An automation is a task brief that runs on a schedule. “Every Monday at 9am, draft a thread recapping last week’s product changes” — the automation spawns a fresh task each cycle, the draft lands in review, and you approve it like anything else. Recurring content, same human gate.
Schedules
An automation runs on a cron-style schedule or manually on demand. You don’t need to know cron — describe the rhythm in plain English when creating one and Automate It parses it. You can also cap total runs (useful for a limited campaign) or hit Run now at any time; if a run is already in flight, running again is safely refused.
Lead time
Drafts are created ahead of their scheduled publish time — by default 24 hours, configurable per automation. That’s your review window: content for Monday 9am is sitting in the queue Sunday morning, not racing you at 8:59.
The Schedule calendar
The Schedule tab is a calendar of everything queued to go out — tasks from automations and one-off scheduled tasks alike. It’s the answer to “what’s publishing this week?”
Requires review
Automations default to requiring review, and that’s the right setting for almost everything. Turning it off means spawned tasks publish without a human looking at them — reserve it for genuinely mechanical output.
Deleting an automation also deletes the tasks it created. Pause by editing the schedule instead if you want to keep the history.
