Autopilot is Cortex on a schedule. You pick the plays, the cadence, and the guardrails; it does the work and reports back.
How it works
An Autopilot rule pairs a play with a schedule: "run the pipeline-risk diagnostic every Monday morning", "check cash-flow projection on the 1st". Each pass costs about 6 credits and appears in the Fleet log like any other run.
Guardrails
Autopilot runs under the same authority contracts as everything else. In practice:
- ›Read-only by default. A pass analyzes and reports; it does not change data unless its autonomy level allows it.
- ›Approvals for actions. If a pass concludes something should change - reassign a deal, chase an invoice - the proposal lands in your approvals queue unless you have delegated that verb.
- ›Rate and budget caps. Contracts can cap executions per hour and monetary impact. A paused rule costs nothing.
Results
Passes feed the daily digest and weekly brief rather than demanding another dashboard. Each result links to its full deliverable and its run in the Fleet, where you can replay exactly what the AI saw and did.
Availability
Scheduled Autopilot runs are a Business plan feature. On other plans you can run the same plays manually whenever you like.
Important: Review your Autopilot rules quarterly. The failure mode of scheduled analysis is not wrong answers - it is nobody reading right ones. Keep only rules whose output someone acts on.