Mycel

What Mycel does is quite specific: you upload a document that has already been sent to a client, such as a proposal, a monthly report, or a shortlist of candidates. Once it learns the format and structure used by your company for creating such documents, it then drafts the next one for each individual client.

It is targeted at those individuals in small consulting, agency, and professional service companies who insist that “everything must go through my hands” before it can be released. Once a draft is submitted to it, the user is only responsible for making revisions; it remembers the changes made after each revision. According to the official website, the number of edits required in the third draft is usually less than those in the first draft. Anything that is intended to be sent out must be manually approved by a human before it can be released – the system will not send it out on its own.

The price is not cheap: there is a 7-day free trial, and after that, the Starter plan costs $299 per month and includes two services and three licenses. According to the official website, when comparing it with an outsourced assistant whose annual cost amounts to approximately $14,400, the focus is on the cost savings it offers compared to hiring additional staff.

This approach is suitable for teams where the format of the deliverables is fixed, there are many clients involved, and the boss gets stuck in the review process. For creative tasks that require unique output for each individual project, its usefulness is limited.