Market your business while you get on with running it
SlideBuddy decides what to post, writes it, designs it and publishes it to your accounts — every day, on its own. You approve it in a minute, or you don't look at all.
- Decides, writes, designs, publishes
- No designer, no agency, no evenings
- You stay in control if you want it
Five carousels free, no card · Or 7 days of everything, publishing included
Nobody decides to stop posting
They just get busy. Almost every abandoned business account followed the same path: enthusiastic for a month, patchy for two, nothing since. Not a decision — a series of Tuesdays where making the next post was tomorrow's job.
Which matters because a quiet account isn't neutral. A customer who checks you out before calling, and finds nothing since last spring, learns something you didn't intend to tell them.
Hiring someone
A social media manager is a salary, or an agency retainer, for work that is mostly production rather than strategy.
Doing it yourself
An hour or two a week that comes out of the evening, and stops the first week something urgent happens.
Doing it sporadically
The most common outcome, and the worst one — an account that looks abandoned says more than no account at all.
The fourth option is software that owns the job. Not a queue you still have to fill — something that starts from a topic and finishes at a published post.
The loop
What it does, every day, without being asked
Four steps. You're optional in all of them, and welcome in the third.
- 01
It decides what to post
From your own topic list, or from a topic bank matched to your industry and the questions your customers actually ask. You never have to open a blank box and think of something.
- 02
It writes and designs the post
Copy in your brand's voice, slides in your colours and fonts, a caption and hashtags tuned to each platform. Not a template with your logo dropped in the corner.
- 03
It publishes to your accounts
Straight to Instagram, TikTok and Facebook through their own APIs, spread across the day. Nothing to download, nothing to upload, no reminder on your phone.
- 04
It learns and keeps going
Results come back from each platform, the angles that work for your audience get used more, and the whole loop runs again tomorrow whether or not you think about it.
The mechanics of the publishing step are covered in more detail on auto-posting carousels — this page is about what it means for the business rather than how the queue works.
Automated, not unsupervised
What you hand over, and what you keep
The thing that stops most people automating this isn't whether it works. It's not knowing what it's about to say in their name.
The final say
One approval screen a day, covering the whole batch. Edit a slide, rewrite a caption, drop a post — or approve everything in two seconds and close the tab.
Your brand, not a template
Colours, logo, fonts and tone of voice are set once and applied to everything after. Nothing goes out looking like it came from a stock template library.
Your accounts
Connected through each platform's own OAuth and disconnectable at any time, from here or from them. No passwords are handled and no browser is being driven on your behalf.
The numbers
What each post actually did, per platform, ranked by what landed. The same figures the software uses to decide what to lean into next.
Who it's for
Built for people who post more than they design
If social media is a job someone at your company does badly because it's nobody's actual job, this is aimed at you.
Local service businesses
Trades, clinics, salons, contractors — anyone whose customers check whether you look active before they call. Post the questions you answer on the phone every week.
Small teams without a marketer
The job currently belongs to whoever has time, which means it belongs to nobody. This gives it an owner that doesn't get pulled onto something urgent.
Agencies and freelancers
A separate brand per client, each with its own voice, palette, schedule and connected accounts. Approve everything from one screen, or let it run.
Solo creators
You have the ideas and no interest in the design work. Keep a consistent feed without it becoming the thing you do instead of the work.
Unattended only works if it fails loudly
Anything that runs on its own will eventually stop running on its own. The question that matters is how long it takes you to find out — and for most tools the answer is however long until you happen to look.
- Published through Instagram, TikTok and Facebook's own reviewed APIs — not a reposting service, and not a robot driving your logged-in browser
- New accounts start at one post a day and ramp up weekly, because going from nothing to six a day is how an account gets throttled
- Access tokens refreshed nightly, before anything tries to publish rather than after it has failed
- A health check every morning that emails you if an account has gone quiet or a connection has broken
Questions worth asking first
- What does 'automated social media marketing' actually mean here?
- That the software decides what to post, writes it, designs it and publishes it to your accounts on a schedule — not that it queues something you already made. Most tools described as automated are schedulers: they save you the posting, not the making. The making is the part that takes the evening.
- Do I lose control of what goes out?
- Only if you want to. Every day's batch lands on one approval screen where you can edit any slide or caption, drop anything you don't like, or approve the lot in a couple of seconds. Plenty of people watch it closely for a fortnight and then stop looking — but the screen is always there, and nothing publishes from it until you've said so or you've turned that requirement off.
- Will it sound like a robot wrote it?
- It's written against a brand voice you set up and a chosen content angle, rather than from a generic template, which is most of the difference. It's also worth being straight with you: it won't sound like you on day one. The first week is where you correct the tone on the approval screen, and it gets meaningfully better once it has your edits and a few weeks of results to learn from.
- Which platforms does it post to?
- Instagram, TikTok and Facebook on every paid plan, published natively through each platform's own API. YouTube and LinkedIn are added on the Agency plan. It doesn't touch X, Threads or Pinterest.
- How much time does this actually take me?
- About ten minutes to set up a brand, then as long as you want to spend on the daily approval screen — which for most people settles at under a minute, or nothing at all once they trust it. That's the honest answer; anyone promising zero minutes is describing a product with no oversight in it.
- Is this going to get my accounts flagged?
- Publishing through each platform's official, reviewed API is the route they built for exactly this — the risky approaches are browser automation and third-party reposting services. The other real risk is volume, which is why brand-new accounts start at one post a day and ramp up weekly rather than opening at full rate.
- What happens if something breaks while I'm not looking?
- Tokens are refreshed nightly before anything tries to publish, failed posts are retried and shown on the dashboard rather than dropped, and a health check every morning emails you if an account has gone quiet. The point of unattended software is that it tells you when it stops being unattended.
- How do I try it without committing?
- Two ways. The free plan is five carousels on one brand with no card at all, which is enough to judge whether the output is good enough for your business — but it downloads rather than publishes. To see the automation itself, the 7-day trial turns on publishing and scheduling; that one takes a card so posting can start immediately, and you can cancel any time before it ends.
Give it a week and see what shows up
Set up one brand, approve the first batch, and let it run. By this time next week your accounts will have moved without you touching them.
Full features for 7 days, cancel any time before it ends. Card required to start the trial so posting can begin immediately — or take five carousels free on the no-card plan, for ever.