AI SEO Agent
An AI SEO Agent That Works From Real Search Data, Not Plausible Guesses
Most AI SEO tools will happily invent a search volume that looks right. Ours connects to your own DataForSEO account, tags every number by its source, and stops rather than guessing when the data isn't there. You get sourced briefs, quick-win scans, and publish-ready drafts — with approval checkpoints you control.
Free plan, no card. The brief generator additionally needs your own DataForSEO account (pay-as-you-go).
The Problem With AI and SEO Data.
Ask a language model for a keyword's search volume and it will give you a number. The number will look completely reasonable. It will also be invented. An LLM with no live search API produces difficulty scores, volumes, and SERP reads that are indistinguishable from real ones until you act on them.
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Every number is tagged by source
a real API call, your saved profile, a calculation, or a flagged gap.
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An untagged number is treated as a defect,
not a shortcut.
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No data means it stops.
If DataForSEO isn't connected, the agent says so plainly at the start of the conversation and refuses to proceed. It does not fill the gap with a guess.
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A failed call is recorded, not retried into the ground.
One retry, then it logs the gap honestly and continues.
Two SEO Agents, and What Each One Is For.
We're not going to list eight agents that don't exist. There are two, they do different jobs, and they're designed to sit next to each other.
| SEO Content Brief Generator | SEO Blog Generator | |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Decide what to write and prove it with evidence | Turn an approved direction into a finished draft |
| Architecture | Single agent | Six specialist agents (Orchestrator, Research, Outline, Drafter, Editor, Publisher) |
| Output | content_brief_FINAL.md + keywords.csv | Publish-ready post in Google Docs + headline + keyword pack |
| DataForSEO | Required — will not run without it | Optional — falls back to web search |
| Human checkpoints | Four | Two |
| Setup | 15–20 min | 10–20 min |
The pairing: the brief generator stops at the brief on purpose. It does not draft the article. That's the blog generator's job, or your writer's, or your existing AI drafting step.
Named Data Sources, Not “AI-Powered Insights.”
This is the section most tools in this category don't write.
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DataForSEO
connected with your own API login, across a 48-action allowlist. Keyword research, live dated SERP snapshots, competitor and domain data, and backlink context.
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AWS AgentCore Code Interpreter
parses the raw API responses (a single keyword or SERP call can return thousands of lines of JSON), runs the bundled parsing script, and produces the CSV exports. Sandboxed, no internet access, file exchange only.
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Web Search
optional, capped at five calls per run. Used only for fact-currency checks and to harvest real question phrasing when a SERP call returns no People-Also-Ask results.
Why the dated SERP snapshot matters: a SERP read is only true on the day it was taken. Every brief records when the snapshot was pulled, so three months later you know whether you're looking at current evidence or a stale one.
What a Finished Brief Actually Contains.
Keywords & difficulty
Primary and secondary keywords with real search volume and difficulty.
Dated SERP snapshot
A dated read of exactly who's ranking, and when it was pulled.
Competitor teardown
A teardown of what the top-ranking competitor pages actually cover.
Full outline
A section-by-section outline built from what's actually ranking.
Sourced FAQ list
An FAQ list sourced from real long-tail and People-Also-Ask questions.
Meta title & description
An exact-character-counted meta title and description, plus an internal-link plan and a companion keywords.csv.
Finding What to Write Next.
Send “growth opportunities” instead of a topic and you get a capped discovery scan rather than a brief.
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Quick Wins
your own keywords already sitting in positions 8–30.
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Gaps
keywords a saved competitor ranks for and you don't.
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Pillar bets
larger plays worth planning around — plus opportunities.csv, a file of ready-to-send brief requests.
Four Checkpoints, So It Can't Run Away With Your Budget.
Agentic doesn't have to mean unsupervised. The brief generator pauses at four points and waits. The QA step hard-gates on an explicit approval — a vague “looks fine” won't move it past the final checkpoint.
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Step 1
Scope verdict
GO, GO-WITH-FLAG, or NO-GO on the topic itself.
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Step 2
Cluster approval
the keyword set, before any deeper research spend.
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Step 3
Evidence digest
the SERP read and competitor teardown.
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Step 4
Brief approval
the assembled brief, led by an update-versus-new-page verdict.
Interrupt It, Tune It, or Let It Run Unattended.
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Interrupt and resume.
Send “continue” and it picks up from the last completed step instead of restarting.
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Tunable thresholds.
Keyword-difficulty band (default 0–55), volume floor (default 50), and call budget (default 25 per run) are all editable.
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Unattended mode.
A “fully unattended” flag turns the first three checkpoints into FYI notes if you'd rather it just ran.
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Locale override.
Add “| market: Germany / de” to run a brief for a different market.
What This Agent Does Not Do.
Read this before you compare us to anything else. Several tools marketed as “AI SEO agents” do a genuinely different job.
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It does not run a technical crawl.
No page speed, no broken links, no Core Web Vitals, no site health score. If that's what you need, you need a crawler, not this.
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It does not track your rankings over time.
It takes a dated snapshot for the brief. It is not a rank tracker.
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It does not check your AI visibility.
It won't tell you whether ChatGPT or Perplexity cites your site. That's a separate, forward-looking check this doesn't perform.
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It does not publish to your CMS.
The blog generator delivers to Google Docs. Publishing stays a human step.
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The brief generator does not write the article.
It stops at the brief, deliberately.
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It does not include SEO data in your subscription.
DataForSEO is your own pay-as-you-go account.
We'd rather lose a bad-fit signup here than in week two.
What You Need Before It Runs.
DataForSEO is required for the brief generator, and it is not bundled. You connect your own API login and password. It's pay-as-you-go, self-service, and billed by DataForSEO, not by us. That's a real friction point and we'd rather state it plainly than bury it.
| Requirement | Brief Generator | Blog Generator |
|---|---|---|
| DataForSEO account | Required | Optional |
| AWS AgentCore Code Interpreter | Required | Not needed |
| Google Docs connection | Not needed | Required |
| Onboarding interview | Three turns | One-time |
Without the Code Interpreter, the brief generator drops to lean mode: a lower research limit and no CSV export. It still runs, but slower and with less parsing.
Built on the Tools Your Content Workflow Already Uses.
Connect natively
- DataForSEO
- Google Docs
- Google Drive
- Slack
- Notion
- Web Search
Also in the connector library
- WordPress
- Webflow
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Airtable
- HubSpot
The library covers 2,000+ apps, and any agent can call a REST API or a custom MCP server directly.
From Clone to First Sourced Brief.
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Step 1
Clone the template
Single-agent workflow, plain chat trigger, no multi-agent handoff to configure. Attached skills install automatically on clone.
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Step 2
Connect DataForSEO and wire the Code Interpreter
Your own DataForSEO login and password go on the tool node. Confirm the Code Interpreter is wired, or the agent runs in lean mode.
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Step 3
Run the onboarding interview
Send “setup”. Three turns: your business and domain; your market, language and audience; then three to five competitor domains, your money pages, never-target terms, difficulty band, volume floor, and call budget. After you approve, it runs a small enrichment pass on your own domain and proposes three to five starter topics from real data.
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Step 4
Test with a real topic and an edge case
Send a genuine topic line and walk the four checkpoints. Then interrupt a run mid-way and send “continue” to confirm it resumes properly.
Total: about 15–20 minutes.
How This Compares to SEO Tools and Agencies.
| Content brief tools | SEO agency | Technical SEO agents | SketricGen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data source | Bundled, theirs | Their tooling | Usually unstated | Your own DataForSEO account |
| Numbers tagged by source | No | No | No | Yes |
| Behaviour with no data | Best guess | — | Best guess | Stops |
| Technical crawl | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Rank tracking | Sometimes | Yes | Yes | No |
| You control the checkpoints | One-click brief | N/A | Usually autonomous | Four, editable |
| Editable agent logic | No | N/A | No | Yes, plain English |
| Cost model | Per-seat subscription | Retainer | Subscription | Credits + your own data spend |
If you need a technical crawler or a rank tracker, buy one — they're better at it than we are. This is the research and production layer that sits upstream of both.