2025-05-25: Machined V3 beta

25th May 2025

Machined V3 is now available for everyone to use - it is now an opt-in open beta, so please enable it and try out the new features.

What's new?

Here's a quick breakdown of the major new features available to you now.

Feature	What is it?
Custom Brand Voices	Create a custom brand voice - mimic your existing content, customize a built-in voice or bring your own style guide
Custom Briefs and Directions	Tell the agent exactly what should be in the content - brand mentions, CTAs, tables, custom data
In-app Content Editor	Edit your content before exporting or publishing - update content, add/remove links, edit tables and much more
Improved Deep Research	Run automated research up front and curate the results before writing content - more control, fewer rewrites
Content Types	Write listicles, reviews, comparisons, tutorials and more - you can still provide your own outline as well
New models	Brand new writing agent using o1 and o4-mini reasoning models

The documentation is still in the kitchen, but you can read about the highlights below...

New Features

Enable V3

You can enable the new V3 engine in the experimental features section.

You can then select the new engine from the AI Engine dropdown when creating a new cluster.

Note: The V3 Engine is only available on new clusters

Custom Voices

Machined allows you to choose from a number of built-in voices or create your own custom brand voice - giving you the ability to create hyper personalized content.

Custom Briefs and Directions

Custom briefs allow you to give detailed directions to the writing agent.

This little box is one of the most powerful features in the new version, allowing you to give personal insights on the topic as well as the ability to fine-tune what the writing agent will do.

Some common examples:

"Mention our brand..." ​"Include 5 sections in the listicle" ​"Use bold to emphasize importance" ​"Add an FAQ with 5 questions at the end of the article" ​"Include a table in each section highlighting the steps and gotchas"

Research improvements

You can now run automated and directed research up front, allowing you to read and curate the results before writing the article - more control, fewer rewrites!

Content Editor

Machined now has a built-in editor, so you can edit the content before exporting or publishing. You can edit the text, apply formatting, add/remove links, edit tables and much more

New models

We've added support for the new reasoning models from OpenAI, we currently make use of gpt-o1 and gpt-o4-mini

The average cost per article are:

• $0.10 - $0.50 cents per article for gpt-o1

• $0.01 - $0.05 cents per article for gpt-o4-mini

We highly recommend you stick to gpt-o1 for now - while the cheaper model is available, we're still fine-tuning and optimizing it, you might see shorter text and lower density of links than you would expect. We will clarify when the model has been finalized, but if you do use it, please give feedback so we can improve it.