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AI Content Workflow: From Brief to Published Article

A step-by-step workflow to go from idea to SEO-ready article using AI, without losing your voice.

Table of contents

  1. Overview
  2. Step-by-step workflow
  3. Example prompts
  4. Common mistakes
  5. Next steps

Overview

This guide is a longer, structured walkthrough. Instead of a single magic prompt, you'll build a small workflow you can reuse: how to frame the problem, what context to provide, which prompts to run in what order, and how to review the outputs.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. Define the outcome and constraints clearly.
  2. Collect raw inputs (notes, docs, links) you can paste in.
  3. Run a planning or outlining prompt.
  4. Draft with one prompt, then refine with another.
  5. Do a final editing pass focused on clarity and correctness.

Example prompts from the library

Common mistakes

  • Asking for everything in a single prompt.
  • Not giving any examples of good vs bad output.
  • Skipping a final review step before using AI output.

Next steps

Pick one workflow from this guide and actually wire it into your day: a saved system message, a set of pinned prompts, or a small doc you keep open when you work. The value comes from repetition, not from reading once.