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As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a blog post outline.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

2 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsFrase is an AI SEO content research and drafting tool that can help produce a more search-focused outline.

If this goes wrong: the outline is generic, misses your commercial purpose or repeats a competing page, and you can replace it before drafting or publishing.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your content brief, website analytics or SEO tool and write down the topic, target reader, business purpose, main search term, related terms, tone and approximate word count.
    2. Collect the relevant existing pages, product information, approved claims and internal links, then paste their titles, short summaries or text into the prompt where it asks for existing content and missing information.
    3. Paste the completed prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask it to produce the outline without drafting the article.
    4. Compare the proposed headings with your content brief and remove sections that do not serve the reader, search intent or business purpose.
    5. Check every factual point, product claim and suggested source against your approved material, and replace any unsupported point marked as [NEEDS INPUT].
    6. Send the checked outline to the writer or paste it into your content workflow with the approved title, headings, examples and call to action.

    Prompt

    Create a detailed outline for a blog post about [TOPIC] for [TARGET AUDIENCE] in the UK. The purpose is [INFORM, GENERATE LEADS, SUPPORT A PRODUCT, OR OTHER PURPOSE]. The intended reader knows [BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, OR ADVANCED]. Use a [TONE] tone and aim for approximately [WORD COUNT] words. The main search term is [MAIN SEARCH TERM], and related terms are [RELATED TERMS]. Include a proposed title, a short statement of search intent, the recommended heading structure using H1, H2 and H3 labels, the purpose of each section, the key points to cover, useful examples, a suggested introduction angle, a suggested conclusion and a call to action. Use British English and make the structure useful for a real business audience. Do not write the full article. Do not invent facts, statistics, customer claims, regulations or sources. If information is missing, mark it as [NEEDS INPUT]. Avoid duplicating these existing pages or angles: [EXISTING CONTENT OR NONE]. Make the outline distinct from those pages and explain any important editorial choice in one short sentence.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI does not know your strongest customer insight unless you provide it, so the outline can sound interchangeable with a competitor's.
  • It cannot decide which brand position or commercial trade-off matters most to your organisation.
  • It may suggest search terms, examples or claims that look plausible but are not supported by your current evidence.
  • It does not know which internal stakeholders, products or pages should take priority without clear instructions.
  • It cannot judge whether the finished article will sound like your organisation until someone with brand context checks it.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: context depth and taste.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT create an outline for a blog post?
Yes. Give it the topic, reader, purpose, search terms, tone and any approved source material, and it can produce a usable heading structure quickly. Check the outline against your brief before drafting.
What should I include in an AI blog outline prompt?
Include the target audience, search intent, main and related search terms, business goal, tone, word count, existing content and required claims. Tell the model not to invent facts or sources and to mark missing information clearly.
Can AI create an SEO-friendly blog outline?
Yes, it can organise headings around a stated search intent and suggest topics to cover. It cannot guarantee rankings or know whether its recommendations fit your current website without access to, and checking against, your content and SEO research.
Do I need to check an AI-generated blog outline?
Yes. Check that the structure serves the reader and business goal, does not duplicate your existing pages and does not contain unsupported claims. You can usually perform these checks yourself before giving the outline to a writer.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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