Content Minion for 3 Different Types of Draft
All About The Day I Built My Most Ambitious Automation Yet...
Some days, you wake up knowing it’s going to be messy in the best way possible.
Today was one of those days.
I sat down to finally build the system I’ve been dreaming about for months — the kind that doesn’t just “generate blogs” but actually thinks like a small team of smart writers who know my business inside out.
On paper, the goal sounded simple:
Build a fully automated, context-aware writing engine.
One that asks for a topic, figures out which pillar it belongs to, picks the right persona, and writes something that actually feels alive. Not the usual mush that drowns the internet.
But the road to simple always begins with chaos.
1. It started with a Tally form.
Nothing fancy.
Just three questions:
What’s your topic?
Which pillar [Content Bucket] does it belong to?
Who’s writing this — SEO guy, founder, or marketer?
That’s it.
I wired it into Pabbly. Simple, clean, no big promises yet. But that tiny setup was the first heartbeat of this whole system.
2. Then came the first pivot: Docs won’t work.
At first, I went all-in on big pillar documents — full explanations of context, audience, logic, product notes, integration points, everything.
But halfway through, I caught myself.
Documents = expensive.
Google Sheets = fast, cheap, perfect for automation.
So, I scrapped the doc route. Started fresh.
Two sheets.
Sheet 1 → Pillar Info
Each row = one pillar.
Each column = a slice of context:
Context / Audience / Must-Know Info / Core Focus / Writing Angles / Product Integration / Internal Links
One clean row replaces pages of fluff. Way cheaper. Way smarter.
Sheet 2 → Writing Personas
Each row = a brain.
Tone, story, background, writing style, what they rely on, what they avoid.
And honestly, this one move alone will save thousands of tokens over time.
3. Then came my three writers — each wired differently.
Writer 1 – The SEO Skyscraper Machine
Cold. Precise. Ruthless.
Sees search intent like an engineer sees structure.
Writer 2 – The Founder Storyteller
The one who’s lived the pain. Writes from inside the messy room, not outside the glass window.
Writer 3 – The Product-Market Fit Writer
The bridge. Knows when to sell, when to teach, when to just talk.
Blends SEO + story + product plugs naturally.
Three brains.
One topic.
Three perspectives.
4. The orchestration
Now, when someone enters a topic — here’s what fires off automatically:
Pabbly fetches the pillar row
AI reads the context
Generates three outlines — SEO, Founder, Marketing
Each outline goes to a “Writer Minion”
This minion isn’t dumb.
It knows the topic, the pillar, the persona, the linking map, and the product logic.
It writes, saves, and versions every blog inside Google Docs.
All on autopilot.
5. Somewhere between all this, it hit me.
I wasn’t just building an automation.
I was building a system of thinking.
A framework that scales my way of writing — without losing my tone, my clarity, or my logic.
Every small decision — switching to sheets, splitting personas, generating outlines first — came from one belief:
I’m done with generic content.
I want thinking content.
The kind that feels like it’s written by someone who’s been there, not someone parroting a brief.
6. Quiet wins > Loud launches
No flashy “AI-powered” announcement.
No tweet threads about “10x productivity.”
Just quiet work — wiring, refining, breaking, fixing.
Tomorrow, I’ll probably add a few more things — tone selectors, goal filters, Trello tasks, Slack alerts.
But tonight? I’m content.
Because today, I built something that’ll outlive the day.
Version 1.0 — but already the foundation of what’s next.