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Getting Started

Choose how much approval control you want, then follow the shortest path from a new Site to a delivered Article.

Home always shows the next required action. The core journey is Site Profile, Content Strategy, Ideas, then a delivered Article. Research, Sources, Keywords, Media, and CMS Connections are optional.

Before You Begin

  • Sign in with Google. Production Tallpine accounts use Google sign-in. If your account needs a subscription, Tallpine opens secure Stripe Checkout automatically.
  • Start your subscription. Eligible new subscribers add a card and receive a 3-day full-access trial for exactly one Site. The the subscription's normal one-Site Article and Idea allowances and its account-wide Pipeline limit apply during the trial.
  • Choose your content mode deliberately. Review first waits for you at the Idea and Draft gates. Autopilot can publish AI-written Articles without another click after setup. In either mode, you remain responsible for facts, claims, links, Images, permissions, and what appears on your Site.

The first successful subscription payment starts a fresh monthly usage window. See Billing for the exact allowances and trial terms.

1. Create a Site

A Site is the workspace for one brand or website. Give it a clear name and add the public website URL if you have one. The URL is optional; you can start from information you enter yourself.

If you manage more than one brand, create a separate Site for each so their Profiles, Sources, Ideas, Articles, and delivery settings remain separate.

During Site creation, choose Review first or Autopilot. Review first is the recommended default. Autopilot is selected immediately but remains safely in Setup needed until the account has an active subscription, the Site has a healthy primary Connection, and a valid daily publishing time is saved. You can change this later from Publishing.

2. Complete the Site Profile

Open Site Profile and add the Business Name. Then review the industry, audience, business description, differentiators, offer, and voice. This is the context Tallpine uses throughout the workflow.

If you supplied a public URL, Tallpine can analyze available pages and suggest Profile content. Treat every suggestion as a starting point, correct anything incomplete, and save the version you want the Agents to use.

A useful Profile is specific. Explain what you sell, who benefits, why they choose you, and what should never be claimed.

3. Add Evidence When It Helps

You can move directly to Content Strategy. These optional tools serve different later steps:

  • Research can analyze your public Site, public competitors, and Keyword opportunities that can inform Strategy.
  • Sources can hold files, pasted text, and imported public pages that you have the right to use. Select them later when generating Ideas; Sources do not feed Content Strategy.

Research and Sources are optional. Start with current, authoritative inputs. More material is not automatically better, and generated research still needs verification.

4. Build the Content Strategy

Open Strategy, choose a content goal, and generate the Site's direction. Tallpine combines the Site Profile and active content goals with saved competitor and Keyword research and the Active Keywords list.

Review the proposed audience, themes, angles, and priorities. If something important is missing, improve the Profile, goals, competitor research, or Keyword research and refresh the Strategy. This Strategy guides future Ideas; it is not a promise of search performance.

5. Build the Idea Queue

Review first

  1. Open Ideas and choose Generate Ideas.
  2. Choose 1 to 10 Ideas and select any Sources that should ground this batch. One request uses one Idea batch.
  3. Review the title, angle, audience, and Keywords in the Review view.
  4. Choose Approve Article for strong Ideas or Pass for the rest.

Approval adds the Idea to the Article queue; it does not use an Article allowance yet. The Sources selected for the Idea batch remain attached to the approved Idea and are the private Sources available to its Article Pipeline.

Autopilot

Connect and test the Site's default destination, then open Publishing and choose one daily time and timezone. Once the Autopilot banner says Autopilot active, Tallpine creates four included Ideas for that Site each local day. Your existing queue stays first, and Tallpine queues the next eligible Idea as Article allowance permits. Workers start it when Pipeline execution capacity is available.

Daily Autopilot Ideas do not reduce the manual Idea-batch pool, so manual generation cannot starve the daily supply. Autopilot safely retries failed preparation steps and stops reserving new Articles when Article allowance is unavailable. Busy Pipeline slots simply keep eligible Jobs queued. A manual Generate Ideas request remains available and uses one manual Idea batch.

6. Choose How the Article Starts

Use the Managed Queue

Approved Ideas move through the queue in order. Tallpine queues eligible Articles as allowance permits, and workers claim them when Pipeline execution capacity is available. A default Connection and saved daily publishing time are not required for writing to begin.

Before generation starts, a waiting Idea has not consumed an Article. If delivery setup is missing, Tallpine can still finish the Draft and hold it until a healthy primary Connection and daily publishing time are saved. The Queue shows whether work is queued for a worker, running, or waiting for delivery setup.

Start It Manually

Open Create Articles when you want to start one or more approved Ideas yourself. Select the Ideas, apply shared target length, tone, Image, and other generation settings, then queue each Article Job in one request. In Review first, each finished Draft remains private until you approve it for the publishing queue.

7. Follow Progress

The Article Pipeline researches, outlines, writes, checks, and optionally curates Images in the background. Follow it in the Queue, Articles, or Activity. You can continue using Tallpine while work runs.

Create Articles confirms Article allowance and other access rules for each selected Job. Workers enforce Pipeline concurrency when they claim queued work, so an eligible Job waits safely for execution capacity instead of being rejected for the selection size. A terminal failure releases the reserved Article. Some failed jobs can be retried from Activity or their related page.

8. Review the Draft

In Review first, open the Draft from Articles, read it, then choose Approve for publishing. Until that second approval, the Draft stays private and Publishing labels it Needs your approval. In Autopilot, this approval is recorded automatically and labeled Approved by Autopilot. Monitor published output regularly even though interaction is not required for each Article. Check:

  • factual claims, quotations, dates, names, and links;
  • tone, structure, repetition, and fit for the intended audience;
  • title, excerpt, slug, Keywords, meta title, and meta description;
  • Image relevance, permissions, attribution, captions, and alt text.

Direct edits are free. Use Quick edits for focused AI-assisted changes; Guided rewrite or From scratch when the Article needs a new generation.

9. Deliver or Export

  • Keep private leaves the Draft in Tallpine without publishing approval.
  • Approve for publishing adds the reviewed Article to the daily queue for the Site's primary Connection.
  • Publish now sends any ready Articles you select in their visible queue order. Unselected Articles keep their automatic dates. Manual publishing is separate from the automatic daily slot.
  • Export creates a portable ZIP with Markdown, metadata, and available Images. Export does not consume an Article and does not mean the Article is live.

Pause Autopilot from Publishing when new work should return to Review first. Unstarted Autopilot Ideas return to Review and future Autopilot approvals are removed from the queue; already-started Drafts are kept.

Next Steps

  • Learn how approved Ideas enter the queue in Ideas.
  • Set up WordPress, Payload CMS, or the daily publishing time in Publishing & Queue.
  • If something is stuck, use the recovery steps in Troubleshooting.
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