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Social Media Autopilot

You approve the posts. It does the posting.

Social Media Autopilot is a done-for-you automation that publishes your approved social posts to LinkedIn and X on a set schedule, pulling from a simple spreadsheet you control — so your accounts stay active without you logging in to post, and nothing is ever published that you have not personally approved.

Write your posts in a spreadsheet and mark the ones you approve. From there it publishes them to LinkedIn and X on schedule — the right post, on the right day, at a natural time. Nothing goes out without your sign-off. $899 setup, optional $299/mo to keep it running.

$899 setup+ $299/mo managed (optional)
2–3 business days

Posting consistently is the part almost everyone drops first. You write a batch of good posts, publish two, get busy, and the account goes quiet for a month — then you start over. Scheduling tools solve part of it but cost a subscription forever and put your content in someone else’s platform. We set up an automation that runs on your own accounts, publishes from a spreadsheet you already know how to use, and keeps going whether or not you think about it.

How it works

Three steps, then it runs for you

  1. Step 1

    You write and approve in a spreadsheet

    Each row is one post: the date you want it out, the text, and a status. Change the status to “approved” and it is cleared to publish. Leave it as a draft and it never will. Editing a post is editing a cell — no new tool to learn.

  2. Step 2

    It publishes on your schedule

    On the days and times you pick, it takes the oldest approved post that is due and publishes it — one post per slot, never a burst. Each post goes out at a slightly different minute so your feed reads like a person rather than a machine.

  3. Step 3

    It marks what it published

    After each successful post it writes the timestamp and the post’s ID back to your spreadsheet. That is both your record of what went live and the reason the same post can never be published twice.

What you get

In the Social Media Autopilot scope

  • Publishing to your LinkedIn profile and your LinkedIn Company Page — pick either or both
  • X (Twitter) publishing available on the same system, on your own X developer account (X bills posting separately — see the FAQ)
  • One spreadsheet queue, with the same simple columns for every platform
  • Approval required: a post with no sign-off is never published
  • Never posts twice, even if a run is repeated
  • Posts land at natural, varied times instead of the same minute every week
  • Too-long posts are flagged for you to shorten, never silently cut off
  • Runs on your own social accounts through the official APIs — you keep full control
  • A backed-up queue catches up on its own, oldest post first
  • Optional: post to several Company Pages from one queue — useful if you manage more than one brand
Case study

When “the automation ran successfully” but nothing happened

ArchiveLM — AI platform for searchable historical archives

Disclosure up front: ArchiveLM shares a founder with AutoMagic Agent. That is how the work started, and it is why we can open the hood further than a normal engagement lets us — so read this as a look at how we actually build, not as an independent reference.

ArchiveLM had done the sensible thing and set up an auto-poster to keep a steady LinkedIn presence without anyone babysitting it. And like most do-it-yourself automations, it carried a failure mode nobody caught until it mattered: the thing would run, report success, and post nothing.

The cause was quiet, which is what made it dangerous. The step that chose “today’s post” from the content sheet needed an exact date match. Miss by a day — a holiday, a server clock on the wrong timezone, a row that never got re-dated — and it selected nothing. An empty result is not an error, so the run finished green. Weeks of silence looked exactly like weeks of success.

We rebuilt the selection so it heals itself. Instead of demanding an exact date, it takes the oldest approved post that is due and has not gone out, publishes one, and writes a “posted” marker back to the sheet so it can never repeat — even if someone hits run twice by accident. Overdue content catches up on its own instead of disappearing.

Since we were already in there, we added the parts that make an automation genuinely hands-off: posts go out on a randomized delay inside the strongest engagement window, so it never reads as a bot firing on the dot; a single setup can publish to several company pages, routed by one column in the sheet, rather than a copy per brand; and a too-long post is flagged for a human to shorten instead of being silently cut off.

The outcome that counts: the founder stopped checking whether it posted. Publishing runs itself, a full quarter of content sits queued and dated, and the silent-failure mode is gone for good.

Our auto-poster used to fail silently — green checkmark, zero posts. AutoMagic Agent caught it, rebuilt it to fix itself, and I stopped thinking about scheduling entirely.
Michael De La GueraFounder, ArchiveLMDisclosure: ArchiveLM shares a founder with AutoMagic Agent. We are telling you that up front because you should weigh this differently than an arm’s-length review — it is a real deployment we run in production, not an independent endorsement.
Pricing
$899 setup

+ $299/mo managed (optional) · delivered in 2–3 business days

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Questions, answered

What is Social Media Autopilot?

It is a done-for-you automation that publishes your approved social posts to LinkedIn and X on a schedule. You keep your content in a simple spreadsheet and mark which posts are approved; the automation publishes the ones that are due, then records what it posted. It runs on your own social accounts, so there is no third-party scheduling subscription.

Can it post something I have not approved?

No. A post is only ever published when you have explicitly set its status to approved and its date has arrived. Anything left as a draft is ignored, permanently. This is the core design of the system, not a setting that can be switched off by accident.

Will it accidentally post the same thing twice?

No. The moment a post goes out, the automation writes a timestamp back to that row, and rows with a timestamp are skipped forever after. Even if the automation is re-run manually, an already-published post cannot go out again.

Does it write the posts for me?

Not on the base setup — you supply the content and it handles the publishing. If you want the posts drafted for you as well, that is covered two ways: the managed plan includes keeping your queue filled, or our AI Content Pipeline service builds a full research-and-draft workflow.

Is this against LinkedIn’s or X’s rules?

No. It publishes through the official APIs those platforms provide for exactly this purpose, using your own authorized account. We deliberately do not automate connection requests, direct messages, likes, or comments — those do breach platform terms and put accounts at risk. Posting is the part that is safe to automate, so posting is the only part we automate.

Can it post images, carousels, or video?

The setup covers text posts, which is the bulk of what most businesses publish. Image, carousel, and video posts are still worth doing by hand — a LinkedIn carousel in particular tends to perform best when posted natively. Tell us if richer media matters to you and we will scope it.

What do I need before you can set this up?

An account on each platform you want to publish to, and admin access to any Company Page. For a LinkedIn Company Page, LinkedIn also has to approve API access for your account — that approval is on their side and can take several days, so we start it on day one. Posting to LinkedIn itself is free.

Does X (Twitter) cost extra?

X charges for its own API, separately from us — that is a platform cost paid to X, not a fee we add. X now works on prepaid credits rather than a monthly subscription, and posting is billed per post, with posts containing a link costing more than plain-text ones. For a typical business posting a couple of times a day, that lands in the range of a few dollars a month, but you should confirm current rates in your own X developer console before committing. LinkedIn has no equivalent charge, which is why most clients start there.

How much does it cost?

It is $899 for the one-time setup, delivered in about two to three business days. The $299/mo managed plan is optional and covers keeping the automation running, keeping your posting queue filled, and reconnecting accounts when a platform expires its access. If we already manage another automation for you, each additional one is $199/mo instead of $299 — one managed relationship, not a stack of full-price plans. Platform API charges, where a platform has them, are billed to you by that platform directly.

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