What is an AI social media agent?
An AI social media agent is software that plans, produces and publishes a brand's social media content on its own, and asks a person only for the decisions that need one, usually approval. It is closer to a small social media team than to a chatbot.
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How it differs from a chatbot and a scheduler
A chatbot answers one request at a time: you ask for a caption, you get a caption, and you still have to make the picture, plan the month and post it. A scheduler does the opposite end: it publishes posts you have already made. An AI social media agent covers the whole chain in between, from deciding what the month is about to publishing each piece on its day.
The better ones are built as a team of specialists rather than one model doing everything, because planning, art direction, copywriting and checking are different jobs. PlanMedia, for example, has an Orchestrator you talk to and seven specialists: a Strategist, a Creative Director, a Visual Director, a Video Director, a Copywriter, a Brand Guardian and an Analyst.
What to look for in one
- Brand memory: your products, voice, languages and rules, kept and used on every piece
- Pictures made from your real product photos, not invented lookalikes
- Video, because short vertical video is what the platforms reward
- A plan for the whole month, not one post at a time
- Approval before anything publishes, including from an outside client
- Publishing to the channels you actually use
How PlanMedia works as one
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It learns the brand
From your website or Shopify store into the Brand Hub: products with their photographs, colours, voice, languages and rules.
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It plans the month
The Strategist spreads posts, carousels, stories, reels and shorts across your posting days and the month's special days.
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It produces
Captions, pictures and films are made from your own products, in your brand voice.
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You approve, it publishes
You slide to approve or send back with a note, and approved pieces publish on six channels.
Questions people ask
Can an AI agent run my brand's social media?
It can run the monthly rhythm: planning, writing, pictures, films and publishing. A person should still approve what goes out, and in PlanMedia nothing publishes without that approval.
Is an AI social media agent the same as ChatGPT?
No. ChatGPT is a general assistant that answers one request at a time. An AI social media agent keeps your brand, plans the whole month, makes the pictures and films, and publishes after approval.
Do AI social media agents post without permission?
Some can. PlanMedia does not: every piece waits for a person's approval before it is scheduled.
Keep reading
- An Orchestrator and seven specialists, each with its own briefPlanMedia's AI team: an Orchestrator you talk to and seven specialists, Strategist, Creative Director, Visual Director, Video Director, Copywriter, Brand Guardian and Analyst, each working to a brief you can edit.Read
- ChatGPT writes a post. PlanMedia runs the month.ChatGPT writes one post at a time from what you type. PlanMedia plans the month, makes the pictures and films from your own photos, gets approval and publishes. And you can run PlanMedia from ChatGPT.Read
- An agency, or an AI social media team you direct?A side-by-side look at a social media agency and PlanMedia's AI agent team: how a month gets planned, where the pictures come from, what video costs, how changes work and what it costs.Read