Workflows & Automation
How the scheduled jobs work and what you can turn on.
Borker has three independent automation loops. Each one runs on the same daily schedule but can be turned on or off individually.
Daily generation
Generates content from your topics and calendar slots.
News-reactive
Watches industry RSS feeds and creates reactive post drafts when relevant news breaks.
Auto-redistribute
Turns new blog posts from your own RSS feed into social posts across selected channels.
Where to enable them
All three toggles live in Settings → Schedule → Workflow Automation. You can turn any combination on or off. Everything runs together in a single daily run. Your calendar slots and posting times are interpreted in your workspace timezone, so a "Monday 9:00" slot means 9:00 where you are.
Manual triggers
The orange Run workflow button on the Command Center runs all currently-enabled automation immediately, independent of the schedule. Use it to:
- Test automation after changing settings
- Skip waiting for tomorrow's run when you want to see content now
- Recover from a failed or skipped run
Manual triggers covers this in detail.
What happens after you approve
Approving is the handoff. It is the one step Borker needs from you, and once an item reaches the Approved tab the system carries it the rest of the way:
- Approval is yours. Borker never publishes content you haven't approved, unless you set Approval mode to Auto in Settings → Schedule, which approves generated drafts on your behalf
- Scheduling is automatic. The next daily run picks up everything in Approved that has no time yet and places each item in your next available calendar slot, respecting your minimum gap between posts and your daily maximum
- Publishing is automatic. Scheduled posts go out at their time
You can still pick times yourself. Use Schedule on an approved item to set an exact time before the daily run gets to it. If you change your mind after approving, move the item back to Review, or use Unschedule if it already has a time.
The daily workflow produces raw material and fills your Review tab. Your job is deciding what's good enough to go out. Once you approve, timing and publishing are handled for you.
Why didn't a draft generate today?
If you expected drafts and got nothing, the cause is almost always one of:
- Daily generation didn't pick anything for today. No slot for today's day of the week, no topics defined, generation toggle off, no connected channel for the slot's platform, or you hit your plan's monthly generation cap. Full list on Daily generation → Why didn't a draft generate today?.
- News-reactive saw no news worth posting about. Either no industry-relevant articles published that day, or articles failed the keyword + relevance filter. See News-reactive → What makes an article "reactive".
- Auto-redistribute found no new blog posts. Either no new posts in your RSS feed since the last run, or the post was already redistributed. See Auto-redistribute → What gets skipped.
The Command Center toast after a Run workflow click summarizes which loops ran, what each one did, and whether anything errored.