AI that learns your brand voice to turn long-form content into high-performing social posts.
What it does
Atomizes long-form content (blogs, video, audio) into multiple social media posts.
Uses AI to learn and mimic a brand's unique voice and tone.
Provides a full social media management suite including scheduling and publishing.
Analyzes performance data to suggest the best times and formats for engagement.
Offers parent-child account structures for franchise and agency management.
Why it works
Authenticity: Unlike generic AI writers, it only builds content based on your existing 'human' ideas, ensuring brand safety.
Efficiency: Reduces the time spent on manual social media drafting by up to 90%.
Learning Loop: The more you use it, the better the AI becomes at predicting what your specific audience will click on.
Governance: Centralizes control for multi-location brands, ensuring all local accounts stay on-brand.
AI that learns your brand voice to turn long-form content into high-performing social posts.
Overview
Lately is an advanced AI social media platform that automates the creation and scheduling of social content by 'repurposing' existing assets. By analyzing a brand's past performance and voice, its AI engine atomizes blogs, podcasts, and videos into dozens of high-engagement social posts, helping marketing teams scale their output while maintaining a consistent and authentic brand presence.
Founded year:2014
Founder:Kate Bradley Chernis, Jason Debacco, Steve Onofretti
Team size:26-100
Popularity:Used by 3,000+ brands including SAP and DHL
Atomizes long-form content (blogs, video, audio) into multiple social media posts.
Uses AI to learn and mimic a brand's unique voice and tone.
Provides a full social media management suite including scheduling and publishing.
Analyzes performance data to suggest the best times and formats for engagement.
Offers parent-child account structures for franchise and agency management.
Who it's for
Enterprise Marketing Teams
Franchise Networks
Social Media Agencies
Content Creators
Why it works
Authenticity: Unlike generic AI writers, it only builds content based on your existing 'human' ideas, ensuring brand safety.
Efficiency: Reduces the time spent on manual social media drafting by up to 90%.
Learning Loop: The more you use it, the better the AI becomes at predicting what your specific audience will click on.
Governance: Centralizes control for multi-location brands, ensuring all local accounts stay on-brand.
Founder story
Founded in 2014 by Kate Bradley Chernis, Jason Debacco, and Steve Onofretti in Stone Ridge, NY. Kate, a former SiriusXM producer, realized that the secret to high-performing content lay in the 'science' of patterns. She built Lately to automate the manual copywriting process she used to run a 20M+ member project for Walmart.
Alternatives
Comparison overview
Jasper: Great for generating content from scratch; Lately is superior for repurposing existing brand assets.
Buffer/Hootsuite: Strong scheduling tools; Lately is an intelligence layer that writes the content for those tools.
Lately is the top choice for brands that already have a content library and want to maximize its social ROI.