Auto-create lets a campaign make its posts without you pressing a button. Every 30 minutes SongPilot checks for slots dated today or earlier, going by UTC dates, and makes them as long as the spending has been agreed. It only makes the videos. Nothing is posted until someone schedules the post.

To turn it off now

Open the campaign. On the Auto-create is on card, choose Turn off. You’ll see Auto-create is off.

From then on:

The regular check skips this campaign, so it starts nothing new and asks for nothing.
A recipe campaign stops adding new slots ahead of today.
A post already being made carries on and is charged. A post waiting in line doesn’t run.
A spending request already waiting stays in your Inbox. If someone approves it now, it closes without running and nothing is charged.

You can still fill any slot by hand. Turn off needs a role that can edit campaigns.

The campaign page has no switch to turn it back on. To do that, ask your agents in chat: they tell you what it will cost, and you answer yes in a later message before anything changes. See Talk to your agents.

Pausing also stops the regular check. The menu on the Campaigns list offers Pause Campaign only on an Active campaign. A new campaign is Planning and shows Mark as Active, so choose that first and then Pause Campaign. To stop new spending right away, use Turn off. While paused, Auto-create stays on, and work resumes when you choose Resume Campaign. Slots dated during the pause are then due straight away.

Turn it on

Auto-create is chosen when you create a campaign. It starts on for a recipe and off for a campaign template. See Create a campaign.

The form shows an estimate per short and per day for your recipe. When you choose Create Campaign, a dialog titled Turn on auto-create? repeats the estimate. Going ahead needs your role to include the right to spend credits on AI, and the workspace needs credits or its own key. Without it, you’ll be told your role doesn’t include this, and the campaign isn’t created.

What it costs

Auto-create charges the same as making the post by hand. The daily estimate multiplies the price of one post by your Posts per day. A recipe campaign keeps topping itself up, so this carries on each day for as long as Auto-create is on. It doesn’t end when the first batch of slots runs out.

Credits are charged when a post is actually made, and they come from the workspace’s shared balance. Prices can change, so rely on the estimate on screen. For how the balance works, see Understand how credits work.

How the credit limit works

Credit limit for this campaign is the most Auto-create may commit to on its own. The box starts empty, and the estimate above it is a guide to what to type. Leave it empty and every post asks for approval first, unless your workspace auto-approves AI spending in settings. After the campaign exists, the page only offers a limit box once the limit is reached, so to change it sooner, ask your agents in chat.

Here’s what happens on each check for each due slot, which is any open slot dated today or earlier:

It fits under the limit: the slot’s estimate is added to the campaign’s running total, and the post is made without asking anyone.
It would go over the limit, or there’s no limit: the post isn’t made. A spending request goes to your Inbox and the slot waits.

With no limit set, every post asks first, unless your workspace has turned on auto-approve (below).

The limit counts estimates as posts start. Approved requests count toward the running total too.

The limit only covers the regular check. Choosing Auto-create or Auto-create all due yourself shows its own price and asks you to confirm, and isn’t held back by the limit.

When the limit is reached

The campaign shows a Credit limit reached card. It stays that way until you act, and each later post asks for approval when it comes due. Nothing is charged while a request waits.

You have four options:

Raise it: type a higher number in the card, which starts at double the old limit, and choose Raise limit. The next check uses the new number. Requests already waiting stay waiting, so decide those as well.
Approve posts one at a time: use your Inbox, as below.
Stop: choose Turn off.
Auto-approve everything: see the last section. Most workspaces shouldn’t.

Decide a spending request

A request appears in Inbox titled Approve AI spending?, naming the post, its campaign and the estimated credits. A slot on the timeline shows Waiting for approval with a link to the request.

Open it to see Estimated credits, when it was requested and when it expires, then choose Approve or Decline.

Approve: the credits are checked again and the post goes in line to be made. They’re charged when it runs. If there aren’t enough credits at that moment, the slot shows Skipped: not enough credits. If there would be, but some are set aside for other work still running, it shows Approved: waiting, credits are set aside for work in progress and goes ahead by itself once that work ends. If they run out before it runs, it shows Failed.
Decline: nothing is made or charged, and the slot shows Skipped: declined.
Do nothing: requests expire after 48 hours unless your workspace changed that. Nothing is made or charged, and the slot shows Skipped: approval expired. A reminder goes out after 24 hours by default.

A skipped slot isn’t asked about again. Fill it by hand if you still want it.

Declining needs a role allowed to decide AI spending. Approving also needs your role to include spending credits, and the workspace must have credits or its own key. If your role lacks these rights, the buttons don’t appear. If the workspace has no credits or own key, pressing Approve shows You can’t decide AI spending in this workspace. If someone has already decided, you’ll see Already decided or expired. Open it to see where it stands.

Who can do what

Turning Auto-create on, setting a limit, or resuming a paused Auto-create campaign needs the right to spend credits on AI. Turning it off only needs the right to edit campaigns.
Workspace settings for campaigns, under the gear icon below, need a role that manages campaigns. Process due slots now also needs the right to spend credits on AI.

If your role can’t do something, the message reads Your role doesn’t include this. Ask a workspace owner for access. On the Credit limit reached card, the message is Couldn’t update the limit.

Workspace settings that affect it

The gear icon on Campaigns opens two settings. Approval timeout (hours) is how long a spending request waits before it expires. Approval reminder (hours) is how long before a reminder goes out, and it also applies to videos awaiting review.

Process due slots now on the same screen runs the regular check for this workspace straight away instead of waiting up to 30 minutes. It follows the same rules: a post that fits under the credit limit is queued, and any other post sends a spending request to your Inbox. You’ll see how many were queued and how many are waiting for approval. It leaves slots that are waiting on a request or were skipped alone.

Auto-approve AI spending is under Settings, Workspace, in the danger zone, and only workspace owners can change it. With it on, requests are approved automatically, so posts run past the limit, and with no limit, without anyone being asked. Your allowance and credit packs can be used up without warning. Turning it on makes you type the workspace name. Requests already waiting stay waiting.

When you run out of credits

The regular check stops making posts for a workspace with no credits and no own key, and you get a Campaign paused: out of credits notification. The campaign’s status doesn’t change. The run picks up again once there are credits. Credits set aside for work still running don’t count as running out: the check waits for that work to end, with no notification.

Auto-create and credit limits