI or Google.
04Publish
Send content directly to WordPress, Shopify or your own website — immediately, scheduled, or after manual approval.
05Repurpose
Automatically turn published stories into newsletters, images and narrated short-form video, published straight to YouTube.
Editorial intelligence

Autopilot without giving up editorial control

Most automated publishing tools automate the writing. WorkSmartNotHard learns what you would choose to publish in the first place — then runs inside limits you set, and reports back on what landed.

01Learn

It learns what you would publish

During setup, you'll choose between real story ideas. From those decisions, the platform learns the subjects, angles and types of stories that fit your publication.

From then on, irrelevant stories are filtered out before they ever reach your publishing pipeline.

Only on-brand stories reach the pipelineFully automatic when you want it to beManual approval is always availableDial the sensitivity up or down at any time
Which would you publish on your site?
Version A

OpenAI's latest model quietly rewrites the rules — and publishers need to pay attention before it rewrites them too.

✓ Picked
Version B

GPT-5 is out. Here's what it means for content teams, search rankings, and the tools you're relying on right now.

Pick this one
Preference saved — stories like this will be published automatically
02Control

You decide how far it runs

Review every story yourself, approve in batches, or let it publish unattended — the level of autonomy is yours, and you can change it at any time.

Set a daily and a monthly spend cap in pounds. Publishing stops itself when it reaches one and emails you — it doesn't quietly keep going and bill you for the difference.

Daily and monthly spend caps, in £ or creditsSeparate article and video limits, per topic and site-widePublishing spaced out on a cadence, not dumped at 3amRuns every 15 minutes, and shows you each result
Automation budget
Daily cap£4.20 of £10.00
Monthly cap£68.40 of £150.00
Reaching a cap pauses publishing and sends one email. Nothing runs again until the next day or month — or until you raise it.
Today, by topic
Football2 articles · 1 video
Cricket1 article · 1 video
Golfdaily limit reached
Each topic gets its own quota, voice, look and playlist — and its turn comes round in rotation, so a busy vertical can't drain the budget before the others are reached.
03Measure

Find out what actually worked

Every video you publish is tracked back into the dashboard: views, likes, retention, average watch time and length, ranked so the pattern is visible at a glance.

Then have the whole channel read at once — every reported video's title, length, publish date and performance — to find what the winners have in common. Each run is saved, so you can see how the answer changes as the channel grows.

Views, likes, retention and watch time per videoAutomated analysis of what your best performers shareRuns saved and compared, so you can watch trends move
Performance analysis
Channel analysis30 videos · claude-sonnet-4-6
Based on 18,204 views across 30 reported videos · 63.4% avg retention (+742 views, +5 videos since 01/08)

Your strongest videos are consistently the shortest. Everything above 45 seconds sits below 60% retention, while the four best performers all land under 40.

Views and retention disagree here, and it's worth separating them: your most-viewed video is only mid-table on watch-through, which points at the title doing the work rather than the video itself.

Generated from reported figures only — pending videos are excluded. Patterns are suggestive, not proof.

Then you close the loop. The analysis tells you what worked — you decide what to change, and retune your preferences, topics and limits accordingly. Nothing is adjusted behind your back.

Works with your website

Keep your website. Automate everything behind it.

Connect WordPress, Shopify or your own website and WorkSmartNotHard handles the publishing workflow behind the scenes. Starting from scratch? We can host the entire site for you.

WordPress
Publish articles directly to your existing WordPress blog or site.
Shopify
Drive organic traffic with content published straight to your store blog.
Your website
REST API and webhooks for any custom platform or headless CMS.
Included
Hosted by us
We host a fully-managed, SEO-optimised public website for you.
Use cases

Build almost any content business

Technology publisher

Monitor the industry’s best sources, publish original coverage automatically and turn every story into short-form video.

Local news

Monitor regional sources, publish relevant local stories and deliver a daily newsletter to subscribers.

Business content engine

Turn industry developments into SEO articles, thought leadership and short-form video in your company’s voice.

Niche media brand

Build an automated publication around almost any subject — finance, sport, travel, science, gaming and more.

Who it's for

Built for publishers, businesses and entrepreneurs who want to produce more content without building a content team

Entrepreneurs

Launch and operate a niche media property with a small team, or on your own.

Businesses

Automate ongoing content marketing across your website, newsletters and video.

Existing publishers

Increase publishing volume and distribution without increasing headcount at the same rate.

Built with this platform

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AI access

Pay the AI providers directly.

Connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI or Google keys and choose bring-your-own-keys pricing. On that plan your model usage is billed to you by the provider at their rate — we don't add a markup — so you stay in control of both model choice and cost.

Prefer not to manage keys? Choose facilitated access instead and we'll supply them, billed as credits through your plan.

Pricing

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Put your publishing operation on autopilot.

Discover, create, publish and repurpose content from one platform — with as much or as little human approval as you choose.

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