Three blog opportunities your business is placed to win, scored, each naming the page it would beat. Keep one and it comes back researched, sourced and illustrated on a page you open and copy straight into whatever you publish with.
35 credits~6–10 minutesOne decision from youNothing to connect
What it proposes
It names the page it would beat
The run stops halfway. Three scored opportunities, each carrying the asset you own that the ranking pages don't. Delete two, rewrite the angle of the one you keep: the writer follows your line exactly. Nothing expensive runs until you have.
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Why most agencies mis-price retainers
Your edit
Angle: retainers fail on scope creep, not on the rate, and we have the timesheet data to show where it starts
Primary term: agency retainer pricing
Search intent: commercial
Why we win it: three years of our own retainer data; the ranking pages have none
The score is editorial judgement: fit with your proof, the size of the gap, how close the reader is to buying. It is never a search volume or a difficulty rating: Jasify has no data source for those, so a number there would be invented.
The part nobody advertises
What it refuses to write
Every tool tells you what its AI produces. This is what this one will not produce, enforced in the workflow, not promised in the marketing.
A statistic with no source
Every figure carries the URL it came from. After writing, the same worker re-reads its own draft and checks each one against the research, claim by claim, cutting anything that isn't there.
An internal link that doesn't exist
It links only to URLs that appeared in your own site context. If it has none, it adds none, rather than guessing a path that looks right.
A gap smoothed over
Anything your Brain doesn't hold is left as a marked blank, listed under 'Before you publish' so you cannot paste past it by accident.
The real output
The finished post, ready to paste
Not an outline and not a content brief. The finished article itself, waiting in your workspace: both images already in place, sources linked, and every field a blog post needs listed underneath. One click carries the whole thing, pictures included, into whatever you write in.
Your finished post
Copy & paste
Banner · art-directed from your angle
Why most agencies mis-price retainers
The rate is almost never the problem. Scope creep is, and it starts in week three. Here is where we watched it happen across three years of our own retainers.
If you're re-pricing a retainer that keeps losing money, the answer is usually not a higher rate. It's the four hours a month nobody agreed to. We went back through 38 months of our own retainers and the pattern was the same every time.
Scope creep doesn't arrive, it accumulates
Agencies bill an average of 62% of the hours they work, and the gap is almost never one big unbilled project. In our own numbers it was requests under 40 minutes, the ones too small to raise, arriving twice a week, for eleven months.
Body image · placed at a section break
Before you publish
[NEEDS: the median overrun figure from the 2024 cohort]: left blank on purpose. Your Brain didn't hold it, so nothing was invented to fill the sentence, and it's listed here so you don't paste past it.
Publishing details
Title
Why most agencies mis-price retainers
Slug
agency-retainer-pricing
Meta title
Why agencies mis-price retainers (and the fix)
Meta description
Scope creep, not your rate, is what makes a retainer lose money. Here's where it starts.
Tags
pricing, agency ops, retainers
How it runs
Two halves, and you choose in the middle
The research happens first, on all three angles, so you are choosing between things that have already been checked out rather than between three headlines. Then nothing else runs until you've picked one, which is the single judgement a person is genuinely better at.
Act 1: decide
Find the angle
Reads your site out of the Company Brain, reads what currently ranks in your niche, and proposes three scored opportunities, each one already researched, with its own figures and sources attached.
~18 credits · 3 steps
Your turn
About 30 seconds
Delete two. Rewrite one line. Approve.
Act 2: write
Write it and hand it over
Art-directs a banner from your angle, writes the post in your voice, edits its own draft and fact-checks every number against the research it was given, illustrates the article itself, and hands the whole thing back, pictures already in place. Then, if you've connected WordPress, it files the same post there as a draft.
~17 credits · 5 steps
All 9 stepsCompany Brain · Data Extractor · Angles & Research · Review · Banner Image · Blog Writer & Editor · In-Article Image 1 · Ready-to-Paste Post · Publish to WordPress
Two images: a wide banner and one placed inside the article at a section break. The banner is art-directed from the angle you approved, the second from the finished article: neither is picked off a stock library, and both are embedded for you, so "Copy with images" carries the whole thing into your editor in one paste.
Before you run it
What it needs from you
Nothing to connect
That is the entire difference. No website to link, no plugin, no endpoint, no permission to grant. The finished post arrives on a page you open and copy out of, so it works with whatever you publish with.
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If you do run WordPress, the last step can file the same post there as a draft: you approve Jasify on your own WordPress screen, and there is nothing to paste. Skip it and everything else works exactly the same.
Your website in the Brain
Import it once. That's where the voice, the proof points and your real page URLs come from, and it is the whole difference between a post only you could publish and one anybody could.
Four answers, once
What you do, who reads you, what you can say that competitors can't, and what the blog is for. Two minutes, and every future run uses them.
Runs weekly from your first launch onward: Monday morning, three fresh angles waiting. Ignore them and nothing is spent past the gate.