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Simplified is an AI agent platform for marketing teams. Its agent Riley turns a single brief into planned, designed and written campaigns, queues them for approval, publishes them across thirteen social channels, then reports back on results.

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Overview

What is Simplified?

Simplified is an AI agent platform for marketing teams, published by TLDR Technologies, Inc. Its central agent, Riley, takes a single brief and carries it through the whole chain: planning the campaign, producing the assets, queueing them for approval, publishing them, and reporting on what ran. The company positions the product as an agentic operating system for marketing rather than a single-purpose tool, arguing that most platforms stop at one step and leave the rest to the user.

Underneath the agent sits a full creative stack. The creation tools cover image generation, photo editing, graphic design, presentations, copywriting and ad creative. The video and audio tools add text-to-video generation, image-to-video, in-browser editing, short-form clipping, automatic subtitles, thumbnails, voice changing, voice cloning and text to speech. A social layer handles scheduling, a shared calendar, a unified inbox for comments and messages, analytics, link-in-bio pages and external client approvals. A management layer adds marketing project management, bulk post generation and a trainable chatbot.

Two mechanisms tie these parts together. The Brand Kit, also called Brand Memory, stores colours, fonts, tone of voice, products, customers and approved examples, so every generation inherits the same brand context. The approval gate makes review the default: work queues as drafts, auto-publishing is opt-in, and a run can be paused instantly from the app, Slack or the command line.

The platform is also open to outside agents. A hosted, OAuth-secured MCP connector lets Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Amp, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Warp, Windsurf and Zed drive it directly, alongside a command-line interface and a REST API with OAuth2 and webhooks. Publishing reaches thirteen social platforms, and twenty-nine named integrations connect tools such as HubSpot, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Airtable, WordPress and Google Analytics.

The vendor claims fifteen million users and a G2 score of 4.6 from 5,008 reviews. Dedicated pages address healthcare, e-commerce, real estate, education, media, automotive, fintech, insurance and non-profits. One caveat deserves attention: the privacy policy states that full GDPR and CCPA compliance is still coming soon.

What it does

  • Turn one plain-language brief into a finished, ready-to-approve marketing campaign
  • Generate images, video, copy, ad creative and presentations on brand
  • Schedule and publish content to thirteen social platforms
  • Route every draft through an approval gate before anything goes live
  • Track reach and performance, then receive automated campaign reports
  • Reply to comments and direct messages from a single social inbox
  • Let Claude, Codex or Cursor run the platform through MCP, the CLI or the REST API
Audience

When to use Simplified / When not to

A quick filter to help you decide if Simplified is the right fit.

When to use Simplified

  • Founders and lean teams running marketing without a dedicated marketing department
  • Agencies juggling several client brands, each with its own calendar and approval chain
  • Social media managers and community managers publishing at high volume across many channels
  • Freelance marketers, designers and copywriters who need client-ready output without a team
  • Developers who want to drive a marketing execution layer from Claude, Codex or Cursor over MCP

When not to use Simplified

  • Organisations that need documented GDPR compliance today, since the vendor states it is still coming soon
  • Teams required to keep personal data outside the United States, as no alternative hosting region is offered
  • Buyers whose procurement demands a named subprocessor list, since only broad categories are published
  • Anyone under 13, who is explicitly excluded by the privacy policy
  • Businesses looking for a full CRM, sales or ERP suite rather than a marketing and content platform
Get started

How to use Simplified

A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.

  1. Create an account on app.simplified.com; no credit card is required to start
  2. Fill in the Brand Kit with your colours, fonts, tone of voice, products and customers
  3. Brief Riley in plain language: goal, audience, offer, channels and brand rules
  4. Let the agent assemble strategy, creative, video, captions and scheduling into a campaign
  5. Review the finished work in one place and approve or reject each asset
  6. Watch approved posts move to the right channels with their schedule and format attached
  7. Connect the third-party tools your team already uses from the integrations directory
  8. Set up recurring schedules, choosing one-off, daily, weekly or monthly with a timezone
  9. Read the reports Riley sends back on what ran and what to try next
  10. Optionally connect an external agent through the MCP connector, the CLI or the REST API
Quick read

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Covers the whole chain, from planning to creation, approval, publishing and reporting, in one workspace
  • Unconditional written commitment never to train AI models on customer content
  • Review is the default before publishing, auto-publish is opt-in, and any run can be paused instantly
  • Customers keep ownership of everything produced, even after cancelling
  • Genuinely open to external agents through a hosted MCP connector, a CLI and a REST API
  • Twenty-nine named integrations, each documented on its own page
  • Permanent free plan plus a seven-day trial, neither requiring a credit card

Cons

  • The vendor states that full GDPR and CCPA compliance has not been reached yet, with no Standard Contractual Clauses in place
  • No postal address is published anywhere on the site, and there is no about or contact page
  • A single email address covers legal, privacy and support enquiries alike
  • Subprocessors are disclosed only by category, never by name
  • Data is hosted and transferred to the United States, with no choice of region
  • The pricing grid is absent from the static page; tiers are only readable in the structured data
  • The site contradicts itself on the entry tier, advertising $79/month while its own structured data lists a $59.00 monthly offer
Pricing

Pricing & Plans

Simplified offers a permanent free plan, advertised as free to start with no credit card required, alongside a seven-day free trial granting full access to the Starter tier. The lowest publicly advertised paid entry point is the Starter plan at 79.00 USD per month. Additional campaigns beyond a plan's allowance cost 10 USD each on any tier. Unused campaigns do not roll over and reset at each billing period. Plans can be changed at any time, with upgrades effective immediately, downgrades at the next period, and no cancellation fees.

Free
  • 0 USD
  • free to start with no credit card required
Pro
  • 99.00 USD per month billed annually or 119.00 USD billed monthly
  • including 15 campaigns per month
  • 3 seats
  • unlimited AI words
  • designs and videos
  • 15 social accounts
  • 20 GB of storage
  • 3 brand kits and team collaboration
Business
  • 199.00 USD per month billed annually or 239.00 USD billed monthly
  • including 40 campaigns per month
  • 7 seats
  • unlimited AI words
  • designs and videos
  • 30 social accounts
  • 100 GB of storage
  • unlimited brand kits
Note
  • for the Starter tier the site's own structured data lists an annual offer at 79.00 USD and a monthly offer at 59.00 USD
  • which reverses the pattern used for the other tiers
  • 79 USD per month is the figure advertised everywhere else on the page
Special offers — Permanent free plan requiring no credit card · Seven-day free trial with full Starter access · Non-profit programme, available through a dedicated application page · Creator Fund for content creators · A deals and coupons page is linked in the site footer, though no discount amount is published
Prices and plans listed above may evolve. Always check the official pricing page before subscribing.
Trust & Privacy

Data, GDPR & hosting

A consolidated view of how Simplified handles your data.

GDPR overview

Simplified does not claim GDPR compliance. Its privacy policy states that full GDPR and CCPA compliance is coming soon and actively being worked on, and it specifically notes that formal safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses for EU and EEA transfers are not yet in place. No Article 27 EU representative is designated. The company nevertheless documents lawful bases for processing, namely contract performance, legal compliance, legitimate interests and consent, and offers the usual data subject rights: access, correction, deletion within 30 days, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent. Requests go to hello@simplified.com or in-app support, with a stated response time of five business days. The policy took effect on 23 April 2021 and was last updated on 5 May 2026.

Who owns the data?

Customers own what the platform produces. The vendor states plainly that copy, designs, video, captions and campaign assets belong to your account, and that you keep them even if you cancel your subscription. Assets created on behalf of an agency's clients fall under the same rule. The terms of service do reserve a licence over user Contributions so that the company can host, reformat, transmit and display them in order to operate the service, which is an operational licence rather than a transfer of ownership. Crucially, the privacy policy adds an unconditional commitment that no user content is ever used to develop, improve or train generalised AI or machine learning models.

Reuse rights

End users may reuse everything the platform generates for them without asking permission: the vendor confirms that copy, designs, video, captions and campaign assets belong to the customer's account and remain theirs after cancellation, and agency users may use them for client work under the same terms. Free stock media bundled with the product is the one exception, being covered by a separate licence agreement that governs downloading and exporting designs containing it. On the vendor's side, data is used to run accounts, improve the platform, communicate, ensure security and meet legal obligations. It is explicitly never sold to data brokers or advertisers, never used to build advertising profiles, and never used to train AI models.

Data retention & training

Retention summary
Retention depends on the type of data. Account data is kept for as long as the account stays active. Usage logs are held for a rolling period to support security monitoring and platform improvement, and billing records are kept for as long as financial and tax regulations require. When you ask for your account to be deleted, personal information is removed within 30 days, although some records may be retained where the law demands it, such as tax documents. Beyond that, the vendor says it deletes or anonymises information once it is no longer needed, and states explicitly that it does not hold on to data just in case. Deletion requests go through customer support or to hello@simplified.com with Privacy Request in the subject line, and the company undertakes to reply within five business days.
Trains on customer data
No
DPA available
Yes
GDPR contact

Hosting summary

Simplified hosts its service in the United States. The terms of service state plainly that the site is hosted there and that anyone accessing it from another region does so on their own initiative and remains responsible for local law. The privacy policy adds that personal information may be transferred to and stored in countries outside the user's own, including the United States, where data protection rules may differ. No alternative hosting region is offered and no data residency choice is advertised. Security measures described are encryption in transit over HTTPS, access controls limiting which staff can reach customer data, and regular security reviews, with breach notification as required by law. No compliance certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is mentioned anywhere on the site. Note that the public front end is served through Cloudflare on an anycast address, so IP geolocation reflects a CDN edge node rather than the location of the application servers.

Hosting countries
🇺🇸 United States
Watch-outs

Things to keep in mind

Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Simplified.

  • Compliance gap: the vendor states GDPR and CCPA compliance is unfinished, so European personal data should not be entrusted to it without legal review
  • All data is hosted in and transferred to the United States, with no option to choose a region
  • Recourse is limited: no postal address, no contact page and a single shared email for legal, privacy and support matters
  • Delegating a whole campaign to an agent can erode a team's own copywriting, design and strategic judgement over time
  • Auto-publishing, once enabled, removes the human review that is the platform's main safeguard against off-brand or embarrassing output
  • Volume becomes easy, which tempts teams to publish more rather than better, and to trust unreviewed AI claims about their products
  • Campaign allowances do not roll over between billing periods, which can push users to generate work simply to avoid losing credits
Setup

Setup & Integrations

Technical difficulty

Setup is easy and requires no technical skill. You sign up without a credit card, fill in a Brand Kit, and brief the agent in ordinary language; the vendor confirms that knowing MCP, the CLI or APIs is not necessary. The optional technical route is also light: the MCP connector is hosted and OAuth-secured, so there is no API token to generate or paste, and installation is documented client by client for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and others. A CLI and a REST API with OAuth2 and webhooks cover more advanced automation.

Deployment

Web appMobile appIOS appAndroid appAPIBrowser extensionChrome extensionShopify appPlugin

Apps stores

Integrations

Ahrefs Google Search Console Google Analytics Shopify Stripe HubSpot Klaviyo Brevo Google Ads Meta Ads Webflow Wix Contentful WordPress Google Docs Google Drive Apify Firecrawl HeyGen Airtable Dropbox Box Asana Monday.com ClickUp Slack Gmail Notion Calendly Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube TikTok Pinterest Threads X Bluesky Mastodon Reddit Telegram

Supported languages

English
Company

Behind Simplified

Company name
TLDR Technologies, Inc.
Founded
INFORMATION_NOT_FOUND
Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
UBO
Koustubha Deshpande
UBO country
INFORMATION_NOT_FOUND
Domain registrar country
🇺🇸 United States
Legal contact
Support contact

Fundraising

Seed round in December 2021 raising 8.5 million USD, led by Craft Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Wing, Uncorrelated Ventures and 8-Bit Capital (reported by third-party financial databases, not announced on the vendor's own site)

Social

Official links

Resources

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Will Simplified publish anything without my approval?
Not unless you tell it to. Review is the default behaviour: work queues as drafts for you to approve or reject. Auto-publishing is opt-in, and everything can be paused instantly from the app, Slack or the CLI.
Who owns the content the agents create?
You do. The vendor states that copy, designs, video, captions and campaign assets belong to your account, and that you keep them even if you cancel your subscription.
Is my content used to train AI models?
No. The privacy policy carries an explicit and unconditional commitment that no user content, including data accessed through Google Workspace APIs, is used to develop, improve or train generalised AI or machine learning models.
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
Both. Simplified is free to start with no credit card required, and a seven-day free trial grants full Starter access, covering 5 campaigns, 100,000 AI words and 100 AI designs.
What counts as one campaign?
One campaign is a single brief-to-approval cycle producing one output type: a social batch of six posts, an email sequence of three to five emails, or a paid ad creative set of three A/B variants for Meta or Google.
Is Simplified GDPR compliant?
Not yet, by the vendor's own account. The privacy policy states that full GDPR and CCPA compliance is coming soon and that formal safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses for EU and EEA transfers are not in place. No Article 27 EU representative is designated.
Where is my data stored, and for how long?
Data is hosted in the United States and may be transferred there from other countries. Active account data is kept while the account is open, billing records as long as tax law requires, and data is removed within 30 days of a deletion request.
Do I need to understand MCP, the CLI or APIs?
No. Riley can be used entirely in plain English. The MCP connector, command-line interface and REST API are optional and aimed at teams that want to connect their own agents.
Which tools and channels does it connect to?
Twenty-nine named integrations are live, including HubSpot, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Airtable, WordPress, Webflow, Klaviyo, Google Ads and Google Analytics. Publishing reaches thirteen social platforms.
Is there a minimum age to use Simplified?
Yes. The service is not directed at children under 13, and the vendor states it does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone below that age.
Conclusion

Should you pick Simplified?

Simplified makes an unusually complete promise: instead of stopping at a draft or a scheduled post, it tries to own the entire marketing chain, from brief to plan, creation, approval, publishing and reporting. The creative stack behind the Riley agent is genuinely broad, covering images, video, copy, ads, presentations and voice, and the social layer adds scheduling, a unified inbox, analytics and client approvals. Two design choices stand out. Brand Memory keeps identity consistent across generations, and the approval gate keeps a human in the loop by default, with auto-publishing available only as an opt-in.

Two commitments are stronger than the market norm and worth weighing. The vendor promises, without conditions or toggles, never to train AI models on customer content, and it confirms that customers keep ownership of everything produced even after cancelling. Openness is also real rather than cosmetic: a hosted MCP connector, a CLI and a REST API let external agents such as Claude, Codex or Cursor drive the platform directly.

The reservations are just as concrete. Simplified states itself that full GDPR and CCPA compliance is not yet achieved and that Standard Contractual Clauses are not in place, while all data is hosted in the United States with no regional alternative. The publisher is also unusually opaque for a platform of this size: no postal address, no contact or about page, and a single email address serving legal, privacy and support alike. Subprocessors are named only by category, and the pricing page contradicts its own structured data on the entry tier.

For lean marketing teams, agencies, creators and developers building on MCP, Simplified is a serious consolidation play. For regulated buyers with European data obligations, it is worth revisiting once the compliance work it advertises is finished.