Open Loop/Guides
Between a few dollars and a few thousand a month, depending on whether you are buying software, or someone to run it and stand behind the result.
Open Loop is $450–$1,470 a month, which works out around $36 a clip.
| Option | Roughly | Who reviews the output |
|---|---|---|
| AI tools | Little to nothing | You |
| Freelance editor | Tens of dollars a clip | Depends on the brief |
| Managed service Open Loop | Hundreds a month | A person, before you see it |
| Full agency | Thousands a month | A team, plus strategy |
Reframing to vertical, burning in captions, trimming dead air and even reading the transcript for good moments are all solved problems — software does them in minutes and does them well.
What you pay above the software price is the review. Someone has to go through the candidates, kill the ones that should not go out, fix the timings, and be willing to come back with three clips instead of ten when the episode was thin. That is slow, it does not get faster with volume, and it is the part you would otherwise be doing yourself.
A cheap tool where you post six of thirty and spend two hours reviewing costs you very little in subscription and two hours of your week, every week. Whether that beats a managed service depends entirely on what those two hours are worth to you.
| Tier | Clips | Price | Per clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 12 | $450 | $37.50 |
| Growth | 24 | $870 | $36.25 |
| Scale | 40 | $1,470 | $36.75 |
Every clip is one a person reviewed and expects you to post. We are not padding the count with near-misses.
The answer to the fourth should be "you do, and not without asking." If a provider hesitates on that, keep looking.
Check before you buy. Tool pricing moves fast. Go to the source before committing money on the basis of any table on any website, including this one.
Bring one to a 20-minute call. If the honest answer is "not much", we will tell you that instead.