Automate Social Media Posts with Claude

Design the pipeline before you automate it

Write the pipeline as five steps with an owner for each: collect ideas, draft, approve, schedule, and review. Ideas come from your running list of real questions, jobs, and lessons. Drafting happens in a batch, once a week. Approval is you reading every post before it is scheduled. Scheduling is a tool publishing at set times. Review is a monthly look at what brought responses or enquiries. If any step has no owner, it will be skipped, and the skipped step is usually approval.

Decide the rhythm first. A week of posts drafted in one hour, scheduled across the week, is a realistic system for a small business. A month drafted in one sitting usually is not, because the content goes stale and the batch becomes a chore nobody finishes.

Batch-draft with templates

Templates make batch drafting work. A template fixes the structure: the point, the supporting fact, and the closing question or next step. Give Claude the template, the week's ideas, and the facts for each idea, and ask for one draft per idea in the right format for its platform. Review the batch together: it is faster to judge ten drafts in one sitting than to judge one draft ten times across a week.

Keep the facts separate from the wording. Paste real details for each idea rather than letting Claude fill gaps with plausible claims. A pipeline that invents facts at scale is worse than no pipeline at all, because the errors multiply with the volume.

Approval is part of the system

Read every post before it is scheduled. Check claims, names, dates, and tone. Remove anything you would not say in person. If a post needs heavy editing, fix the template or the input rather than rewriting the same kind of post every week. Approval should take minutes per post: if it takes longer, the drafts are not good enough yet, and the fix belongs upstream.

Also decide what never gets automated: replies to customers, responses to complaints, and anything about a sensitive or developing situation. Those need a person, in the moment, with full context. Automation handles planned content. It does not handle conversations.

Schedule and verify

Use a scheduling tool that supports your platforms, and check its current features and pricing before committing. Load only approved posts into it. After the first scheduled posts go out, open them on the platforms themselves and check that the text, formatting, and links survived the scheduling step. Tools sometimes trim text or break links, and the only way to catch that is to look at the published post.

Keep a simple log: post, date, platform, and any response it brought. That log is what makes the monthly review possible, and the monthly review is what turns a pipeline into a system that improves instead of just repeating.

Improve the pipeline monthly

Once a month, look at the log and ask three questions: which posts brought real responses, which formats were easiest to approve, and which ideas ran dry. Drop the formats that always need rewriting. Add ideas from the month's real work. A pipeline that is reviewed monthly stays useful. One that is never reviewed slowly fills with content nobody would choose to post by hand.

Draft this week's social media posts from my idea list.
Voice: plain, practical, direct. No hype, no buzzwords.
Format for each idea: one short post under 80 words, with one clear point.
Rules:
- Use only the facts given for each idea. Do not invent results, prices, or claims.
- If a fact is missing, leave it out and note "[fact needed]" at the end of that post.
- Vary the openings: do not start every post the same way.
- No hashtags unless I add them later.

Ideas and facts:
1. [Idea + facts]
2. [Idea + facts]
3. [Idea + facts]

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