Pressly is the AI writing desk built for reporters. It learns your voice from your own published work, drafts news reports, features, op-eds and press releases in minutes, and publishes straight to WordPress in one click. You keep the byline. You verify every fact. You just stop losing hours to the first draft.
No credit card. No time limit. Connect one byline and your first draft is in your voice.
A live demo of Pressly. From the brief “City council votes 5–2 to approve the downtown rezoning after a 3-hour hearing.”, with the News report type selected, Pressly drafts a structured article — headline: “Council approves downtown rezoning in 5–2 vote” — then a chat command, “tighten the lede,” rewrites the opening line in place. The four capabilities are described in full text alongside this demo.
Built for solo reporters, local newsrooms, freelance writers, PR desks and student journalists — drafts are starting points you verify, never an autopilot.
Connect your WordPress and Pressly reads your past bylines to learn your cadence, vocabulary, and structure — lede, dek and kicker included. The first draft comes out sounding like you wrote it, not like a chatbot filled in a template. Ghostwriting for an executive? Point it at their published pieces instead.
Your archive is the training set — a moat ChatGPT can't replicate from a cold prompt.
Describe the brief — a council vote, an earnings call, a product launch — and pick the article type: news report, feature, interview, op-ed, press release or explainer. Pressly hands back a properly built piece with a lede that lands and a nut graf that holds. No prompt engineering.
Six article types with newsroom structure baked in — not a generic "write me something" box.
"Tighten the lede." "Cut 20%." "Make the nut graf sharper." Pressly revises the live draft in place instead of regenerating the whole thing and making you start over. It's the second set of eyes a solo reporter or skeleton-crew desk never had — on call, on deadline.
Surgical edits on the draft you already have — no "regenerate and pray."
Push the finished piece straight to your site with the Pressly Connect WordPress plugin: tags and cover image carry over, no reformatting. Generate a cover in the Content Gallery, then turn the same story into social posts and a newsletter blurb in a click — instead of rewriting it five times.
One-click WordPress publish · AI cover images · one story → every channel.
Setup is one connect. After that it's type, edit, publish.
Sign in and connect your WordPress, or paste a live byline URL. This same step proves you're a real journalist and seeds your voice engine — so verification and the magic moment happen at once.
Tell Pressly the story and pick the article type, tone and length. It drafts a structured piece in your voice. Chat-edit it like you're working a desk — tighten the lede, cut the fat, sharpen the graf.
Check every fact — you always keep the byline and the editorial call. Add a cover from the Content Gallery, then publish to WordPress in one click and spin out social posts from the same piece.
Your archive is the training set — a moat a cold chatbot can't replicate. The first draft already carries your cadence, so you're editing, not starting over.
A visual stand-in for your signature voice.
A note on responsible AI
Pressly is a drafting desk, not an autopilot. It produces starting points — and AI can get facts, quotes and names wrong. Verify everything before you publish. You keep the byline, the sourcing and the editorial judgment; the tool just clears the blank page and the busywork. We show your cost per article up front and let you choose the model, so nothing about how your draft was made is hidden from you.
Founding members get the Founding Member badge, a direct line to the founder, first say on the roadmap — and a free-forever rate on the core desk locked in for good. The cost of saying yes is one byline link.
Founding seats are limited to 100
No credit card. No time limit. Connect your archive and your next draft already sounds like you.