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AI-powered SEO content generation and content-cluster automation
Machined is an AI SEO content platform focused on automated keyword research, topical clustering, research-backed long-form articles, internal linking, and CMS publishing.
Machined automates keyword research, search-intent clustering, article generation, research with citations, contextual internal linking, and publishing. Its workflow is designed to produce interlinked content clusters and publish them to WordPress, Webflow, or other systems through webhooks.
Good fit for SEO content teams, agencies, SaaS startups, local businesses, and publishers that want to generate and publish researched content clusters at scale with minimal manual work
7-day free trial with no credit card required. Monthly plans: Launch $19/mo, Growth $49/mo, Pro $99/mo, Scale $249/mo, plus BYOK $99/mo. Annual billing is advertised as saving 25%, but the page does not expose the annual dollar amounts in the fetched content. Custom plans are available by contacting Machined for volumes above the published limits.
Launch
$19
monthly
Single articles, content clusters, deep research, AI images, unlimited CMS connections, unlimited webhooks
30 articles/month; unlimited projects; 2 team members
Growth
$49
monthly
Single articles, content clusters, deep research, AI images, unlimited CMS connections, unlimited webhooks
100 articles/month; unlimited projects; 3 team members
Pro
$99
monthly
Single articles, content clusters, deep research, AI images, unlimited CMS connections, unlimited webhooks
250 articles/month; unlimited projects; 5 team members
Scale
$249
monthly
Single articles, content clusters, deep research, AI images, unlimited CMS connections, unlimited webhooks
750 articles/month; unlimited projects; 10 team members
BYOK
$99
monthly
Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or OpenRouter key; single articles, clusters, deep research, and AI images; provider costs paid directly by customer
2,000 articles/month; unlimited projects and CMS connections; 10 team members
Custom
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Custom plan terms are not published; contact Machined via the pricing page
For more articles than the published plans cover
Last verified September 2026 against machined.ai/pricing. Vendors change packaging often; confirm before buying.
Scorecard
3.1/5 overall, weighted for AI SEO automation tools. How grades work.
Deep research is a named workflow with automated source discovery, key-fact extraction, citations, and directed URLs.
The research page describes Automated and Directed Research, extraction from dozens of authoritative sources, and inline/footnote citations: https://machined.ai/features/ai-research-citations
Strong explicit support for SERP-based discovery, volume/difficulty/trends, intent clustering, long-tail discovery, and cannibalization prevention.
Machined documents SERP crawling, search volume, difficulty, trends, intent clustering, and anti-cannibalization: https://machined.ai/features/automated-keyword-research
Uses SERP and web-page research, including user-specified source URLs, but official pages do not document internal-company-data ingestion or broad app connectors.
Directed Research accepts exact webpages and Automated Research finds sources: https://machined.ai/features/ai-research-citations
Competitor context
Automates cluster and single-article generation, long-form output, images, metadata, voice, briefs, and internal links.
The product and customization pages document bulk cluster generation, 1,200–3,200-word controls, images, briefs, editor, and model selection: https://machined.ai/features/customization and https://machined.ai/features/content-cluster-automation
Citations and E-E-A-T language provide indirect support for answer visibility, but no explicit AI-search/GEO optimization or citation monitoring feature was found.
The reviewed official research page mentions E-E-A-T and authoritative citations, not AI-search tracking: https://machined.ai/features/ai-research-citations
Generated pages include metadata, links, and sitemap support, but Machined is not a general technical crawler or site-audit suite.
Official pages describe SEO metadata and publishing integrations within content automation: https://machined.ai/features/integrations
Strong one-click publishing with native WordPress/Webflow, webhooks, draft/live status, images, formatting, and metadata.
The integrations page documents native CMS connections, webhooks, draft review, formatting, images, and SEO metadata: https://machined.ai/features/integrations
No rank tracking, traffic analytics, Search Console integration, dashboards, or outcome measurement capability was found on reviewed official pages.
Reviewed official feature index and pricing describe generation, research, linking, and publishing but no measurement product: https://machined.ai/ and https://machined.ai/pricing
Agent-based research and automated multi-step content execution are explicit, but an external agent API or general autonomous agent framework is not documented.
Machined calls its research agents and automates research-to-publication workflows: https://machined.ai/features/ai-research-citations and https://machined.ai/features/content-cluster-automation
Agentic workflow coverage
Low published entry price, 7-day no-card trial, unlimited projects, and a BYOK option make the product accessible.
Launch is $19/month and the trial requires no card; BYOK is $99/month: https://machined.ai/pricing
No auditable customer count was established from the reviewed official pages; the homepage's promotional user statement is not treated as an auditable customer-count source.
The reviewed homepage contains promotional social proof but no auditable customer metric or methodology: https://machined.ai/
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Directed Research can target competitor webpages, but competitor intelligence or systematic competitor benchmarking is not documented as a dedicated module.
Internal company data
No official capability for ingesting internal company databases, documents, or private knowledge bases was found.
SEO data grounding
Keyword research is grounded in SERPs and exposes search volume, difficulty, trends, and intent clustering.
Third-party app grounding
Webhooks connect publishing workflows to other tools, but third-party app data grounding is not documented.
Custom API grounding
Custom webhooks are documented for sending content out, but no capability to ground research in a customer API is documented.
Research-backed citations and structured topical coverage are weak indirect readiness signals; no explicit GEO controls or AI crawler/search measurement were found.
Official positioning covers topical authority and citations but not GEO: https://machined.ai/features/content-cluster-automation and https://machined.ai/features/ai-research-citations
Plans include 2–10 team members and the app includes an editor/draft review flow, but no detailed roles, comments, or approval system was found.
Team-member limits are on pricing and draft review/editor capabilities are documented on the integrations/customization pages: https://machined.ai/pricing and https://machined.ai/features/customization
Automated agents cover research, source extraction, article creation, clustering, linking, and publishing.
Autonomous execution
After a topic/audience input, the system can execute discovery, clustering, generation, linking, and CMS publication with one-click or automated steps.
Human control and review
Users retain control through custom briefs, source direction, in-app editing, draft publishing, and configurable settings.
Integration surface
Native WordPress and Webflow plus webhooks and Zapier/Make/n8n pathways provide a useful publishing surface, but no general-purpose agent API is documented.
Memory and persistent context
Cluster-wide article context, uploaded writing samples, and brand voice are supported; persistent enterprise memory or knowledge-base memory is not documented.
Evaluation and feedback loop
No official evaluation, experiment, outcome-feedback, or model-improvement loop was found on reviewed pages.
Strong autonomy from topic input through clustering, writing, links, and publication, with human controls through briefs, editing, drafts, and custom settings.
One-click generation/publishing and configurable draft review/editor workflows are documented here: https://machined.ai/features/customization and https://machined.ai/features/integrations
A 7-day full-access trial is documented, but no permanently free standalone tools were found.
The official pricing page documents only the 7-day trial and paid plans: https://machined.ai/pricing