# A cited blog draft from your brief, ready for review. Blog drafter is an AI agent for content creation. It reads your content brief, researches the topic, and writes a blog draft with a direct answer first, question headings, a short FAQ and a source for every number. It saves the draft as a new Google Doc and never publishes. You build it in Arclyx from one sentence. ## Why does content creation take so long? Because most of the time goes on research, not writing. Someone has to read the brief, gather sources, check every number and shape the post so readers and search engines can follow it. When that work is squeezed, drafts arrive late, thin, or full of claims nobody can source. Without it: - Every draft starts from a blank page. - Research lives in twenty open tabs. - Numbers get copied without a source. - The brief gets followed loosely, or not at all. With Blog drafter: - A first draft from your brief, on request. - Sources gathered and read for you. - Every number cited, or left out. - One new doc to review, never published. ## What does an AI agent for content creation write? A blog draft shaped for readers and search, built from your brief and from sources it has read. ### A direct answer first The opening answers the post's question in a sentence or two, before any background. For example: Answer first, Plain words, From your brief. ### Question-shaped headings Headings phrased as the questions your readers search, so each section answers one. For example: Question headings, One answer each, Easy to scan. ### A short FAQ A few more questions people ask about the topic, answered briefly at the end. For example: Follow-up questions, Short answers, Your brief's questions. ### Cited sources A source for every number, cited in the text and listed at the end. Numbers it can't check are left out. For example: Citations, Sources list, No unverified numbers. ## How does an AI agent for content creation work? Every run follows the same five steps. Only the last two write anything: one new doc and one message to you. 1. **Reads your brief** (Document search, reads): Topic, audience, angle and the points it must cover. 2. **Researches the topic** (Web search, reads): Searches for current sources on the questions readers ask. 3. **Checks every number** (Web fetch, reads): Reads each source page. A number it can't verify is left out. 4. **Saves the draft** (Google Drive, drafts): Answer first, question headings, FAQ and sources, in a new Google Doc. 5. **Sends the link** (Slack, posts): Title, doc link, a two-line summary and the sources. When it runs: - @mention: @blog-drafter draft the post in this week's brief - Schedule: Thursdays at 9:00, for next week's post - Webhook: Run when a brief is marked ready in your content calendar ## From one sentence to a draft in Drive. Describe the job, let Arclyx draft the agent, test it once on a real brief, then open the doc it links in #content. Every number cites its source. Example output in #content, "Blog drafter · draft ready" (placeholder companies): - You · Draft: Saved 'How do you choose a payroll provider?' as a new Google Doc. Opens with a two-sentence answer, then five question headings and a four-question FAQ. Source: example-d.com/guides/payroll - Vendor A · Pricing: Per-employee pricing quoted under 'What does payroll software cost?' Cited in the text and in the sources list. Source: example-a.com/pricing - Vendor B · Setup time: Switching time quoted under 'How long does it take to switch?' Cited from the vendor's own help page. Source: example-b.com/help/switching - Company C · Left out: A market-size figure that appeared with no source behind it. Left out rather than guessed. Add it back if you have a source. Source: example-c.com/blog/payroll-trends 1 new doc · 6 sources · nothing published ## One draft, four readers. The same draft does a different job for each person who opens it. - Marketing: A researched first draft instead of a blank page. - Founders: Posts that don't cost a weekend of writing. - Subject experts: A draft to correct, not one to write. - Editors: Every number arrives with its source. ## How do you use an AI agent for content creation? Give the agent a content brief, the shape you want and somewhere to save the draft. Each run it reads the brief, researches the topic, checks every number against a source, and saves a new draft for a person to review and publish. In Arclyx that's five steps, starting with one sentence. 1. **Describe the job**: One sentence: where the brief lives, the shape of the draft, and where the link goes. 2. **Add your brief**: Upload your content brief so it knows the topic, audience and angle. 3. **Connect Drive and Slack**: Arclyx asks for Drive access to create files and the one channel it may post to. 4. **Watch a dry run**: Optional. See one full draft on a real brief before you rely on it. 5. **Ask for a draft**: @mention it when a brief is ready, or put it on a schedule. The sentence that built it (@mention, When you ask): > When I ask, read our content brief, research the topic, write a blog draft with a short answer first, question headings, an FAQ and a source for every number, save it as a new Google Doc and send the link to #content. ### Or start from one of these sentences - Weekly post from the calendar: "Every Thursday, read the next brief in our content calendar doc, write the draft, save it to Drive and send the link to #content." - FAQ page draft: "Draft an FAQ page answering the questions in our support brief, with a source for every number, as a new Google Doc." - Comparison post: "Write a draft comparing the three approaches in the brief, with a table and cited sources, and post the link to #marketing." - Refresh an old topic: "Research what changed this year on the topic in our pricing guide brief and draft an updated post as a new Google Doc." ## An AI content agent vs other ways to draft. Writing it yourself and pasting prompts into a chat each cover part of the job. Google's guidance asks for AI content to be fact-checked by a person before publishing, so every option ends with your review. | What you need | Writing it yourself | Chat prompt, copy and paste | Blog drafter | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Works from your content brief | Yes | If you paste it in each time | Yes, read from your documents | | A source for every number | If you keep notes | Depends on the prompt | Yes, or the number is left out | | Search-friendly shape | If you know the pattern | Depends on the prompt | Answer first, question headings, FAQ | | Where the draft lands | Wherever you write | A chat window, then copied over | A new Google Doc in your Drive | | Reviewed before publishing | By you, as you write | By you | By you. It never publishes | Source: [Google Search Central: generative AI content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/using-gen-ai-content), checked 17 October 2026. ## Is it safe to let an AI agent write content? It reads your brief and public pages, creates one new doc, sends you one message, and records everything it does. It can't publish, and every run has a spend ceiling. ### Every run is recorded - Every step, in order: Each run keeps a trace: what it searched, which pages it read, and what it wrote. - Every source, linked: The pages behind each number are listed in the run and at the end of the draft. - What each run cost: Tokens and cost are recorded per run and per agent, next to your plan's limits. - A ceiling on every run: A run that would pass its dollar ceiling stops and tells you, rather than carrying on. ### It can - Read the briefs you share with it - Search and read public web pages - Create new Google Docs in your Drive - Post to one Slack channel you name, or email you ### It can't - Publish to a blog, CMS or social account - Edit or overwrite existing files - Share files or change permissions - Email anyone but you ## AI content creation, answered. ### What is an AI agent for content creation? An agent that does the research and first draft of a piece of content from your brief, using real tools: web search, the pages it reads and your documents. This one writes blog drafts with cited sources and saves them for a person to review. It doesn't publish. ### Does it publish to my blog or CMS? No. It saves one new Google Doc and sends you the link in Slack or by email. It has no access to your CMS, blog or social accounts, so a person always reviews and publishes. ### How does it handle facts and numbers? Every number in the draft has a source the agent opened and read. If it can't verify a number, it leaves it out. The sources are listed at the end of the doc and in the Slack message. ### Is the draft written for search and AI answers? It follows a shape both readers and search engines can use: a short direct answer first, headings phrased as the questions people ask, a short FAQ and cited sources. It doesn't promise rankings. ### What goes in a content brief? The topic, who it's for, the angle, the questions to answer, the points it must cover and anything to avoid. Blog drafter reads the brief from your documents on every run, so a specific brief gives a closer first draft. ### Will it overwrite or share my documents? No. Each run creates one new Google Doc. It never edits an existing file, shares a document or changes permissions. ### Can I get the link to the draft by email instead of Slack? Yes. Arclyx can send the link to the draft to your own inbox instead of Slack, or as well as it. The email only ever goes to you, the person the agent runs for: it has no way to email anyone else. ### Do I need to write code? No. Describe the job in one sentence. Arclyx builds the agent, connects Google Drive and Slack, and can show you a dry run first. ## Agents that work well with it - [Competitor watch](https://arclyx.ai/agents/competitor-monitoring): What competitors changed this week - [Feedback analyst](https://arclyx.ai/agents/customer-feedback-analysis): Themes and trends from customer feedback - [RFP finder](https://arclyx.ai/agents/rfp-finder): Finds public projects worth a bid ## Early access Build your blog drafter. One sentence in, a working agent out. Join the beta and we'll set you up. Join at https://arclyx.ai/#join or write to hello@arclyx.ai. Last updated 17 October 2026.