An area guide is a market research task. What are the actual costs of commuting? Which schools have the largest waiting lists? Is the high street storefronts (and foot traffic) occupied or declining? All of those are verifiable.
Every guide cites and dates its sources. School statistics, fare data, and even transit data change, and a guide that pretends that is worse than none at all, because someone will (likely unknowingly) move based on its contents.
Guides are doubly valuable. People looking for a place to live (not a house) come to your site, and your staff can send a guide to a buyer who’s new to the area and has never been there. Both purposes are useless the moment a piece of data is erroneous.
If you asked a model for a guide to a mid-sized town, you would receive a product that is fluent, confident, and roughly correct, but specifically wrong in many places, such as identifying the wrong station on the wrong line, a restaurant that closed in 2019, or a school with a rating from a nonexistent inspection.
The writer begins with the most boring sources that cannot be verified (i.e. Council and city data, school inspection reports, transit schedules, pending planning applications, and public records of recent data). Desk research does not reach the next part, which is asking the local staff what questions buyers are asking the most about the town.
You receive a guide, a list of sources with dates for each data point, and a quick note on which sections will need updates first. The questions people search for are reflected in the guide’s headings, and the guide’s author is given the benefit of the doubt for any claims they are unable to support, or they are clearly marked as approximations.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical area guide | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town guide | 900 | $90 | $0.90 | $90.90 |
| City guide with market data | 1,600 | $160 | $1.60 | $161.60 |
| Region or relocation guide | 2,800 | $280 | $2.80 | $282.80 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
We match the brief to a writer who has already worked in that subject area. If you have worked with an Articled writer before and want them again, name them and we will check their availability first.
Up to 3 days. The writer has to read around the subject before writing it, so we quote honestly rather than promising an hour. If your deadline is tighter, say so in the brief and we will tell you before you pay whether we can meet it.
Prices and transport figures age within a year, and school or planning detail can be even faster. We highlight which sections are most likely to go out of date. These will be refreshable on their own, independent of the rest of the guide. Each section of the updated guide will be priced by the words that are changed.
Yes, and it’s the reason we are direct in our writing instead of gaslighting you. The guide is created from cited sources and interviews with your localized staff. In situations where the writer knows the place firsthand, it is reflected in the detail. We will inform you which is which.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
The neighborhood description is really detailed. It has the name of the bakery, the swimming pool, the school catchment, etc. The transport part was pretty vague, and I had to include the actual bus routes. It was a small fix, but it is usually the first thing buyers ask about.
Nothing happened for the first day and a half, which made me anxious, since I assumed they would start immediately. Then it came, and slide seven finally explains our wedge in a sentence I have been failing to write for a year. I think some communication during the wait would have helped.
They asked for something that didn’t include passionate or results-driven. I submitted 280 words about my poorly executed bridge inspection contract and the changes I made after the contract. It was an exposure draft. The hiring manager read it out to me during the interview. He said should have quoted the draft as an example of my work. I mentioned in the interview that I learned from this contract that I have to think more in advance and plan for the next steps which I hope he remembered.
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