Your data is yours.
Most PR tools are walled gardens: they hold your contacts, your pitches, and your workflow inside a closed product you can't get your data out of. AstraMedia is open by design — your data is yours. Export your pitch history, campaigns, and press releases as CSV or PDF anytime, no hostage fees, no "contact support to leave" dance. And the platform is committing to full data portability for paid users: download everything you've created, whenever you want. Simple and open beats powerful and closed, every time.
Why openness is the wedge
Most tools in the PR and pitching market are built as closed products. Openness is a deliberate design choice — and the market is asking for it.
Walled gardens hold your work hostage
Propel has no API or MCP and runs at roughly $299 per month per seat. Their pitch is "everything inside our platform" — but the moment you want your data out, your automation involved, or your agent stack connected, you're stuck inside.
Founders hate lock-in
The loudest complaint in every PR-tool community is "how do I get my data out?" Open data access answers it before it's asked. AstraMedia's core promise is that the system does the work — and the work is yours.
What the platform lets you export today
No hostage fees, no support ticket required. These exports are live in the product today.
| Data | Status |
|---|---|
| Pitch history export — every pitch you've created, as CSV | Live today |
| Campaign export — CSV including recipients and events | Live today |
| Press release export — formatted PDF | Live today |
| Multi-channel outreach — email, X and Bluesky from one workflow | Live today |
| Approve-before-send — review and edit every message before it goes out | Live today |
Export paths: pitch history and campaign export are available in-app to signed-in users; press release PDF export is part of the press release tool.
Walled gardens vs open
The contrast is sharpest against the tools that promise "everything inside our platform" — and then make it hard to leave. This is a September 2026 snapshot of the market's openness posture, based on the AstraMedia competitor benchmark.
| Propel | Barista | AstraMedia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ~$299/mo/seat (demo-gated) | Waitlist (beta) | $49–149 self-serve, public pricing |
| API / MCP | None — walled | MCP-native, beta | Not public today; data portability on the roadmap |
| Data export | Not offered | Unproven at scale | CSV/PDF today (pitch history, campaigns, press releases) |
| Multi-channel | No | No | Email + X + Bluesky |
| Approve-before-send | No | Drafts only | Yes — you approve every message |
Sources: AstraMedia competitor benchmark, 2026-09-07 — competitor pricing pages and public product documentation. "Not public today" reflects that AstraMedia does not currently issue customer API keys or expose a public API/MCP; data portability for paid users is a roadmap commitment, not a shipped feature.
The portability commitment
AstraMedia's position on data is a principle, not a footnote: the work you create on the platform is yours. That is why the platform ships CSV/PDF exports today — and why full data portability is on the roadmap.
Data portability (download everything) for paid users is on the roadmap.
This is a commitment in direction and principle — leave with everything you've created, whenever you want. The platform does not currently offer a public API, customer MCP server, webhooks, or third-party integrations, and none are claimed here.
Exportable today
Pitch history and campaign data export as CSV; press releases export as PDF. No support ticket required.
Portability next
Full download-all portability for paid users is on the roadmap — a commitment to leave with everything, whenever you want.
You stay in control
Every message is reviewed and approved before sending. The system does the work — and the work is yours.
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