A month of social. Drafted in your voice. Shipped this week.
Cross-platform content drafted in the voice you actually use, scheduled at the times your audience actually scrolls, with DM and comment handling your team approves before it sends. Stop losing Sunday nights to a content calendar.
Social Media Automation at Compass trains an AI agent on your voice from your past posts, drafts cross-platform content in batches (LinkedIn, Instagram, X, TikTok, Threads), schedules at optimal times, and handles common DMs and comments — all gated by your approval. Three weeks of content drafted in 30 minutes; everything reviewed before it ships. Built for Canadian SMB founder-led brands across every vertical. Setup runs $5,000–$12,000 CAD; ongoing monthly retainer for content, strategy, and DM handling runs $1,500–$4,000.
One blog post. A week of social across four platforms.
A preview of a social automation pipeline built for a Canadian agency. One source, eight drafts, your approval, four platforms posted.
A new blog post publishes. The agent picks it up as source material for the week.
Four behaviours on every batch.
Learn your voice, draft per platform, route for your approval, post and measure. You stay in control. The blank-page tax goes away.
Learns your voice
Reads 50-100 of your best past posts, your tone guide, your banned words, your favourite formats. The drafts that come out sound like you, not generic AI marketing prose.
Drafts in batches across platforms
Pulls source material (your blog, your YouTube, your client wins, your industry news) and drafts a month of content per platform - with platform-appropriate variations.
Sends the batch for your approval
You see all the drafts in one inbox view. Approve, edit, reject, regenerate. 30 minutes of your time replaces 8 hours of writing-from-scratch. The agent learns from every edit you make.
Posts, monitors, and reports
Schedules across platforms at optimal times for your audience. Watches replies and DMs against your rules. Reports weekly on what worked. Adjusts the next batch based on actual engagement.
Same engine. Your audience and voice.
The voice training, platform mix, and approval rules are configured for your situation. Below is how the same pipeline shapes up across categories.
LinkedIn as the main outreach channel
For most professional-service firms, LinkedIn is where deals happen. The agent drafts thought-leadership posts in your voice from your real opinions, your case studies, and your client wins. Three posts a week, all approved by you, building authority in your category.
Listings, neighbourhoods, and lifestyle
Listing photos turn into 5 Instagram posts, 1 Reel, 1 carousel, 1 LinkedIn post. Neighbourhood content stays evergreen. Sold listings post automatically. The follower count growing means buyer leads, not vanity.
Class schedule, instructor spotlights, member stories
Weekly schedule, new instructor announcements, member transformation posts, holiday hours, new class drops. All drafted, all approved, all posted on a calendar that matches when your members actually scroll. Your front-desk team stops being the social team.
Personal brand without the daily time tax
You are the brand and you cannot spend 90 minutes a day on social. The agent drafts in your specific voice from your real conversations and your real opinions. You approve in a 15-minute morning sweep. The voice stays yours; the time tax goes away.
Native APIs. No third-party black box.
The agent posts through each platform's official API (Application Programming Interface) and uses a scheduler your team can keep access to. Specific vendors are chosen per build. Nothing sketchy, nothing that gets accounts flagged.
Social questions, answered plainly.
Will my followers know it is AI writing the posts?
Not if the agent is trained on your voice. We feed it 50-100 of your best past posts, your brand voice guide, and the way you actually talk. The drafts come out sounding like you on a good day. Then you review and edit before anything posts. The goal is to remove the staring-at-a-blank-Notion-page tax, not to make you sound like a chatbot.
Which platforms does this work for?
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky. Most clients want 2-4 platforms cross-posted with platform-appropriate variations (LinkedIn-tone vs. Instagram-tone, 240 chars vs. 2000 chars). The agent handles the variants automatically.
Does it handle DMs (Direct Messages) and comments too?
Yes - with your rules. Common questions get drafted replies you approve before sending. Spam and obvious sales pitches get auto-filed. Anything sensitive (complaint, refund request, partnership ask) gets routed to you with full context. You stay in the loop without manually answering "what time are you open?" for the 100th time.
What about analytics?
Weekly report on what got engagement, what flopped, what audience grew, where traffic came from. Plain English: "your beach-photo posts on Instagram outperform your text posts 4-to-1 - lean into that next week." Not a 40-tab dashboard you never open.
Will the agent post things I would not say?
No - because nothing posts without your approval the first 60 days. After that you can choose: stay in full approval mode, or auto-post categories you trust (scheduled content, blog re-shares) while keeping approval gates on response posts. Your call. The agent does not get autonomy you do not give it.
How much does social automation cost?
Cost depends on platform count, content velocity, and approval-flow complexity. The bill depends on: number of platforms (2 vs. 5), drafts per week, depth of voice-training data we are starting with, whether DM and comment handling are in scope, and how complex your approval gates need to be. Two-platform pilots are the lightest entry. Real numbers come out of the free Bearings call after we map your current content motion.
Inconsistent posting is worse than not posting at all.
Three posts in January, silence until April, two in May. Every platform algorithm punishes that pattern. Your feed signals "abandoned" to buyers who check before reaching out. The agent on this page keeps the lights on so the rest of your marketing can compound.
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