Autopilot turns a brand's content opportunities into a weekly rhythm. On each day you pick it takes the next topic, writes the article 24 hours before its slot and then does what you chose: leave a draft, publish after a review window, or publish at the slot. It pauses on its own when something needs you, and tells you why.
Open Content > Autopilot (or press Cmd+K and type "autopilot").
Schedule: pick the Days (each day is one article a week), the Publish time and the Time zone. Daylight saving is handled.
Publishing: pick the Destination (a connected site or your hosted blog) and When an article is ready. Leave a draft means nothing reaches your site and you publish from the editor. Publish after a review window means it goes live at its slot, or once the window (1 to 168 hours) has passed, unless you change it first. Publish at the slot means it goes live at its slot once it passes the quality gates.
Topics: Pinned topics are written first, in order; Excluded topics are never written. Everything else comes from your opportunities, skipping topics you already covered.
Quality and limits: a Minimum quality score, Require valid links (hold an article whose link check removed a link or could not verify one) and a Monthly cap.
Switch Enabled on and click Save.
An article that fails a gate always waits for you as a draft, whatever the policy, and you get a notification.
Next article: when the next one is due, or Off or Paused. Once the month's cap is written it says so and names the day it resumes, the first slot of next month.
Articles per month: what the settings write, after the cap, and how many are written this month.
Credits per month: articles times the cost of one, charged to the brand owner. The tile turns amber when the account's balance is short of a month.
Last run: how the newest slot ended, with its topic and the reason when it was held or skipped. It changes the moment the article is written: scheduled for its slot, waiting as a draft, or held.
Reason | What to do |
|---|---|
Out of credits | Top up, then Resume |
No topic left | Pin a topic or refresh the opportunities, then Resume |
Destination gone | Pick another destination, then Resume |
Plan | Nothing to resume: the brand owner's plan stopped including Autopilot, and it resumes on its own within the hour once the plan includes it again |
Reaching the monthly cap is not a pause: the next article simply moves to the first slot of next month, and raising the cap brings it back to this one.
Turning Autopilot off, switching to Leave a draft or picking another destination cancels the publishes it queued; those articles stay as drafts.
Every upcoming slot the monthly cap leaves shows on the Calendar as an Autopilot article, and its detail says where it publishes. Each run follows the article states from there: writing, scheduled, waiting for merge (for a GitHub repository), published. On Agency Plus, the agency calendar shows the upcoming slots of every brand, each under its brand's name.
Add the links back automatically adds a link to each new article from your related posts as soon as it goes live: on WordPress (connected or hosted) it goes onto the post; other sites get a task with the sentence to paste. It works for every article that goes live, not only the Autopilot's. With it off, the proposals wait in the editor's Details tab.
Autopilot Articles tells you when Autopilot publishes, schedules or holds an article for you to review, and Autopilot Paused when it stops on its own, and once a month when the cap is reached, with the day it resumes. Both reach the brand owner and whoever turned Autopilot on, and each can be switched off on the Notifications page.
The agent reads and changes the same settings: ask "turn on the autopilot for Tuesdays at 9" or "why did the autopilot pause?".
Autopilot needs Starter or higher on the brand owner, and each article costs the owner the same content credits as writing one by hand. Editors change the settings; viewers can read them. Turning it off works on any plan.
