DistroMachina plans each approved piece into a slot that respects the trend's window, the market's best hours, spacing, blackouts and weekly cadence; publishes through official APIs only, behind an autonomy gate you set per channel; and brings back what every post did at 24 hours, 72 hours and 7 days so the scout's next idea is better calibrated.
Official APIs only · never browser automation, never account cookies · outcomes flow back to SignalMachina
01 The shift
The idea was good, the piece was approved, and then it went out two days late, at the wrong hour, and nobody wrote down what happened. The distributor exists so that the plan is explicit, the publish is on time, and the outcome is recorded — because without ≥ 80 % on time and ≥ 70 % measured, no strategy result means anything.
02 How it works
dm tick plans and re-plans; dm outcomes and dm learn run daily; publish jobs run as their own processes.
Within 15 minutes of approval a piece gets a channel, a local time and a reason: the idea's timing window (rising and peak trends first), best hours per geo, spacing per channel and day, the brand's blackouts and the channel's weekly cadence target.
The channel's autonomy level decides what happens at slot time. Pre-checks run before anything is sent: size, duration and aspect against the platform, a public URL, caption length, hashtag count, the AI label on clone videos, opt-ins for WhatsApp.
A job moves queued → uploading → processing → published, or failed, or needs_manual with a plain reason. Three retries with backoff, Retry-After honoured, tokens redacted from every log and error. dm publish runs the jobs.
At 24 h, 72 h and 7 days per post: views, likes, comments, shares, saves, follows, clicks, installs — from the platform API for connected channels (a partial snapshot until the platform's own latency passes), by hand otherwise. Manual rows are never overwritten.
dm learn compares the idea's ICE impact with realised performance normalised by the channel's 90-day median, lists winners and losers with their loops, the observed best hours, and the two gate metrics — and appends guidance to the next ideation prompt.
Cadence targets per channel push a saturated channel to next week unless the signal is rising; evergreen recycling re-queues the top posts by 7-day views on channels below cadence, 21 days apart at least. Off by default.
03 Connectors
Tokens live in files only the owner can read, refreshed on schedule, redacted everywhere. Each card in the panel repeats the platform's policy notes and the AI-label field it requires.
04 Autonomy & safety
Levels above draft require a connected account and a successful test post to a private target; autopilot is recommended after a week of clean copilot posts.
The plan and a copy-ready checklist — caption, hashtags, on-screen text, shot list. A person posts and pastes the URL; outcomes are entered or pulled by public API.
Everything up to the slot runs on its own. "Publish now" in the calendar sends the piece through the platform API with pre-checks, retries and a plain reason if it needs manual help.
Due slots publish within ±10 minutes of plan, the AI label set, outcomes and daily account metrics pulled automatically. Caps, blackouts and cadence still apply.
05 In the panel
/distroWeek view per brand in local time: earlier, this week, later; boost tag; move to one of the next free candidates; skip and unskip; 'Publish now' on copilot channels; job chips and needs_manual reasons.
/distro/rulesFamily best hours and spacing next to brand overrides per channel, blackout windows, weekly cadence targets, evergreen recycling.
/distro/outcomesDue list, results table with API rows marked, per-channel medians at 24 h / 72 h / 7 d.
/distro/learnICE vs realised, best hours, winners and losers with their loop, the operational gate (≥ 80 % on time, ≥ 70 % with a 7-day outcome).
/distro/channelsConnected accounts per property: status, autonomy selector, OAuth connect or paste-code fallback, token forms, test post to a private target, opt-in import, capabilities and policy notes, warnings, recent jobs, account metrics.
/Pieces published in the last 7 days and the gate status next to the north star.
06 Status · 2026-10-04
Connect a channel, send a test post to a private target, set copilot. After a clean week, move the dial.