Acrolinx
Acrolinx is an enterprise editorial management system that leverages generative AI to scale compliant content and manage associated risk. T...
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What is Acrolinx?
Acrolinx is an AI-powered content governance platform designed for enterprise organizations to ensure mission-critical content meets brand, style, tone, and compliance standards at scale. The platform uses AI Agents to scan, score, and automatically fix content across dozens of authoring environments including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, CMS platforms, and documentation tools. It goes far beyond basic spelling and grammar checks to enforce enterprise writing standards covering clarity, inclusivity, terminology, messaging, scannability, consistency, tone, and regulatory compliance.
Key features include Instant Content Compliance with AI checking and rewriting agents, brand and style checking against digitized style guides, regulatory and compliance checking for industries like financial services and life sciences, automated content governance that blocks poor quality content from publishing, editorial assistance with clickable suggestions for 87% of issues, analytics and reporting dashboards to measure content quality correlated with performance, and AI guardrails that work for both human-written and generative AI content. The platform supports 6 languages including multiple English variants (US, UK, CA, Oxford, ASD-STE100).
Acrolinx is built for large Fortune 2000 enterprises across marketing and communications teams, technical documentation teams, localization specialists, quality assurance/governance councils, and support teams. It serves industries including financial services, life sciences, technology, medical device manufacturing, and more. The platform integrates into publishing workflows and repositories to provide 100% editorial coverage.
Acrolinx pricing
Pricing model: Free
Acrolinx does not publicly list specific pricing on their website. The platform is targeted at large Fortune 2000 enterprises with custom enterprise pricing. There is no free tier and no B2C product for individual writers. Each new Acrolinx instance is set up in partnership with the customer, and purchases include consulting packages with highly qualified linguists. Contact sales for a demo and custom pricing based on organization size and needs.
Acrolinx pros
- AI-powered content governance at enterprise scale
- Checks content in 87% of issues with one-click fixes
- Works across dozens of authoring environments
- Digitizes style guides and terminology sets
- Supports inclusive language and accessibility
- Governs both human-written and AI-generated content
- Regulatory compliance checking for financial services and life sciences
- Analytics dashboards correlate content quality with performance
- Blocks poor quality content from publishing automatically
- Azure AI infrastructure with enterprise-grade security
- Private data never shared with public AI models
- Reduces content review cycle time significantly
- Reduces translation edits by up to 30%
- Customizable guidance packages for different audiences
- Detailed changelog of content updates
- 100% editorial coverage across all content
- Supports 6 languages with multiple English variants
- Consulting packages with qualified linguists included
Acrolinx cons
- No free tier available
- No B2C product for solo writers
- Targeted only at Fortune 2000 enterprises
- Not a stand-alone authoring tool
- Requires setup and configuration partnership
- Only supports 6 languages
- Not all content goals available in every language
- Requires dedicated engineering resources for LLM integration
- Higher cost compared to consumer writing tools
- Learning curve for full platform configuration
Frequently asked questions about Acrolinx
Who uses Acrolinx?
Acrolinx is an AI-powered content governance platform designed for the entire enterprise. It is used by marketing and communications teams, technical documentation teams, localization specialists, quality assurance teams (governance councils), and support teams across a wide range of organizations and Fortune 2000 industries that want to improve content quality, readability, accuracy, relevance, and achieve desired business results fueled by content.
What languages does Acrolinx support?
Acrolinx supports 6 different languages, including many types of English (US, UK, CA, Oxford, ASD-STE100). Most content goals are available in each language, though not all. Content goals include correctness, clarity, consistency, tone, scannability, words and phrases, and inclusive language.
What is Get Suggestions?
Get Suggestions streamlines the content creation and editing process by providing writers with actionable, context-sensitive guidance directly in their authoring environments. It goes beyond simple spelling and grammar checks, offering suggestions on tone, clarity, consistency, terminology, inclusivity, and scannability. Writers can fix 87% of these issues with a simple click, ensuring content is error-free and aligned with enterprise style and standards.
Does Acrolinx work with generative AI content?
Yes, Acrolinx can automatically check huge volumes of either human or AI-generated content and score it for alignment with company guidelines. It provides AI guardrails for content standards regardless of whether people or AI creates the content, helping prioritize content that needs reviewing and maintaining consistent content experience across the customer journey.
Is there a free tier for Acrolinx?
No, Acrolinx does not have a free tier. It is a software targeted towards large, Fortune 2000 enterprises that want content governance at scale. For solo writers looking to improve their writing, they recommend solutions like Grammarly for freelance content creators.
Can I measure content impact with Acrolinx?
Yes, Acrolinx includes analytics dashboards where you can see how writers are complying with your organization's brand. Regardless of whether you have established KPIs for measuring content effectiveness or want a first glimpse into content quality, your purchase comes with consulting packages including highly qualified linguists who can help review your current content and set measurable goals for the future.
What authoring environments does Acrolinx support?
Acrolinx is available wherever writers work, supporting an impressive set of authoring environments including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, CMS platforms, and many other enterprise tools. It provides editorial assistance by guiding writers within the applications they are already using, with clickable suggestions on over 87% of standards.
How does Acrolinx handle regulatory compliance?
Acrolinx leverages specialized content quality agents to meet compliance needs while keeping humans in the loop. It can check content for regulatory and compliance standards, particularly for financial services (Consumer Duty content regulations) and life sciences industries. One $8B FinServ Firm reported saving over $3 million in fines through compliance with Consumer Duty content regulations.
Is my data secure with Acrolinx?
Yes, Acrolinx is powered by Azure AI infrastructure with superior flexibility and security. Acrolinx keeps private and sensitive information confidential. User data and activity is never shared with public models or used to train external AI models, making it suitable for enterprise content with confidentiality requirements.
What is Instant Content Compliance?
Instant Content Compliance is Acrolinx's flagship capability for mission-critical content that safeguards your brand, tone, terminology and more with AI Agents that scan, score and fix content at scale. It includes brand and style checking for style, clarity, context, spelling, and grammar; instant content rewriting that fixes issues proactively based on enterprise standards with a detailed changelog; and regulatory and compliance checking with specialized content quality agents while keeping humans in the loop.