Stop chasing links. Let the engines earn them.
Six background engines discover opportunities, drip-draft directory listings, syndicate articles, answer journalist queries, recover lost links, and flag toxic ones — while you keep writing.
Six engines.
Every stage of the link lifecycle — discovery, acquisition, monitoring, recovery, and protection — runs as a background job you can watch from a single kanban board.
- Opportunity engine — A weekly scan analyzes your published content, finds domains linking to similar articles, ranks them by authority, and files them in your Opportunities column for review.
- An outreach board, not a spreadsheet — One kanban tracks the whole pipeline — Opportunities, Queued, Live, Broken, Toxic. Click any card for the referring domain, anchor text, target URL, and health status.
- Directory drafts, deliberately slow — One high-quality directory listing drafted per day, ready to paste and submit. The pacing is the feature — steady presence reads as natural growth instead of a bulk-submission spike.
- Lost-link recovery — When a live link breaks or disappears, the health scan catches it and auto-drafts a recovery email to the site owner. You review, send, and reclaim — instead of never noticing.
- Journalist queries, answered — A scanner matches journalist requests against your industry keywords and drafts the expert response for you. Copy it or open it in your email client — the pitch is already written.
- Syndication and protection — Articles syndicate to external platforms with canonical links back to your domain, and toxic domains export into a standard disavow file for your search console.
What it looks at
- Discover — Weekly profile sync plus a discovery engine that ranks fresh link targets by authority.
- Acquire — A directory listing drafted for you each day, plus article syndication with canonical links — new referring domains without cold outreach.
- Recover — Health scans catch broken and lost links; recovery emails are drafted automatically for your review.
- Protect — Toxic domains are flagged, reviewable, and exported as a ready-to-upload disavow file.
Manual outreach vs. an always-on operation.
Manual link building
- Hours hunting directories and prospect lists in spreadsheets
- Cold outreach emails written one at a time
- Lost links discovered months later — if ever
- Journalist requests scroll past while you are heads-down
- Toxic links pile up unnoticed until rankings wobble
Backlinks Autopilot
- A discovery engine scans weekly and ranks link targets by authority
- One directory listing drafted and queued per day — paced to look natural
- Broken and lost links flagged automatically, with recovery emails drafted for you
- Journalist queries matched to your expertise, response already written
- Toxic domains queued into a ready-to-upload disavow file
How it works
- Sync your profile — The weekly sync pulls your full backlink profile from an SEO data source and populates the board with every referring domain you have.
- Engines run on schedule — Discovery, directory drip, syndication, health scans, and journalist-query matching each run on their own cadence — independently toggleable.
- You review the board — Everything lands on one kanban: opportunities, queued submissions, live links, broken links, and toxic flags. Act on cards, not spreadsheets.
Included in every plan.
All six engines, the outreach board, journalist-query matching, and disavow exports come with every workspace — no per-link pricing, no add-on tier.
Your competitors are doing this by hand.
Turn on the engines, sync your profile, and let authority building become a background process.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from an SEO tool that shows me my backlinks?
Monitoring tools tell you what happened; Autopilot also does the work. The same system that syncs your profile weekly is drafting a submission-ready directory listing every day, syndicating articles with canonical links, drafting recovery emails for lost links, and writing journalist-query responses. The dashboard is the smallest part — the six engines behind it are the product.
How long does setup take?
Minutes. Toggle Autopilot on in Settings, then enable engines individually — sync and discovery first, directory listing drafts and syndication once your baseline is established. Each engine is its own switch, syndication platforms take an API token each, and a Sync Now button populates the board immediately instead of waiting for the weekly run.
Is automated link building safe? I have heard it can backfire.
The dangerous version is bulk and indiscriminate — hundreds of low-quality submissions at once. Autopilot is built the opposite way: one directory listing drafted per day for you to submit, syndication that always carries a canonical link back to your original (so there is no duplicate-content risk), and human review points throughout — you confirm toxic flags before any disavow export, and recovery and journalist emails are drafts you send, not messages sent for you.
How do I see what it is actually doing for me?
The board is the ledger. Every new referring domain lands in the Live column with its source — directory, syndication, or discovery — and the bell notifies you when links are gained, broken, or flagged. You can watch the referring-domain count and each engine's contribution week by week instead of guessing whether outreach is working.
I publish long evergreen guides — where do I start?
Evergreen content is the best case. Enable sync and discovery in week one to establish your baseline, then mark your strongest guides for syndication — canonical links from evergreen pieces keep working long after a news post would have expired. Add your industry keywords so journalist queries match your expertise, and let the directory listing drafts accumulate on your board underneath it all.