Portfolio, not pit
Each niche is its own property — isolated risk, isolated upside. The founder picks new verticals deliberately, not on quota.
01Pilcrow — Editorial Pilot — N° 01
Pasteup—A managed affiliate portfolio.
You greenlight the niches.
The agents do the rest.
Pasteup is a managed portfolio platform for solo affiliate publishers who want the scale of AI agents without the deindexation risk of mass-produced, ranking-driven content. Editorial judgment stays with you. Production stays with the agents.
- Editorial
- Human-owned
- Production
- Agent-run
- Refresh
- On-decline
- Reporting
- Weekly digest
The pitch
Agents that coordinate
Research, write, edit, track, refresh. Five handoff boundaries, one portfolio.
GEO, not just SEO
Optimization for ChatGPT and Perplexity citations is a first-class output, alongside Google rankings.
Compounding, no churn
Refresh-on-decline keeps every property aged-in. Nothing rots in the silo.
Pricing
Three tiers. Pay for sites, not for output.
Pricing scales with the number of properties in the portfolio, not the volume of articles produced. You pay for decisions, not output.
02Section II — Production loop
How Pasteup runs a portfolio
Five phases. One human approval. Zero production queue.
The founder’s only routine task is approving new niche proposals. Every site addition is a deliberate editorial decision, not an output quota.
- I.Sidebar4–6 niche proposals / month
You greenlight the niche
Pasteup pitches every new niche it considers adding to your portfolio: the search demand, the competitor gap, the editorial angle, the projected Article Value. You accept or skip.
- II.SidebarProduction runs unsupervised
A coordinated agent team starts production
A keyword researcher maps the topic, a writer drafts with disclosure-ready affiliate links, an editor agent reviews for voice and Helpful Content compliance, a rank tracker watches SERPs and AI citations.
- III.SidebarRefresh-on-decline
Refresh agents rewrite underperformers
Pages that drop in rank or get flagged by the tracker are re-drafted against current Google Helpful Content guidance, then re-published. You only see the diff.
- IV.SidebarWeekly digest
A weekly digest lands in your inbox
Revenue, traffic, ranking movement, AI-search citations, competitor moves — every Monday morning, one PDF, two minutes.
The agent team
Four agents per niche, hand-offs between them, nothing unsupervised on the page.
Each agent works on a scoped output and writes against a shared brief, so the writer never drifts from the keyword research and the rank tracker never rewrites what the refresh agent just published.
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Agent 01
Keyword Researcher
Continuously scans search demand and competitor moves, then proposes the topic set for each accepted niche.
- Demand + intent clustering
- SERP gap analysis
- AI-citation opportunity scan
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Agent 02
Writer
Drafts editor-reviewed articles with disclosure-ready affiliate links and proper schema for reviews and comparisons.
- FTC-compliant disclosure templates
- Schema for Product / Review / FAQ
- Affiliate link rotation
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Agent 03
Rank Tracker
Watches SERP movement for every article in the portfolio and notes emerging ChatGPT and Perplexity citations.
- Google + Bing SERPs
- ChatGPT + Perplexity citations
- Competitor-move alerts
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Agent 04
Refresh
Rewrites underperforming pages against current Google Helpful Content guidance, on its own. You only see the diff.
- Decline-triggered rewrite
- HCU-aligned redrafts
- Re-publish with audit trail
Editorial standards
The craft holds the line where AI-only sites fall.
Pasteup sits squarely inside what Google’s current spam policy rewards instead of penalizes: portfolio sites that read as if someone cared about them, just produced at a fraction of the per-article cost.
Editorial standards
Every article passes an editor-agent review for voice, claim support, and Helpful-Content alignment before publication.
Affiliate disclosure
FTC-compliant disclosure templates ship with every article. Material connections are surfaced above the fold, not buried in footer.
AI-search citations
GEO optimization for ChatGPT and Perplexity citations is built into every production pass: structured data, source authority, and entity clarity.
Refresh-on-decline
Pages that drop in rank or lose citations are re-drafted against current Google guidance and re-published within the same portfolio cycle.
FAQ
Questions solo affiliate publishers actually ask.
Most of these came from calls. If yours isn’t here, write back.
A single authority site bets the entire business on one domain and one algorithm. A portfolio compounds across niches, isolates risk per property, and lets you test new verticals without putting the old ones at risk. Most successful solo affiliate publishers run portfolios — Pasteup just makes running them realistic for a one-person operation.
Open the next issue
Greenlight the first niche. The agents will be ready before Monday.
We onboard a small cohort each month. Send a one-paragraph brief about your portfolio or the niche you’re considering, and we’ll come back with a production plan.