Lesson 1 of 10 · 4 min
What Autopilot is
Describe an Autopilot workflow as a trigger plus nodes, tell a draft from a live version, and know it stays inside one project.
Video walkthrough coming soon
Autopilot
One place for automation
Autopilot is the one place in Pinnora where work runs on its own. Open a project and choose Autopilot. You see the workflows in that project, whether each one is live, and how its last run went.
There used to be a separate Workflows page. It is gone. Old links to it now open Autopilot.
A workflow is a chain of steps
A workflow is a set of nodes joined by lines on a canvas. Data flows along the lines from left to right.
- A trigger starts it. It can start on a schedule, when you click a button, on a webhook call, when a form is submitted, on a Pinnora event like a creative finishing, or on an ad platform event.
- Nodes do the work. Some generate static ads, images, video, or email. Some write text or run an AI agent. Others schedule posts, launch ads, send a broadcast, post to Slack, call an API, or branch on a condition.
- Each node passes items on. Whatever one node outputs, the next node can read.
Think of it as a recipe card. The trigger says when to cook. Each node is one step, and each step uses what the step before it made.
Draft and live
Every workflow has a draft. You edit and test the draft as much as you like. Nothing runs on its own while a workflow is only a draft.
When you publish, Pinnora saves that version and makes it live. Its triggers start firing. You can keep editing the draft afterward without touching the live version. The live version only changes when you publish again.
It stays inside your project
A workflow belongs to one project. It uses that project's brand, library, and connected accounts. Other projects cannot see it, and nothing about it is public. Forms and chats you build in Autopilot are open only to signed-in members of the project.
Where Atlas fits
You can build every workflow by hand. You can also ask Atlas in chat to draft one for you. Atlas writes the draft, and you review it on the canvas. Atlas never publishes a workflow or turns it on without your approval.