Voiceover quoting is fiddly. A 60-second broadcast TV spot with one year of national usage is a different number from a 60-second YouTube pre-roll with in-perpetuity web usage, which is different again from a 12-minute corporate explainer with internal use only. Producers under deadline ask 'how much for a 60-second read' and a generic chatbot quotes a single per-word figure that ignores the usage variable that drives 60% of the fee. The producer either books elsewhere or arrives at the studio session with the wrong budget approved.

SleekAI reads your published rate card, usage tiers, and demos directly from WordPress. It quotes properly: 350-650 GBP for a 60-second broadcast spot with 12-month national TV and online rights, 180-260 GBP for the same script with web-only in-perpetuity, 420-580 GBP for a 12-minute corporate explainer with internal use. It captures script length, usage scope (broadcast, web, internal, in-perpetuity), territory (UK, EU, global), deadline, and any reference demos before passing the brief through.

Producers booking at 4pm for an overnight turn get accurate numbers and a clear path to confirming the session. The bot points them at your relevant demos by genre (commercial, corporate, e-learning, character, audiobook), and out-of-hours bookings flow through to your inbox with everything attached so you wake up to a confirmed session, not a 'are you available' message thread.

The voiceover business runs on usage. The read fee is the floor; the usage multiplier is the actual price of the job. A producer booking a 60-second commercial for one year of UK national broadcast plus YouTube pays roughly three times what they'd pay for the same script with web-only in-perpetuity, because the broadcast usage is what gets the campaign in front of audiences worth the production budget.

A generic chatbot quoting per-word numbers without the usage variable invites every producer either to assume the cheapest rate applies (and balk at the real number when it arrives) or to assume the most expensive applies (and book a different artist). SleekAI reads the rate card from WordPress and multiplies the variables together the way producers actually budget. It also matches the technical reality of voiceover sessions in 2026.

Source Connect, Cleanfeed, ipDTL are the connection methods producers use; the home studio is the booth; same-day and overnight turnaround is the norm rather than the exception. A bot that knows the studio is set up for Source Connect at 10am tomorrow morning and can lock the session without a back-and-forth email thread is the difference between getting the job and seeing it go to a producer's second-choice artist who answered first. Quoting accuracy and session locking are the two variables that move the needle, and both depend on the bot reading from real published data rather than guessing from training.