Draft social posts with AI and approve them before publishing

Turns content ideas from a spreadsheet into platform-ready posts, sent for your approval before anything is published.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Repeats reviewer rejects the draft; runs once per each content idea; a person has to approve before it continues.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetRepeat or finishResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsSocial Media ManagementSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsAnthropic ClaudeGoToHuman

The problem it solves

Writing a fresh post for every platform, every week, takes real time, and it is easy to lose track of what is approved versus what is still a draft. You want AI to speed up the writing without losing your final say on what actually goes out.

Who it fits

Marketing teams managing content across multiple social platforms who want AI drafting with human sign-off.

How it works

  1. Content ideas are pulled from your Google Sheets editorial plan
  2. AI writes a platform-specific post for each idea, using the right tone and format
  3. Each draft is sent to a reviewer for approval
  4. If rejected, AI automatically rewrites and resubmits the post
  5. Approved posts and their status are updated back in Google Sheets
What you get

Posts that go out looking exactly right

Turn your content ideas into platform-ready social posts, drafted and waiting for your quick sign-off.

What you get

Platform-ready social posts with a clear approval trail, tracked in Google Sheets.

What you need

A Google Sheets account, an Anthropic API key, and a GoToHuman account for approvals.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

Let's Talk Strategy

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