On-demand runs

Autopilot runs on its own cadence, but you can also trigger a run yourself at any moment. HarperFlow calls this an on-demand run, and it's the same writing pipeline autopilot uses, just started by a click instead of a clock.

Single article or a full batch

You choose the scope when you trigger a run:

• Write one produces exactly one article right now, on a topic HarperFlow discovers, or one you supply yourself; see Topic runs.
• Write everything remaining uses up whatever is left of your plan's quota for the current billing period in one request, spread across the rest of that period rather than published all at once.

It still gets a review window

An on-demand article isn't published the instant it's written. It goes through the exact same scheduling step as an autopilot article: a real future publish slot, with the veto window open until that time arrives. Requesting a run yourself doesn't skip the review step; it just decides when the writing starts.

Your free trial runs on this

If you're on a free trial, on-demand runs are how you experience HarperFlow before committing to autopilot: your trial period and article allowance are delivered through on-demand requests you make yourself, at your own pace.

Cancelling a run

Right after you request a run, there's a short window, about two minutes, where you can cancel it outright with nothing charged against your quota. After that window closes, the run is already being written, and any articles it produces will count against your budget as they land, though you can still skip any of them individually before they publish.

Note: Even a single-article, on-demand request doesn't publish immediately. It produces a scheduled draft with its own publish time and veto window, exactly like an autopilot article does.

Related

• Topic runs
• Scheduling and spread
• Article states
• Your free trial