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Producing your first article, step by step

The shortest path from signup to a finished, editable article — and what to watch along the way.

Updated: 16 October 20264 min read

Short answer

Your first article takes three steps: fill in the brand brief, ask for topics in the Studio and choose which to produce, then start the run and review the draft. Generation happens in the background — you can leave the page — and the finished content waits for you in the Studio's content list. On the Free plan this fits comfortably within 60 credits: an article body is 1 credit.

1. Fill in the brand brief

Open the Brief page and give the audience, the offer, the communication goal, your main topics, the tone, and what the system should never write. This becomes the standing context for every later piece — it is a system setting, not a one-off form.

2. Ask for a topic in the Studio

  1. Open the Studio

    In the left-hand menu, the Studio is where content production starts.

  2. Ask for topic suggestions

    The system suggests topics, questions and keyword directions from your brief and audience. If you already know what you want to write about, supply your own topic — it goes through the same process.

  3. Choose what gets made

    Tick the topics you want articles for. Pagioo shows the estimated credit cost of the run before you start it.

  4. Start the run

    Generation runs in the background. You can leave the page, even close the browser — the Studio and the dashboard both show the state.

The Studio page. Under the title the credit balance with the plan's name, then the actions: Find competitor gaps, New campaign, Write an article, New post, Generate from a topic, and the New run button highlighted. Below that the tabs — All content, Runs, Campaigns, Articles, Archived, Trash, Autopilot — a search box by title, type and channel filters, a date range, and finally the content list: article title, channel tags (Web, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) and the scheduling state.
The Studio is both the production floor and the content list: at the top you start a run or a single piece, below it every finished article and post, with its channel and its schedule.The screenshots show the Hungarian interface; the app's language is a setting, and it can be switched to English.

3. Review and edit

You open the finished article from the Studio's content list — generation and finished content share one page. In the editor the title, body, metadata and the attached social posts are all editable. Worth doing on every article:

  1. Read the first paragraph: it decides whether anyone reads on.
  2. Check the factual claims, numbers and names. AI can be wrong, and you are answerable for it.
  3. Look at the SEO feedback and fix what is worth fixing (Starter and up).
  4. If something is stylistically off, ask the Writing assistant for a rewrite — one sentence describing what should change.
  5. Read the social posts too: these are separate pieces of writing, not extracts from the article.

4. Schedule or publish

When you are happy, place the article in the calendar for a given day, or publish it immediately to your connected targets. Publishing to a website requires a connection first — see Setting up a WordPress connection.

How long does an article take?

Usually a few minutes, though the number of articles requested, images and current load all affect it. Generation runs in the background; you do not have to stay on the page.

Do I lose credits if generation stalls?

A failed step does not charge your balance. If credits did disappear against a failed generation, see Generation stalled and tell us.

Can I regenerate the article if I do not like it?

Yes, but a new generation uses new credits. In most cases it is faster and cheaper to have the Writing assistant rewrite the problem passage than to produce the whole article again.

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