Create a discovery campaign
create_campaignCreate a Communiply discovery campaign: it continuously finds relevant social posts (by keyword) and drafts replies that mention the product. BEFORE calling: the keywords and search_context are YOURS to derive, and deriving them well is most of the campaign's quality — actually fetch and read the product's website (and any docs or pages the user pointed at), work out who the audience is and the phrases they use when they have the problem the product solves, and build keywords + search_context from that. Do it in this conversation, for free — it is not billed, and you can iterate with the user before anything is spent. If you cannot browse the web from this client, SAY SO to the user and build from what they tell you instead — never silently guess from the product's name alone. Credits pay only for what you cannot do here: scraping the platforms, real community members posting, and proof verification. Costs 10 credits to create; discovering posts is billed separately via generate_posts (12 credits/post). Needs a product_id (search_products / create_product). Two ways to run it, and the user picks: PRIVATE (the default here) keeps drafts in their workbench to review and post themselves — reversible, no further cost; PUBLIC puts the drafts in the ProductClank earn feed so community members post them from their own accounts — that is the reach the platform exists for, and each network-posted reply bills the user extra credits. Default to private when the user has not said, and relay the decision_offer in the result so they can choose. Pick the platform the product's audience actually talks on — X (default), LinkedIn, Reddit or YouTube — and for Reddit/YouTube narrow it with target_subreddits / target_youtube_channels. Topic research auto-runs in the background at create (~30s); read it with get_research before spending on generate_posts. Confirm the credit cost with the user before calling.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| title | Yes | Campaign title, e.g. 'Grow Acme — AI devtools conversations' | |
| keywords | Yes | Search keywords/phrases to discover posts with (3–8 focused phrases work best). Derive these from the product's actual site and audience — the words people use when they HAVE the problem ('CI is so slow', 'alternatives to X'), not the product's own marketing vocabulary or its name. | |
| platform | No | Which network to work: twitter (default), linkedin, reddit, youtube. This is WHERE discovery looks — distinct from `sources` in update_campaign, which is HOW it looks there. Pick from where the product's audience actually is; it is fixed once the campaign discovers its first post. | |
| product_id | Yes | Product UUID (from search_products or create_product) | |
| visibility | No | Who posts the drafted replies. private (default) = they wait in the user's workbench for the user to post; public = the community earn feed distributes them and network members post them, billing the user per posted reply. Reversible either way — ask the user rather than assuming. | |
| reply_length | No | ||
| search_context | Yes | One or two sentences on what conversations to find and why the product is relevant to them. Write it from having actually read the product's site and this conversation — who the audience is, what pain they voice, what makes the product a natural mention. This steers both discovery and the relevance gate, so a generic sentence produces generic (billed) posts. | |
| mention_accounts | No | X handles to mention naturally in replies (e.g. the product's account) | |
| reply_guidelines | No | Custom guidelines for reply drafting (defaults are built from the campaign context) | |
| reply_style_tags | No | Tone tags for drafted replies, e.g. ['helpful', 'builder-to-builder'] | |
| target_subreddits | No | Reddit only, and enforced server-side: sending this on a non-Reddit campaign is REJECTED with an error, never silently ignored. Subreddits to rotate through, with or without the 'r/' prefix. Omit to search all of Reddit. Note Reddit allows at most one posted reply per subreddit per day, so breadth beats depth here. | |
| target_youtube_channels | No | YouTube only, and enforced server-side: sending this on a non-YouTube campaign is REJECTED with an error, never silently ignored. Channel handles, ids or URLs to pull recent videos from, alongside the keyword search. Omit for keyword search alone. |