My short answer: I use automation where it saves time, but I do not want FifteenFold or a client site filled with articles that could have been written for any business in any town. That content adds very little for customers, search engines or AI systems trying to understand who actually knows the subject.
The temptation is obvious. Generate fifty posts, swap a few place names and call it a content strategy. I think that is the wrong direction.
Useful content has fingerprints
I want an article to contain decisions, trade-offs, examples, warnings and a point of view that come from doing the work. It should sound like someone who has had to make the decision, not someone summarising the first page of search results.
AI should reduce the admin, not invent the experience
It can help organise research, find gaps, structure notes and make production faster. It should not invent client results, pretend a test happened or manufacture expertise we do not have.
This also helps machines understand the business
Clear authorship, dates, descriptive headings, specific services, real project evidence and connected internal links give search engines and language models stronger context than a pile of generic copy. The principle is the same as good marketing: be clear about who you are, what you know and what you can prove.
Apply the principle to your own business.
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