Quality gate + review queue
Nothing generic or risky ever publishes.
Every draft is scored against a rubric with a hard 'unique value present' floor. Weak or generic-only drafts are rejected, not shipped — so nothing embarrassing lands on your site.
Quality-first, not volume spam
AI content that ranks — safely.
Research, write, quality-gate, and publish SEO + AEO content on autopilot. You approve; Draftwave handles the rest.
- Real SERP research
- Quality gate
- 1-click publish + API
app.draftwave.com/review
Review queue 3 pending
- How to descale an espresso machine Gate 92 · passed
- Best pour-over ratios for light roast Gate 88 · passed
- Generic 'coffee tips' listicle Gate 41 · rejected
AI content is easy. AI content that survives Google is not.
Volume tools flood your site with generic drafts — and generic is exactly what spam updates punish. One thin, unhelpful batch can drag down pages that were working. The answer isn't more output. It's a system that refuses to publish anything that isn't genuinely better than what already ranks.
Everything the volume tools skip
Four things that turn "AI wrote it" into "it ranks and gets cited."
AEO / GEO-native
Get cited by AI, not just ranked by search.
Answer-first structure, question-style headings, FAQ blocks, and schema are built in — so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can quote you, and classic search still ranks you.
Autopilot publishing + Content API
Ship to your CMS — or pull it headless.
1-click publish to WordPress, Ghost, and Webflow, or fetch finished articles through our Content API and API keys. Optional scheduling runs it hands-free once you trust it.
Content refresh
Traffic compounds instead of decaying.
Draftwave watches for posts that are slipping and proposes targeted updates, so your best pages keep earning rankings and citations rather than fading out.
Live in minutes, not a sprint
Connect → Approve → Publish & track.
- 1
Connect your site
Point Draftwave at your CMS and your topics. It runs real SERP research and clusters keywords into a plan — first value in minutes, not days.
- 2
Approve the drafts
Articles arrive in your review queue already past the quality gate. Read the scorecard, tweak if you like, and approve — you stay in control.
- 3
Publish & track
One click ships to WordPress, Ghost, or Webflow (or your Content API). Then we watch for decay and suggest refreshes so results keep building.
See what clears the gate
Don't take our word for it. Every article ships with its scorecard — the unique angle it added, the sources it cited, and the AEO structure that makes it quotable. Try the same answer-first checks the pipeline runs, free.
Every sample cleared the quality gate and ships with answer-first structure and schema.
Quality scorecard
- Unique value present
- Pass
- Answer-first opening
- Pass
- Question-style H2s
- 6 of 8
- Cited sources
- 4
- FAQ + key takeaways
- Present
Overall gate score 92 / 100
Proof, not promises
We're measuring on our own sites — results published here
Draftwave is built for the owner's own sites first. We're tracking indexation, rankings, and AI citations in the open, and will show the real numbers here rather than borrow someone else's testimonial. Honest beats hyped.
Simple, honest pricing
Start free. Upgrade when it's earning. Cancel anytime — plans are monthly.
Trial
Kick the tires on a real site.
$0 free
3 articles
- 3 quality-gated articles
- Full pipeline: research → draft → gate
- 1-click publish to WordPress
- No credit card
Most popular
Starter
For a single site that needs to compound.
$29 /month
30 articles / month
- 30 quality-gated articles / month
- AEO/GEO structuring + schema
- WordPress, Ghost & Webflow publishing
- Content refresh suggestions
- Email support
Pro
For portfolios and agencies scaling output.
$99 /month
150 articles / month
- 150 quality-gated articles / month
- Autopilot scheduling + opt-in autopublish
- Headless Content API + API keys
- Semantic internal linking
- Priority support
All plans include the quality gate, review queue, and per-article cost transparency. No credit card for the trial.
Under $0.15 per article, and we show the math
A cheap model drafts; a stronger model only touches the final edit pass. That's how the plans stay affordable — and why we're comfortable telling you the per-article cost instead of hiding it.
Human-approve by default
Generation creates drafts, not live posts. Publishing is a separate, deliberate action, and autopublish is opt-in per site and rate-limited. Your name stays on nothing you didn't see.
Questions, answered
Does Google penalize AI content?
No — Google penalizes unhelpful content, not AI content. Its guidance rewards content that shows genuine expertise and value, however it's produced. Draftwave's quality gate exists precisely for this: it rejects generic, thin, or unsupported drafts before they can publish, so nothing that could trigger a spam action reaches your site.
How is this different from Outrank, ContentMonk, or Koala?
Those tools optimize for volume; Draftwave optimizes for what survives. Every draft passes a quality gate with a non-negotiable 'unique value' floor, you approve by default before anything publishes, we structure for AEO (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) natively, and we're transparent about per-article cost. We also refresh decaying posts instead of only spinning up new ones.
Which CMSs can I publish to?
WordPress first, with Ghost and Webflow next. You can also skip a CMS entirely and pull finished articles through our headless Content API — the same API our own marketing blog runs on.
Do I keep control of what publishes?
Yes. Human-approve is the default: generation produces drafts in a review queue, and publishing is a separate, explicit action. Autopublish is strictly opt-in per site and rate-limited, so you never wake up to content you didn't see.
What does it cost per article?
We engineer the pipeline to stay under $0.15 of model spend per article by defaulting to a cheap model and only calling a stronger model on the final edit pass. That efficiency is why the plans are priced the way they are — and we show the math rather than hiding it.
What are the free trial terms?
The trial is genuinely free: 3 quality-gated articles, the full research-to-gate pipeline, and 1-click publishing — no credit card required. When you're ready for more, Starter is $29/month and Pro is $99/month.
Can it write in other languages?
Yes. The pipeline is language-agnostic — the same research, drafting, and quality-gate steps run on non-English topics. Multilingual support expands over time; tell us your target languages and we'll prioritize accordingly.
Can I get a refund?
Plans are monthly and you can cancel anytime — you keep access through the period you paid for. If something isn't working within your first billing cycle, email us and we'll make it right.
Start publishing content that ranks. Free.
3 quality-gated articles, no credit card. See what survives the gate on your own site.