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").
The settings come in four sections:
Schedule: pick the Days (each day is one article a week), the Publish time and the Time zone. Daylight saving is handled.
Topics: Pinned topics are written first, in order; Excluded topics are never written. Everything else comes from your opportunities, skipping topics you already covered.
Publishing:
When an article is ready: Leave a draft (nothing reaches your site; you publish from the editor), Publish after a review window (it goes live at its slot, or once the window has passed, unless you change it first) or Publish at the slot (it goes live at its slot once it passes the quality gates).
Review window in hours: from 1 to 168, for Publish after a review window.
Destination: a connected site or your hosted blog, or No site, drafts only. Connect more sites on the Integrations page.
Quality and limits: Require valid links (hold an article whose link check removed a link or could not verify one), a Minimum quality score and a Monthly cap. The cap follows the days you pick until you change it.
Switch Enabled on and click Save. A new Autopilot starts with a 24 hour review window and a minimum quality score of 70.
An article that fails a gate always waits for you as a draft, whatever the policy, and you get a notification. The gates are the quality score, the link check and your brand voice's banned phrases.
Next article: when the next one is due, or Off or Paused. Once the month's cap is written it says Month's cap reached 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. It warns when the account's balance is short of a month of Autopilot.
Last run: how the newest slot ended, with its topic and the reason when it was held or skipped: Writing, Draft ready, Held for review, Scheduled, Pull request open, Published, Skipped or Failed. The first run happens 24 hours before the first slot.
A slot missed by more than 2 hours (an outage, a long pause) is skipped rather than written late.
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 |
Three failed articles in a row | The last three articles failed to write or to publish. Check what each run says under Last run, fix the cause (often the destination), then Resume. A written article resets the count |
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 Content calendar as an Autopilot article, and its detail says where it publishes. Each run follows the article states from there: generating, scheduled, waiting for merge (for a GitHub repository), published. In agency mode, the portfolio calendar shows the upcoming slots of every brand, each under its brand's name.
Each Autopilot article that goes live gets links back from your related posts, like any other article. To add them without a click, turn on Add the links back automatically in the editor's Details tab or in Brand settings > Voice: it is a setting of the brand, not of the Autopilot, so it works for every article that goes live and needs no Autopilot. On WordPress (connected or hosted) the link goes onto the post; other sites get a task with the sentence to paste. 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 10 credits as writing one by hand. Editors change the settings; viewers can read them. Turning it off works on any plan.
Publishing your content: the destinations Autopilot can publish to
Content calendar: where every slot stands
Understanding credits: what Autopilot costs
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