Using the AI caption assistant

How the caption assistant works, what makes it good or bad, and the three buttons that improve every draft.

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The caption assistant is the small Draft with AI button on every post composer. It reads your business profile, the photo you attached, and the platform you’re publishing to — and writes a draft that sounds like you, not like a marketing intern.

What it’s good at

  • Quick captions for a known photo type — coffee shot, fresh haircut, before/after.
  • Adapting one caption to fit Instagram and Google Business in their respective tones.
  • Suggesting a closer (“come by today”, “link in bio”) that matches your usual style.

What it’s not

It’s not a copywriter for a launch campaign or a major announcement. For those, write the post yourself and use AI to tighten it, not to invent it.

The three buttons that fix most drafts

  1. Shorter. Cuts the draft roughly in half while keeping the call-to-action.
  2. More us. Re-runs the draft with more weight on your tone-of-voice notes. Use this when the caption sounds generic.
  3. Different angle. Same facts, different opening hook. Good when the first draft starts with the obvious thing.

Why the AI gets better over time

Every time you edit a draft before publishing, those edits are stored as voice samples and fed back into future drafts. After a couple of weeks of edits, most owners stop needing to change anything.