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Social Media Manager Stack

Plan the calendar, write the copy, design the assets, and keep a consistent voice.

Built for:
Anyone running several brand accounts and shipping daily content
Outcome:
A week of scheduled posts across platforms, produced in one sitting.
All stacksEstimated costs

The workflow

  1. 1
    ChatGPT— Copy & content calendar
    ~$20/mo

    Draft captions in a defined brand voice and plan the posting calendar around campaigns.

  2. 2
    Canva— Design
    ~$15/mo

    Produce carousels, stories and feed assets from brand templates.

  3. 3
    CapCut— Short video
    Free tier works

    Cut reels and shorts from longer assets.

  4. 4
    Perplexity— Trend & competitor research
    ~$20/mo

    Check what's actually being discussed this week, with sources you can verify.

Cheaper or different swaps

PerplexityNative platform search + ChatGPTsaves ~$20/mo

Free. Slower, and you have to verify things yourself.

Canva ProCanva free tiersaves ~$15/mo

Workable for single-brand work; you lose brand kits and background remover.

Where this stack falls short

  • AI-written captions converge on the same phrasing fast — a human editing pass is what keeps the account from sounding generic.
  • Trend research is only as current as the source; always sanity-check before building a campaign on it.