Content generation walkthrough
What you see: choose a content type, enter a campaign idea, generate a draft, review the result, and move between text, image, and video assets in the library.Guided Content Studio tutorial
What you see: select Google Business Profile post ideas, type a campaign topic, generate the draft, copy it, open the refinement field, and submit feedback. The clip is muted and uses product-demo sample data only. Content Studio is NearIQ’s AI-powered content creation hub. It generates marketing assets — text, images, and video — using your business profile, competitive data, and local market context. Review generated content before publishing. The studio has three tabs: Text, Images, and Video.Text generation
Content Studio generates eight types of structured text and data-ready content:- Landing page copy — locally optimized page sections
- FAQ sections — question-and-answer pairs drawn from competitor and review data
- Google Business Profile posts — ready-to-publish GBP updates
- Social media drafts — platform-aware posts for Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- Review response templates — on-brand reply starters for positive and negative reviews
- Blog outlines — topic structures with heading suggestions
- Comparison tables — structured competitor comparison rows for pages or reports
- Performance charts — chart-ready summaries from stored business and competitor data
Option 1, Option 2, and so on so teams can compare drafts before
refining a single version.
When no explicit tone is selected, Content Studio uses your saved AI tone preference. Generated drafts also respect your preferred output language.
Tones and lengths
| Tone | Description |
|---|---|
| Professional | Polished business tone |
| Friendly | Warm and approachable |
| Casual | Conversational, relaxed |
| Persuasive | Sales-oriented with urgency |
| Informative | Educational, fact-driven |
Image generation
Image generation uses style presets to route your prompt to the best-suited AI image model automatically. You choose a style and size; NearIQ handles the rendering pipeline.Style presets (14)
| Preset | Label | Use case |
|---|---|---|
photoreal | Photoreal ad | Storefronts, services, and local campaign photos |
food_photo | Food / menu | Restaurant, cafe, menu item, and promo photos |
product_photo | Product shot | Clean commercial image for a product or offer |
interior | Space / storefront | Business interiors, exteriors, offices, or studios |
service_showcase | Service in action | Your service being performed — tools, process, result |
before_after | Before / After | Split transformation image — renovation, cleanup, results |
team_action | Team at work | Staff in action — hands, tools, expertise (no faces) |
event_promo | Event promo | Grand opening, celebration, or special event imagery |
seasonal | Seasonal | Holiday or seasonal themed business imagery |
menu_board | Menu board | Organized menu or price display layout |
social_graphic | Social graphic | Posters and social posts with readable short text |
logo_text | Logo / text concept | Brand marks, typography, and readable words |
infographic | Infographic | Simple educational graphics and process visuals |
custom | Custom prompt | Describe exactly what you want — no preset routing |
Image sizes
| Size | Aspect ratio | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 1024 x 1024 | Square (1:1) | Instagram feed, GBP posts, profile images |
| 1792 x 1024 | Landscape (16:9) | Facebook covers, blog headers, website banners |
| 1024 x 1792 | Portrait (9:16) | Instagram Stories, TikTok, vertical ads |
Tips
- Be specific in your prompt: “modern gym interior with natural lighting and plants” beats “nice gym photo.”
- Photorealistic presets avoid text overlays — use social graphic or menu board when you need readable words in the image.
- Upload a reference image when you want image-to-image edits or brand-consistent variations. NearIQ sends the reference to the configured image model for that request only; the source upload is not saved unless you save the generated output.
- Use Animate from the image library to pre-load a saved image as the starting frame for a video prompt without uploading it again.
- Quick edit handles deterministic, no-AI image polish on the spot: resize, rotate, mirror, flip, grayscale, contrast, social aspect reframes, freeform crop, device mockups, format conversion, and text overlays with an optional CTA. These edits use local/server image transforms and do not make paid AI generation calls.
- All generated images are drafts. Edit, crop, add text overlays, or add your logo before publishing.
Video generation
Video generation creates finished commercial source bundles with AI-generated visuals. You describe the concept, pick a style and duration, and NearIQ writes the script, generates one or more source shots, and returns provider-neutral render metadata.Video style presets (13)
| Preset | Label | Use case |
|---|---|---|
social_ad | Social Ad | Short-form ad for Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook |
product_demo | Product Demo | Showcase a product or service with motion |
promo | Promotional | Sale, event, or seasonal campaign |
explainer | Explainer | How-it-works or educational walkthrough |
testimonial | Testimonial | Customer review or success highlight |
before_after | Before / After | Transformation or renovation reveal |
behind_scenes | Behind the Scenes | Authentic workspace, prep, or process footage |
event_highlight | Event Highlight | Grand opening, celebration, or event recap |
team_spotlight | Team Spotlight | Workplace environment and expertise showcase |
how_to | How-To | Step-by-step tutorial or guide |
seasonal | Seasonal | Holiday or seasonal themed content |
grand_opening | Grand Opening | New location or business launch announcement |
customer_story | Customer Story | Narrative customer journey |
Duration and credit cost
Each video costs credits based on its duration. Credits are deducted from your rollover video credit balance; new credits are added each billing cycle.| Duration | Credits | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 5 seconds | 1 credit | Bumper ads, quick teasers |
| 15 seconds | 2 credits | Short finished commercials |
| 30 seconds | 4 credits | Standard finished commercial spots |
Aspect ratios
| Ratio | Label | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 16:9 | Landscape | YouTube, website embeds |
| 9:16 | Portrait | Instagram Stories, TikTok, Reels |
| 1:1 | Square | Instagram feed, GBP posts |
Resolutions
| Resolution | Description |
|---|---|
| 720p | Faster rendering and lower credit-risk iteration |
| 1080p | Higher fidelity, recommended for publishing |
How it works
- Enter a prompt — describe the video concept (up to 800 characters)
- Pick a style — the style shapes the visual direction and script tone
- Optionally upload a prompt image - image-to-video references are sent transiently to supported renderers for that request only
- Choose duration, aspect, resolution, voice, pitch, pace, and music - preview each provider-backed narration style before generating, select a built-in voice or saved voice profile, choose slow/normal/fast speech, adjust narration pitch, and pick an upbeat, calm, corporate, inspirational, or silent music bed
- Set audio timing and mix - optionally choose when narration and music start or stop inside the finished video, then adjust voice, music, and native source-audio levels
- Generate - NearIQ writes a script and generates the source shots needed for the selected commercial length
- Render final - pass the source bundle to the compositor for exact timing, full audio, overlays, and download
/api/businesses/me/content/voice; background music uses
/api/businesses/me/content/music; and the selector can load built-in, saved,
and sanitized library voices without exposing provider identifiers.
Agency and higher plans can save voice profiles from consented voice samples in
Settings -> AI. Creating a saved voice does not spend video credits. When a saved
voice is used in a finished composite video, the normal video/composite credit
rules apply. If no voice is selected, the business default saved voice is used
when available.
Fifteen- and thirty-second commercials may use multiple provider source shots.
The source generation prompt asks for continuous rendered motion instead of a
slideshow or camera move over a still image. The final compositor output trims
or pads to the selected duration so the script, CTA, and audio bed resolve
before the asset ends.
The multi-clip stitch flow lets the dashboard send selected generated clips to
POST /api/businesses/me/video/composite-clips in a reviewed order. The route
supports hard cuts or short fade transitions, expands saved source bundles,
and returns either a finished MP4 or an async job token that is polled through
the existing composite status endpoint. The normal composite credit rule still
applies: 1 extra video credit is charged only after the compositor returns a
completed output.
Video captions/subtitles are generated from the saved video script or a reviewed script
you provide. The captions endpoint returns timed cues and persists them with the
video history row; if you choose burn-in, those cues are burned in through the composite endpoint as timed lower-third overlays. New captions spend 1 video
credit, while reusing saved captions does not charge again.
Voice features
NearIQ includes voice input and output in the AI chat assistant:- Speech-to-text — tap the microphone in the chat widget to speak your question. Audio is transcribed in real time using an AI speech recognition model.
- Text-to-speech — the assistant reads its response aloud. Useful when you are on the move or multitasking.
- Saved voice profiles - Agency and higher plans can create consented saved voices for video narration. Plan limits are 1 for Agency, 2 for Enterprise, 3 for Scale, and 5 for Unlimited.
Generation state
Longer generations (especially video) show a loading state while the output is prepared. All generated items — text, images, and video — are stored in your content history so you can revisit, download, and reuse them.Best practices
- Review generated content before publishing. Adjust tone and details for your brand.
- Do not publish claims that are not true for your business.
- Image and video outputs are AI-generated drafts — always add your own branding, logo, and final edits before going live.
- Use refinement feedback on text generations to iterate toward the right voice without starting over.
Plan availability
| Feature | Free | Starter | Growth | Agency | Enterprise | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text generations / month | 1 | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Content history | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image generation | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video credit top-up / month | — | — | — | 12 | 12 | 30 |
| Voice chat | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Saved voice profiles | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 3 |