Content Quality & Brain
The content types and topic clusters that shape the variety of articles autopilot writes.
Two settings decide what autopilot actually writes about: content types control the format, and topic clusters control the subject matter. Together, they're what keeps a month of autopilot output from reading like the same handful of article shapes on repeat.
HarperFlow can write in 16 formats, including comparison tables, how-to guides, buyer's guides, checklists, case studies, decision guides, and troubleshooting guides. Onboarding starts you with all 16 in play; you can narrow the list to just the formats that fit your site from your project settings at any time, and broaden it again later if you change your mind. HarperFlow picks whichever allowed format best fits a given keyword itself, rather than you choosing one per article.
Topic clusters are the subject areas your content covers, drawn from your niche during onboarding. HarperFlow drafts an initial set of 12 candidates for you to review, and you can edit that list, renaming, removing, or adding to it, into a final reviewed set of anywhere from 12 to 24 clusters before autopilot is allowed to run.
Autopilot requires at least 12 reviewed, active clusters before it will dispatch a run. This isn't a soft recommendation: a project sitting below that line simply won't be picked up until you're back above it, no matter how healthy the rest of its setup is.
If you reset onboarding and go through cluster review again, your previous clusters aren't deleted. They're marked inactive instead, so any already-published articles keep their original topic-cluster association even though the cluster itself no longer counts toward your active set.
Warning: A big edit to your topic clusters, or a reset, can temporarily drop you below the 12-cluster minimum and pause autopilot until you've reviewed enough of them again.