Generating content: your first draft

You trained your specialist. Now the fun part: you give them a topic, they create for you a solid first draft you put your human touch on.

Generate a new draft

Open the specialist you just trained (Newsletter Editor or Social Director) from the sidebar. You'll land on their workspace with the Drafts tab at the top. The draft composer sits right there, ready for you.

The topic box

The topic box is where you tell your specialist what this piece is about. A sentence or two is plenty, but the more specific you are, the tighter the draft will come back. Remember, you already trained it on your style preferences so this is just about the topic of your content.

Good topic inputs look like:

“The moment I realized my niche was too broad, and the one question that helped me narrow it. [The actual question].”
“Why most founders misread their first 10 customer interviews, with the reframe I use instead. [Type the reframe].”
“A quick heads-up that my Q2 workshop drops Friday, with one line about who it's for.”

Skip the one-word topics (“leadership,” “productivity”). They give your specialist nothing to aim at. If it's related to your offers or audience and you've already Sharpened your team, it will be able to infer. If you haven't, give the added context.

Screenshot: The Drafts tab with the topic box and per-format pickers above the Generate button.

Per-format controls

Sometimes a format will have a small set of pickers that sit next to the topic box. They adjust the shape of the draft, not the voice (your voice comes from training). For example:

Text posts ask which platform you're writing for (LinkedIn, X, etc.) and whether you want a single post or a thread.
Short-form video asks which platform and how long the video should be. If you trained more than one video style, you'll pick that here too.

You only see pickers for the platforms and styles you trained on. The rest are hidden until you train them in.

What happens when you hit Generate

A thinking panel opens and walks you through what your specialist is doing, step by step: pulling up your style guide, finding the angle, drafting the opening, reading it through one more time. Once the draft is ready, it opens in the editor.

Screenshot: The thinking panel mid-draft, with the specialist's portrait and the current step lit up.

One draft per topic, on purpose

Your specialist doesn't ask you questions while drafting. It takes what you gave it and writes the best first draft it can, one shot. You edit from there.

In beta, there's no regenerate button. That's intentional. If the draft is a little off, editing is usually faster than re-rolling. If it's consistently missing the mark, the fix is retraining (update your Sharpen answers or your specialist's training), not rolling the dice again.

Where your drafts live

Every draft you write stays on the Drafts tab inside that specialist's workspace. You can come back, copy the draft into your platform, keep editing, and mark it as published when you share it.

Questions? Send us a note.