Articles Agent
A real draft, grounded in your context — not a magic wand
Give it a topic, target keywords, and a brand voice — it writes a complete, structured markdown article grounded in your actual product and positioning, not generic filler.
Free, self-hosted · Bring your own model key
Without vs. with Marlo
Why teams switch to a grounded article agent
Without Marlo
- A blank doc and a deadline every single week
- Freelance writers at $150–$400 per article
- Drafts that read generic because they're not grounded in your product
- Manually writing SEO titles and meta descriptions after the fact
- No guardrail against an AI writer inventing stats or quotes
With Marlo Articles Agent
- A full 1,200–1,800 word draft generated on demand, in minutes
- Self-hosted — no per-article agency or freelance fee
- Grounded in a real project context block — your product, not a generic prompt
- SEO title and meta description sized to spec, built in
- Explicitly instructed to never fabricate stats, quotes, or figures
Definition
What the Articles Agent actually does
A topic, target keywords, and a brand voice feed a real project context block — your product info and positioning — into a generator that produces a full 1,200–1,800 word markdown article: SEO title, meta description, H1, and a structured body, not a thin summary.
The generator is explicitly instructed never to fabricate statistics, customer quotes, or figures it wasn't given — if the context doesn't include it, the draft leaves it out instead of inventing something that sounds plausible.
How it works
How the Articles Agent Drafts Your Content
Set the project context once. The agent drafts on demand, every time.
Give it topic, keywords, and voice
Your inputs feed a real project context block — your product info and positioning — not a generic prompt. Example shown above, illustrative not live data.
Get a full markdown draft
A complete article comes back with frontmatter already sized to spec — SEO title, meta description, H1, and a structured body, not a thin summary.
Copy the markdown into your CMS
Publishing is copy-paste for now — there's no CMS integration wired in yet. WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Wix, and Sanity publishing are planned, not live today.
Capabilities
What it actually does
A single run produces a real, structured draft — not a magic wand dressed up as a full content pipeline.
1,200–1,800 word articles
Each run produces a full markdown article — SEO title, meta description, H1, and a body sized to actually rank, not a thin summary.
Frontmatter built in
Every draft ships with a 50–60 character SEO title and a 140–160 character meta description already sized to spec, ready to drop into a CMS.
Grounded in your project
Topic, target keywords, and brand voice all feed a real project context block — your product info and positioning — not a generic prompt.
No invented numbers
The generator is explicitly instructed never to fabricate statistics, customer quotes, or figures it wasn't given.
Keyword-targeted headings
H1 and section headings are built around the target keywords you supply, not generic filler headings bolted on after the fact.
Brand voice, not house style
Tone and vocabulary follow the voice you describe for the project, so drafts read like your team wrote them, not a generic AI writer.
Honest about what it doesn't know
If a stat, quote, or customer detail wasn't supplied, the draft leaves it out instead of inventing something that sounds plausible.
Articles Agent vs. the alternatives
Marlo vs. a generic AI writer and a content agency
Self-hosted and open-source vs. $20–$100/mo generic writers or $150–$400+ per article from an agency.
Why Articles Agent?
Content Still Has To Get Written.
A steady stream of grounded, structured articles feeds both organic search and the AI engines that cite your content — the Articles Agent keeps the pipeline moving without a blank doc every week.
1,200–1,800
Words Per Draft
$0
Per-Article Cost, Self-Hosted
2
Frontmatter Fields Auto-Sized
0
Invented Stats Allowed
Publishing is copy-paste, for now
The agent doesn't auto-publish anywhere yet — there's no CMS integration wired in. You copy the finished markdown out and paste it where it needs to go. WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Wix, and Sanity publishing are planned integrations, not something live today.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES
What a marketing system like this looks like in practice
Marlo is early — these are illustrative scenarios showing what lean teams could achieve, not real customer results (yet).
Pricing
Three ways to run Marlo
Self-host it for free, let us host it and cover the AI cost, or host it with us and bring your own model key. Same 10 agents, every tier.
Self-Hosted
Run it yourself, own everything.
- All 10 agents — Articles, SEO, GEO, Site Crawl, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Hacker News, Leads
- Bring your own LLM key — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Your data stays in your own database, never on a server we control
- AGPL-licensed — audit the code, modify it, run it forever
Hosted, Built-In Models
We host it, we cover the AI model cost.
- All 10 agents, fully hosted — nothing to install or maintain
- Built-in AI models included — no LLM API key required
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Automatic updates, managed infrastructure
- Cancel anytime
Hosted, Your Own Key
We host it, you bring your own model key.
- All 10 agents, fully hosted — nothing to install or maintain
- Bring your own LLM key — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- You pay your model provider directly — this fee covers hosting only
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Cancel anytime
Draft your first article
Give it a topic, keywords, and a voice — the Articles Agent drafts a full markdown article grounded in your project, in minutes.
Self-host free, or hosted from $9/mo