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Free content brief generator
Type a keyword and get a writer-ready content brief built from the pages that rank on Google today: what searchers want, a title, an outline, the questions to answer and a realistic length. The evidence sits next to the brief, so you can check every suggestion.
Free · No signup · 5 lookups a day
How it works
Enter the keyword you want a page to rank for, the way people would type it.
We pull the live top 10 Google results in the US, read the top pages' headings and word counts, and collect the "People also ask" questions.
One AI pass turns that evidence into a brief. Copy it as Markdown, hand it to a writer, or use it yourself.
What a content brief is for
A content brief is the plan for one page: who it's for, what it must cover, how it's structured and what would make it better than what already ranks. Writing without one is how you end up with a 2,000-word article that answers the wrong question, or a page that covers everything except the thing searchers wanted.
A good brief is short. A writer should be able to read it in two minutes and know the title, the sections in order, the questions the page has to answer and roughly how long it should be. This generator gives you exactly that, and nothing you'd have to delete.
How this content brief generator builds the brief
Most brief tools ask an AI model to imagine what should be on the page. This one starts from what Google is already rewarding for your keyword:
- The live top 10 organic results on Google in the US, with their titles and snippets.
- The H2 and H3 headings of the top pages we can read, which show how the pages that rank are organised.
- Each page's word count, which sets the length range. The range comes from those counts, never from a rule of thumb.
- Google's "People also ask" questions and related searches, which show what searchers want to know next.
Then one AI pass reads that evidence and writes the brief: the search intent (what the searcher is trying to get done), a suggested title with two alternatives, an angle, the topics every ranking page covers, an outline with H2s and H3s, the questions to answer and related terms. The evidence panel shows which pages were read and their headings, so you can see where each suggestion came from.
How to use the brief well
Treat "what the ranking pages all cover" as the minimum. If every page that ranks explains how often to do something and yours doesn't, readers notice and so does Google. Then use the angle to go further: the specifics, examples, numbers from your own experience or the comparison nobody bothered to make. That's the part that makes your page worth ranking above the others, rather than a tenth copy of them.
Check the search intent before you write a word. If the results are product pages and you planned a guide, a guide is unlikely to rank, however good it is. The page type line tells you what kind of page Google is showing for this search.
The outline is a starting point, not a script. Merge sections, cut what doesn't fit your audience and put the answer people came for near the top. Headings that say what the section answers ("How long does it take?") are easier for readers to scan and for AI assistants to quote than clever ones.
What it can't know
It's a snapshot of US results today. Results differ by country and change over time, so a brief for a fast-moving topic is worth rebuilding every few months. Some sites block automated readers, and Google now hides the address of some results behind its own redirect link, so not every top page can be read. The evidence panel says which ones were.
It doesn't know your product, your customers or what you know that others don't. Those are what turn a good outline into a page worth reading. And word count is a guide to how much ground the topic needs, not something Google rewards for its own sake: a shorter page that answers better can beat a longer one.
Questions people ask
Is this content brief generator free?
Yes. No signup. It uses live Google data and an AI model, which cost us a little per brief, so there's a limit of 5 lookups a day.
Which country's results does it use?
Google in the United States, in English. That's the market RomeoSEO researches for every customer.
How is the suggested length worked out?
From the word counts of the top pages we could read: roughly the middle half of their range, rounded to the nearest 100. If too few pages could be read, the brief says so instead of guessing.
Why weren't some of the top pages read?
Some sites block automated visitors, some load their text with JavaScript, and Google hides the address of some results behind a redirect. The brief still uses those results' titles and snippets; it just can't see their headings.
Can I use the brief with ChatGPT or another AI writer?
Yes. Copy it as Markdown and paste it in with your own notes about your product and audience. The brief keeps the draft on topic; your notes keep it from sounding like everyone else.
Want it done for you?
Romeo picks the keywords, writes the briefs and the articles
He finds the searches your buyers make, builds a brief like this for each one, writes the draft, links it to your existing pages and sends it to you to approve before anything is published.
