Platform
Content Pipeline
Every article follows a four-stage pipeline: brief → draft → review → publish. Each stage is automated but gives you checkpoints to review and adjust.
Overview
The content pipeline turns an approved content plan entry into a published article. Outclimb handles each stage automatically, but you can intervene at any point — edit a brief before drafting, revise a draft before review, or hold an article from publishing.
Key concepts
- Briefs — a structured outline for an article, including target keyword cluster, proposed title, section headings, key points to cover, word count target, and internal linking suggestions. Briefs are generated from the content plan.
- Drafts — the full article text generated from a brief. Drafts include the title, body, meta description, excerpt, and suggested tags. You can edit drafts in a markdown editor before they proceed to review.
- Reviews — a quality gate that validates the draft against SEO best practices, brand voice, factual accuracy checks, and safety guidelines. Articles that pass review are queued for publishing.
- Publishing — the final stage where the article is pushed to your connected CMS. See Publishing & Optimization for details.
How to use it
- Visit Content → Briefs to see pending and completed briefs. Click a brief to review its outline and edit before draft generation.
- Visit Content → Drafts to see generated articles. Open a draft to read, edit in the markdown editor, or approve for review.
- Visit Content → Reviews to see articles in the quality gate. Review flags and suggestions, then approve for publishing or send back for revision.
- The Content → History page shows a timeline of all content activity — briefs created, drafts generated, articles published.