Playbook by MediaBistro | Tools & Software for Creative Professionals
Playbook Build Your OwnGenerated for: “I need to build a nightly article to run and build a blog autonomously”
You're building a system that researches, writes, and publishes articles automatically each night. This workflow combines AI writing, content optimization, and publishing automation while keeping you in control of quality and voice.
Gather trending topics, news, and source material each evening to inform article topics. Use AI-powered research tools to identify what's worth covering and surface relevant information.
Perplexity provides AI-powered research with citations, letting you quickly validate sources and gather information to feed into your article generation pipeline.
NewsWhip tracks trending content and social engagement in real-time, helping you identify topics that resonate and are worth automating coverage on.
Generate initial article drafts using AI writing tools trained on your brand voice and editorial style. The AI does the heavy lifting of composition, giving you a solid foundation to refine.
Jasper excels at brand voice consistency and can be trained on your existing articles to generate drafts that match your editorial style at scale.
Frase combines AI writing with SEO research, automatically optimizing drafts for search while generating content aligned to your topics.
Read through generated drafts, fact-check claims, refine voice and tone, and ensure editorial standards are met. This is your human judgment step—editing and polishing the AI output.
Grammarly catches grammar, clarity, and tone issues in real-time as you edit, letting you refine drafts quickly without missing errors.
ProWritingAid provides deeper style analysis and readability scoring, helping you ensure AI-drafted content meets your editorial standards.
Optimize finalized articles for search engines—keywords, meta descriptions, headers, internal links. Use SEO tools to ensure the article will perform in search.
Surfer SEO analyzes top-ranking competitors and suggests optimization changes directly in your editor, making it easy to boost search visibility.
Google Search Console lets you monitor how your nightly articles are performing in search over time and identify optimization gaps.
Push the finalized, optimized article to your publishing platform automatically. Set scheduling, categories, and featured images through your CMS.
WordPress powers millions of blogs and integrates seamlessly with automation tools, letting you schedule posts and manage SEO natively.
Zapier automates the final handoff from your writing workflow to WordPress, triggering publication at your scheduled time each night.
Distribute published articles to email subscribers and social channels. Track engagement and performance metrics to refine future topics and content.
Beehiiv automates newsletter distribution of new articles to subscribers and provides growth and engagement analytics to guide future content.
Buffer schedules articles across social media platforms automatically and provides analytics on performance to help optimize promotion.
Published February 25, 2026
