Borrowed Authority

• Your Aha Studio accountSign in with your Aha Studio account. Borrowed Authority is part of your plan. Without a plan you can try the free demo.
• The searchesUp to 5 a run (3 in your first 14 days), one per line. Or press Suggest searches, or pick them from a Keyword Research run.
• Your target pageThe page the post should send readers to: your offer, your service or your pricing page.
• Your own experienceA few notes of what you have actually done, seen or measured. The post uses only these for anything first-hand, and marks [ADD] where your experience is needed.
• An account on the platformYou publish the post yourself, on your own account. The worker never posts for you.

1. 1Open Borrowed AuthorityAt borrowedauthority.ahastudio.net, or press Start something new on your account page and choose Platform post.
2. 2Add your searchesType what people search, one per line. Suggest searches gives Google Suggest ideas for a topic and the buyer searches for a brand (review, pricing, alternatives, vs), each labelled with its buyer intent. From Keyword Research lists your finished runs and their keywords, the most open first.
3. 3Add your target pagePaste the page the post should send readers to and say how you are connected to it: your own site, an affiliate link or a client. That decides the disclosure line.
4. 4Pick the AI enginesTick the engines to ask for citations: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode. Google's AI Overview always comes with Google's results. The card shows what the run uses of your monthly included amount.
5. 5Press Find the platformsEach search is looked up: Google's top 20 and its AI Overview, and the sources each engine cites. Only platforms with a real URL in those results are listed: Reddit, Quora, Medium, LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack, DEV, forums and more.
6. 6Check the pickFor each search the worker picks one platform and says why: how strong it is there (its Google position, AI citations), whether its format fits the search, and what kind of post wins there. The posts that rank are listed as the bar to beat. You can switch to another platform that ranks.
7. 7Add your notes and writeUnder Your experience, write what you have really done or seen. Press Write the post. You get one post per search per run, in the platform's format and your persona, with [ADD] wherever your own experience or a real number is needed, a disclosure line, and one natural link to your page where the platform allows it.
8. 8Read the platform rulesEach post shows that platform's link and self-promotion rules, and says plainly when a rule could not be verified. Open the rules page before you post.
9. 9Join the threadsThreads to join lists real Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange and forum threads that rank or are cited for your searches. Press Draft a reply for a helpful answer you can post yourself.
10. 10Post it, then track itEdit the post, fill every [ADD], publish it on your own account, then paste the live address under Track your post. It is checked every 7 or 30 days: where it ranks on Google, and whether the AI Overview or the AI engines cite it. You get an email when that changes.

1. 1Open the Scan many searches tabPaste up to 200 searches, one per line (25 in your first 14 days), or press Upload a CSV: an export from Keyword Research, Semrush, Ahrefs, Keyword Planner or any tool with a Keyword column. A Volume and a KD column are read too and shown as "From your file".
2. 2Pick the market and the two ticksAdd search volumes asks Keyword Planner once for the searches with no volume yet. Read the platform posts reads the best-ranked platform post for each search for its length (free).
3. 3Check the cost, then press Scan the searchesThe card shows what the scan uses of your monthly included amount before it runs: one Google lookup per search, none on your own DataForSEO key, and searches Keyword Research looked up today are free. The scan runs on our server in batches, so you can close the page and open it again from Your scans.
4. 4Read the tablePer search: the platforms anyone can publish on in Google's top 10 with their positions, the best platform position in the top 20, the Open score, volume and KD where they exist, Blue Ocean, whether the AI Overview cites a platform, and possible sponsored posts. Click a row for the links and the evidence. Click a column to sort.
5. 5Filter itPlatform post in the top 10, AI Overview cites a platform, Possible sponsored post, Blue Ocean and Could not be looked up. Press Download CSV for the whole table.
6. 6Act on the few that matterTick searches and press Make a post for this search: the normal Borrowed Authority run opens with them filled in (up to 5 a run). Or send the first one ticked to Keyword Research, or to SEO Magnets for a page on your own site (it checks the search with SERP Gap).
7. 7Save the rest to your opportunitiesSave to opportunities keeps them on the Opportunities tab with a status: To do, Posted or Tracking. When you write a post for one and paste its live address under Track your post, it moves to Tracking and shows the latest check.

Every lookup and post counts toward your plan's monthly amount, shared by all your AI workers; with your own DataForSEO key saved under Keys and connections the lookups run on your key instead. You can track up to 25 live posts.