How to fly this thing.

Getting started — the first 10 minutes

1. Connect your X account. Settings → Add X account. You authorize on x.com with OAuth — Flightdeck never sees your password, and the grant is encrypted before storage.
2. Add voice samples. Paste up to 20 of your best past posts in Settings. This is what makes AI drafts sound like you instead of like a press release.
3. Set your posting times. Pick the times per day (weekends included) when queued posts should go out, in your timezone.
4. Fill in your Context. Tell the AI who you are, who you're writing for, and your writing rules — or click "Infer from my posts" and edit the result.
5. Draft and queue your first post. Compose → type a topic → pick a tone → review, edit, queue. Done.

The lime banner at the top of the app tracks these steps and disappears when you're set up.

01 · Compose

What it is: the writing desk. Single posts, threads, quotes, and polls, with AI drafting and rewriting matched to your voice samples and Context.

How to use it: type a topic or rough idea, choose a tone, and generate. Use the rewrite buttons to iterate — sharpen the hook, improve clarity, make it bolder, compress it, expand it, or convert a post into a thread. Attach images, GIFs, or video with alt text; add a poll or quote a post. Drafts autosave, and reusable structures can be saved as templates. Queue sends it to the next free slot; pin it if you want an exact time.

Example: type "why most small businesses waste their ad budget", hit Punchier, run Stronger hook once, then Make thread — a five-post thread in your voice, ready to queue, in under two minutes.

02 · Growth

What it is: your idea engine and campaign planner. A six-card idea wall generated from your own best-performing posts, plus content campaigns with pillars and weekly mix targets.

How to use it: generate ideas when the well runs dry — each card comes from patterns in your own winners, not someone else's viral archive; one click loads an idea into Compose. Create campaigns (e.g. a product launch) with content pillars and weekly targets, then watch the seven-day queue-balance readout to see whether your queue actually matches the plan.

Example: create a campaign "September launch" with pillars product, founder story, and social proof at a 2/2/1 weekly mix. The balance readout shows you queued four product posts and zero founder posts — so you know exactly what to write next.

03 · Queue

What it is: everything scheduled, on a 14-day calendar, across all your connected X accounts.

How to use it: drag flexible posts to reorder them (they swap times automatically); pinned posts stay put. Edit or duplicate anything before it sends. Threads occupy one slot and publish as connected replies. The delivery inbox shows sent, failed, and stuck items — failures are never retried silently; you decide, so nothing can double-post.

Example: you queued five posts but Thursday's news makes one awkward. Open Queue, drag Friday's post into Thursday's slot, edit the awkward one, done — no copy-pasting between tools.

04 · Engage

What it is: the Action Inbox — mentions of your accounts and opportunities from your watchlist, in one review queue with reply drafting.

How to use it: sync mentions, then work the list: each item offers three editable, voice-matched reply options. Copy one, or hand it to X's native composer to send. Mark items handled (or snooze them); nothing ever replies automatically. A daily ten-item engagement workflow keeps the habit going, and a later metrics sync detects replies you actually posted and marks those targets done.

Example: morning coffee routine — open Engage, 7 new mentions. Three get a quick edited AI reply via the X handoff, two get marked handled (just likes needed), two get snoozed for the afternoon. Five minutes, inbox zero.

05 · Audience

What it is: a private relationship directory built from your followers — tags, notes, VIPs, and interaction history.

How to use it: import followers (in batches you control — imports use paid X reads, so nothing runs automatically), then tag the people who matter: customers, prospects, peers, press. Add notes so that when someone replies to you, you remember who they are.

Example: tag 15 followers as VIP · potential client. When one of them shows up in your Engage inbox, you know to write a real answer, not a quick emoji.

06 · Signals

What it is: your analytics — impressions, engagement, follower history, a posting-time heatmap, and breakdowns by format, tone, pillar, and media type. Honest by design: attribution is labeled an estimate, and the heatmap describes your observed results, not a magic algorithm.

How to use it: sync metrics daily (it also runs on a schedule), then read the breakdowns. Compare this 30 days against the last. Use "double down" pillar recommendations to decide next week's mix. Classify your recent posts into pillars with one AI pass to make the breakdowns richer. Export CSV when you want the raw data.

Example: the format breakdown shows your question posts get 3× the median engagement of your link posts. Next week: more questions, links moved into the replies.

07 · Ask

What it is: a private assistant that reasons over your own stored data — metrics, queue, campaigns, mentions, trends — with guided workflows for growth reviews, weekly recaps, planning, repurposing, queue audits, and reply sprints.

How to use it: pick a workflow or just ask. It never performs actions silently and never spends paid X reads — it works from what's already synced. When it proposes a post, you explicitly approve it into your draft library (never straight into the queue).

Example: run Cadence audit on Friday: "You post 80% in the morning, but your three best posts this month went out after 17:00. Your Tuesday slot has been empty for two weeks." Approve its suggested Tuesday-evening draft into your library, refine it in Compose, queue it.

08 · Workers

What it is: review-first AI writers on a schedule. Each Worker has a brief, content pillars, a batch size, and a daily, weekly, or manual schedule — and everything it produces lands in a review inbox, never in your queue.

How to use it: create a Worker with a clear brief, set a batch of 3–5, and a schedule. When a run completes, review each candidate: save to drafts, queue it, or dismiss it. Set a monthly run limit so a Worker can never surprise you on usage; pause it anytime.

Example: Worker "Monday tips" — brief: "practical e-commerce conversion tips, one concrete number each, no hype", batch of 3, every Monday 07:00. Monday morning you pick the best of three, tweak one line, queue it. Fifteen seconds of curation instead of thirty minutes of writing.

09 · Inspiration

What it is: a research tool — search up to 25 recent public X posts by topic (optionally by author) with transparent metrics and observed format labels. Searches use paid X reads and always show you the estimate first; results expire after 30 days. It is deliberately not a viral-post library.

How to use it: search a narrow topic, study what formats are landing, and save a reference. "Use as brief" hands it to Compose with an explicit do-not-copy instruction — you borrow the angle, never the words.

Example: before writing about pricing strategy, search "SaaS pricing". You notice the top posts are all numbered lists with a hard number in the hook. You write your own — same format, your ideas, your voice.

10 · Articles

What it is: a private Markdown workspace for long-form writing — with revision history, stored source links, AI-assisted drafting, and [VERIFY] markers on claims you should fact-check.

How to use it: draft newsletters, blog posts, or scripts with AI help, edit over multiple sessions (every save keeps a revision), and when a piece is done, hit Create private X thread to turn it into a thread draft — which lands in your private draft library for review, like everything else.

Example: a 900-word article on your Q3 lessons becomes a 6-post thread in one click; you tighten the hook in Compose and queue it for your best-performing time slot.

11 · Billing

What it is: your plan, credits, and a complete usage ledger. No mystery points: one AI draft ≈ 1 credit, publishing a post ≈ 2, a full metrics sync ≈ 26 — each credit is about one cent of real provider cost.

How to use it: check your credit balance and renewal date, buy a 500-credit top-up when needed (top-ups never expire and are spent after your monthly credits), and open Manage subscription to update your card or cancel. The activity ledger itemizes every operation, and failed AI calls are refunded automatically. On the BYOK plan this page reflects that AI and X usage run on your own keys, billed to you directly by your AI provider and X.

Example: mid-month you see 220 credits left with 10 days to renewal. The ledger shows daily metrics syncs are the biggest line item — you either top up $10 or sync every other day. Your call, with real numbers.

12 · Context

What it is: the brain behind every AI feature — who you are, who your audience is, your style guide, and separate rules for posts and replies. Private, isolated per connected X account, and injected into every drafting surface.

How to use it: fill it in by hand, or click Infer from my posts to draft it from your voice samples, then edit — your edits always win. Keep the writing rules short and firm ("never use hashtags", "no exclamation marks", "always include a concrete number").

Example: add "audience: bootstrapped founders doing $10k–100k/month; they hate fluff" and the rule "every post must contain one actionable step". Every draft, reply, Worker batch, and idea card immediately reflects it — across all AI features at once.

Settings

The gear behind everything: timezone and posting times, voice samples, connected X accounts, collaborators (Writer / Reviewer / Publisher / Analyst roles with a draft-approval workflow), daily intelligence briefings, authenticator MFA, support diagnostics, data export, and account deletion. On the BYOK plan, your X credentials and AI key (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, or OpenAI — your choice, with an optional model override) live here too — encrypted, and never displayed again after saving.

Example: share one X account with your copywriter as Writer — they can draft and submit for review, but only you (or a Publisher) can schedule, and they never see your other accounts or tokens.

Still stuck?

Email hello@82marketing.com — include the support bundle from Settings → Download support bundle (it contains diagnostics, never your keys or content).