Done-for-you social media posts that look like you hired an agency.

What done-for-you social media usually means

Search for done-for-you social media content and you find three kinds of offer. Freelance social media managers take on a monthly retainer: 2026 freelance rate guides put a basic one at $300 to $1,500 a month for 8 to 16 posts on one or two platforms. Done-for-you services sell monthly social media content packages made by a team: as of September 2026, Feedbird and $99 Social both start at $99 a month for 10 posts. And small-business agencies, which Ordinal's pricing guide puts at $2,000 to $5,000 a month for strategy, production and reporting.

All three give you something valuable: a person who thinks about your business. All three also bring the same frictions: briefing someone, waiting for drafts, revision rounds, and a monthly fee that is hard to justify when your whole marketing budget is small.

Software, not people: the four jobs it does

Creobee is not a service with a team behind it. It is software that does four of the jobs a small agency would split between people, and it does them the same way every month:

• The planner: it plans the month around your goal, mixing 7 content pillars and dozens of post types so the feed has range, and never uses the same headline twice.
• The copywriter: it writes each post's headline and a caption in your voice, without hollow marketing words, invented reviews or made-up numbers.
• The designer: it designs every post in one of 5 styles, in your brand color and with your logo, with a layout chosen for its kind of post, laid out as one feed in a grid pattern that holds as you post.
• The poster, on Autopilot: it schedules and posts to Instagram, Facebook Page, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky and TikTok, in grid order, across up to 10 accounts.

You approve every post

Done-for-you should not mean done without you. Every batch comes back as posts you can see individually and as your profile grid, before anything is published. On Solo you download the posts and post them yourself. On Autopilot you choose what to schedule and when, you can change a caption while scheduling, and nothing goes out until you have said yes.

What there is not: revision rounds, or a way to rewrite a single post. If a post is not right for you, leave it out, or make another batch, which uses posts from your month. Because the plan never repeats a headline, a second batch brings new posts rather than rewordings of the first. Leaving a post out does shift your grid pattern by one place from that point on.

Social media packages for small business

Agencies sell social media packages by the month: a number of posts, the platforms they cover and what is included. Here are Creobee's packages set out the same way. Every package includes the planning, the captions and the design. What changes is how many posts you get and whether they are posted for you. It is software, not people: there is no account manager, and you approve every post.

• Solo, $19 a month: 30 designed posts with captions, about $0.63 a post. You download them and post them yourself.
• Autopilot, $39 a month: 90 designed posts, about $0.43 a post, scheduled and published for you to Instagram, Facebook Page, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky and TikTok, across up to 10 accounts.
• Pro, $79 a month: 300 designed posts, about $0.26 a post, with 500 scheduled posts a month and up to 15 accounts.
• In every package: every style and grid pattern, your logo and exact brand color, "Add people", a planned month and a caption for every post. Billed monthly, cancel any time, with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
• If a month runs long, plan holders can add 30 posts for $15.

Feedbird, $99 Social or a freelancer, side by side

As of September 2026, Feedbird's Social Media Posts plan is $99 a month for 10 custom-designed posts made by its human team, with strategy, captions, hashtags, scheduling and posting to one set of social accounts, and at least two revision rounds. $99 Social's Standard plan is $99 a month for 10 posts on one social channel, written and designed by people, and its larger plans go up to 30 posts for $279. Both are month to month, and both will refund a first month you are not happy with if you ask within 14 days, on their own terms. That is roughly $9 to $10 a post.

A freelance social media manager on a basic retainer charges $300 to $1,500 a month for 8 to 16 posts, according to 2026 freelance rate guides, and usually does more than the posts. Creobee's Autopilot is $39 for 90 posts, about $0.43 each, posted for you.

What the people give you that Creobee does not: someone reading your business, revision rounds, hashtags and a person to call. If that is worth about $10 a post to you, a service is a fair choice. Creobee does not reply to comments, shoot photos or make Reels either, so you still do that part, or keep a person for it.

What a person still does better

An honest comparison has to say where a human wins, and there are real cases. Hire a freelancer or a service instead of, or as well as, software if you need:

• Photos and video of your actual work, your space and your team. Nobody can generate those honestly, and they are what makes a feed feel like you.
• Replies to comments and DMs, and someone watching for the message that turns into a customer.
• Reels, Stories and carousels every week.
• Strategy calls, monthly reports and someone who knows your numbers.
• Local judgment: the event down the street, the tone after a hard week in your town.

The human-plus-AI content workflow that works

A month handed over, step by step

A routine that works takes one sitting a month:

• Pick the goal for the month: get found, be seen as the expert, sell something, or just stay consistent. The mix of posts follows it.
• Make the batch: up to 30 posts in one go, designed as one feed and continuing last month's grid pattern.
• Look through it the way you would review a freelancer's drafts, and leave out anything that does not sound like you.
• On Autopilot, drop the batch onto the calendar and it places one post per posting day, in order. Otherwise, download everything as a ZIP.
• Watch the weekly rhythm on your dashboard: it counts the posts that actually went live against the target for your goal.

Batching workflows that keep content going