Notion
Briefs
$10 / user
Sequence is the social media platform for in-house brand teams. Multi-step approvals across marketing, legal, and the founder. Unified inbox. Real analytics. Brand-voice AI. $59 a month per brand.
The receipts.
And switching tabs to do it. Your editor pings you on WhatsApp at 11pm. Legal needs the post in PDF. The client asks for the link to the Frame.io again. We’ve all been there. One tool fixes all of it.
Notion
Briefs
$10 / user
Frame.io
Video review
$25 / user
Sprout Social
Scheduling
$249 / seat
Asana
Approval tracking
$11 / user
Legal sign-off
Hours / week
Sequence
All of the above. One workspace.
$29 to $149 / mo
Multi-step approvals
Configure who reviews what, in what order, for which content type. Legal only reviews paid posts. The founder only signs off on launches. Marketing handles everything else.
Configurable per content type
Reels, paid, founder POVs, recruitment. Different policies. Same engine.
Auto-routing by stage
Marketing approves → routes to legal → routes to founder. Hands-off.
Audit trail + export
Compliance-ready log of every approval. CSV for your audit team.
Founder origin story
Awaiting brand review
Scripting
Mira
Editing
Vincent
Brand review
Daniel
Legal
Sasha
Schedule
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Daniel Reyes
2 min ago
Approved with one note: change “the system” to “the playbook” in the caption to match the launch.
Brand voice AI
Each brand workspace has its own voice guide. Tone, vocabulary, banned phrases, examples of past posts. Your social team writes 4x faster and your brand team stops rewriting every post.
Custom brand voice profile
Tone, vocabulary, banned phrases, exemplar posts.
Unlimited generations on Brand tier
No credit caps. No per-message metering.
Caption + hook + carousel rewrites
Same clip. 5 platform-tuned variants. One click.
Week of
May 4 — May 10
Mon
9:00
IG Reel
Tue
11:00
TikTok
16:00
Wed
9:00
Carousel
Thu
10:00
YouTube
15:00
IG Story
Fri
12:00
Reel
DMs, replies, mentions across all platforms in one inbox per brand. Routed to the right teammate.
Marketing, legal, leadership, freelancers. Scope each to what they should see.
Logos, fonts, photography, brand guidelines. One source of truth.
Per-platform breakdowns. Post-level performance. Export to PDF for the board.
Drawn annotations + timecoded comments on video drafts. No more separate Frame.io.
Every change logged. Approval chain saved per post. CSV export for legal.
Sprout, Hootsuite, and Khoros bundle approvals at enterprise tier ($1,000+/mo). Planable charges extra for inbox and analytics. Sequence Brand at $59/mo includes all of it.
| Feature | Sequence | Buffer | Hootsuite | Sprout Social | Later | Planable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $29/mo | $5/channel | $99/mo | $249/seat | $25/mo | $33/mo |
| Agency tier price | $149/mo | $120+ | $249+ | $399+/seat | $80 | $49/wkspc |
| Multi-brand workspace | — | Ent. only | Ent. only | |||
| Brand switching (GHL-style) | — | — | — | — | ||
| Unlimited users included | — | — | — | — | ||
| Frame.io-style video review Timecoded comments + drawn annotations on video frames | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Multi-step approvals | — | Ent. only | Ent. only | — | Ent. only | |
| Inspire library + content discovery | — | — | — | |||
| AI scripting + captions | + Add-on | + Add-on | ||||
| Unlimited AI (no credit caps) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Full analytics included | + Add-on | + Add-on | ||||
| Unified inbox (DMs + comments) | — | — | + Add-on | |||
| Content library + DAM | — | |||||
| Client guest login | — | — | — | — | ||
| White-label | — | Ent. only | Ent. only | — | + Add-on |
Marketing + legal + founder all sign off in one place
Faster captions with brand-voice AI
Audit trail on every post
Per workspace, per month
Stephen Wu
Founder, Halcyon Agency
An editorial
A third of our agency work is in-house brand augmentation. We sit inside our client's brand and ship for them. Sequence is built so brand teams can run the same workflow we run, but in-house. Compliance-ready. Audit-friendly. AI that doesn't make legal nervous.
Stephen Wu
Founder, Halcyon Agency · Sydney, Australia
“Approvals used to take 4 days and 27 emails. Now it's 4 hours, in one thread, with legal and the founder both signing off.”
Daniel Reyes
Head of Brand, Aether Co. · Sequence customer
Per-workspace, not per-seat. Stack brands as you grow. Save 20% annually.
For solo creators publishing across platforms.
$29/mo billed yearly
For in-house brand teams shipping serious volume.
$59/mo billed yearly
For agencies managing multiple client brands.
$149/mo billed yearly
For large agencies + media networks.
$349/mo billed yearly
14-day full trial on paid plans. Free auto-converts to Creator at month 4 unless cancelled.
One thread for marketing, legal, and the founder. One inbox per brand. One source of truth for content. $59/mo.
Auto-converts to $29/mo Creator at month 4 unless you cancel.