Content platform & planner for teams

The content platform that helps you make better content.

Rundown works like your best teammate. It helps you set strategy, generate ideas, run your workflow, sharpen every draft with real editorial critique, and ship on time — so your whole content program gets better and delivers more.

The product

Every stage, in one workspace.

Your team keeps writing where they already do — Google Docs, your CMS, Canva. Rundown is the planning, workflow, and editorial layer around it. It plugs in; it doesn't replace.

The morning meeting, in a screen.

What needs attention, what's due, and what Desk Editor flagged overnight.

See the shape of your month.

Plan by beat, channel, author, or stage. Coverage-gap detection reads your archive against what's worth making next.

One piece, everything in one place.

Brief, body, assignees, assets, status — and Desk Editor's critique inline.

The editor who reads everything at 6:45am.

Lede, sourcing, frame, voice — scored, with the fix quoted. Never a silent rewrite.

Every trimming, by story.

Photos, transcripts, sidebars, pull quotes — tagged for reuse and remix.

Who's overloaded this week.

Beat coverage at a glance, with overload flags and freelancer rate visibility.

Describe your process in plain English.

“Every news story needs a copyedit before legal.” Rundown builds the stages and routes.

Publishes where your audience reads.

Google Docs, WordPress, Ghost, and every major CMS and social channel. Or export clean HTML and Markdown.

Our mission

To help people make content worth reading — not to make it for them.

Generic content is worthless now. The advantage is original thinking and real material driven by real research and reporting — the human parts. We help content teams do more of that, and less of everything else.

We believe — 01

The human part is the whole point.

AI Overviews collapsed informational traffic and flooded the web with sameness. What earns attention now is the opposite of generic: original angles, real reporting, a point of view, material no one else has.

We believe — 02

The hard part was never the calendar.

The hard part is deciding what's worth making, balancing beats and channels, moving work through the process, and spending the time to do great critique.

We believe — 03

A great teammate makes you better.

Not by writing for you — that's how we get more slop — but by working alongside you: surfacing gaps, suggesting angles, and catching the weak spots a sharp editor would.

The loop

Rundown helps you run the entire content operation.

Rundown doesn't just hold your work — it helps you do it, so what you publish is better for your audience, and your team gets more from every piece.

1

Strategy

See your coverage the way an editor would — balance across beats, channels, and formats, gaps against your own archive, and what's worth leaning into next.

2

Ideation

Bring the team ideas worth making. Rundown helps you generate ideas, source from news coverage, and pull inspiration from your existing work — so you never have an empty backlog.

3

Planning & assignments

Assign and manage work by beat, channel, author, or stage. Balance production load across internal and external team members, and keep an eye on your priorities.

4

Production workflow

Move every piece through its stages without chasing people. See what's due, from whom, and when — across every channel and content type.

5

Editing & sharpeningDesk Editor

Desk Editor reviews each piece the way your sharpest editor would. It critiques and suggests, asks questions, and helps you level up the work against your team's goals, beats, and voice.

6

Publishing

One-click sync and publishing to your CMS, social channels, and anywhere else your work needs to go.

7

Tracking

See what worked and feed it back into strategy. Rundown measures performance from your existing analytics to help shape the next round of ideas.

↻ And around again — better each time.

Analysis feeds strategy and ideation, and the loop runs again. That compounding is the point.

Desk Editor

The grizzled editor every team needs, in your pocket.

When a draft is ready, Desk Editor reads it the way a senior editor would and tells it like it is: what's missing, what's unclear, what could be improved, what questions you need to think about before it's ready to publish. It doesn't rewrite it for you — it helps you improve each line and graf.

See Desk Editor in action →
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Desk Editor — morning critique

Read overnight · 3 findings
Lede 2.4/ 5
The actual news doesn't appear until paragraph four.
You open with the developer's quote. The newsworthy fact — 47 families evicted in 72 hours — is buried. Move it up.
Forty-seven families received 30-day eviction notices over a 72-hour stretch last week, the largest single-week displacement…
Sourcing 3.8/ 5
One unnamed source is carrying three load-bearing claims.
Budget shortfall, contractor allegation, and timeline all attribute to "a city official."
Who it's for

Built for content teams who care what they publish.

Newsrooms

Independent digital newsrooms

The planning, workflow, and editorial layer that helps 10× your team and move beyond hand-built tools, spreadsheets, emails, and Airtable workflows.

Marketing

Marketing teams

Level up your planning, ideation, and production capacity so you can run like a great newsroom — without the overhead.

Agencies

Content & marketing agencies

Manage many clients, many beats, and many channels in one place. White-label and workspace controls help you scale your ROI for clients.

Who it's for, in detail →
Pricing

Powerful platform, friendly pricing.

We're a small but mighty team, and we pass that on to our customers. Plans start at just $49/month and scale at a fraction of the cost large, legacy providers charge.

Team — the bread-and-butter tier
Everyone who touches the work, in one workspace.

Strategy, planning, full workflow, the full Desk Editor, and publishing — for the whole team, flat.

$149 / mo
See all four tiers →

Make better content — and get more from it.

Strategy, planning, workflow, editing, and publishing in one place, with a teammate who helps at every stage. Better content, a better return on your program, at better cost.