Tasks

The Tasks page has three distinct areas: the Autopilot card, the Auto-publish card, and the Automations list of recurring jobs.

Autopilot card

Autopilot handles your weekly content planning autonomously. It decides how many posts to draft, which topics to cover, and which platforms to hit, based on your campaigns and content strategy. The Autopilot card is where you turn that on and configure it. The weekly planning job it runs does not appear in the Automations list below; it has its own settings on the card.

For a full walkthrough of Autopilot, including how to tune its topic mix and posting cadence, see the Autopilot guide.

Auto-publish card

Auto-publish is a single workspace-level toggle. When it is on, posts you have approved publish automatically when their scheduled date arrives. When it is off (the default), every approved post stays in the queue until you send it manually.

Three kinds of automations

The Automations list shows your recurring jobs. There are three types:

• Content pipeline. Plan and draft posts on a schedule. 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.

Managing automations

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 automations

• “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.”