Get a Custom No-AI Content Quote
A quote guarantees certainty rather than a discount. The total will match the calculator to the penny. You will have a written scope, a schedule, and a file ready for your finance team.
When to Request a No-AI Content Quote
If you’ve reached this page, chances are you do not need a quote. To answer the question on the pricing page’s calculator regarding a 1,500-word article, it takes just about ten seconds. The order form takes approximately two minutes to fill out. In the event that the word count is the thing you cannot ascertain, feel free to request a quote.
There are rare cases where unique solutions are necessary. For example, you may require one if combining multiple formats is needed for a program, such as a landing page along with six help articles and a case study, and if pricing must be addressed for all of these. A solution also may be required if the scope is effectiveness measured in outcomes rather than time (e.g., developing a webpage for each of the forty branches). We may also require a solution if there is a deadline for which we are sure we will not be able to meet the request, or if there is a financial process that prohibits money from being allocated unless there is a signed document outlining all deliverables and their cost.
It is useful to know what a quote is not. A quote is not the first step in a negotiation. A client will not accept a quote at a lower price than what was already published as a firm quote. At the most, we can expect a one percent margin, which is not negotiated. A conversation with the client can change how the work is performed, and this can be a significant addition to the quote.
- You know the outcome you need but cannot express it as a word count yet
- Several formats have to be priced and scheduled as one piece of work
- Procurement needs a document listing deliverables, dates and a total
- You need a firm commitment from us that we can support this deadline. A deadline is fixed and you need us to confirm we can staff it before you commit
- The program runs across months and you want the schedule written down
What We Need for a No-AI Content Quote
Here’s the minimum information you need to provide: what you want written, how much of it, the audience, and when you need it. Rough answers are fine to provide if you can’t be more specific. Just state that the audience is general, because that will actually change the estimate. People often assume the impact of that information is very low.
Accuracy relies on research. Here’s what we need: style guides, two sample drafts, wording documents, at least one person to contact for information, whether the work will be published under your byline or ours and if the work will be published at all. If a purchase order must be done before writing can begin, let us know before we give you the quote.
You will get questions back. We don’t pad estimates to cover any vagueness in the brief since the industry response is to ask rather than give a quote that is inflated. We will also let you know if a subject is outside our writers’ areas of expertise. Declining two items out of nine is a normal outcome and a better one than accepting all nine poorly.
- Formats and pitches with working titles or angles where you have the latter. The example you are looking for, with a short description of how you would complete it
- A word count, a page count, or a description we can convert to a word count
- Who reads it, and what you want them to do after they have
- Whether that date is firm or tentative When hyphenating, insert the correct hyphens at the appropriate locations.
- Any style guide, glossary, source documents or published pieces to match
- Invoicing details, if a purchase order has to exist before work can start
How a No-AI Content Quote Is Calculated
The calculations are the same site wide, one by one per deliverable. A word count is given to each, ten cents is multiplied by said word count, and one percent is added to this number. This is the extent of the calculations. There are no complexity multipliers, no research surcharges, no rush loadings and no minimum project values.
We convert scope to countable units for pricing. For example, Forty location pages become forty rows at an agreed upon length. A case study is priced in line with how many interviews are required. This helps to avoid a quote with a total to break down as each line of the quote includes a count and allows for items to be removed in order to meet the budget.
We re-quote changed lines and send the revised total if we find the actual scope of work differs from what we quoted. For instance, a piece that is now 2,000 words instead of 1,200 would be a new figure on a single line, not a renegotiated project. Nothing is quoted at a price without seeing it first.
- Every deliverable priced at ten cents a word, listed on its own line
- One percent added to the total, shown separately rather than folded into the rate
- Half of that fee donated to tree planting, as it is on every other order
- Two revision rounds and a fourteen-day window included on each deliverable
- No complexity multiplier, research surcharge, rush fee or minimum project value
There is no complexity multiplier
Technical white papers are priced at ten cents a word, the same as blog introductions. If a subject is beyond the scope of our writers, we don’t take on the assignment, rather than pricing the risk against you.
No-AI Content Quote FAQs
This is a no obligation service, no account sign up required. Simply email a description of what you wish to have read, and a person reads it. They reach out with any clarifications to the description, and then compile a response to the description with feedback. Should you choose not to continue with this service, then no other actions are taken and no one bothers you.
Thirty days for the schedule, and indefinitely for the price. The rate has not moved since we started and is not planned to, so an old quote can be reissued at the same figure. What genuinely expires is writer availability, which is why we re-confirm delivery dates rather than the total.
A person has to read your request and write a response, so it takes a while instead of a couple of seconds. A quote is treated the same as the work we’re doing, and it’s weird to try to start a new business relationship by filling out a form to get your quote from a template.
An email address and a description of the project is all that we require. Please only provide company name, billing address, and purchase order details if you want a formal invoice with your request, however you can provide these details after the quote is sent with no impact to the quote. There is no account to create at any point.
We provide the affected lines again and the new total. Figures that are accurate stay the same. Since pricing is per word versus per project, an adjusted estimate is simple math versus renegotiating everything.
Quotes are file in USD because this is the currency the rate is set in. Converting this would mean absorbing exchange variation. Your may method may convert at its own rate. Please see the payment methods page on what we are able to accept.
Yes. Our monthly quotes show what we expect to charge each month for the same work with no retainer and no cancellation term. If you choose to stop ordering, you will not owe us anything. We prefer to maintain the work because it is good rather than because a contract says you have to maintain the work.
The fact is that, in most cases, good custom quotes discourage people from buying. The main part of a good quote is often in the negotiation about what not to buy, and this can be quite a challenge to do on your own when you look at a price list. Send us your unfinished quote, even in its rough form, and someone will review it and send you feedback.
Content a person actually wrote
$10 per 100 words, and the writer keeps all of it. Our 1% sits on top, 0.5% goes to trees, and no generated text appears anywhere in the process.