AI Content Strategist

Plans content, maintains brand voice, and guides editorial direction.

An AI content strategist is an autonomous agent that plans content calendars, enforces brand voice, and drafts editorial assets across channels. In Helm, the content strategist runs on Claude, has access to documents, projects, and integrations, and can operate in observe, suggest, or auto modes.

Workspace memory
Carries context across tasks, projects, and accounts.
Three autonomy levels
Observe, suggest, or auto. You pick.
Four channels
Chat, Slack, Email, scheduled runs.
Responsibilities

What an AI Content Strategist owns.

Plan editorial calendars across blog, social, email, and client-facing content.
Maintain and enforce brand voice across every piece produced by the workspace.
Draft briefs, outlines, and first drafts: blog posts, case studies, proposals, client updates.
Roll up meeting notes, project artifacts, and past communications into polished summaries.
Refresh stale documentation and keep client-facing assets current.
Surface content gaps: topics the team should own that are missing from the library.
Features & Configuration

Tune every dimension of how the agent works.

Roles, tools, autonomy, memory, schedules, budgets. Every agent ships with the same configuration surface.

Pre-built or custom roles

Start from a Project Manager, Account Manager, or other template. Or define a custom role with its own name, color, and defaults.

Scoped tool access

Enable specific tool groups (tasks, projects, billing, calendar, analytics, memory, and more). Toggle read or read-write per group. Add 300+ external integrations.

Three autonomy levels

Observe (watch silently), Suggest (draft and wait for approval), or Auto (execute directly). Flip levels as trust builds.

Per-channel autonomy override

A fully autonomous agent can still require approval on email. Rare in AI tools, essential for client-facing work.

Custom instructions and skills

Layer your own instructions on top of the role's defaults. Enable skill modules for domain expertise and house style.

Memory

Agents remember past decisions, scoped to workspace, account, or project. Searchable. Optional. Disable per agent.

Schedules

Run agents on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence with a custom prompt. Output to Slack, in-app notifications, or a task comment.

Spending limits

Set a monthly USD cost cap per agent. Runs pause automatically when the budget is hit. Usage is tracked per run and per month.

Full audit trail

Every agent run is logged with the tools called, inputs, outputs, success/failure, tokens, and cost. Browse history per agent.

Apps this agent uses

Lives inside the rest of the platform.

Same records your team uses. No separate database, no sync lag.

External tools

Plus the tools this agent reaches for.

Connected once at the workspace level. Scoped per agent with read or read+write.

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Gmail
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Google Drive
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Slack
Channels

Reach the agent where you work.

Four channels. Each with its own permissioning and autonomy override.

In-app chat

Open the chat panel in Helm and talk to the agent directly. Page context comes along for free.

Email

Reachable on any mailbox the workspace has connected. Replies route back through the agent.

Slack

@mention in any channel the agent is invited to, or DM the workspace DM handler.

Scheduled runs

Runs on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence. Output to Slack, notifications, or a task comment.

Example Tasks

Real work this agent runs.

Draft a case study from a completed project using the project record, hours, and client communication.
Write a weekly client update from the project's last 7 days of activity.
Generate a LinkedIn post announcing a project milestone without sounding corporate.
Rewrite a SOW draft to match the agency's tone and formatting conventions.
Summarize a 90-minute client call transcript into a 200-word recap with action items.
Refresh the "About" page of a client portal with the latest team info.
Propose next month's blog calendar based on the last 30 days of project wins.
Draft monthly newsletter copy from the customer activity feed.
Generate three headline options for every new blog post for the editor to choose from.
Review a proposal draft and flag sections that don't match the agency voice.
Keep a brand voice guide updated as the team's tone evolves.
Autonomy

Three modes. Override per channel.

You pick how much the agent decides for itself. And you can be stricter on channels that face clients.

Observe
The agent reads and reports. Nothing is changed on your behalf. Use when you want visibility without risk.
Suggest
The agent proposes actions; you approve or reject. Good default for agents working against client-facing systems.
Auto
The agent executes directly within its permissioned scope. Use when you trust the workflow and want hands-off operation.
How it sounds

Real prompts. Real replies.

You
Write a case study from the Acme rebrand project.
Content Strategist
Draft saved to Documents, linked to the Acme account. Covers the brief, the process (pulled from project records), the design decisions (from the brief doc), and the outcome (based on Acme's feedback and the reported 18% lift). 620 words, matches the voice of your last three case studies. Ready for your review.
You
What should we write about this month?
Content Strategist
Based on the last 30 days of project work, three gaps stand out: (1) a breakdown of the rebrand-to-launch timeline you've run four times this quarter, (2) a technical post on the custom Shopify integration you shipped for Acme, (3) a process post on how your team handles scope creep. I can outline any of the three.
FAQ

Questions about the Content Strategist agent.

Does the Content Strategist agent actually publish?

It drafts and stores content inside Helm Documents. Publishing to external surfaces (your blog CMS, LinkedIn, email newsletter) happens via Composio integrations. The agent can push drafts there, but most workspaces keep a human-in-the-loop for the "send" step.

How does it learn the brand voice?

Two ways: read past content from your Documents library (it patterns off what already sounds right), and an explicit voice guide you can attach as a skill context. Most workspaces start with voice-guide + 5 reference documents.

Can it draft client-specific content?

Yes. Point it at an account and it can read every document, email, and project tied to that client to draft with full context: case studies, project recaps, renewal decks, onboarding guides.

What's the difference between this and an AI writing tool like Jasper or Copy.ai?

Standalone AI writers have no context about your actual business. The Helm Content Strategist reads from the projects you've shipped, the clients you've served, and the documents you've already published. Output reflects what your business actually does, not generic marketing fluff.

What plans include this agent?

Available on every Helm plan. Document-generation costs scale with AI credits (250K on Starter, 750K on Pro, 1.5M on Business per month).

Hire your AI Content Strategist.

Included on every Helm workspace. Per-workspace pricing. No per-seat tax.