A content brief your agent reads before it writes.

What is a content brief?

A content brief is the document a writer reads before drafting: the search intent, the questions to answer, the sources that already rank and the outline.

An SEO content brief adds what the results page shows today, so the article answers what searchers were given instead of what the writer guessed.

What's in a seodraft brief

Questions to cover

Up to 12, from People Also Ask and related searches.

Cited domains

Up to 8 sites that rank today.

Ranking titles

How the results frame the answer.

AI Overview

Found, absent, or unmeasured when nobody checked.

Date observed

The brief says when it read the page.

From brief to article

A brief becomes an article in three steps, and the rules hold the last one.

1. 1

   The agent reads the brief. It writes an analysis of gaps, angles and grouped questions, and each finding quotes something the results page showed.

2. 2

   It saves the plan before the prose. Intent, template, angle, three pieces of your evidence and the outline, stored before the first paragraph.

3. 3

   The rules check the draft against that plan. The People Also Ask questions guide coverage and never become H2s word for word.

What it costs

One results page costs about USD 0.004 from your own DataForSEO balance, and the brief is reused for 14 days. You see the estimate before the call.

Without DataForSEO, the brief runs as a preview and every signal is labeled unmeasured.

Questions about the brief

Short answers on where the brief comes from, what it needs and how it compares.

Does seodraft write the brief with AI?

The questions, domains, titles and AI Overview come from the results page itself. Your agent writes the analysis on top, and every finding has to quote something the page showed.

Can I use it without DataForSEO?

Yes. Without a DataForSEO account the brief runs as a preview, and every signal that was not read is labeled unmeasured instead of shown as zero.

How is this different from a Surfer or MarketMuse brief?

Those briefs live in their own editor for a writer to follow. seodraft hands the brief to the agent you already use, then checks the finished article against the plan the agent wrote from it.

Related

• Keyword cannibalization · Why two of your posts never compete for one query.
• AI slop checker · The rules that check the finished draft.
• AI crawler access · Whether AI answers can read your site at all.
• Pricing · One plan, $5/month.