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 eight tools.

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

SandcastlesResearch
ChatGPTScripts
NotionPlan
ClickUpTasks
Frame.ioReview
LaterPublish
ManyChatAutomate
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.

Set your brand count and team size to see what that stack costs against Sequence.

10
1 brand50 brands
8
1 person15 people
8 subscriptions
$1,322 / month
Sequence
$296 / month
Sequence Pro

$1,026 a month less, or $12,312 a year. Clients join free on Sequence. You pay per brand, with unlimited team members and clients.

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, 4 extra social sets × $15, 4 extra users × $5
$190
ManyChatPro
Comment-to-DM and Instagram / Facebook automations
10 accounts × $39, up to 3 users each
$390
MetricoolAdvanced
Monthly client reports
Flat, up to 15 brands
$67
Eight toolsSeparate subscriptions
Separate tools, separate workflows
10 brands, 8 team members
$1,322$15,864 a year
SequencePro
All eight, one record per post
10 brands, unlimited team and clients
$296$3,552 a year

Scripts and captions run on the 5,000 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 · Monthly billing. Vendor USD list prices checked 7 October 2026.

ManyChat assumes one Pro account per brand, with up to 3 users and 2,500 active contacts per account each month. The stack total excludes extra access for your whole team on every ManyChat account. Contact overages and tax are excluded. DM Flows in Sequence cover Instagram and Facebook and are included in Pro, in beta. ManyChat also supports other channels and broadcasts.

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, the DM flow and the results. Our clients log into the same place.

SandcastlesResearch
ChatGPTScripts
NotionPlan
ClickUpTasks
Frame.ioReview
LaterPublish
ManyChatAutomate
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. From $49/mo for Pro.