Learn the system.
Guides and documentation for the acs content engine. Strategy, channels, integrations, and the loops that connect them.
Content Engine
Content
Using the Idea Bank to Fuel Your Content
Learn how to capture, prioritize, and systematically convert ideas in your ACS Idea Bank into fully published content.
Running Your First Campaign
A walkthrough of the ACS campaign system — how weekly campaigns are generated, how content is drafted, and how it gets published.
Overview
How the ACS Automated Content Engine Works
An overview of the ACS content pipeline — from strategy and ideas to campaign generation, publishing, and performance feedback.
Build a Fully Automated Content Engine (Complete Guide)
The end-to-end guide: connect your platforms, configure your strategy, launch campaigns, and let ACS run your content operation automatically.
Setup
Setting Up Your Content Strategy
Configure your ACS content strategy to define your brand voice, target audience, content mix, and publishing goals.
Configuring Platform Schedules and Approval Workflows
Set per-platform publishing schedules, post frequency, and approval workflows so you control exactly when and how content goes live.
Platform Connections
Direct API
How to Connect Beehiiv
Connect your Beehiiv newsletter to ACS with an API key to automate post publishing and sync subscriber analytics.
How to Connect Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Connect Kit (formerly ConvertKit) to ACS using your API key to automate email newsletter publishing from your content engine.
How to Connect Mailchimp
Connect Mailchimp to ACS using your API key and audience ID to automatically send generated campaigns to your list.
How to Connect WordPress
Connect your WordPress site to ACS using your site URL and application password for fully automated article publishing.
How to Connect Ghost
Connect your Ghost publication to ACS using your Admin API key to automatically publish blog posts to your site.
OAuth Integrations
How to Connect LinkedIn
Step-by-step guide to connecting your LinkedIn account to ACS via OAuth for automated content publishing and analytics tracking.
How to Connect Twitter / X
Connect your Twitter/X account to ACS via OAuth to automate tweet publishing and pull engagement analytics.
How to Connect Google Search Console
Connect Google Search Console to ACS via OAuth to automatically pull weekly SEO performance data for your articles.
Webhooks
Platforms
Connect Substack via Webhook
Set up ACS to send newsletter content directly to your Substack publication using outbound webhooks — no direct API required.
Connect Webflow via Webhook
Use ACS outbound webhooks to automatically publish articles to your Webflow CMS collection whenever new content is ready.
Zapier
Publishing
Auto-Publish ACS Content to Substack via Zapier
Step-by-step Zapier tutorial to automatically receive content from ACS and publish it as a new post in your Substack newsletter.
Auto-Publish ACS Content to Any Platform via Zapier
Use Zapier as a universal bridge to send ACS content to Notion, Medium, Typefully, or any app that Zapier supports.