Blog Post Playbook

The hard part isn't writing it.
It's knowing what to write

Three blog opportunities your business is placed to win — scored, each naming the page it would beat. Keep one and it comes back researched, sourced, and sitting in your own CMS as a draft with the meta fields already filled in.

30 credits~6–9 minutesOne decision from youFiled as a draft in your CMS
What it proposes

It names the page it would beat

The run stops halfway. Three scored opportunities, each carrying the asset you own that the ranking pages don't. Delete two, rewrite the angle of the one you keep — the writer follows your line exactly. Nothing expensive runs until you have.

Best fit86

Why most agencies mis-price retainers

Your edit

Angle: retainers fail on scope creep, not on the rate — and we have the timesheet data to show where it starts

Primary term: agency retainer pricing

Search intent: commercial

Why we win it: three years of our own retainer data; the ranking pages have none

The page it would beat

Two listicles, neither showing a single real number.

Option 271

What changed when we cut the kickoff call

Angle: the ritual everyone defends, removed — and what it cost us to find out

Primary term: client kickoff process

Search intent: problem-solution

Why we win it: a first-person account nobody ranking has

The page it would beat

Template posts — all advice, no evidence.

Option 364

The scope document that ends arguments

Angle: a real scope doc, annotated, with the clauses that stopped the fights

Primary term: agency scope of work

Search intent: informational

Why we win it: we can publish the actual document

The page it would beat

Generic templates behind email walls.

The score is editorial judgement — fit with your proof, the size of the gap, how close the reader is to buying. It is never a search volume or a difficulty rating: Jasify has no data source for those, so a number there would be invented.

The part nobody advertises

What it refuses to write

Every tool tells you what its AI produces. This is what this one will not produce — enforced in the workflow, not promised in the marketing.

A statistic with no source

Every figure carries the URL it came from. The editor checks each one against the research, claim by claim, and cuts anything that isn't there.

An internal link that doesn't exist

It links only to URLs that appeared in your own site context. If it has none, it adds none, rather than guessing a path that looks right.

A gap smoothed over

Anything your Brain doesn't hold is left as a marked blank for you to fill, never covered with a plausible sentence.

The real output

The finished post, in your site

Not an outline and not a content brief. The article, edited, sourced, and already sitting in your CMS with every field a post needs filled in.

Draft · yoursite.com/blog

Why most agencies mis-price retainers

The rate is almost never the problem. Scope creep is, and it starts in week three — here is where we watched it happen across three years of our own retainers.

Slug
agency-retainer-pricing
Length
1,214 words
Sources cited
7 links
Internal links
3 of your pages

If you're re-pricing a retainer that keeps losing money, the answer is usually not a higher rate. It's the four hours a month nobody agreed to. We went back through 38 months of our own retainers and the pattern was the same every time.

Scope creep doesn't arrive, it accumulates

Agencies bill an average of 62% of the hours they work, and the gap is almost never one big unbilled project. In our own numbers it was requests under 40 minutes — the ones too small to raise, arriving twice a week, for eleven months.

[NEEDS: the median overrun figure from the 2024 cohort] — left blank on purpose. Your Brain didn't hold it, so nothing was invented to fill the sentence.
How it runs

Two halves, and you choose in the middle

Deciding is cheap. Writing is not. So the expensive half never starts until you've picked the angle — which is the one judgement a person is genuinely better at.

Act 1 — decide

Find the angle

Reads your site out of the Company Brain, reads what currently ranks in your niche, and proposes three scored opportunities.

~15 credits · 4 steps
Your turn

About 30 seconds

Delete two. Rewrite one line. Approve.

Act 2 — write

Write it and file it

Researches the term you chose, writes the post in your voice, fact-checks every number against that research, and files it in your CMS.

~15 credits · 4 steps
All 9 stepsCompany Brain · Data Extractor · Niche Scan · Blog Opportunity Finder · Review · Deep Research · Blog Writer · SEO Editor & Publishing Pack · Blog Publisher
Before you run it

What it needs from you

A blog it can write to

Paste your address once and press Check. On WordPress you approve Jasify on your own site in a single click — nothing to copy, nothing to paste, and we never see your login. You choose whether posts arrive as drafts or go live, and nothing in the workflow can override that.

WordPressWooCommerceManaged hosts

More platforms are coming. Until then, any other site can receive each finished post at an endpoint you control.

Your website in the Brain

Import it once. That's where the voice, the proof points and your real page URLs come from — and it is the whole difference between a post only you could publish and one anybody could.

Four answers, once

What you do, who reads you, what you can say that competitors can't, and what the blog is for. Two minutes, and every future run uses them.

Runs weekly from your first launch onward — Monday morning, three fresh angles waiting. Ignore them and nothing is spent past the gate.