News desk software for one-person publishers
Useable News watches the subjects you cover, reads the original reporting behind each story worth your time, and writes it up in your voice: an article built to rank, eight social posts, and a weekly newsletter your list will actually open. Approve each one, or let the desk run itself.
From $14 a month billed yearly. 7-day money-back guarantee. See how it works.
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A story peaks within a day or two. The sites that publish inside that window collect the readers. Everyone after them splits what is left.
Client work and life take over, and three weeks without a post tells visitors and search engines that nobody is home.
Paste a headline into a chatbot and it fills the gaps with quotes and numbers nobody reported. One sharp reader is all it takes.
How it works
Each Keyword Feed searches the latest news on your subjects, in your region, on the schedule you set.
An AI editor scores every story out of ten, drops repeats and anything you already covered, and lines up the best few.
It opens the publisher's page, reads the reporting, and writes a fresh article in your Writing Profile's voice.
A 4:3 feature image drawn for the story, plus tags and a category, filed where you told it to go.
Straight to your WordPress site, or parked on your review board until you approve it.
Eight posts, one per network, each written for that network, delivered through Buffer or a webhook.
Sourced, not guessed
Most AI writers start from a headline and improvise the rest. Useable News opens the publisher's page first and writes only from what is actually there: the real names, the real numbers, nothing added.
Every article credits and links the original publisher. And when a page is paywalled or blocked, the desk says so: the article is kept short, written from the headline alone, and flagged for you before it can go anywhere.
Your beat, as a newsletter
Every week (or every morning) the desk picks its strongest published stories and writes a short digest in your voice: an opening note, a summary of each story, a link to each one.
It arrives as a feed your own email service already understands. Mailchimp, Kit and Beehiiv send it to your list under your name, so your list, your reputation and your sender stay yours.
Built to be found
Built for WordPress, the platform most of the web already runs on, and it goes further there: structured data, news sitemaps and instant indexing come with it. Not on WordPress? Webflow, Ghost, Shopify and custom sites work too.
Publishing is only half the job. Getting found is the other half.
You hold the keys
Your name is on the masthead, so you decide how much the desk does alone. With the switches off, each article waits on a review board grouped by site: drag it to Approved and it publishes on the feed's next run, or to Published to send it now.
Turn them on one at a time as the desk earns your trust, feed by feed.
Who it is for
You know the subject better than anyone. The desk makes sure you are also first to it.
One Writing Profile per client and one feed per site. Each brand keeps its own voice, and none of them bleed together.
Your site and socials stay current on your topic daily, while your time goes to clients and content only you can make.
No blog? A social-only feed shares the best stories on your subject with your take and a link to the original.
Not a fit if the plan is to flood the web with pages nobody reads, or to publish claims you have never looked at. The desk is built to make good publishers faster, not to replace judgment.
Plans
One site, covered every morning.
$168 billed yearly. Save 26%.
A portfolio of sites, each with its own voice.
$348 billed yearly. Save 38%.
Agency scale. Every client, every desk.
$1,500 billed yearly. Save 37%.
A typical article with a high-quality image and its social posts uses about 38 credits. Finding and skipping stories is always free.
Every plan: 7-day money-back guarantee. Cancel or pause anytime.
Questions
You give it the subjects you cover and a schedule. On each run it finds the stories trending on those subjects, ranks them, reads the original reporting for the ones worth covering, writes an article in your voice with an image, tags and a category, publishes it to your site if you allow it, and writes a post for each of eight social networks. To find the stories, it uses a proprietary blend of search tools, including Google Trends, to bring you the most relevant sources for your news.
No. It reports the facts in its own words and its own structure, in the voice of the profile you chose. Direct quotes are kept short and attributed, and every article credits and links the original publisher.
Then the article is written only from what the headline establishes, kept short, and flagged on your board so you check it before anything goes out. Flagged articles never publish on their own.
Only if you turn that on. Each feed has four switches (write, publish, draft social, send social) and they all start off. Until you flip them, everything waits on your review board.
A standard article with a high-quality image and its social posts uses about 38 credits. That is roughly 10 finished articles a month on Starter, 26 on Growth and 130 on Enterprise. Finding, ranking and skipping stories is free.
To any WordPress site, with an optional connector plugin that adds search descriptions, social previews, structured data, a Google News sitemap and instant Bing indexing. Webflow, Ghost, Shopify or a custom site work through a webhook (Make, Zapier, Pabbly or your own endpoint).
Pick the feeds it should draw from, a voice and a schedule. The desk writes a digest of your best published stories and adds it to a private feed. Paste that feed into Mailchimp, Kit or Beehiiv once, and each new digest goes to your list automatically. We never email your subscribers, so your sender reputation stays entirely yours. Each digest uses 4 credits.
Nobody can promise rankings. What the desk does is the groundwork: answer-first openings, clear question subheads, a clean slug and meta description, NewsArticle and FAQ structured data, and links to your related posts. Structured data needs an Administrator WordPress account; the connection test tells you if yours qualifies.
X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon and Pinterest, plus Google Business Profile for local businesses. Posts are delivered through your Buffer account (a free one works) or through a Make or Zapier webhook. Send them all at once or spaced through the day, to the queue, next in line, or right now.
Yes. Growth covers 25 sites and Enterprise is unlimited. Each feed has its own site, Writing Profile and settings.
The desk runs on top AI models and tools for research, writing and images, and we move to better ones as they come out. Your content is never used to train AI models.
Every plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Set up one feed, let it run for a week, and if you would not put your name on what it wrote, ask for a refund. You can also pause or cancel anytime.