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Getting Started

Getting Started

Go-live checklist

What needs to be true before autopilot can start, and what the final setup step does.

July 11, 2026

The last step of setup is "Finish setup & start." Here's exactly what needs to be in place before you reach it, and what actually happens when you click it.

What you need first

  • A connected, healthy site. See the connect guide for your platform. If your connection has broken since you first set it up, see Reconnecting and token health before continuing.
  • A reviewed business profile: the positioning, audience, voice, and topics HarperFlow learned about you in the Learn step, edited if anything was off.
  • A confirmed destination: a collection or blog chosen and validated, so HarperFlow knows exactly where drafts should land. See Custom field mapping.
  • A plan, either a free trial or a paid subscription. See Your free trial.

Authors and promotional callouts are optional and can be skipped or turned off. You can always come back and add them later.

What "Finish setup & start" actually does

Clicking it runs a short chain. HarperFlow creates your project, picks (or falls back to) keyword and competitor seeds from your profile for discovery, drafts your initial topic clusters, saves your onboarding profile and collection mapping together, and turns on scheduled auto-publish. Once this finishes, your workspace moves from "being set up" to "running."

What happens right after

Nothing publishes silently. Once autopilot is on, every new article gets a scheduled publish slot, and you're emailed a summary before anything goes out: a window to review and pull anything you don't want before it becomes live on your site.

Note: If "Finish setup & start" fails partway through, a network hiccup, for example, it's safe to click it again. HarperFlow remembers the project it already created during that attempt and won't create a duplicate; it just resumes from where the chain stopped.