Tasks

Scheduled tasks

A task is a recurring job HERALD runs on a schedule. The content lands in your Pending queue the same way a chat brief does.

Three kinds of tasks

• Content pipeline. Plan and draft posts. Example: “Plan and draft three LinkedIn posts for next week, every Sunday at 5pm.” HERALD decides the angles, drafts them, and drops them into Pending scheduled across the week.
• Research. Kick off a research report on a schedule. Example: “Refresh the competitor landscape every two weeks.” HERALD runs the job and files the report under Research.
• Scheduled publish. Publish a specific approved draft at a specific time. Use this when the review is already done and you just want a post to go out later.

How often they run

• Once. Runs at a single date and time, then disappears.
• Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Recurring on the schedule you pick. Weekly jobs let you pick the day and hour. Monthly jobs let you pick the day of the month.

Auto-publish (off by default)

Every task drafts into Pending and waits for your approval. If you trust a specific task, you can turn on auto-publish on the task itself. Drafts from that task skip review and publish straight away.

Leave it off during your first weeks. Turn it on for the specific kinds of posts where HERALD is already consistently hitting the mark.

Managing tasks

Go to the Tasks page in the sidebar. Pause, edit the schedule, change the prompt, or delete any time. Jobs that fail show a status badge with the error, and HERALD retries them on the next scheduled run.

Example briefs for common tasks

• “Plan and generate LinkedIn posts for next week. Three to five complete drafts, follow our brand voice and content strategy. Sundays at 5pm.”
• “Research our top three competitors' LinkedIn posts from the last 14 days. Note which angles got traction. Every second Monday at 9am.”
• “Draft a customer spotlight post using the testimonials in the Knowledge Hub tagged spotlight. First Monday of the month.”