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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:
Activating and pausing live in the Settings tab. You can pause anytime without losing your flow.