Content Quality & Brain
The two checks HarperFlow runs on an article's sources and links before it ever reaches your schedule.
Citing real, working sources is part of what makes HarperFlow's articles trustworthy to both readers and AI search systems. Two separate checks make sure of it.
Before an article is scheduled, HarperFlow checks every source link it plans to cite to confirm it resolves to a real, reachable page, not a dead link or a search-results page that got swept up during research by mistake. A cap limits how many citation links a single article carries, and when good sources are thin, HarperFlow adds real links back in rather than shipping an under-sourced draft.
Separately, every article passes through a gate that checks the links themselves for problems your CMS shouldn't carry: leaked search-engine result links, a link whose visible text names your brand but points somewhere you don't own, or a link to a competitor's domain you've told HarperFlow about. Any of these gets automatically corrected or removed. A hallucinated wrong-domain version of your own site, your .com cited instead of your real .io, for instance, gets quietly rewritten to the domain you actually own, rather than stripped outright.
HarperFlow also never links to a product page on another site: a competitor's product, a marketplace listing such as Amazon or Etsy, or an app, plugin, theme or template listing from a platform's marketplace. The rule applies to the article body and its Sources list, the Post Markdown field, the FAQ answer fields, and the exports you download. The words stay in the article; only the link is removed. Links to product pages on your own domain and its subdomains are kept, such as a shop.yourbrand.com store linked from a www.yourbrand.com blog. Your own marketplace listings stay linked too, such as your app's Shopify App Store listing, your plugin's WordPress.org page, or your product's page on a listing site such as Product Hunt, whenever the listing's name starts with your domain name.
No. Every article is scheduled with a publish time, whatever these checks find. The gate corrects or removes the links it catches before the article reaches your site, and your review happens in the veto window before that publish time, when you can skip anything you don't want to go live; see Reviewing before publish.
Tip: To see how well an article is sourced, open its Quality & trust tab. It shows how many sources the article cites and how many of its claims were checked against them.
