The action ladder

Autopilot's actions are rungs on a ladder, from writing you notes to doing the work and waiting for your approval. You choose how high any rule may climb.

Why a ladder and not a list

Each rung is worth more than the one below it and riskier than the one below it, in the same order. That means one number describes how much you trust Autopilot, your plan can cap it, and a rule that cannot reach its rung falls to the one underneath instead of failing.

Most people spend a week on "Draft it" before they go any higher. That is the intended path, not a beginner mode.

Research it

Reads around the step and writes tips, resources and the traps people fall into.

You get: Notes on the crumb
You do: Nothing. Read them when you get there.

Plan it

Breaks the step into smaller steps, the same way a task is broken down.

You get: Sub-steps
You do: Nothing, though you can edit or delete them.

Draft it

Produces the actual thing as a draft. The email, the outline, the checklist, the snippet.

You get: A draft attached to the crumb
You do: You finish it and mark it done yourself.

Work with me

Proposes the next small move and waits for you, as a thread on the step.

You get: A back and forth
You do: You are in it the whole time.

Complete, then ask me

Does the whole step, then stops. The step moves to awaiting approval.

You get: A result, plus an approval request
You do: Approve, reject or edit. Nothing is done until you do.

L6, and why you cannot pick it yet

The ladder has a sixth rung, "Complete and decide", where Autopilot scores its own result and only asks you when the score is low. It is on the premium plan in the model, and premium is not on sale yet.

Two things sit between it and you, and both are true today. The scoring step it depends on is not built. And for the launch period a server setting forces every result from L5 and L6 to wait for a person, whatever an account's settings say.

So there is no configuration of Syncflow today in which Autopilot finishes your work without you looking at it. If you read that anywhere, including from us, it is wrong.

Extras that stack on top

These are not rungs. Any number of them can ride along with the action a rule chose.

Ask me first-- a one-tap "go ahead?" before anything runs
Tell me -- a line in your digest, used heavily in shadow mode
Schedule -- move it to today, snooze it, make it next, or block time for it
Tag it -- so you can find these later
Hand to my machine -- force this one to run on your own computer
Never automate -- mark a step off limits for good

Sending emails and messages

Autopilot does not send anything. A communication step gets drafted and the draft sits there until you send it. Sending on your behalf is a planned premium feature with its own consent step, and it does not exist in the product today.

Tip: Rules never delete or rewrite what you wrote. An action adds something and changes the step's Autopilot status. A step you have already started is left alone.

What each plan may reach is on the pricing page, and the limits that cap a rule regardless are in guardrails.

← Autopilot Guardrails & limits→

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