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What you type, and what happens next

The opening prompt is usually a sentence you would say out loud. Something like: write a blog post about how a ten person company should choose a payroll provider, aimed at office managers, same tone as our last three posts.

Creaiter does not jump straight to prose from that. It checks what people actually search around the topic, brings back the terms and where you currently rank for them, and proposes an angle and an outline before a single paragraph exists. That order matters more than it sounds. Rewriting an outline takes a minute. Rewriting a finished draft takes an hour, and most people do not, they publish the shape they were given.

You approve or change the outline, then ask for the draft. It comes back whole, headings and all, in the voice it has learned from what you have written and edited inside Creaiter before.

• Ask in plain language: the topic, the reader, the tone, the length
• Keyword research and current rankings arrive before the outline, not after the draft
• The outline is the cheap place to argue about structure
• The draft comes back complete, with headings, in your brand voice
• Follow-up edits happen in the same chat: cut this, expand that, lose the sales tone

The SEO score moves while you write

A draft in Creaiter carries a live SEO score. Not a grade handed down after publication, when the only remedy is a rewrite nobody schedules. It updates as you edit, so thin sections, missing subtopics and a title doing no work show up while your hands are still on the text.

The score is a signal, not a verdict. A page can score well and still be boring, and a piece with a real point of view and a middling score is usually the better publish. Use it the way you use a spell checker: it catches the mechanical misses so your attention goes to the argument.

Everything you would change afterwards is one message away. Ask for a stronger intro, a tighter section three, an example instead of a claim, or five alternative headlines, and the draft updates in place rather than becoming a second document.

Getting it live, and where publishing stops

When the draft is right, you say publish and it goes to your site. Creaiter publishes to WordPress and Wix with no code, and to a Vercel or custom site once you add a small publish endpoint to it. No copy and paste step, and no formatting to repair on the other side.

What is not there is Webflow, Squarespace, Ghost, Shopify or Contentful. If your blog runs on one of those, everything above still works and the last step becomes a manual paste. That is a real cost and you should count it before you decide, rather than discovering it in week two.

Posts live in a content repository with draft, scheduled and published statuses, plus an approval workflow for when the writer is not the person who signs off. You can hold a post as a draft, schedule it for a date, or route it for approval first.

• WordPress, Wix, Vercel, and any site you can add a publish endpoint to. The first two need no code.
• No Webflow, Squarespace, Ghost, Shopify or Contentful publishing
• Draft, scheduled and published statuses in one repository
• Approval workflow when a second person has to sign off

What you still have to do yourself

Read it. All of it. A model is confident about things it has no business being confident about, and the paragraph you skim is the one with the wrong number in it. Nobody should publish unread AI output, including output from us.

The three things a draft cannot supply are the ones your readers came for: what you actually think, what you have actually seen, and the example only your company has. Creaiter can structure an argument. It cannot have been on the customer call where you learned the thing that makes the post worth reading.

Voice converges, it does not arrive. It learns from what you write and edit here, so the fourth post sounds more like you than the first. Until then, expect an editing pass on tone and treat that pass as part of the job rather than a defect.

Facts, names, prices and anything you say about another company get checked by a person before publish. That is not a limitation of this tool in particular. It is the price of admission for all of them.

The post is not finished when it is published

Publishing is the middle of the job. In the same chat the piece becomes an email to the segment that cares about it and a set of social posts for the following week, and it lands on the calendar next to everything else going out, so you can see a Thursday pile-up before your audience does.

Later, when you ask how it did, the answer comes from your own GA4 and Search Console rather than a number only we can see. If a metric cannot be read, you are told that instead of shown a zero that looks like a result.

What it costs, and what it runs on

Creaiter is in free early access. The whole product, no card, no countdown in the corner. Paid tiers are planned, Pro at twenty nine dollars and Business at ninety nine, and neither is purchasable today.

Writing runs on your own AI provider keys. You connect an account you already have, and model usage bills to you at whatever that provider charges. Worth understanding up front, because it cuts both ways: there is no invented word cap from us, and a very long drafting session is a real cost that lands on your account rather than ours.