Part of our Founders & Executives agents
AI agents for founders in media and publishing
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps founders and executives at a publication already use, from piecing Monday's numbers together by hand to a digest and board pack waiting.
Publishers and editors-in-chief get back the hours lost to audience digests, board packs, and inbox triage.
AI Employees for Media & Publishing Founders & Executives 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
- Monday opens with the real audience numbersPaid subscribers, churn, and trial conversion arrive as one short digest, not four dashboards.
- You know which stories earned their keepStory and section numbers reach the editorial conference already ranked by subscriptions driven.
- Rivals and platforms never surprise youA paywall change or a search referral drop reaches you with the evidence, the same morning.
- The board pack is drafted, not begunRevenue by stream and department updates are pulled into the deck well before the meeting.
- A publisher inbox showing only decisionsPitches, invitations, and awards deadlines are sorted, with replies drafted for you to approve.
- Built around your publicationThese are examples of what an executive agent can do. Build a custom agent for any job you repeat.
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 Founders & Executives team's day.
Where the hours go
Monday begins with the publisher opening the billing platform, the analytics tool, and the newsletter dashboard to piece together how many readers paid, left, and arrived, and by the time it is assembled the week has already started.
An agent pulls the figures from each tool on Sunday evening and drafts one digest with the biggest movements first, ready for you to add your view.
The editorial conference debates which stories worked using page views, because no one has time to trace which stories actually drove sign-ups, so the paying readers' favourites go unnoticed and the stalled ones keep their slot.
An agent ranks the week's stories and sections by subscriptions driven and lists the ones that stalled, so the conference starts from what earned its keep.
The board pack is built in the last evening from a dozen sources, with department heads chased by message for numbers that arrive in different formats, and the rival or platform shift that mattered never makes it onto a slide.
An agent collects the updates, pulls revenue by stream, and drafts the deck with the competitor and platform notes attached, weeks before the meeting.
The publisher's inbox fills with platform pitches, agency requests, and award invitations, and a missed entry date or a double booked meeting is only noticed when someone asks why nobody replied.
An agent sorts the inbox, tracks every deadline, flags calendar clashes, and drafts replies for approval, so the inbox shows only what needs a decision.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Media & Publishing Founders & Executives agents
Some of the apps for your Media & Publishing Founders & Executives team
Some of the executive 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.
When the weekly subscriber check finds net new paying readers under target, the agent posts the gap to the leadership channel within about a minute, with the cohort that churned most and the referral source that dropped, so the first conversation starts from evidence.
Use cases for this team
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Media & Publishing Executive Office150 min / weekAssembling the Monday audience digest
Opening the billing platform, analytics, and newsletter dashboard on a Sunday evening to piece together paid, churned, and arriving readers.
Media & Publishing Executive Office Agent0 minAgent drafts the digest with the movements firstAn agent pulls the figures from each tool, drafts one digest with the three biggest movements first, and waits for you to add your view and approve it.
- Media & Publishing Executive Office180 min / weekWorking out which stories earned their keep
Debating the week's stories using page views because tracing sign-ups to stories takes an analyst a day nobody has.
Media & Publishing Executive Office Agent0 minAgent ranks stories by subscriptions drivenAn agent ranks stories and sections by the sign-ups they drove, lists the stalled ones, and puts a one page sheet in front of the editorial conference.
- Media & Publishing Executive Office120 min / weekWatching rivals and platforms
Checking competitors' front pages and subscription pages when time allows, and learning of a platform shift from a falling traffic chart.
Media & Publishing Executive Office Agent0 minAgent logs rival and platform changes dailyAn agent scans rival pages and paywalls on schedule, logs every change, and drafts a short note on what it means for your own offer.
- Media & Publishing Executive Office270 min / weekBuilding the board pack
Chasing department heads for numbers in different formats and assembling the deck on the last evening before the meeting.
Media & Publishing Executive Office Agent0 minAgent drafts the pack weeks aheadAn agent collects the updates, pulls revenue by stream, and drafts the deck with the competitor and platform notes, ready for you to shape the story.
- Media & Publishing Executive Office225 min / weekKeeping the inbox and calendar under control
Reading every pitch, invitation, and request to find the three that need a decision, and missing an awards entry date by a day.
Media & Publishing Executive Office Agent0 minAgent sorts, tracks, and drafts for approvalAn agent sorts the inbox, tracks every deadline, flags clashes, and drafts replies for you to approve, so only decisions reach your desk.
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
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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent near your board papers, your audience data, and your inbox only earns its place if you stay in charge. Actionist is built so you see everything it touched, approve anything that goes out under your name, and keep every record.
Pitch replies, department nudges, and owner updates are drafted and queued for you. Nothing is sent as the publisher unless you widen that through Approval Modes.
It pulls the numbers, ranks the stories, and drafts the pack. Which launches go ahead, which stories to push, and what to tell the board stay with you.
Every number in the pack links back to the dashboard or sheet it came from, so you can check a figure before it reaches the board.
Every digest, flag, and draft is logged with a timestamp. Your audience and revenue data is encrypted, never used to train a model, and can be self-hosted.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be technical to use Actionist as a publisher or editor-in-chief?
How do I get started with an AI agent for the executive office?
How do I make customised AI agents for how our leadership team actually works?
How quickly can I set Actionist up for a publication leadership team?
Where does our audience, revenue, and board data live, and is it used to train AI?
Our analytics and billing tools do not share an API. Can an agent still pull the numbers together?
Will the agent send a reply or an update under my name without me seeing it?
Can it cope with an election night, a breaking story, or the Q4 board cycle?
Is this replacing a chief of staff or an executive assistant?
See an agent build your Monday audience digest and draft the board pack
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent pull subscriber numbers, rank stories by sign-ups, and draft a digest from your own data.