WhatA tool that automatically monitors, captures, and permanently stores a writer's published work across all outlets — creating a verified, portable portfolio that survives site shutdowns, CMS migrations, and acquisitions.
SignalMultiple commenters describe the painful experience of watching years of professional work disappear due to publisher shutdowns, CMS migrations, acquisitions, and paywalls — one journalist resorted to manually making PDFs of every article and still doesn't know what to do with them.
Why NowThe accelerating pace of media consolidation, layoffs, and platform shutdowns (538, Vice, BuzzFeed News) means more writers than ever are losing their published work, while browser automation and archival APIs have matured enough to make automated capture reliable.
MarketFreelance journalists, staff writers, bloggers, and content creators (~500K+ professional writers in the US alone); could charge $10-20/mo. Clippings.me and Muck Rack exist but focus on discovery, not durable archival.
MoatThe accumulated archive of verified, timestamped published work becomes the writer's canonical professional record — once adopted, switching means losing provenance and link equity.