A PR agent that pitches
the right journalist, not everyone
A press release blasted to a thousand generic contacts gets ignored by all of them. The handful of journalists who would actually care about the story never get a pitch written specifically for what they cover. We build an agent that researches who is relevant and drafts a pitch written for each one. It tracks who responded, with a person approving every pitch before it goes out.
Why mass pitches get ignored
A press release written once and emailed to a generic media list gets opened by almost nobody. A journalist who covers a specific beat can tell within one line whether a pitch was actually written for them, or copy-pasted to five hundred other inboxes. Finding the right handful of journalists who genuinely cover a story’s angle takes real research: reading their recent work, checking what they have covered lately. Most teams skip that step under deadline pressure and blast the widest possible list instead, hoping volume makes up for relevance.
The ignored pitches are not the only cost. A journalist who gets enough irrelevant pitches starts auto-filtering the sender, and that reputation can take months to undo, even once the outreach becomes genuinely more relevant. A journalist’s first impression of a sender is slow to change once it forms.
What the agent does for each story
The agent researches which journalists and outlets are actually relevant to a specific story. It reads what each one has recently covered, rather than relying on a generic beat label. It drafts a pitch written for each one, referencing their actual past work where it fits naturally. Every pitch gets tracked in one place: sent, opened, replied, declined. A follow-up drafts itself too, timed to land before the story goes stale. It is not sent so soon that it becomes the pitch that gets a journalist to mute the sender entirely. Once a story runs, the agent logs the coverage and ties it back to the traffic or signups it actually drove.
The tracker remembers history. A journalist who has covered your brand before gets approached with that in mind. So does one who responded well to a past pitch angle, rather than getting a cold outreach that ignores the relationship. The tracker also remembers who declined and why. A journalist who said this is not my beat does not get the same pitch again next quarter under a different subject line.
What stays on your side
Deciding the story angle and approving every pitch before it sends stay with your team. So does handling an embargo, an exclusive offer to one outlet, or any direct negotiation with a journalist. The agent researches and drafts. A person owns the actual relationship and the final word, which matters even more with a journalist your brand may want to work with again next quarter.
Guards
No pitch sends without a person reviewing it first. A journalist who has opted out or covers an unrelated beat is excluded before drafting starts, not filtered out after an unwanted pitch already landed. Every pitch, reply and piece of coverage is logged, and a kill switch pauses the outreach cycle in one message. A new story angle or a new media list is validated in a dry run, drafted and reviewed internally before any journalist is actually contacted. If PR moves in-house, we hand over the media list, the pitch templates and the full outreach history, documented for your own communications lead.
Price and timeline
| Option | Price | What it covers | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency runs it | from $2,800 | Built, launched and supervised by us, plus a monthly support plan | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Full control, handover-ready | from $3,800 | Same agent, deployed on your infrastructure with full documentation to run it yourselves | 3 to 4 weeks plus 1 to 2 weeks for handover |
Running cost is usually $20 to $150 a month in model usage, depending on volume.
Related
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Ready to put this to work on your team? Get in touch and we will map it against your current process on the first call.
FAQ
How much does a pr and media outreach agent cost?
From $2,800 for research and personalized pitching to up to 40 relevant journalists per story cycle, live in 3 to 4 weeks. An ongoing monthly program with repeated pitch cycles usually runs from $1,500/month.
How long does it take to go live?
Three to four weeks. The first two research the journalists and outlets relevant to your story, and draft the first pitch set. The rest tunes follow-up timing and tracks the first real response cycle.
Which channels and tools does it work with?
Email is the primary channel, since that remains how most journalists prefer to be pitched. A journalist's listed social contact can be used as a secondary channel, where appropriate and not intrusive.
What if it gets something wrong?
Every pitch is drafted by the agent, but reviewed and sent by a person, never automatically. A journalist who has asked not to be contacted, or who covers an unrelated beat, is excluded from the list before drafting even starts.
What about our data and security?
Journalist contact research and pitch history stay in your own tracker. Pitches are sent from your own or your agency's email identity, never a shared or anonymized sender.