We post more content than our tools could keep up with.

Stephen Wu
Stephen WuCo-founder
Sam McCredie-Wu
Sam McCredie-WuCo-founder

We run a content agency in Sydney.

It's called Halcyon. We plan, film, edit and publish short-form video for founder-led businesses, and our clients sign off on every post before it goes out.

We publish over 500 pieces of content a month.

That's about 17 posts a day, weekends included, across 20 brands including our own. Every one of them planned, edited, reviewed, approved and scheduled.

Real covers from our own channels, all planned in Sequence.

Every post passed through seven tools.

Research, scripts, plans, tasks, video review, scheduling and reports each lived in a different app. Approvals happened wherever the client happened to reply.

SandcastlesResearch
ChatGPTScripts
NotionPlan
ClickUpTasks
Frame.ioReview
LaterPublish
MetricoolReport

Each tool was good. None of them knew about the others.

So we became the glue. A caption fixed in the scheduler never made it back to the plan. The latest cut lived in one folder, the client's notes on it in another app. Nobody could tell where a post was without asking someone.

The subscriptions were the cheap part.

Here's what that stack costs a team like ours, 8 people and 20 brands, at today's list prices.

Seven subscriptions$1,122 / month
Sequence$369 / month

$753 a month less, or $9,036 a year. Clients join free on Sequence, so the bill doesn't grow with your client list.

SandcastlesVisionary
Researching hooks and formats
Flat, 5 workspaces
$99
ChatGPTBusiness
Scripts and captions
8 seats × $25
$200
NotionPlus
Content plans and the client portal
8 members × $12
$96
ClickUpUnlimited
Production tasks for editors
8 members × $10
$80
Frame.ioTeam
Video review and handing over cuts
8 members × $25
$200
LaterScale
Scheduling to every platform
$110 plan, 14 extra social sets, 4 extra users
$340
MetricoolAdvanced
Monthly client reports
Flat, up to 25 brands
$107
Seven tools$1,122$13,464 a year
SequencePro
All seven, one record per post
20 brands, unlimited team and clients
$369$4,428 a year

Scripts and captions run on the 5,000 Sequence AI credits included with each brand every month. We kept Slack, so it's left out of both sums: Sequence sends approval requests and publishing alerts into it.

USD list prices on monthly billing, checked 28 September 2026.

The expensive part was the copy and paste.

Every handoff meant moving a caption, a file or an approval from one app to another. At our volume it adds up fast.

3 minmoving each post between tools
500posts a month
25 hrsevery month, more than three working days

So we built the one we wanted.

Sequence started as Halcyon's client portal. Now every post is one record: the research, the script, the plan, the video, every comment, the client's approval, the published links and the results. Our clients log into the same place.

SandcastlesResearch
ChatGPTScripts
NotionPlan
ClickUpTasks
Frame.ioReview
LaterPublish
MetricoolReport
SequenceSequence
The Sequence content planner board, with posts moving from planning to published

The Sequence planner, shown on our demo workspace.

This is for people who post a lot of content.

Free for one brand. Pro from $29 a month.