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Your AI Press Release Needs An Editor

Free press release AI tools draft copy in twenty seconds. A newsroom-trained editor decides if a journalist actually opens it.

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What founders actually need from press release AI

Five things every founder asks for when a press release AI tool hands back a draft.

A draft in minutes

AI gets a first version onto the page fast, so you are not staring at a blank dateline the night before launch.

A lede that survives an editor

Most AI drafts bury the news in paragraph three. We move it to sentence one, where a reporter actually looks.

Quotes that check out

Every AI-invented line gets matched against what your CEO actually said, or it gets cut before it goes out.

House style, not template smell

AP style dateline, real attribution, no leftover placeholder brackets a journalist can spot in one glance.

One number that matters

Data-driven angles get read. We find the single stat worth leading with instead of five vague claims.

Boilerplate worth keeping

The company paragraph gets tightened to three sentences a reporter will actually finish reading.

Before and after

The AI Draft, Marked Up

Desk 3 ran a free AI press release generator against a real product launch. The draft came back in nineteen seconds. It had a dateline, a quote attributed to the founder, and an opening line that took three sentences to say what happened. Here is what came back after the edit.

  • Cut the passive voice out of the lede
  • Moved the actual news from paragraph three to sentence one
  • Rewrote the founder quote so it sounds like a person said it
  • Verified the one statistic the release leaned on
  • Trimmed the boilerplate from nine lines to three
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What the data says

Why the desk pass matters

47%
pickup rate for data-driven press release angles, versus 8% for generic ones
19%
of wire press releases actually retrieved by AI search engines within 90 days
2.6x
more citations for releases with a clear structure and a verified lead fact
1 in 4
wire releases now flagged by newsrooms as likely AI-written, and read with suspicion
How it works

From AI draft to filed release

Keep your AI tool. Add the pass that decides whether a journalist keeps reading past the dateline.

  1. 1

    Draft with any AI tool

    Use whatever press release AI generator you already like. We do not care which one, we care what it produces.

  2. 2

    Send us the raw draft

    Paste the AI output and the facts behind it: the real quote, the real number, the real date.

  3. 3

    We run the copy desk pass

    Lede rewritten, quotes checked, boilerplate cut, structure matched to how a wire editor would file it.

  4. 4

    You file it your way

    Send the edited release through your existing wire, your own list, or straight to the three reporters who cover your beat.

Raw output vs desk edit

What changes after the edit

The same AI draft, before and after a copy desk reads it.

SignalRaw AI outputImpressify desk edit
LedeBuries the news in paragraph threeNews lands in sentence one
QuotesSounds invented, because it often isChecked against what was actually said
StructureFollows a template a journalist can spotMatches AP style, no template smell
BoilerplateNine lines of copy-pasted corporate textThree lines a reporter will finish reading
NumbersVague claims, no sourceOne verified stat worth leading with
TurnaroundTwenty secondsSame business day
Common questions

What founders ask before they send us a draft

Is a press release written by AI easy to spot?
Often, yes. Formulaic structure, a buried lede, and a quote that sounds like nobody's boilerplate are the three tells newsroom staff report most. A desk pass fixes structure and voice, so the release reads like a person filed it, not a template.
Will an AI-written press release still get picked up?
Rarely on its own. Data-driven angles with a real number in the lede get picked up far more than generic announcements. AI drafts the copy; a human edit adds the specific fact and the sentence a reporter can quote directly.
Does AI invent quotes or numbers in a press release?
It can, and this is the single biggest risk newsrooms flag. Every AI-drafted quote and statistic needs a fact check against what was actually said and measured before the release goes anywhere near a wire.
What does Impressify actually do with my AI draft?
We run it through the same pass a wire copy desk would: cut the passive voice, move the news into sentence one, verify every quote and number, and rewrite the boilerplate so it does not read like a corporate template.
How is this different from just using a free AI press release generator?
The generator gets you a fast first draft. It does not know AP style, cannot fact-check its own quotes, and has no read on whether the lede would survive a real editor. That is the pass we add.
How long does the desk edit take?
Same business day for a standard release. You send the AI draft and the facts behind it; we send back a marked-up version with the changes explained, the way an editor would hand back a filed story.
Do you handle press release distribution too?
No. We edit the copy so it earns the pickup. You keep your existing wire or distribution list; we just make sure what goes out reads like news, not marketing.
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