Rank on Google.
Become the source
ChatGPT cites.
Draftful writes, fact-checks and publishes articles for bootstrapped SaaS founders — so AI can cite you instead of your competitors.
Free: your AI citation report in ~60 seconds, then 3 articles to publish. No card.
Real screens from a Draftful workspace.
Publish every week — without writing it
Draftful writes, checks and ships on schedule
No claim ships unsourced
Every claim fact-checked against a real source
See which prompts cite you
Weekly probes across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Claude
The stakes
Your buyers ask AI for a shortlist. Three names come back. Yours isn't one of them.
/mo
Typical agency retainer — public rate cards, not our quote.
0
Prompts citing you today. We measure the real number first.
How it works
Strategy, writing, checking and publishing in one loop.
Nothing ships unsourced
Fact-check, links, images and voice. A failed check holds the button.
Fact-check
12 claims · 12 sources
Links
9 internal · 4 external
Images
4 generated · alt set
Voice
0 AI-tells · clean
You're in the answer
Every AI mention, captured — the sentence, the source, and the post that earned it.
q · best crm for bootstrapped saas
For bootstrapped teams, folk and Attio are the usual picks — but founders who publish keep landing on acme-crm.com — pay-per-pipeline pricing, no seat math3.
Publishing that doesn't need you
Wakes up on schedule — drafts and refreshes, approved by you.
Publish where it counts
Markdown, HTML and signed webhooks today — social in beta, WordPress and Shopify on the roadmap.
Old posts come back to life
Refreshed for how people search today — and measured 30 days later.
The best CRM tools for small teams
CRM · 12 min · 14 sources
Most teams overpay for seats they never activate — here is what actually drives the bill.
We checked current pricing across 12 tools, hidden overage fees included.
The gate — every article, before it ships
12
claims verified
13
links checked · all 200
4
images · alt set
0
AI-tells · voice clean
Compared
Cheaper than an agency. Faster than prompting.
Three ways to publish content. Only one measures whether AI actually cites it.
Agency
$2,000+
2–3 weeks
ChatGPT
$20
your weekends
Draftful
$29
day one · fact-checked
Agency
Content retainer · monthly
Invoice
Typical invoice · net 15
Billed every month
Strategy call1 / mo
Brief + outline2 / mo
Draft writing4 / mo
Revisions2 rounds
Not included
Fact-checkvaries
AI citationsrarely tracked
Refreshnot measured
Payable monthly · net 15
ChatGPT Plus
Subscription · personal
$20/mo
Prompt log · this month
›40 prompts
›one doc
›you edit at midnight
Not included
Fact-checknone
AI citationsnone
Refreshnone
Total dueyour weekends
* Spell-checked · not fact-checked
Draftful
Founding receipt · monthly
$29/mo
Included this month
First articleday one
Fact-checkevery claim
AI citationstracked weekly
Refreshmeasured lift
Total≈ $3.63/ article
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
fig. 04 — illustrative comparison. ChatGPT $20/mo is its published price; agency range from public rate cards; Draftful from our published pricing.draftful / agency / prompt-loop
Why this exists
I tried the tools before building this one. Every one of them did the same thing on day one: it looked at my site, picked the keywords with the biggest search volume and told me to write about them.
One of them, on a brand-new site with a domain authority of 5, suggested a single-word keyword whose page one is Semrush, Ahrefs and Moz. I would have paid for an article that could never rank.12 Another wrote in the wrong language for my buyers. None of them asked what stage of the funnel the article was for, or whether my product could honestly be the answer.
A good prompt in ChatGPT wasn't better. The article read fine. It just had no reason to exist.
So Draftful starts from the other end: what can this domain rank for, in the market and language its buyers use, and which of those pages actually leads to a sale.1
What Draftful checks before it suggests a topic
Same checks on every plan. The only thing that changes with price is how much you ship.
- 1. Keyword Difficulty Explained — keywordresearchforseo.com, accessed 2026-09-22
- 2. Google Ranking Statistics — Ahrefs, updated 2025-05-15
- 3. Business Potential: The Most Important Metric in Content Marketing — Tim Soulo, Ahrefs, accessed 2026-09-22
From the blog
Written, fact-checked and refreshed by the tool itself.
Every post is planned from a keyword gap in our own workspace, run through the four checks and kept up to date. Each one carries its receipt.
How AI engines pick which pages to cite
The retrieval signals that decide who gets named in an answer — and which ones you can influence.
AEO · 6 min read · refreshed 3 days ago
ReadThe 4 checks an article passes before we publish
Fact-check, links, images and voice — what each check catches, and the order it runs in.
Publishing · 5 min read · refreshed 3 days ago
ReadStriking distance: the 4–10 position trap
Why the pages ranking just under the top are the cheapest citations you'll ever earn.
SEO · 7 min read · refreshed 3 days ago
Read0 of our own prompts cited at week 0 — 3 of 8 at week 9. Log public.
All postsFAQ
Questions founders ask
Draftful is brand new. Why should I believe it works?+
We're pre-customer and we say so — no borrowed logos, no invented counts. The pipeline runs our own blog; the changelog is dated and links to the raw log. Your first 3 articles are free, so the proof you trust is your own output.
Does the free trial expire?+
The 3 articles are the trial, not a countdown. An account that never generates anything closes after 7 idle days; every article you generate pushes that out another 7, so if you use all three you never meet the clock. Whatever you already published stays yours either way.
Why not just use ChatGPT?+
ChatGPT writes a draft. Draftful runs the strategy, fact-checks every claim, holds the publish button until it passes, publishes, and then tracks whether any of it worked.
Will ChatGPT actually cite me?+
No one can guarantee citations. We optimize for how AI answers pick sources, and show the weekly result, starting with your baseline before you pay.
What happens to my articles if I cancel?+
You keep them. They publish to your domain as Markdown/HTML or via signed webhook — they're yours, not ours. Paid plans include a 14-day money-back window.
Does Google penalize AI content?+
Google penalizes unhelpful content, and says so itself. Every Draftful article is fact-checked, scored and gated before publishing.
Can I review before it publishes?+
Yes. Autopilot has three levels: Off, Propose and Draft. Nothing publishes without you — the gate holds on every article, even on autopilot.
Where does it publish?+
Export as Markdown or HTML, and signed webhooks today. WordPress, Webflow and Shopify are on the roadmap, labeled as such.
How do you measure AI citations?+
Each engine is measured through its own API with the provider's native web search, set to your site's country. What you see in the ChatGPT or Gemini app can vary from that.
Can I use Draftful from ChatGPT or Claude?+
Yes. Connect the Draftful MCP server with one URL and OAuth, and your agent can propose topics, generate articles and read AI Visibility from inside the chat. See the MCP setup
Pricing
Pricing that's one number, not a spreadsheet.
ChatGPT writes a draft for $20 a month. An agency writes and publishes for about $2,000. Draftful sits in the middle: Growth is $79 a month for 30 articles written, fact-checked, published and measured — $2.63 an article.
Founder price: 20% off your first 3 months with code FOUNDER20, until November 30, 2026. First purchase only.
Starter
One site. Autopilot proposes, you publish.
$29/mo
- See every prompt that cites you
- Fact-checked before publish — no public corrections
- SEO + AI-answer score, with the fixes listed
- Old posts refreshed, lift measured
- Autopilot proposes topics on your schedule
3 articles free. No card.
Growth
Best for weekly publishingThe plan we recommend. Autopilot publishes for you.
$79/mo
- See every prompt that cites you
- Fact-checked before publish — no public corrections
- SEO + AI-answer score, with the fixes listed
- Old posts refreshed, lift measured
- Autopilot writes ahead and publishes — or holds for your approval
3 articles free. No card.
Agency
For agencies running many client sites.
$199/mo
- See every prompt that cites you
- Fact-checked before publish — no public corrections
- SEO + AI-answer score, with the fixes listed
- Old posts refreshed, lift measured
- Autopilot writes ahead and publishes — or holds for your approval
- Separate workspace per brand
3 articles free. No card.
14-day money-back · cancel anytime
See your visibility before you pay.
Enter your domain. Get your AI citation baseline. Decide after that.
Your free AI citation baseline in about 60 seconds. No card.