> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://manual.botric.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Blog Agent

> Discover topics from your visibility gaps and generate blog posts built to be cited by AI engines.

Blog Agent is the writing half of the Content Agent. It works from your [Content Brain](/content/content-brain), so topics come from your actual gaps rather than from a generic keyword tool.

## Tabs

| Tab           | Purpose                                                                 |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Overview**  | Latest topic ideas, recent blogs, and a shortcut to create the next one |
| **Discover**  | Run topic discovery and review the suggestions                          |
| **My Topics** | Topics you've saved for generation                                      |
| **Blogs**     | Everything generated, with status                                       |
| **History**   | Past discovery runs                                                     |

## Discovering topics

**Discover blog topics** runs a discovery pass against your Brain and returns ranked ideas. Each idea is scored for how likely it is to earn AI citations, and shows the context it came from — a content gap, a competitor's advantage, a Search Console query.

Discovery costs **20 credits** per run.

You can also **add a custom topic** if you already know what you need to write.

Save the ideas worth writing to **My Topics**.

## Generating a blog

<Steps>
  <Step title="Pick a saved topic">
    From **My Topics**, choose a topic and start generation.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Wait for the draft">
    Generation costs **200 credits** and takes a few minutes. Status moves through **Generating** to **Ready**. If it fails, the credits are refunded — the entry is marked **Failed · refunded**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review the audit scores">
    Every generated post is scored before you publish it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish and record the URL">
    Publish to your site, then paste the live URL back into Botric so the post can be tracked.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Blog audit scores

Each draft is scored on four dimensions:

| Score            | Question it answers                               |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Citability**   | Would an AI engine quote this as a source?        |
| **Readability**  | Is it clear at a glance?                          |
| **Originality**  | Does it say something the existing sources don't? |
| **Humanization** | Does it read as written rather than generated?    |

Use the scores as a review gate. A post that scores well on readability but poorly on citability usually buries its answer too deep.

## Downloading

Generated posts export as **Markdown (.md)**, **HTML (.html)**, **Word (.docx)** or **PDF (.pdf)** — so they drop into whatever CMS you use.

## Statuses

| Status                         | Meaning                             |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- |
| **Saved**                      | Topic saved, not yet generated      |
| **Generating**                 | Draft in progress                   |
| **Ready** / **Blog ready**     | Draft complete and scored           |
| **Completed**                  | Published, with a live URL recorded |
| **Failed · refunded**          | Generation failed; credits returned |
| **Skipped** / **Out of scope** | Not pursued                         |

## Closing the loop

<Steps>
  <Step title="Publish">
    Put the post live on your own domain.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm crawlability">
    Check the page is reachable in [Site Audit → AI Crawlability](/search/site-audit).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Re-run AI Visibility">
    Verify the target prompt moved from a gap to *named and cited*.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  AI engines take time to pick up new pages. Allow a couple of weeks between publishing and expecting a citation.
</Note>

## Availability

Blog Agent requires a plan that includes the Content Agent. Without it, the sidebar item shows an **Upgrade** badge.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Content gaps" icon="puzzle-piece" href="/discoverability/ai-visibility/content-gaps">
    Where the best topics come from.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Page Agent" icon="table-cells" href="/content/page-agent">
    Fix pages you already have.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>