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For local businesses

We post your business's
social media for you.

Five minutes a week from you — a full week of on-brand posts from us, written, designed, and published to your accounts. You just approve.

Launching in 2-4 weeks · no card needed
Pre-launch: 38% off any tier for 6 months
Built in Madison, WI
This week's drafts 12 posts ready
Generated post image for The Vintage Spoon
Introducing our new summer menu! 🍽️ Chef Maria has poured her heart into these dishes. Stop by Friday to try our roasted beet salad with @Dreamfarm goat cheese and grilled lake perch.
#FarmToTable #SummerFlavors #MadisonEats
Summer evenings at The Vintage Spoon are something special! ☀️ Happy hour extended to 7pm — $8 craft cocktails, $5 local Wisconsin drafts.
#LocalFlavors #WisconsinBrews
Publishes directly to your accounts — no Buffer, no Hootsuite, no middleman
The math today

Local businesses can't win on social.

A single good post is 20–30 minutes — write it, make an image, pick hashtags, schedule it. Posting daily is two-plus hours a week you don't have. So you put it off, and your feed goes quiet — right when customers are checking whether you're still open.

$1,500+/mo

Hire an agency

Overpriced. Templated content. You're a tiny line item to them.

$18/hr

Hire a part-time intern

They quit in 3 months. You start over. You forgot the password.

0 posts

Do it yourself

You meant to post on Tuesday. It's Sunday. Your last post was in March.

Who it's for

Built for the businesses Instagram books.

Different verticals, same problem: your customers find you on social, but you don't have an hour a day to write captions. We do.

A beautifully plated dish at a local restaurant

Restaurants & cafes

Your menu changes with the season, your specials change weekly, and your best content is happening in the kitchen right now. We turn five-minute updates into a week of posts that drive foot traffic.

A tattoo artist at work in their studio

Tattoo studios & artists

Your portfolio grows every shift. Healed shots, flash sheets, guest spots, open booking slots — Instagram literally is your business. Post the work, fill the chair.

A one-on-one coaching conversation

Coaches

Fitness, life, or business — your authority lives in your content. We turn sessions, frameworks, and client wins into posts that bring the right people to your DMs.

A group workout at a fitness studio

Gyms & fitness studios

Class schedules, member transformations, trainer spotlights, challenge launches. We keep your community in the feed so retention beats the seasonal slump.

A client getting her hair styled at a salon

Salons & spas

Before-and-afters, new services, stylist spotlights, last-minute openings. Booking patterns follow consistency — we keep the posting steady so your books stay full.

A content creator filming with a camera

Influencers & creators

You're the brand. We're the calendar, the captions, and the consistency — so you can spend your time creating, not scheduling.

Run a different kind of local business? Tell us about you — we're casting a wide net for the founding cohort.

How it works

Four steps. The first one takes ten minutes. Then it's five a week.

1

Tell us about your business

One-time setup: your voice, your audience, your content pillars, and topics to avoid.

10 minutes · once
2

Send a weekly update

What's happening this week? Specials, events, news. We send the form link by email every Friday.

5 minutes · every week
3

Approve the drafts

You get an email when posts are ready. Approve all, edit anything, reject what's off.

5 minutes · every week
4

We schedule everything

Approved posts go live on the right day, at the right time, on the right platforms.

0 minutes · automatic
A real sample

What you actually get.

Three real posts from three fictional businesses — copy and images, generated by the platform. 4 to 10 of these come standard each week depending on your tier, distributed across the platforms you choose.

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The Vintage Spoon Madison, WI
Instagram
Roasted beet salad with goat cheese on a rustic plate
Introducing our new summer menu! 🍽️ Chef Maria has poured her heart into these delicious dishes. Stop by this Friday to try our roasted beet salad with @Dreamfarm goat cheese and grilled lake perch.
#FarmToTable #SummerFlavors #MadisonEats #SupportLocal
Scheduled for Thursday · 10:00 AM
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Inkwell & Iron Tattoo Madison, WI · East side
Instagram
Tattoo artist's workspace with custom flash sketches
Marcus has open chairs this Friday and Saturday for walk-ins. Perfect time to plan that spontaneous piece you've been thinking about. 🌿
#TattooWalkIns #MadisonTattoos #InkwellAndIron
Scheduled for Monday · 10:00 AM
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North Star Strength Co Madison, WI
Facebook
Free deadlift form clinic this Saturday at 9am. Open to anyone — members, walk-ins, or that friend you've been trying to drag to the gym for months. We'll start absolute beginners at the empty bar.
#MadisonGyms #StrengthTraining
Coach demonstrating deadlift setup with an empty bar while a small group of adults watches at a strength gym
Scheduled for Wednesday · 2:00 PM

Images generated by AI in seconds. Copy reviewed by a second AI pass before you see it.

Pricing

Pick the tier that fits.

Every plan: 7-day free trial, no credit card, cancel any time. Annual saves you 2 months.

Waitlist · $49/mo for 6 mo

Starter

For solo creatives and businesses testing the waters.

$79 $ 49 / month
Waitlist rate · first 6 months. Then $79/mo.
  • 2 platforms — Instagram + Facebook
  • 4 posts per week (16/month)
  • AI-generated images on every post
  • Weekly intake + approval dashboard
  • Email notifications + Friday reminder
Reserve Starter →

Pro

Multi-location, franchises, and businesses growing on Reels.

$209 $ 130 / month
Waitlist rate · first 6 months. Then $209/mo.
  • 5 platforms — full social presence
  • 10 posts a week (~40/month) — more than daily across your platforms
  • Everything in Growth
  • Plus
  • 4 Reels / TikTok video scripts per month
  • Platform-specific image variants (square, story, landscape)
  • Custom intake questions tailored to your business
  • Priority support — 24-hour response
Reserve Pro →

Launching 2-4 weeks No card today. Reserve your tier and we'll email when your account is ready.

Common questions

Answers before you ask.

How is this different from hiring an agency?

An agency assigns a junior copywriter who doesn't know your business and bills you $1,500+/mo for the privilege. RootedPost is built around your voice and your weekly notes — the AI handles the writing, so you pay one-tenth what an agency charges. You stay in control: nothing goes live without your approval.

What if the AI writes something off-brand?

Two safeguards. First, every post is reviewed by a second AI pass against your brand profile — voice, tone, things-to-never-mention — before you ever see it. Second, you approve every single post in the dashboard. If something feels off, reject it with a one-line note and we rewrite it. After three rounds of feedback, we ask you to take over manually — but that almost never happens.

Which platforms do you support?

Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Threads — all via direct first-party integrations with each platform's official API. No middleman like Buffer or Hootsuite. You connect each account once with one click; we publish your approved posts straight from our service. TikTok and Pinterest are on the roadmap once a critical mass of customers ask for them.

Do I need a Buffer account, Hootsuite, or any other tool?

No. RootedPost is the whole stack — drafting, image generation, review, scheduling, and publishing. The only thing you need is your existing social media accounts.

Do I have to write the posts myself?

No — that's the whole point. You spend five minutes a week telling us what's happening (a sentence or two is fine). We turn that into a full week of posts with on-brand copy and AI-generated images. If you want to edit, the dashboard makes it easy. If you don't, just approve and they ship.

What about photos? Do I have to provide my own?

You don't have to. We generate a custom image for every post using gpt-image-1. If you'd rather use your own photos for the week (or a specific post), upload them with your intake and we'll match them to the best-fit posts automatically. You can also swap any post's image one-click before approving.

What happens if I forget the weekly update?

You get an email reminder Friday morning. If you still miss it, we generate posts from your content pillars and last week's themes and flag them for your review. You won't go dark.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Cancel from your dashboard at any time. Your subscription continues through the end of the billing period you paid for; no further charges. No contracts, no setup fees, no cancellation fees. If you cancel within the first 7 days of your trial, you're not billed at all.

Who owns the content?

You do. Every post belongs to your business and stays in your accounts. If you cancel, we hand off everything — the posts, the brand profile, the schedule. Nothing is held hostage.

Is my Instagram safe? Won't this look like a bot?

We post via Instagram's official Graph API — the same one Meta blesses for business publishing tools. It's the right way. Each post is human-approved by you, paced to your normal schedule, and uses your real voice. Meta doesn't flag this kind of usage; that's literally what the publishing API is for.

What about my data and privacy?

Short version: we don't sell your data, don't share it with advertisers, and don't use it to train AI. Your weekly intake goes to OpenAI to draft posts and to whichever platforms you connected to publish them — that's it. You can delete your entire account and all data with one email. Full privacy policy.

How quickly can you launch me?

Waitlist invitations go out in order. Once you accept your activation email, setup takes about 10 minutes (brand profile + connect your social accounts). Your first batch of posts is ready within 30 minutes of submitting your first weekly intake. After that, it's five minutes a week.

From the founder

Why I built this.

I build software for a living, and I kept watching the local spots I love go quiet on social for weeks at a time. Not because they didn't care. They were just busy running the actual business. "Post on Instagram" never wins against "the espresso machine is broken."

Agencies cost a fortune and treat you like a number. The DIY tools still leave you staring at a blank caption box on a Sunday night. I wanted something that just handles it for you, in your voice, with your okay on every post. That's RootedPost. If you run a place that makes your neighborhood better, I'd love to have you in the founding group.

Thomas Tague, founder of RootedPost
Thomas Tague
Founder · Watchlight Interactive, Madison WI

Five minutes a week, and we handle the rest.

Launching in 2-4 weeks. Everyone on the waitlist locks in 38% off any tier for 6 months — once we go live, regular pricing applies.

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