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Autopilot — how to work with start conditions

Turn a single signal into a publishing routine that keeps running without you.

With Autopilot, a queue stops being a fixed list of dates. You describe the moment you care about, and the routine takes it from there — drafting, scheduling and pushing the post out across the accounts you picked.

In this guide we will build a routine from one start condition and watch it run end to end.

What is a start condition?

A start condition is the event that wakes a routine up. It can be a moment in time, something a teammate does inside the workspace, or a signal arriving from a service you have connected.

Every routine holds exactly one start condition, so a routine always has a single, readable reason to run. If you need the same set of actions to run for two different reasons, duplicate the routine and give each copy its own condition.