Hearst Newspapers · OpenAI
more than 1,000 — requests handled
Independently reportedMedia & entertainment · Marketing content · LLM · In production
Marketing content
Cardinal40 · Agathon
Vendor-reportedProfessional servicesPilotLLMLive 2026
Vendor-reported. The customer is named and the numbers are quoted from the source page, but the account comes from the vendor. No independent confirmation.
Reported by agathon.ai (vendor self-report). Checked against the source page on 2026-09-06. 1 of 1 figures below appear on that page word for word.
The problem
Inefficient manual AI workflow for executive ghostwriting, lacking technical capability, a product, or a roadmap.
What was deployed
- Vendor
- Agathon
- Products
- SecondDraft
- Technique
- LLM
- Build or buy
- Built in-house or to order
- Deployment
- Custom build
- Data used
- reference materials — research, prior publications, style guides — which are processed into searchable knowledge blocks
- Scale
- onboarding both professional writers and enterprise users
- Timeline
- 20 months
What changed
Each row is quoted from the source. Figures we could not find on the page in those words are marked — they are kept, not deleted, so you can judge them.
1–3sAI rendering timefrom 10–12s
“The initial rendering pipeline took 10-12 seconds per pass. Through intelligent caching at paragraph boundaries, optimised token allocation, and streaming responses, we brought that down to 1-3 seconds, an 85% reduction.”
Quoted word for word from the source
“Colin has an incredible ability to take someone who's essentially a novice — which I was — and quickly bring them up to speed on the complexities of AI. Not just the basics, but where the market is actually going. That was hugely helpful for me and for our team.”
Difficulties and limits
- As of the case study, security and compliance posture for enterprise deployment is not yet hardened, and the team has not yet scaled for commercial launch — both are described as next-phase work rather than completed.
Sources
- agathon.ai — vendor self-report, 2026-03-21
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