Blog suggestions — one idea, shaped.
A title, a meta description and an outline, every morning — then one button that hands the lot to BlogCraft. Plus the cadence setting that doesn't do what most people assume.
One blog idea a day, shaped enough to start writing immediately: a title, a meta description, and a numbered outline. Then a single button that hands the whole thing to BlogCraft.
What's on the card
The header reads Suggested blog post, with a rough length tag of ≈ 1,400 words. Below that:
The title
Capped at 70 characters — short enough to survive a search results page without being cut off. It's written to react to today's competitive context and stake your point of view, not to be a generic industry headline.
The meta description
Up to 160 characters. This is the line that appears under your title in search results, and it gets written now rather than as an afterthought at publish time.
The outline
Up to five numbered bullets, each a section of the article. They're deliberately short — a section per bullet, not a paragraph per bullet.
An occasional lightbulb line above the title gives you the angle — why this piece, now. It only appears when there's a truthful competitive reason for it, not as decoration.
Like the Verdict, the card is signed ScoutRival Intelligence. We don't name the model that wrote it.
Cadence is a hint, not a gate
In Brief Settings you choose how often you want a blog suggestion:
| Setting | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Off | No blog suggestions. The card disappears entirely. |
| Daily | Every day. |
| Every 2 days | Every other day. |
| 3 times per week | The default for a new brand. |
| 4 times per week | Four working days. |
| 5 times per week | Every working day. |
Only “Off” actually hides the card. The other cadences are a soft hint about how often you intend to publish — they don't stop a suggestion appearing on a day in between. If a good idea exists, we show it to you rather than sitting on it because it's a Tuesday. Set the cadence to Off if you genuinely never want one.
The count is separate from the cadence. Blog topics per day (0–10) is how many ideas get drafted each day. Set it to 0 and you get none — that's the other way to switch this off, and it's the one that also removes the cost.
The BlogCraft handoff
Open in Blog Engine is the primary button, and it's the whole reason the card is shaped the way it is.
It opens BlogCraft with the title and the outline already loaded, tied to the right brand. You land in the article builder with the structure in place rather than staring at an empty keyword field — the outline you saw on the brief is the outline you edit.
From there BlogCraft does what it does: title options, a proper outline pass, a length choice, and a full long-form draft built to be quoted by AI answer engines rather than just to rank.
Or take it to Compose
Open in Compose is the secondary route. It hands Compose a written brief — the title, the meta description, the numbered outline, and a structure to follow (hook intro, one H2 per outline point, conclusion with a call to action).
Use Compose when you want to talk to the draft, and BlogCraft when you want the full SEO article with its schema, FAQ block and internal links. If you're not sure, use BlogCraft — that's what the card is built for.
When there's no card
- Blog cadence is Off. That's the only setting that hides the card completely.
- Blog topics per day is 0. Nothing was drafted, so there's nothing to show.
- The idea didn't come back. Rare, but it happens on a bad morning. Hit Regenerate brief. Regenerating →
What it costs
Two credits per blog idea, charged with the brief. That covers the title, the meta description and the outline — the whole card.
Writing the actual article in BlogCraft is a separate, longer job and is priced by the finished length. The suggestion is the cheap part; the article is the deliverable. What a brief costs →