Where do the numbers in a draft come from, and what does it ask me for?

A page about a service wants numbers: what it costs, how long it takes, what a part lasts. The writer is not allowed to guess any of them. Every number in a draft comes from one of three places, and the writer says which.

Your business's facts

Before it writes, the writer gathers what your business already states: the offerings in your profile with their prices and attributes, the facts your knowledge base confirmed or you typed in your own words, and up to three of your own pages that bear on this page (the page it improves, the offering it sells, a pricing or FAQ page). A fact from one of your pages is kept only when its quote matches the page word for word. The draft states these as written: a service fee your site names appears as your site names it.

Researched facts

A general fact the reader expects, one that is not about your business in particular, can be looked up: a typical cost range across the trade, how long a kind of part lasts, a code requirement, how long a kind of job usually takes. The writer decides which of these the page is clearly weaker without, searches for each, reads a few public pages, and keeps a quote only when it matches the page it came from word for word. A business in your own trade is never a source, wherever it works: not a competitor across town and not one in another state, because its prices are its marketing. Sources are manufacturers, trade bodies, government, retailers and publications; social sites and marketplaces are never read. A researched fact names its source in the sentence or right after it, and every source used is listed in a Sources section at the end of the page. Each one is stored as evidence, with the URL and the quote, the same way the plan's other claims are.

Your numbers

Your own price, fee, turnaround, policy, hours, service area or guarantee is never researched: nobody but you can state it. When the page needs one that neither your pages nor your facts contain, the writer writes the page without it, so the page is finished as it stands. Where a single sentence would be worth adding once you supply the number, the writer keeps a spot for it, and that sentence stays out of the page until you do. You never see a blank, a bracket or a note to replace: the preview, Copy Page, the Markdown and HTML exports and the FAQ schema all carry the finished page.

The Your numbers card beside the draft is optional. It lists the numbers the writer left out, with what to type and the sentence each belongs to.

1. Type a number and press Save Numbers.
2. Its sentence joins the page at once, in the preview and in the exports.
3. It is kept as a fact in your own words, so the next draft on the site has it from the start and your knowledge base can use it.

You can also press Edit and write anything straight into the text.

What the writer leaves out, and why

When a sentence or a table column would need numbers nobody has, the writer changes the shape of the page instead of filling the slots. A parts table keeps its symptom, repair and time columns and loses the cost column, with one line saying that you quote the installed price. A plausible figure would be a fabrication, and a page full of bracketed notes to verify is work nobody wants. The rule is the same one the whole product runs on: every number shown traces to a stored record.

Pictures and editor's notes

Both are optional and neither is in the text. Pictures to add lists where the page would carry a picture, with the section each belongs under, when the brief asked for any. Editor's notes, when the writer has any, lists screenshots to take, examples to add and decisions to make. Neither ever holds a number to confirm: those are in Your numbers.