Your cadence is set by growth, not by a calendar — seven days in May, ten to fourteen in an August drought, longer by October, and then it stops. A hive that posts spring green-up copy in November is worse than no hive. Aeration, leaf cleanup, the last cut of the year: each has a window, and the window is the post.
Live and running today
Most social tools schedule your guesses.
This one learns what converts.
The Social Hive reads your market and your season, drafts each post in your voice, and tells you when to put it out. Then it watches which posts actually brought you work — and leans the whole rotation that way.
It never posts on your behalf. Not on any rung you can buy today. You approve, and you post it from your own account.
[ 01 ]The difference
This is not a posting strategy.
A scheduling tool is a calendar with your guesses in it. Useful, and completely blind — it cannot tell you whether any of it worked.
A content scheduler
- You decide what to post.
- It moves your posts around a calendar.
- It knows nothing about your trade, your town or your season.
- It reports likes and reach — numbers that do not pay anybody.
- Its best guess is your best guess, on time.
A hive
- It reads your market and the week you are actually in.
- It drafts the post — caption, hashtags, a time, a photo idea.
- It is configured around your trade, your area and your prices.
- It asks, once a week, whether any of it brought you an inquiry.
- It moves the rotation toward the answers.
[ 02 ]The daily draft
What lands before seven.
One message a morning, on a bot with your business's name on it. Not an inbox to manage — three buttons and a decision.
Your hive · 6:52 AM
Teaser
Morning — I've got a fresh draft ready for you. Want a look?
Show meNot now
The draft
AI drafted this. Nobody has posted it. You decide.
Queue the postPassLater
What is in it, every time
- The captionWritten to how you actually talk — set once at onboarding and corrected every time you pass on something.
- The hashtagsYour business tag, the day's theme, and whatever the trend brief says is moving. Capped, deduplicated, never a wall.
- A suggested timeSensible defaults for a small market, by platform and by weekday. Called a suggestion because that is what it is — we do not read your account's analytics, and we are not asking for access to them.
- A photo ideaThe part most people get stuck on. Something you can actually shoot between jobs.
Approving does not send anything. It marks the draft authorised and hands it to you — in whatever format you asked for — and you post it from your own account, on your own app.
[ 03 ]The learning loop
It learns from you. Directly.
Not from a general model of "what works on social." From your taps, your passes and your bookings. Here is exactly what it watches, in the order it trusts them.
1
Do you want this kind of post at all?
Every morning starts with a teaser, and Show me or Not now is an answer. It is the cheapest and most frequent signal in the whole system — you give it before you have read a word of the draft.
Theme interest2
Was the draft any good?
Queue or Pass. A pass is not a failure — it is the most useful thing you can do with a draft you would not put your name on. And Later is not a rejection. Neither is silence. Only an explicit pass counts against a draft, which is why a theme you like never gets quietly buried by a busy week.
Draft quality3
Which kind of post gets approved?
The finer question underneath the last one. Not "is behind-the-scenes a good theme" but "does this business approve the ones with a person in them, or the ones with a finished job in them." Two businesses in the same trade answer this differently.
Content type4
How you sound
Three taps at setup: punchy, story or polished. Emoji heavy, light or none. And how hard the posts should sell — direct, soft, or not at all. That last one genuinely changes the draft: turn selling off and the call to action becomes a showcase line instead of a booking ask.
Your voice5
Did it actually bring you work?
Friday afternoon, one question, one tap per post you approved that week. This is the signal the whole system is built around, and it is the only one that has anything to do with money.
The one that countsQueue and Pass measure whether a draft was good. They cannot measure whether it worked. Bookings lag posting by days — so once a week we ask one honest question, and the buttons stay live in the chat. A job that lands on Tuesday still counts against last Thursday's post.
Why the Friday check-in exists
What it does with the answers
Promote
A theme you want more than half the time earns a place in the standing rotation.
Park
Under a fifth, it stops being offered. Your mornings are not a focus group.
Repackage
Wanted, but the drafts keep getting passed? That is a packaging problem, not a theme problem. The drafts change; the theme stays.
Keep gathering
Fewer than five offers and there is no verdict at all. Thin evidence gets called thin evidence.
What we will not claim
Nobody is publishing a conversion number, including us. This product is young. The honest count of proven results is the count we have, and it is not yet enough to put a percentage on a marketing page. When it is, you will see the method next to the number.
The recommendations the system produces are advisory. A person reviews them with you before your rotation changes — the hive does not quietly rewrite its own strategy overnight.
And the posting time is a suggestion drawn from sensible defaults, not a reading of your followers. We have no access to your account's analytics and are not asking for any.
[ 04 ]The rule
Nothing posts itself. Ever.
This is not a setting you switch off, and not a promise you have to take on trust.
Built in, not configured
There is no code in this system that can post to a social network. No account connection, no login, no access token, no integration waiting to be enabled. It could not post on your behalf if it were told to — the capability does not exist to be misused.
A draft is authorised when you approve it. Authorised is not sent. The system hands the finished post back to you and you put it out yourself, which means your feed, your account and your reputation stay entirely in your hands.
You post it, from your own account
Approve means authorised — never sent
Never invents a price, review, testimonial or discount
The only prices it can print are the ones you gave it
If the quality check cannot reach a verdict, the draft dies
Every decision written to a record that is never deleted
The one exception, and it is not for sale
The Swarm Hive — the top rung — is the autonomous one. It does fly itself. It is not available, and it will not be sold before it ships. That is a standing rule here, not a launch tactic.
If autonomous posting is what you actually need, we would rather have the meeting than take the money. Tell us what you are trying to automate and what it would cost you if it got something wrong, and we will tell you honestly whether we can build it.
[ 05 ]Your trade
Built around your work.
A hive is a configuration, not a new product. The engine is the same for everyone. What changes is everything it knows about how you make money.
Lawn & landscaping
Real estate
Listing season and buying season are different audiences, and half the posts that actually generate a call are about the neighbourhood rather than the house. Anything client-facing carries the extra weight of compliance, which is exactly why nothing goes out without your name on the approval.
Portrait & event photography
Underwater season opens in the spring. Fall minis. Holiday cards, which close in early December whether you have posted about them or not. A dated booking window is the one kind of post that may name a price — and the only price it can name is one you gave us.
Salon, detailing, cleaning, fitness, food, contracting, trades of every kind: the intake is the same conversation and the configuration gets written for you. If your work has a season, a service list and a reason people call you, it has a hive. Tell us your trade and we will tell you what yours would look like.
[ 06 ]Getting started
A conversation, then a link.
About ten questions, once. Then three taps to set your voice, and a single link that opens your hive.
- Your name, as your hive should greet you
- Your business, and what you do in one sentence
- The city or area you serve
- Your platform, and your handles
- Your service and price list — if you want posts to name numbers
- How you talk to clients: warm, professional, funny, bold
- What the posts should get you: bookings, followers, or a showcase
- How many drafts you want a week
- Anything the posts must never mention
- Three taps: how you sound, how much you sell
Your own bot
Not a shared account and not our app. Your hive talks to you through a bot carrying your business's name, and it resolves nothing but your drafts.
The never-mention list
Whatever you tell us not to say, it does not say. The competitor you will not name, the service you dropped, the price you no longer honour.
The morning promise
A draft is waiting before seven. If one is not, an alarm goes off on our side before you have noticed — the system checks the promise itself, not just whether its own jobs finished cleanly.
[ 07 ]Web, payments & storefront
Somewhere for the post to point.
The hive drafts the post. Something has to be waiting on the other end of it, or the best post you ever put out ends in a dead scroll.
A page built to your brand
Designed around your market and the way your customers actually decide — not a template with your logo dropped in the corner.
Payments, integrated
Take money on your own site instead of sending people somewhere else and hoping they come back. Card handling stays with the processor; it never touches us.
A storefront that is yours
Your services, your packages, your prices, laid out the way you sell them — and synced with your hive so the posts and the page say the same thing.
From $1,000
One-time build · sold separately from the subscription
Our recommendation, plainly: take at least the custom page that syncs with your hive. A post that points at nothing converts nothing, and the cheapest version of this work is the one you do before the posts start, not after.
[ 08 ]The ladder
Priced in the open.
Every hive climbs the same ladder. Start where the work is, climb when it proves itself. Checkout is self-serve and takes about a minute.
Rung 1
Scout Hive
$99/month
It watches. Just the social posting — daily AI-drafted content, ready for you to tap and post.
Choose Scout → Rung 2 Hunter Hive $199/monthIt learns and hunts. Social posting that knows your market and shifts toward what converts.
Choose Hunter → Rung 3 Queen Hive $299/monthIt measures and improves. Conversion data feeds the hive — it gets better at your business every month.
Choose Queen → Rung 4 · Waitlist Swarm Hive $399/month when it shipsIt flies itself. The autonomous hive — never sold before it ships.
Never sold before it ships Join the waitlist →
Arranged with us, not at checkout
- One-time onboarding — $199, waived on Queen Hive
- The intake, the configuration written for your trade, your own bot stood up, and a review of the first drafts with you before anything reaches your morning. Queen Hive does not pay it.
- Commit for a year — pay for ten months
- Billed monthly at the reduced rate, not up front. Two months back for deciding once instead of twelve times.
- Not sure? Start with Scout Hive
- Two-month minimum, paid monthly. Long enough for the learning loop to have something to say, short enough that you are not committing to a year on a hunch.
These three are arranged directly with us rather than through the self-serve checkout — say which one you want and we will set it up.
Serious inquiries only. No refunds. No guarantees, implied or explicit.
Every rung on the self-serve checkout is month-to-month with self-serve cancel; service
continues through the month already paid for, and months already begun are not prorated
or refunded. No outcome is promised as to results, reach, engagement, growth, ranking,
revenue or leads, and none should be inferred. Website integration to the hive is sold
separately. Card payments are processed by Stripe; Hive Bastion never receives or stores
your card details. Prices shown are current list prices and an invitation to inquire
— not a binding offer or commitment. Any engagement is governed by the services
agreement you accept at checkout.
[ 09 ]Straight answers
The questions you would ask on a call.
Does it post for me?
No. There is nothing in the system capable of posting to a social
network — no account connection, no login, no token, nothing dormant waiting
to be switched on. A draft arrives, you approve it, and you post it yourself.
Approving marks it authorised, not sent.
Do I have to hand over my social logins?
No, and we do not want them. If you gave them to us there is nothing
in the system that could use them. That is the whole point of the previous answer.
I already pay someone to do my social. Why this?
If what you have is working and you can name the three posts that
brought you work last quarter, keep it. This is built for the far more common case:
you are posting steadily, it feels like it should be doing something, and nobody
can tell you which part of it is.
What do you actually do with my information?
Your intake answers, your drafts and your taps are used to run your
hive and nothing else. We do not use customer or client data to train or fine-tune
any AI model.
Do you guarantee results?
No. No guarantees, implied or explicit, as to results, reach,
engagement, growth, ranking, revenue or leads. And no refunds — months already
begun are not prorated or refunded. We would rather you know that before you buy
than discover it after.
How do I cancel?
Yourself, in about a minute, from the link on your receipt. No email,
no phone call, no retention conversation. Service runs through the month you have
already paid for and nothing is charged after that.
What if I want it to post on its own?
That is the Swarm Hive, and it is not available. It will not be sold
before it ships. Contact us and we will set up a meeting to understand what you are
trying to automate — autonomous anything is a conversation about what it costs
when it is wrong, and that is not a conversation a checkout button can have.
Who is behind it?
Hive Bastion LLC, a veteran-owned Tennessee company. The Social Hive is
one of our systems; we build intelligent systems that do work rather than talk about
it.
[ 10 ]Engagement
Tell us what you actually need.
Serious inquiries only. A person reads every one and replies within one business day — and if it is not a fit, we will say so plainly rather than leave you waiting.
If you already know which rung you want, you do not need this form — the checkout is faster. Use this for autonomous posting, for web and payments work, for the onboarding or annual terms, or for anything you want a straight answer on first.