Private betaIssue 01

Know which content pays.

Write and publish your blog, ads, newsletter and social in one place, then see which pieces brought customers.

A person reads every email and writes back.

tripprimer runs on Standfirst243 guides live82 cities11 countriesAs of October 2026

One brief in. The whole loop runs.

Most AI tools stop at the draft. The draft is the easy part. Scroll through one piece as it moves through Standfirst.

Draft · BlogSaved

Why onboarding emails get ignored

Most welcome emails are opened once and then ignored.

The fix starts with one clear promise in the first line.

Here is what three teams changed, and what it did.

Draft

10.01

Brand voiceDrafts start from your positioning

It reads your personas, positioning and competitors before it writes a word.

Keywords4 found
onboarding emailsopen rateactivationwelcome sequence

Outline

  1. H2Why they get skipped
  2. H2What the numbers say
  3. H2Three fixes that work
Keywords

10.03

ResearchedKeywords and an outline come first

It finds what people search for, then builds the outline around one to three clear points.

Editorial policyv12
  • Keyword in title
  • One H1
  • No em dashes
  • Internal links
  • Sources dated
Sent to blogPublished
Checks

10.04

CheckedEvery draft passes your rules

Headings, links, dates and banned phrases are checked before anything can publish.

Views (GA4)Last 28 days
12,480+18%

Top piece: Why onboarding emails get ignored

Measured

10.09

MeasuredThe numbers come back by themselves

Views from Google Analytics 4 land on the piece that earned them.

For you2 new

Write a follow-up on open rates

Your best piece this month, 3x the average views.

Take a look

Add an FAQ to the pricing guide

Search terms ask questions it does not answer.

Take a look
For you

10.12

Next stepIt tells you what to make next

Each suggestion says why it is there and links to the fix.

Research your
readers

Standfirst starts from what people type into search, then sorts it by intent, persona and channel. One keyword system serves your blog, your social posts and your ads.

  • onboarding emails
  • open rate
  • hostels in seoul
  • activation
  • welcome sequence
  • are hostels in seoul safe
  • product launch
  • best hostels in seoul
  • newsletter growth
  • content calendar

Measure

Content impact puts every channel on one page: what you published, what it earned, and what changed since last month.

Content impact

Views (GA4)
12,480
+18%
Pieces
14
+4
Engagement
4.7%
+0.6
PieceViews
Why onboarding emails get ignored4,210
Five welcome emails that worked2,880
Open rates, one year in1,640

Next: a follow-up on open rates

Your best piece this month, 3x the average views.

Example workspace

What you get

  • On brand

    Personas, positioning and tracked competitors go into every draft, so drafts start in your voice.

  • Worth reading

    Each piece is built on one to three points specific enough to argue with. With thin inputs, it writes fewer and sharper ones.

  • Built to be quoted

    The answer comes first, then real tables, dated sources and an FAQ, all as plain text in the HTML.

  • Kept fresh

    Standfirst reads your live site the way a search engine does and flags pages that break your policy or go stale.

  • Many brands

    Each workspace keeps one brand's voice, content and channels apart. The engine and what it learns are shared.

tripprimer runs on Standfirst.

tripprimer is a travel guide site. Standfirst researches, writes, checks and maintains every guide on it.

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243guides live

Every one re-verified

cities
82
countries
11
comparison tables
337
FAQ answers
1,998

As of October 2026

Built for teams that need to be found.

  • Niche publishers

    You cover a topic where readers compare options, and your site has stalled at a few dozen posts. Standfirst takes it to hundreds of maintained pages without a newsroom.

  • SMB marketing teams

    One or two people cover search, social and email for a product. You get the research, the drafts and the reporting in one place, in your voice, on a steady cadence.

  • Agencies and multi-brand operators

    Several brands, each with its own positioning and channels. Workspaces keep them apart while the engine is shared.

Questions people ask first

Is this an agency or a software product?

A product with a person behind it. Standfirst is the software. The first workspaces are set up by hand, around your own positioning.

Does it only work for travel?

No. Travel is the first live customer because it is a hard test: prices, dates and rules change every week. The same pipeline works for any niche where readers compare options before they decide.

What does “built to be quoted by AI search” mean?

Every page answers the question first, then gives tables with real figures, dated sources and an FAQ, all as plain text in the HTML. Those are the parts search engines and AI answer engines can read and quote.

What happens to pages after they are published?

Standfirst keeps checking them. Each page carries a verified-on date that moves when its facts are rechecked.

Why the name?

A standfirst is the newspaper term for the lines under a headline that give the answer before the article begins. Pages made with Standfirst open the same way.