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Planable

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Velocity5.0

Planable keeps widening channel coverage while bolting an AI and open-API layer onto its approval calendar.

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◆Current state
Planable is a social-media content planning and approval workspace where teams draft, review, and publish across channels. Its recent work runs on two tracks: broadening per-channel format coverage (Facebook Stories, Google Business Profile video, LinkedIn mobile publishing) and building an AI-plus-programmability layer (MCP connector, public API, brand-voice context, AI-written ALT text, AI-search visibility analytics). The core calendar-and-approval loop is stable; new surfaces are being added around it rather than reworking it.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is Planable moving from a manual approval calendar toward a programmable, AI-assisted hub: nearly every new post surface ships with an AI or automation hook attached. The public API and MCP connector open the product to external tooling and agents, while workspace brand context makes its AI outputs client-specific. Analytics is expanding past measuring your own pages into competitor benchmarking and AI-search visibility.
◆Prediction
Expect the remaining channels to pick up the same direct/mobile-publish and AI-generation treatment, and the AI features (brand context, ALT text, visibility) to reach deeper into the composing and reporting flow. The API and MCP surfaces suggest more integration and agent-facing capability rather than a pricing or positioning change.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8h ago

    Schedule and publish Facebook stories

    Extends Planable's Stories support from Instagram to Facebook, with single-canvas cross-posting and the same direct-vs-mobile publish split. Another step in filling out per-channel format coverage inside one calendar rather than a directional change.

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  2. 15d ago

    Schedule and publish videos on Google Business Profile

    Adds video publishing to Google Business Profile inside the shared calendar and approval flow, aimed at local and multi-location brands. Continues the steady expansion of supported channels and formats.

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  3. 16d ago

    AI-Generated ALT Text

    Folds AI generation into accessibility metadata and lets ALT text be set once on a Media Library asset and reused everywhere. Part of Planable's push to put AI assistance at each editing step.

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  4. 24d ago

    Manual mobile publishing for LinkedIn

    A pragmatic workaround for LinkedIn's API tagging limits via push-to-mobile publishing, broadening reliable LinkedIn support across text, images, video, and PDF carousels.

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  5. 28d ago

    Competitor analytics

    Moves Analytics from measuring your own pages to benchmarking up to five Meta competitors per page, with daily syncs from Meta's public API. Signals analytics growing into a pillar alongside publishing.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Brand context in your workspace settings

    Gives Planable's AI a per-workspace brand profile — tone, values, terminology, audience — that it reads automatically on every generate/rewrite/continue. Foundational plumbing for the broader AI-in-the-editor arc, kept client-specific across workspaces.

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