Part of our Admin & Front Office agents
AI agents for admin teams in media and publishing
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your media admin team already uses, from keying every pitch and contract by hand to an agent logging, drafting, and filing it.
Media admin teams get back the hours lost to pitch logging, contributor forms, and receipt chasing.
AI Employees for Media & Publishing Admin & Front Office in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
- Every pitch logged before the desk meetsThe shared pitches inbox is read each morning and tagged by beat, so the commissioning meeting starts from a list.
- Contributors sign before they fileA freelance agreement is drafted the day a commission is approved, so nobody writes a 1,200 word piece on a handshake.
- Tax forms in hand before the first paymentW-9 and W-8BEN forms are checked ahead of each pay run, so finance never holds a freelancer's money for a missing form.
- Receipts matched to the assignmentReporters' photographed receipts are coded to the story or event budget before the month closes on them.
- Passes and review copies trackedPress card expiries and review copy requests sit in one log, not in four people's inboxes.
- Built around your newsroom adminThese are examples of what a media admin agent can do. Build a custom agent for any job your office repeats.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Media & Publishing Admin & Front Office team's day.
Where the hours go
Pitches pour into a shared inbox where each one gets read twice, forgotten once, and answered late, so good writers wait weeks and the commissioning meeting runs on memory.
An agent reads the pitches inbox each morning, logs each pitch against its beat, and drafts a holding reply for approval, so the desk meets with a clean list and writers hear back.
Every commission needs a retyped agreement, a signature chased, and a W-9 hunted down, and the writer has often filed before any of it is done.
An agent drafts the freelance agreement from the approved commission, nudges for the signature, and checks the tax form, so paperwork finishes before the piece does.
Reporters come back from a festival or a match with a pocketful of receipts and a month-end deadline, and someone has to chase, code, and check each one by hand.
An agent chases missing receipts, codes each to its assignment, and flags claims that break policy, leaving a short exception list for the editor to approve.
Signed agreements, issue proofs, press passes, and staff lists live in different folders, so finding the one document an auditor or an editor wants takes an afternoon.
An agent names and files each document where it belongs, tracks expiry dates, and keeps the masthead sheet current, so any record is one search away.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Media & Publishing Admin & Front Office agents
Some of the apps for your Media & Publishing Admin & Front Office team
Some of the media admin apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Admin & Front Office180 min / weekLogging and answering the pitches inbox
Someone reads each pitch, types it into the tracker, and writes a holding reply, often a week after it arrived and after a writer has already pitched elsewhere.
Admin & Front Office Agent0 minAgent logs each pitch and drafts the replyAn agent reads the inbox each morning, logs every pitch by beat, and drafts the acknowledgement for the desk to approve before it goes.
- Admin & Front Office150 min / weekDrafting freelance agreements and chasing forms
The admin lead retypes terms into a template for every commission, then chases the signature and the tax form by email days before pay day.
Admin & Front Office Agent0 minAgent drafts the agreement and checks the formsAn agent drafts the agreement from the approved row, nudges for the signature, and lists missing tax forms, all held for approval.
- Admin & Front Office140 min / weekChasing and coding reporter receipts
Month-end brings a pile of photographed receipts, a chase round for the missing ones, and an afternoon coding each to a story or event.
Admin & Front Office Agent0 minAgent chases, codes, and flags the exceptionsAn agent chases the missing receipts, codes each to its assignment, and lists the claims that break policy for the editor.
- Admin & Front Office100 min / weekLogging review copies and tracking passes
Requests sit in an inbox, stock is checked by eye, and press card expiry dates live in one person's head until a pass lapses.
Admin & Front Office Agent0 minAgent logs requests and watches expiry datesAn agent logs each request against stock, prepares the label details, and drafts pass renewals 45 days ahead, all for approval.
- Admin & Front Office120 min / weekFiling records and fixing the editorial diary
Signed agreements and edition proofs get dragged into folders on a Friday, and diary clashes are found when two desk heads arrive at once.
Admin & Front Office Agent0 minAgent files records and spots diary clashesAn agent names and files each document as it lands and flags next week's clashes with a proposed new time for the managing editor.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~6 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent that handles contracts, expenses, and contributor details only earns its place if you can see what it touched. Actionist keeps you in charge of every send, every figure, and every record.
An acknowledgement, a contract, or a nudge to a freelancer is drafted and held for your sign-off. Nothing reaches a contributor on its own unless you widen that yourself.
The agent fills a template from the commissioning sheet. Rate, rights, and kill fee are decisions a person makes, and the draft waits for you to confirm them.
Each document renamed, each form chased, and each claim flagged is logged with a time and a screenshot, so an editor or auditor can see what happened.
Names, bank details, and contacts are encrypted and never used to train any model. Self-host on a VPS if sensitive details must stay on your own infrastructure.
More Media & Publishing teams
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Frequently asked questions
Does my media admin team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with an admin agent for our publication?
How do I build a custom agent for how our newsroom handles admin?
How quickly can I set up my first admin agent?
Will the agent email a freelancer or event organiser without me seeing it first?
Does the agent decide contract terms or expense approvals?
Our contributor payments portal and CMS have no API. Can an agent still use them?
Where do contributor details live, and is the data used to train AI models?
What happens on election night or around a big event, when pitches and receipts spike?
See an agent log your pitches and draft the next freelance agreement
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read a pitches inbox, log each pitch by beat, and draft a contributor agreement for your approval, end to end.