ClawdBot — what a real AI content pipeline looks like.

Most "AI content automation" in the wild is a ChatGPT wrapper with a publish button. ClawdBot is what happens when you let a team that runs a 10M-visitors-per-month site design the pipeline for their own production use. Five major versions, running today, producing articles that actually rank.

01Ingest

Source → structured data

PDFs, notification URLs, RSS feeds, email inboxes. We OCR scanned docs, parse layout-heavy PDFs, and extract structured fields (dates, eligibility, fees, quantities) with a combination of rules and LLMs.

02Enrich

Multi-model parallel extraction

We run the source through multiple LLMs in parallel (Gemini, Claude, Qwen via Ollama, Grok) and compare outputs. Discrepancies trigger human review; agreement publishes with confidence. Single-model pipelines are fragile — multi-model is not.

03Generate

Article assembly

Template-driven article composition with variable sections (overview, eligibility, timeline, how-to-apply, FAQ). Every section traceable back to source. No hallucinated fields — if the source doesn't have it, the article doesn't claim it.

04Image

Custom imagery pipeline

ImageMagick-based composition with brand templates, WebP conversion, and edge delivery via Cloudflare R2. Every article gets a featured image, OG card, and thumbnail without touching Canva.

05Review

Human-in-loop bridge

A review UI where an editor sees the proposed article side-by-side with the source, can edit inline, and approves in one click. Autopublish available for high-confidence categories; mandatory review for the rest.

06Ship

CMS publish

Direct publish to WordPress, Ghost, custom PHP CMSes, or flat-file generators. Full control over slug, categories, tags, schema, and internal linking — because we've watched SEO die when automation gets sloppy here.

How this maps to your business.

The ClawdBot architecture transfers well to any content-heavy workflow where structured-ish source material needs to become publishable content at high frequency, without hallucinations, and with predictable quality. Common mappings:

  • Publishers with PDF-heavy source material. Government notifications, financial filings, court decisions, regulatory announcements, academic preprints. Anywhere a human is currently reading a PDF and writing a summary.
  • Newsletter operators at scale. Automating source aggregation, deduplication, summarization, and draft composition into a tight editorial review loop.
  • E-commerce product catalog ingestion. Supplier PDFs or spreadsheets to fully-populated product pages with SEO-tuned copy, specs, and imagery.
  • Knowledge base and docs generation. Internal tickets, support transcripts, engineering notes turned into searchable, structured help content.
  • Legal and compliance content operations. Regulatory changes parsed and summarized into client-facing updates with source traceability.
  • Financial content pipelines. Earnings, filings, and market data turned into daily newsletter / website content at scale — with the rigor required for anything financial.

How a build works.

AI work doesn't fit in a one-size-fits-all box. We offer three engagement shapes depending on whether you want us to build, to host, or both.

AI / 01Build

Custom pipeline build

A full ClawdBot-style pipeline built for your specific source material, output format, and CMS. Delivered as code you own, deployable on your infrastructure, with documentation and training.

  • Discovery & designWeek 1–2
  • Pipeline buildWeek 2–8
  • Integration & handoverWeek 9–10
  • Source code deliveredYours
from $15,000
Fixed · scoped per project
AI / 02Hosted

Managed automation

We build the pipeline and run it on our infrastructure. You send source material (or we pull it from your feed) and receive publish-ready output. LLM costs billed at pass-through.

  • Build fee (one-time)from $8,000
  • Hosted operationfrom $1,000/mo
  • LLM costsPass-through
  • Output volumeTiered
$8K + $1K/mo
Build + hosted retainer
AI / 03Audit

AI infra audit

You already have AI pipelines running. They're slow, expensive, flaky, or hallucinating. We audit what you've built, identify the actual bottlenecks, and deliver a fix roadmap. One-time engagement.

  • Architecture reviewIncluded
  • Cost & latency analysisIncluded
  • Model selection reviewIncluded
  • Prioritized fix roadmapIncluded
$3,000
Fixed · 1–2 weeks

How we think about AI content.

Opinionated because we've been wrong before, and learned.

PRINCIPLE / 01

Source traceability or nothing.

Every claim in every output article is traceable to a source span. If the LLM can't cite where it got a number from, that number doesn't ship. This is the single biggest difference between pipelines that last and pipelines that get banned.

PRINCIPLE / 02

Multi-model by default.

Anchoring a pipeline to a single model is taking on enormous vendor and quality risk. We design for model substitution from day one — Claude, Gemini, Qwen, GPT, local inference — all swappable without rewrites.

PRINCIPLE / 03

Editors in the loop, not out.

"Fully autonomous AI content" is a fantasy that breaks brands. We build for editorial workflow — fast review, easy correction, clear confidence scoring — because that's what actually ships quality content at scale.

PRINCIPLE / 04

Local inference where it makes sense.

For high-volume pipelines, running quantized open models on your own hardware cuts costs by 10–100x and kills latency spikes. We architect hybrid pipelines where local models do the bulk and hosted models do the hard parts.

PRINCIPLE / 05

SEO rigor matters more with AI, not less.

AI-generated content at scale dies fast without deliberate structure — internal linking, schema, entity consistency, original perspective. We build the SEO rigor into the pipeline, not bolted on afterward.

PRINCIPLE / 06

Observability from day one.

Every call logged. Every cost attributed. Every failure retriable. Most AI pipelines we audit can't even tell you which model produced yesterday's worst article. That's the difference between a prototype and production.

About AI builds, specifically.

The ones that come up on nearly every scoping call.

Which LLM do you use?

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Depends on the task. We benchmark Claude, Gemini, GPT, Qwen and the current open-source frontier on actual samples of your content before committing. For most production workloads we end up with a hybrid — a strong hosted model for the hard parts, a smaller local model (Qwen, Llama) for the high-volume simple steps. We don't have a preferred vendor.

Will my content be indexed / penalized by Google?

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Google's stated position is that it cares about quality, not production method. In practice, poorly-executed AI content at scale does get demoted — but so does poorly-executed human content. We build pipelines that produce original, source-grounded, well-structured content that stands on its own. We've been watching this closely on our own 10M/mo site.

How much does running this actually cost?

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For a pipeline producing 500–1000 articles/month with hosted models only, expect $200–800/month in LLM costs depending on input length and model choice. With a hybrid local+hosted architecture we can often bring that below $100/month. We'll model the expected cost explicitly as part of scoping.

Can you integrate with our existing CMS?

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WordPress, Ghost, Drupal, custom PHP, Strapi, Sanity, Contentful — yes. Bespoke CMSes built in-house — usually yes, depends on API surface. If it has an API or a database we can reach, we can publish to it.

Do you offer ongoing support after the build?

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Yes. Most clients put the pipeline on a monthly retainer after launch covering ongoing improvements, model upgrades, and incident response. Retainers start at $1,500/month and scale with pipeline complexity.

What should we build?

Tell us about the content operation you want to automate. We'll come back with a rough architecture, a realistic cost model, and a build quote.