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Automations are in beta. The building blocks below are stable, but expect new node types and refinements over time.
Automations let you wire together a flow that runs on its own: a trigger starts it, action nodes fetch data and generate content, and output nodes publish posts or call webhooks. Think of it as a visual pipeline for content that would otherwise be manual. A few things you can build:
  • Turn a blog or news RSS feed into a daily AI-written post.
  • React whenever you publish a post and notify an external service.
  • Pull data from any HTTP API and generate a post from it on a schedule.

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How a flow works

Every automation is a graph of nodes connected by lines:
1

A trigger starts the flow

A schedule, or a post being published or scheduled. There is exactly one trigger per automation.
2

Action nodes do the work

Fetch an RSS feed or HTTP endpoint, generate content with AI, branch on a condition, or wait.
3

Output nodes deliver the result

Publish the generated post, or send a webhook to another system.
Data flows downstream: each node can use the data produced by the nodes connected before it. See Variables and expressions for the full picture.

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The editor

Open an automation to land in the Workflow editor — a canvas where you drag nodes from the sidebar and connect them. Click any node to open its settings in that same panel. The detail screen has four tabs:

Workflow

The visual editor where you build and save the flow.

Invocations

A log of every real run, with per-node detail. See Monitoring.

Metrics

Run health and output charts over a date range.

Settings

Rename, activate or pause, and delete the automation.

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Build your first automation

1

Create the automation

Go to Automations and click New automation. It opens in the Workflow editor with a schedule trigger already in place.
2

Configure the trigger

Click the trigger node and pick when it fires — a schedule, or a post event. See Triggers and nodes.
3

Add action nodes

Drag nodes from the sidebar onto the canvas and connect them by dragging from one node’s handle to the next.
4

Reference data between nodes

In any text field, type {{ to autocomplete the data available at that point in the flow.
5

Test it

Click Run test to execute the flow end-to-end with synthesized data before going live.
6

Save and activate

Click Save, then open the Settings tab and flip the status switch to activate. The automation now runs on its own.

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Statuses

An automation is always in one of three states:
StatusMeaning
DraftBeing built. It never runs.
ActiveLive. The trigger fires and the flow runs.
PausedStopped. The trigger no longer fires until you reactivate it.
Activating and pausing live in the Settings tab. You can pause anytime without losing your flow.