Chapter 23 · Operate

Autopilot

After this chapter you can build, test, publish, and run a workflow in Autopilot that connects triggers, AI steps, social, ads, and email inside one project, with budgets and safety limits that keep it under control.

10 lessons · 48 min

Autopilot is where you automate work in Pinnora. You build a workflow on a canvas. Each step is a node. A trigger starts it, and the nodes after it make creatives, write copy, post to your channels, launch ads, send email, or call other tools. If you have used n8n, the editor will feel familiar on purpose.

Every workflow lives inside one project. It can read that project's brand, library, and connected accounts, and nothing outside the project can see it. Workflows are never public. Publishing a workflow means it goes live in this project, not that anyone else can open it.

You build and test on a draft. Execute workflow runs the draft right away so you can see what each step produced. When it works, you publish it. Publishing makes that version live and turns on its triggers.

Pricing is simple. Each live workflow costs 2 credits a day. AI steps use credits as they run, at the same rates as everywhere else in Pinnora. Every other step is free, within fair-use limits.

This chapter walks the whole path. You will start from a template, learn the canvas, map data between steps, test with pinned data, publish, set budgets, and read executions when something fails. The last lesson lists what Autopilot does not do, so you know where its edges are.

  1. What Autopilot isDescribe an Autopilot workflow as a trigger plus nodes, tell a draft from a live version, and know it stays inside one project.4 min
  2. Your first workflow from a templateCreate a workflow from a template, connect the accounts its nodes need, and run it once as a test.5 min
  3. The canvas and its nodesAdd nodes from each group on the canvas and set one up in its details view with Input, Parameters, and Output.6 min
  4. Map data between stepsPass data from one node to the next by dragging fields into parameters and reading the expressions that creates.5 min
  5. Test with Execute and pinned dataTest a draft with Test run (Test safely is free and sends nothing) and Test this step, and pin data to skip slow, costly, or risky steps while you build.5 min
  6. Publish a workflow and what it costsPublish a workflow so its triggers go live, and work out its real cost from the daily fee plus the AI steps it runs.5 min
  7. Budgets, limits, and safety settingsSet per-run and monthly credit budgets, quiet hours, and error handling, and know what pauses a live workflow on its own.5 min
  8. Executions, debugging, and version historyReplay a run node by node, fix a failure with Debug in editor and Retry, and restore an earlier version when you need to.5 min
  9. Co-editing, Atlas drafts, and n8n importEdit a workflow with teammates live, review a draft Atlas wrote for you, and move workflows in and out as n8n JSON.4 min
  10. What Autopilot does not doState the real limits of Autopilot so you plan around them instead of discovering them in a live run.4 min

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