What Is Autopilot? Inside the Weekly Plan Orbitable's AI Proposes

Autopilot is the Orbitable feature that turns your world model into a weekly marketing plan: one focus, three to five missions each with a stated why-now, a carry-over list of what did not get finished, and an explicit not-doing list. It proposes this plan, nothing starts running until you approve it in the Dock.

What Autopilot actually produces

Every week, Autopilot generates a single structured proposal rather than a stream of suggestions. That proposal has five fixed parts:

• One focus: the single priority Autopilot has decided matters most this week, out of everything it could recommend.
• Three to five missions: the specific pieces of work that support that focus, each one a discrete task for one or more of the 50 specialist agents across Orbitable's 10 squads.
• A why-now for each mission: a stated reason this is the right week for it, not a generic justification copied across every proposal.
• A carry-over list: work from last week's plan that is still open, so nothing quietly disappears when a new week starts.
• A not-doing list: things Autopilot considered and deliberately excluded this week, and why.

Nothing on that list runs on its own. The whole plan sits pending Dock approval until you or a teammate acts on it.

Why one focus, not a backlog

Most planning tools hand you a long list and let you sort out the priority yourself. Autopilot does the opposite: it commits to one focus per week and builds the missions around it. That is a deliberate constraint, not a limitation of what the system can generate. A plan with ten equally-weighted priorities is not a plan, it is a menu, and menus get ignored under time pressure. By forcing a single focus, Autopilot gives you something you can actually say yes or no to as a whole, rather than a pile of individually defensible tasks that add up to no direction at all.

How the why-now differs from a generic recommendation

The why-now attached to each mission is not boilerplate. It draws on the same world model that every agent in the fleet shares: your ICP, your brand voice, your product and competitor set, and anything you have uploaded to the knowledge base. Because that context is shared across all 50 agents and the Dispatcher that orchestrates them, a why-now can reference something a different squad surfaced days earlier, such as a competitor move flagged by a research agent or a content gap identified in a previous mission. That is the practical payoff of the shared world model: work by one agent compounds into the reasoning behind another agent's proposal, instead of every tool starting from a blank page each week.

Carry-over and not-doing: the discipline layer

The carry-over list exists because weekly plans do not always finish cleanly. If a mission from last week is still incomplete, Autopilot surfaces it again rather than letting it vanish under a fresh set of proposals. You decide whether it gets picked back up this week or dropped.

The not-doing list is the less obvious of the two, and arguably the more useful. It names things Autopilot considered and chose not to include, with a reason. That matters because a weekly plan without a not-doing list looks complete by accident. You cannot tell whether something was left out on purpose or simply missed. Autopilot makes the exclusion explicit, so you are approving a scoped set of decisions, not guessing at what else might have been worth doing.

How approval works in the Dock

Autopilot proposes, the Dock approves. The Dock is Orbitable's client-facing review surface: whoever is reviewing sees what is waiting, can mark up a draft with pins on the specific part they want changed, send it back, or approve it into a Library. The same mechanism applies to Autopilot's weekly plan. Nothing in the plan executes credits or agent time until it clears that approval step. If your workflow includes an external stakeholder or client, the Dock also lets them raise new requests with SLA targets directly, and internal team notes stay invisible to them throughout.

The Dock is included on the Agency and Enterprise plans, and available as a $49/mo add-on on Founder and Team.

Autopilot versus the GTM plan

Autopilot is not the same thing as Orbitable's structured GTM plan, and the two solve different problems.

Autopilot is the standing weekly rhythm. The GTM plan is a longer, bounded project you run when you need the full sequence rather than a week's worth of focused work.

Who can use it and what it costs

Autopilot is available on paid plans: Founder ($89/mo, 3,000 credits, 1 seat), Team ($349/mo, 15,000 credits, 5 seats), and Agency ($1,999/mo, 80,000 credits, 10 seats), with Enterprise available on custom terms. Reviewing an Autopilot proposal in the Dock never costs credits, only the missions you actually approve draw on your monthly allocation. If credits run out before the month resets, approved work pauses until a credit pack tops it up or the next cycle begins. There is no overage billing.

FAQ

What exactly is in an Autopilot weekly plan?

An Autopilot plan has five parts: one focus for the week, three to five missions that support it, a why-now for each mission, a carry-over list of unfinished work from the previous week, and a not-doing list naming what was deliberately excluded and why.

Does Autopilot start work automatically?

No. Autopilot only proposes the weekly plan, it does not execute anything on its own. Every mission sits pending Dock approval, and no credits are spent until you or a teammate approves the specific missions you want to run.

What is the not-doing list for?

It makes exclusion explicit rather than silent. Instead of leaving you to guess whether something was overlooked or deliberately left out, Autopilot states what it considered and chose not to include this week, so the plan you approve is a scoped, deliberate set of decisions.

Can I change the plan before approving it?

Yes. Because approval happens in the Dock, you can review the proposed focus and missions, mark up specific parts with pins, send items back, or approve only some of the missions rather than the whole plan as a package.

Which plans include Autopilot?

Autopilot is available on all paid plans, Founder ($89/mo), Team ($349/mo), and Agency ($1,999/mo), plus custom Enterprise terms. It is not part of any free tier.