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# Creating a content project

Copywriter helps you create SEO content that ranks and earns AI citations. It researches pages competing in Google and AI answers, helps create original content in the client's brand voice, and optimizes the draft for topic coverage, clarity, and citation-readiness. The client's **Create** area is the source of truth for active and completed content work.

## Start from the right client

1. Select the client whose brand, website, sources, and integrations should ground the content.
2. Open **Create**.
3. Choose the action that matches the intended outcome:
   * **Create content** starts one new content asset.
   * **Bulk create** starts a reviewed batch from the available bulk action.
   * **Optimize content** analyzes a published page against its target keyword. See [Optimizing existing content](/copywriter/optimizing-existing-content.md).

Use **Create content** for a single article, commercial or service page, comparison, review, or other focused deliverable. Use **Bulk create** for a reviewed topic or keyword list. Other actions, including Auto-publish, appear only when they are enabled for the account and client.

## Configure one content asset

1. Enter the topic or choose a saved keyword from Researcher.
2. Confirm the output language. Rankability requires an explicit language confirmation before research or generation starts.
3. Add location targeting only when the content should be researched for a specific city or region.
4. Confirm the page format:
   * **Article** for educational, comparison, review, list, or editorial content.
   * **Commercial / service page** for a conversion-focused service, offer, training, course, or similar page.
5. Review the suggested content intent. Rankability uses signals from the topic, but you can correct the selection before research begins. See [Content types: Educate, Discover, Compete, Convert](/copywriter/content-types-reference.md).
6. Choose the research depth or open the advanced platform selection. Broader research changes the evidence collected, not Copywriter's fixed completed-outcome credit rate.
7. Add audience, voice, required coverage, client-inclusion guidance, or other instructions. Custom instructions support up to 5,000 characters.
8. Choose fact-checking behavior when the option appears.

Read the readiness checks before starting. Missing brand voice, sources, sitemap data, or approved assets do not always block creation, but they can reduce the context available for a useful result.

Copywriter can warn when the project's language or location differs from the workspace, the topic's apparent language, or the selected market. For Autopilot, a target that conflicts with a structured service area in workspace knowledge stops before usage is reserved. Choose **Review location** to correct it, or explicitly confirm **Use \[target] anyway** when the different market is intentional. Rankability then uses the confirmed project location for the title, search research, brief, and finished draft.

## Choose how much Serena completes

* **Complete the draft** — Serena runs the Autopilot workflow through research, brief, draft, improvements, fact-checking, and preparation for review. This option appears when Autopilot is enabled. The result still requires human editorial and publishing approval.
* **Review the brief first** — Serena researches and creates a brief for your review. Edit the brief, then decide whether Serena should write the draft or you want to write it yourself.
* **Write it myself** — Serena researches the topic and provides guidance and topics in a fresh editor, but you write the content. Draft generation remains optional.

Workflow availability can depend on account feature settings. Use the choices shown for the selected client rather than assuming every workspace exposes the same automation level.

## Create multiple assets

From **Create**, open the available bulk-create action.

1. Paste one topic per line. Remove commas or semicolons that accidentally combine topics; invalid entries block the review step and duplicates are skipped.
2. Choose **Review batch**. Rankability infers a content goal and page type for each topic and flags lower-confidence suggestions for review.
3. Edit only the suggestions that need correction. Client knowledge is applied automatically and the flow uses its current research defaults.
4. Confirm the displayed batch usage, then choose **Create drafts**. Each valid row creates a complete draft in **Projects**.

Each successfully completed new asset consumes 750 credits. Remove invalid, duplicate, or unnecessary topics before confirmation. A multiple-asset batch can contain up to 100 valid topics.

## Start a content audit

Open **Audit → Page Content Auditor** to evaluate an existing public page. A successful Page Content Audit uses 150 credits. Use **Optimize content** when you want to import the page directly into a Copywriter project for revision. See [Using Page Content Auditor](/audit/page-content-auditor-guide.md) before starting or rerunning an audit.

## Review usage and prevent duplicate work

The final confirmation shows the operation, selected coverage, and applicable usage. Use that amount as the approval reference. A completed new asset including Autopilot consumes 750 credits, a completed existing-content optimization consumes 400 credits, and a successful requested full-document rewrite consumes 250 credits. Research and brief work alone uses 0 credits. See the [Credit costs reference](/account-and-settings/credit-costs-reference.md).

If Autopilot appears to time out while starting, do not immediately click again. Check the recent active-project message or the project's status in **Projects** first; the server may have created the run even if the browser missed the response. Rankability also warns when a recent matching Autopilot project exists so you can open it or deliberately create another paid run.

Autopilot is charged after it produces a usable draft. A later optimization, fact-checking, or delivery step can still fail or require review after that charge point. Images remain user-selected in the editor.

## While a project is processing

A project that is still working shows its current stage on its card in **Projects** — for example **Researching**, **Preparing brief**, or **Writing draft**, or **Queued** with its position when your organization already has runs in progress. The card is not selectable until the project reaches a reviewable state, so you cannot open half-finished work by mistake.

Rankability continues the work on the server. You do not need to keep the project, the **Generation board**, or the browser open for research to finish, for an approved brief to continue into a draft, or for a batch to keep moving. Return to **Projects** when you want the current status.

Use the filters and project states in **Create** to distinguish active, completed, archived, and failed work.

If Projects shows **Projects are temporarily unavailable**, wait a moment and use **Try again**. This message means Rankability could not safely load the project list; it does not mean the projects were deleted. Avoid starting replacement work until the list loads and you can confirm the original project's status.

## Review the result

Available result tabs depend on the project type and completed artifacts. Review the draft or script, brief when present, competitors or sources, factual claims, citations, brand voice, links, and destination preview. A content score is guidance, not publishing approval.

Continue with [Optimizing existing content](/copywriter/optimizing-existing-content.md), [Reviewing a draft in the editor](/copywriter/running-an-editor-review.md), [Understanding your content score](/copywriter/understanding-your-content-score.md), and [Exporting, assigning, and publishing content](/copywriter/exporting-your-content.md). If your team coordinates delivery in Asana, connect it once and map the client before using **Send to Asana**; see [Connecting Rankability to Asana](/account-and-settings/connecting-asana.md).