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Learn what Generate produces, where it lands, the primary-locale to set first, and when to write by hand instead.","\u003Cp>Generate takes an approved article and writes it into a draft post that lands in your Content for review — a strong first draft, never an auto-published one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>What you'll learn\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>What Generate produces and where it goes.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>The locale behavior to set up front so drafts come out in the right language.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>When to let Generate draft for you, and when to write by hand instead.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>The concept: a first draft, reviewed by you\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Once an article is approved by \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-evaluate-stage\">Evaluate\u003C\u002Fa>, Generate is the step that rewrites it into a post for your brand. It runs per brand and uses AI, so it needs your own AI key configured (\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fbyok-why-we-do-this\">bring your own key\u003C\u002Fa>).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it produces lands in your \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-unified-content-table\">Content\u003C\u002Fa> as a \u003Ccode>news-post\u003C\u002Fcode> draft in a planning state. It is never published automatically — you open the draft, edit it, and decide whether and when to publish. The final read is always yours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The draft isn't just a body of text. Generate produces a title, body, excerpt, SEO fields, and tags, so the piece arrives shaped like a real content draft rather than a raw block you have to format from scratch. It's a \u003Cem>generative\u003C\u002Fem> prompt, so your brand's Voice, Rules, and Glossary from the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-brand-ai-profile\">Brand AI Profile\u003C\u002Fa> are injected to shape how it reads — and you can also \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fcustomizing-a-prompt\">customize the rewrite prompt\u003C\u002Fa> (slug \u003Ccode>news-rewrite\u003C\u002Fcode>) if a brand needs a different structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Set your brand's primary locale first\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>This is the one thing to get right before you generate, so read it carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generate writes the draft in the brand's \u003Cstrong>primary locale\u003C\u002Fstrong> — the language set on the brand. If a brand has \u003Cem>no\u003C\u002Fem> primary locale set, the draft currently falls back to Arabic. This is not brand-hardcoded behavior; it's a fallback for an unset field. So:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Set each brand's primary locale before you generate.\u003C\u002Fstrong> That's the reliable way to get drafts in the language you expect, and it flows from the same brand setting used across \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Flocale-groups\">Content\u003C\u002Fa> and SEO.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>If you skip that step, expect Arabic until you set one.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>If a draft comes out in a language you didn't want, the fix is the brand's primary locale setting (in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fyour-first-brand\">Configuration ▸ Brands\u003C\u002Fa>), not the prompt. Set it, then generate again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>How to run Generate\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>In the \u003Cstrong>Feed Items\u003C\u002Fstrong> tab, an article must be \u003Cstrong>approved\u003C\u002Fstrong> by \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-evaluate-stage\">Evaluate\u003C\u002Fa> first (a processing state).\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Tick the approved rows you want drafted and click \u003Cstrong>Generate\u003C\u002Fstrong> in the selection bar — or use the per-row \u003Cstrong>Generate\u003C\u002Fstrong> action on a single approved item.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Generate creates the draft and links it back to the feed item; the row gets a "drafted" status and a link straight to the new draft.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Open the draft in Content to review, edit, and publish on your own terms.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Fol>\n\u003Cp>Like Evaluate, Generate runs only on the rows you select, so your token spend stays predictable. If a draft fails (for example, the model returns an unreadable response), the item is flagged as errored and you can \u003Cstrong>Retry\u003C\u002Fstrong> it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>When to write by hand instead\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Generate is a strong first draft, not a finished article. For routine pieces, starting from its draft and editing saves real time. For some work, writing by hand is the better call:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Nuanced or sensitive pieces\u003C\u002Fstrong> — anything where tone, accuracy, or judgement carries weight and a rewrite could miss the mark.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Pieces where you want full editorial control\u003C\u002Fstrong> — when structure and voice need to be exactly yours from the first word.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>In those cases, treat the source article as research and draft the post yourself. The rest of News Manager — scouting, dedup, and the relevance check — still does its work; you're only opting out of the AI rewrite at the last step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>FAQ\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>My drafts come out in Arabic and I didn't want that. Why?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\nThe brand has no primary locale set, so Generate falls back to Arabic. Set the brand's primary locale in Configuration ▸ Brands, then generate again. It's an unset-field fallback, not a hardcoded language.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Why is the Generate button disabled?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\nIt needs your own AI key for the brand, and the item must be approved by Evaluate first. Add a provider key (OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic) to the vault. See \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fbyok-why-we-do-this\">Why m18t uses BYOK\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Does Generate publish the draft?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\nNo. It creates a draft in your Content in a planning state. You review and publish it yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>How do I change the tone of generated drafts?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\nTune the brand's \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-brand-ai-profile\">Voice, Rules, and Glossary\u003C\u002Fa> — they're injected into this generative step. Only \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fcustomizing-a-prompt\">customize the rewrite prompt\u003C\u002Fa> if you need a different structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>A generation failed. What do I do?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\nThe item is flagged as errored; click \u003Cstrong>Retry\u003C\u002Fstrong>. One bad model response doesn't fail the rest of the batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>What's next\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>See where Generate sits in the flow in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-news-manager-concept\">The News Manager Concept\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Generate only runs on approved articles — see \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-evaluate-stage\">The Evaluate Stage\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>To shape the rewrite voice, see \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-brand-ai-profile\">The Brand AI Profile\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fhelp\u002Fcustomizing-a-prompt\">Customizing a Prompt\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n",{"slug":9,"title":10},"news-manager-help","News Manager",{"meta_title":12,"meta_description":6,"keywords":13,"canonical_url":14,"og_title":5,"og_description":15,"og_image":16,"robots":17,"json_ld":18},"The Generate Stage | m18t Help","generate stage, news draft, primary locale, content planning state, news-rewrite prompt, byok, m18t","https:\u002F\u002Fm18t.com\u002Fhelp\u002Fthe-generate-stage","Generate writes an approved article into a review-ready draft. What it produces, the locale to set up front, how to run it, and when to write by hand.","https:\u002F\u002Fm18t.com\u002Fog-default.png","index, follow",{"@context":19,"@graph":20},"https:\u002F\u002Fschema.org",[21,35,60],{"@type":22,"headline":5,"description":23,"articleSection":10,"inLanguage":24,"datePublished":25,"dateModified":25,"image":16,"author":26,"publisher":30,"mainEntityOfPage":33},"Article","How does News Manager draft an article? Learn what Generate produces, where it lands, the primary-locale behavior to set first, and when to write by hand instead.","en","2026-06-25",{"@type":27,"name":28,"url":29},"Organization","m18t","https:\u002F\u002Fm18t.com",{"@type":27,"name":28,"url":29,"logo":31},{"@type":32,"url":16},"ImageObject",{"@type":34,"@id":14},"WebPage",{"@type":36,"mainEntity":37},"FAQPage",[38,44,48,52,56],{"@type":39,"name":40,"acceptedAnswer":41},"Question","My drafts come out in Arabic and I didn't want that. Why?",{"@type":42,"text":43},"Answer","The brand has no primary locale set, so Generate falls back to Arabic. Set the brand's primary locale in Configuration > Brands, then generate again. It's an unset-field fallback, not a hardcoded language.",{"@type":39,"name":45,"acceptedAnswer":46},"Why is the Generate button disabled?",{"@type":42,"text":47},"It needs your own AI key for the brand, and the item must be approved by Evaluate first. Add a provider key (OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic) to the vault.",{"@type":39,"name":49,"acceptedAnswer":50},"Does Generate publish the draft?",{"@type":42,"text":51},"No. It creates a draft in your Content in a planning state. You review and publish it yourself.",{"@type":39,"name":53,"acceptedAnswer":54},"How do I change the tone of generated drafts?",{"@type":42,"text":55},"Tune the brand's Voice, Rules, and Glossary — they're injected into this generative step. Only customize the rewrite prompt if you need a different structure.",{"@type":39,"name":57,"acceptedAnswer":58},"A generation failed. What do I do?",{"@type":42,"text":59},"The item is flagged as errored; click Retry. One bad model response doesn't fail the rest of the batch.",{"@type":61,"itemListElement":62},"BreadcrumbList",[63,67,71,74],{"@type":64,"position":65,"name":66,"item":29},"ListItem",1,"Home",{"@type":64,"position":68,"name":69,"item":70},2,"Help","https:\u002F\u002Fm18t.com\u002Fhelp",{"@type":64,"position":72,"name":10,"item":73},3,"https:\u002F\u002Fm18t.com\u002Fhelp\u002Fcategories\u002Fnews-manager-help",{"@type":64,"position":75,"name":5,"item":14},4,1786312171381]