Patreon Creators Editing and Proofreading Services

The five-pound tier promises monthly behind-the-scenes posts, early access, a private community, a monthly video call and a name in the credits. It launches with sixty members, and by month four the creator is producing four extra things a month for three hundred pounds, resents the call, and is late with everything — including the work the patrons actually came for.

We edit what membership creators write — tier descriptions and their promises, membership page copy, welcome and onboarding messages for new patrons, monthly update and delivery posts, messages announcing a change to tiers or pricing, pause and departure communications, and the goals and milestone descriptions shown publicly. Our editors work on promises that have to be kept every month for years.

The tier description is a recurring obligation written as marketing copy, and its failure is a list of benefits nobody costed in hours. A membership is not a launch; it is a subscription to your future time. We work through these so every promise is priced in the creator's own hours before it is published, since four deliverables at two hours each is a working day a month and the tier that funds it may not cover a working day; so the frequency is stated exactly and conservatively, because "regular updates" is unfalsifiable and "one post a month, in the first week" is a promise a patron can hold and a creator can keep; so anything the creator is uncertain they can sustain for a year is not offered at all, given that removing a benefit later costs more goodwill than never offering it; so live or synchronous elements are treated with particular caution, as a monthly call is the benefit most often promised and most often quietly dropped; so the tiers are differentiated by amount of the same thing rather than by kind wherever possible, since five kinds of output is five production lines; so what patrons are really buying is stated honestly — usually the work continuing to exist — because most patrons are supporting rather than purchasing and telling them so reduces the pressure on the rewards; so a lower tier with no obligations at all is offered; and so the creator's own bad month is planned for in the description. Tiers written this way are still being honoured in year three.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including income figures, patron information and unreleased work. We are editors rather than platform or business advisers, and we offer no view on pricing, platforms or your membership. What we can do is cost the promise before you make it.