Monthly planner
The Monthly planner builds a content plan for one month: what themes to cover, which format each post should take, a hook and caption outline for every post, hashtag sets and the best days and times to post. It is a plan only. It creates no posts and does not touch your social accounts.
Today it plans Instagram content.
Open it
Section titled “Open it”On the Posts page switch to Calendar and choose Plan month. It opens the planner for the month you were viewing. The button only appears if your plan includes the planner (Advanced and Premier).
Tell it about your account
Section titled “Tell it about your account”| Field | What to enter |
|---|---|
| Month | The month to plan. It cannot be in the past, and a month with no days left cannot be planned. |
| Hours per week you can give | Your real time budget, from 0.5 to 40 hours. The plan keeps each week within it. |
| What is your account about? | One line, for example “Home bakery selling sourdough and pastries”. |
| Who are you posting for? | Your audience in a sentence. |
| Goal this month (optional) | For example “More weekend pre-orders”. |
| Most posts per week (optional) | A ceiling from 1 to 7. |
| Your top performing posts (optional) | Paste up to ten posts, separated by a blank line. Start a post with note: 412 likes to say how it did. The planner cannot see your Instagram numbers, so this is all it knows about what worked. |
| Formats to plan | Single image, Carousel, Reel and Story set. Untick any you do not make. |
Three switches control what the planner draws on:
- Use my brand guide so hooks and themes follow your brand.
- Use my Knowledge Wiki topics so posts can cover what you have taught VedXAI. See Wiki.
- Include festivals and occasions so relevant dates in the month are built in. See Occasions.
Choose Plan my month. It can take about a minute.
Read the plan
Section titled “Read the plan”- Summary and caveats. A short overview, and any warnings, for example where the plan is tight on your hours.
- Pillars. The content themes with the share of posts each gets.
- Audience. What the planner infers about your audience, and what it learned from the top posts you pasted.
- Posting times. Why the suggested days and times were chosen. Times are in your time zone.
- Weeks. Each week has a theme, its date range and an estimate of the hours it needs. Each post shows date and time, format, pillar, estimated minutes, the hook, a caption outline (opening, body, call to action), a visual idea and a hashtag set.
If the planner suggested ideas that broke a rule (a past date, outside the month or over your hours) they are left out, and a note tells you how many.
Turn a plan item into a post
Section titled “Turn a plan item into a post”On a post, choose Open in composer. New post opens with the hook, caption outline and hashtags filled in, and scheduled for the planned date and time. The text is an outline, not a finished caption. Write it out, add an image, and schedule it.
Posts you have already opened are marked Opened in composer, so you can see what is left.
Only single-image Instagram posts can be published from VedXAI today. Carousels, Reels and Story sets are marked Plan only: use the plan as your guide and publish them in Instagram.
Every post you create from a plan goes through the usual checks and approvals before it can go out.
Saved plans
Section titled “Saved plans”Each plan is saved. Use Saved plans at the top to reopen one at no cost, or Delete this plan to remove it. VedXAI keeps your 12 most recent plans. Choosing Plan again runs the AI again and uses your AI allowance.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- The planner is gated by plan: if you see “Plan month is not enabled for your plan”, upgrade or ask your admin.
- If the planner cannot finish, nothing is lost. Try again in a moment.
- See Plans, trial and usage for allowances.