About Artikolo
Built by SEO practitioners who got tired of juggling five different tools
We are a UK-based team of developers and SEO practitioners who built the tool we wished existed: AI content generation with competitor keyword research and SEO auditing, published straight to WordPress.
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Our Story
The Problem We Solved
In 2024, we were managing SEO for multiple WordPress sites. Each site needed a keyword research tool, a writer or AI writing tool, a rank tracker and an audit tool — several subscriptions and logins, and a lot of copy-pasting, just to publish optimized content.
Why We Built This
We built Artikolo to join up the steps that matter most for a small WordPress site. Chatbots write text but leave publishing to you. Yoast analyzes content but does not create it. We combined AI writing, competitor keyword research, SEO auditing and WordPress publishing into one subscription starting at $11.99/month.
UK-Based, Global Reach
Artikolo is built and operated from the United Kingdom. We accept GBP, USD, and EUR — plus cryptocurrency for privacy-conscious users. Articles can be written in 9 languages for sites targeting international audiences.
The Team
James Lewis — Founder & Lead Developer
Full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience building web applications in Clojure, ClojureScript, and JavaScript. Previously built SEO tools and content platforms for UK agencies. Holds a degree in Computer Science and has managed SEO campaigns for e-commerce sites generating over one million pounds annual revenue.
Engineering
Built for reliability and performance. Our platform uses functional programming on the JVM with a reactive frontend. We chose this stack for its stability, concurrency handling, and ability to share logic between server and client. The writing is done by open-weight AI models through OpenRouter: Meta Llama 3.3 70B for English and Qwen 2.5 72B for the other languages.
SEO Expertise
The team has hands-on experience managing SEO for WordPress sites across e-commerce, SaaS, and publishing. Every feature in the platform — from the keyword research scoring system to the anti-slop writing prompts — comes from real-world SEO practice, not theoretical knowledge. We use our own tools to manage SEO for artikolo.org.
What We Believe
Honest AI Content
AI-generated content should be genuinely useful, not filler. Our anti-slop system bans overused AI phrases, and the Business plan's two-pass editor rewrites sentences that still sound machine-written. We would rather you publish fewer, better articles than flood a site with thin content. Read our article on AI content vs human content for our honest take.
Accessible Pricing
We believe small businesses, bloggers and freelancers should be able to afford AI writing with the SEO basics built in. Our Starter plan is $11.99 (£9.99) a month, with the AI included.
Privacy by Default
We do not sell user data. Google Analytics only loads after you accept cookies. We accept cryptocurrency payments for users who want more privacy. API keys are stored only as SHA-256 hashes. Your WordPress Application Password is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and used only to publish. To write articles and research keywords we send the necessary data to the AI and search-data services we use (OpenRouter and DataForSEO); payments go to Stripe.
Transparency
We publish our pricing clearly — no hidden fees, no per-word charges, no overage bills. The free trial gives you the features of the plan you try, with no credit card required. If the tool is not right for you, we would rather you find out during the trial than after paying.
Our Technology Stack
AI Models
Articles are written by open-weight large language models that we use through OpenRouter: Meta Llama 3.3 70B for English and Qwen 2.5 72B for the other eight languages. They are prompted with anti-slop instructions and SEO formatting guidelines. On the Business plan a second editing pass, with the same model, rewrites machine-sounding sentences.
SEO Data
Search volumes, difficulty scores and competitors' ranking keywords come from DataForSEO. SEO audits run Google Lighthouse for performance, accessibility, best-practices and SEO scores, with AI-written fix recommendations.
Infrastructure
The platform runs on dedicated servers in Europe. Stripe handles card payments (PCI DSS Level 1). Artikolo publishes to WordPress through the WordPress REST API; the optional Artikolo plugin is a lightweight PHP plugin that talks to our API. No AI processing happens on your WordPress hosting.
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