Publishing & automation14 min/autopilot
Autopilot: daily automated content
Set a brief once and let Dukun Ads generate and publish every day, in copy, image, video or your own media.
Last reviewed 2026-07-20
Autopilot is the core of Dukun Ads. You describe your niche, audience and tone once; it generates content and publishes it to a specific social account every day, at times you choose.
Autopilots are configured per social account, and one account can have several — for example one running educational posts in the morning and one running product promos in the evening. Everything below happens at /autopilot.
Step by step
Open the account and create an autopilot
Each connected account appears as a collapsible card. Expand the one you want and press + Add autopilot, or edit the one already there. The card header shows how many autopilots exist for the account and how many are switched on.
Give it a name you will recognise later — Morning tips, Product promo. If you arrived here from the 🛸 Autopilot shortcut on /accounts, the right account is already open.
Choose the content mode
Four modes decide what gets produced each time:
Mode What it produces Credit cost ✍️ Copywriting Text post only Lowest — text generation only 🖼️ Image + copy A generated image plus a caption Text + image model cost 🎬 Video + copy A generated video plus a caption Text + video model cost (highest) 📤 My content + copy A caption written over media you upload Text only Start with ✍️ Copywriting. It is the cheapest way to find out whether your brief is any good, and you can switch mode later without rebuilding anything.
Write the brief
The Prompt / niche box is the single most important field on this page. Everything the autopilot writes comes from it. Be specific about the audience, what they believe, what you want them to do, and what you sell.
A prompt that produces usable posts Audience: salaried Malaysians 25-35, take-home under RM5,000, who think saving is impossible until they earn more. Angle: automatic transfers beat willpower and budgeting apps. I sell a RM39 budgeting template. Never open with a question. No motivational-poster language.Then set the supporting fields: Type (Tips & guides, Storytelling, Product soft-sell, or Mixed), Tone (Casual, Professional, Provocative, Funny) and Language (Bahasa Melayu or English).
Attach products, if you sell something
Tick Include my products & affiliate links to let the AI reference your saved products naturally. To go further, pick a specific Product and tick Generate content based on this product — the model then follows that product's name and description in every post, and the affiliate link is woven into the caption automatically.
This is covered in depth in product-driven autopilot.
Set frequency and posting times
Use the Posts per day slider (1 to 10). One time field appears per post, and the times are Malaysia time (GMT+8) — there is no separate timezone selector, so convert if your audience is elsewhere.
Start at one post per day for the first two weeks. Consistency matters more than volume, and one post a day for a month beats thirty posts in a week followed by silence.
Choose models and destinations
LLM model (copywriting) selects the model that writes the copy — it is searchable, so type claude, gpt or gemini to filter. Image mode adds an Image model field and video mode adds a Video model field, each defaulting to a fast, cheap option.
Save posts to table decides which sheet on /content the generated posts land in. Also post to (same content) cross-posts the identical generated content to other connected accounts — this is how one autopilot feeds a Threads account and a Facebook Page at the same time.
For TikTok accounts there is an extra block: who can view the post (public, friends, or only you) and whether comments, Duet and Stitch are allowed.
Test before you trust it
Press Save, then 🧪 Test post. This publishes one real post to the account immediately so you can judge the actual output rather than a preview.
Read it on the platform. If it is wrong, change the prompt — not the post. The prompt is what runs tomorrow.
Run it, and control it day to day
Make sure the autopilot is enabled. The collapsed card then shows a ● Running chip and a Today's content progress bar counting posts published today against your posts-per-day setting.
- ▶ Run now — generate and publish the next post immediately, without waiting for the scheduled time.
- ⏸ Stop — pause this autopilot. Nothing is deleted.
- ▶ Continue — resume a stopped autopilot.
- 🧪 Test post — publish one real test post.
- Delete — remove the autopilot entirely.