theStacc Docs

Introduction

Learn what theStacc does, how its three modules help local businesses grow online with AI, and how to get started with a $1 trial.

Quick Start

Create your account, verify your email, pick your modules, and finish setup for Content SEO, Local SEO, or Social Media - so your first content starts generating.

Key Concepts

The core ideas theStacc is built on - modules, projects, content plans, autopilot, publishing modes, SEO scoring, quotas, trials, and team roles - explained in plain English.

Accounts & Workspaces

Understand how accounts work in theStacc - the billing unit that holds your projects, members, and subscriptions - plus how to create, list, and switch between accounts.

Onboarding & First Steps

Create your theStacc account, start a $1 trial, and complete onboarding for Content SEO, Local SEO, or Social Media. Covers every field, what's required vs optional, and what the AI fills in for you.

Troubleshooting Setup

Fix the most common snags when signing up, logging in, inviting teammates, and connecting your website or Google Business Profile during onboarding.

The content engine

How theStacc turns your business details into publish-ready blog posts, local posts, and social content - the plan-first generation pipeline, stage by stage, and everything that feeds it.

How the AI works

theStacc orchestrates several purpose-built AI engines - one for writing, a fast one for quick tasks, and one for images - plus live data, so content is high quality, fast, and affordable, with nothing for you to manage.

Quality & safety

The systems that keep theStacc content on-brand, accurate, and safe to publish - brand voice, grounding in your sources, anti-repetition, SEO scoring, topics to avoid, the content-integrity guardrails, and the optional compliance layer.

AI Models & Generation Pipeline

A precise look at the AI engines behind theStacc - a Claude writing engine that plans then writes, an OpenAI image engine, how images and status work, and the timeouts and retries that keep generation reliable.

Overview

Tour the Content SEO dashboard: calendar and list views, the Published / Queued / Ready stats, the blog status legend, the detail editor, the generation pipeline panel, per-project quota, and bulk and per-blog actions.

Business Setup

Tell theStacc about your business once: your website, what you offer, who you serve, where you operate, your competitors, and your sitemap. Every blog is written from these settings.

Content Plans & Keywords

How your keyword pool and 30-day content plans decide what theStacc writes, when each post is scheduled, and how keyword rotation keeps your blog fresh.

Blog Generation

How theStacc AI generates each blog post step by step, when the Generate button is available, the SEO score it earns, and how to review and regenerate content in the editor.

Publishing

Choose how blogs go live, connect WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Zepio, Shopify, or a custom webhook, and understand how theStacc preps content and retries failed publishes.

Preferences

Set your writing style, image style, CTA and internal links, YouTube videos, and topics to avoid so every blog matches your brand.

Connect Platforms

Set up every Content SEO publishing destination — WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Custom Webhook, Ghost, Webflow, Shopify, and Zepio — including credential rules, status fields, and the errors you might see.

AI Error Recovery & Retries

What happens when the AI is busy or a blog gets stuck: automatic retries, the one-click retry badge, retry-just-the-images, and how generation can never hang forever.

Automated Generation (Cron)

How theStacc generates your scheduled blogs in the background on autopilot - what runs automatically, the safety caps and quota limits, the auto-publish hand-off, and what you see in the dashboard during a run.

Blog Status Lifecycle

Every status a blog post can have, what it means in plain language, and how a post moves from planned to published, with recovery paths for failures and missed dates.

Blog Type Options

The 10 blog types theStacc can write, what each one produces, how the AI picks one automatically, and how to change the type yourself to match your goal.

Competitors & Audiences

List your competitors and define your target audiences so theStacc writes content that stands apart and speaks to the right people.

Compliance Profiles

Turn on industry guardrails for regulated businesses - required disclosures injected at planning time, prohibited claims steered away from, and a review gate that flags drafts before they publish. Opt-in, admin-managed, and the licensed professional stays responsible.

AI Content Safety & Integrity Guardrails

The automatic guardrails that stop theStacc from inventing promo codes, prices, statistics, or testimonials - plus the placeholder, quality, and AI-fingerprint checks that keep every post accurate and ready to publish.

Draft & Approval Workflow

How to review, approve, reject, and publish AI-generated blog posts - what you see before approving, who can approve, and how to handle rejected drafts.

Generate More & Bonus Blogs

Use Generate More to add extra bonus blogs to a project beyond its planned schedule, pick a publish date for each, and understand the plan, headroom, and per-request limits that apply.

Image Generation

How theStacc plans, generates, and places images in your blog posts, including aspect ratios, image styles, retrying failed images, and uploading your own brand photos.

Internal Linking

How theStacc links your blog posts to other pages on your site - building a list of linkable pages, resolving links at publish time, and never letting a broken link go live.

Keyword Strategy & Rotation

What makes a keyword worth ranking for, how theStacc rotates your keyword pool so topics never repeat, the 60-day cooldown, Always-On keywords, and the bulk-manage and rename rules.

Promotions Calendar

Turn local festivals, holidays, and events into timely blog content. Pick a location, let theStacc detect the events that matter, generate a month-by-month promotion plan, and feed it straight into your content calendar.

Publishing Errors & Retries

Understand why a blog fails to publish, how theStacc automatically retries temporary problems, what the per-platform error messages mean, and how to fix credentials and republish.

Publishing Modes & Autopilot

Choose how much theStacc does for you with three presets - Manual, Draft for me, and Full autopilot - and learn exactly what each one does and where your posts land.

Quota & Limits

How blog quota works in theStacc: per-project, per billing period, what counts toward your limit, how headroom is calculated, and what happens when you hit the cap.

Regenerating Content

Not happy with a post? Regenerate just the plan, a single section, one image, or the whole blog. Here's exactly what each option changes and what it leaves alone.

Time-Based Scheduling & Missed Posts

How each blog's scheduled date drives your calendar and automated generation, what happens when a date is missed, how to recover a missed post, and how to set or change a publish date.

SEO Scoring Explained

How theStacc scores every blog post for SEO - a deterministic mechanical score blended with an AI semantic self-assessment, the rating bands, what each category measures, and how the score updates as you edit.

Sources & Brand Voice

Give theStacc your own facts, your writing voice, and your real product images so every blog reads and looks like it came from your team.

User Direction

Give the AI a one-off instruction for a single blog post - the angle, examples, things to emphasize, or things to avoid - before you generate it.

Word Count & Targets

How theStacc decides how long your blog posts should be, where the actual word count comes from, and how length affects your SEO score.

Overview

Tour the Local SEO dashboard: trial and paid limits, dashboard metrics and where they come from, multi-location rollups, recent reviews, upcoming posts, the activity feed, and the core module features.

Google Business Profile

Connect, optimize, and manage your Google Business Profile from theStacc: secure OAuth connection, location selection, auto-publish, health checks, and CTA-link rules.

Reviews

Monitor your Google reviews, filter and sort them, generate AI-written replies, copy or publish them straight to your Google Business Profile, and track your review health from one dashboard.

Advertising Compliance & Validation

How theStacc checks Google Business Profile posts and review replies against your advertising-compliance rules before they publish, and what happens when something is flagged.

Content Plan Management

How theStacc organizes your Google Business Profile posts into monthly content plans, tracks when each plan expires, and lets you generate next month's posts in one click.

Data Sync & Status

How theStacc pulls your rating, reviews, and keywords from Google after you add a location, what each sync stage means, and how to run a manual sync or recover from a failed one.

Error Handling & Sync Failures

Understand the errors you might see when syncing business data or publishing to Google Business Profile - what each one means, what theStacc retries automatically, and how to fix the ones that need you.

GBP Posts & Content Calendar

Generate a month of Google Business Profile posts, edit them inline, and publish updates, offers, and events on a steady schedule to keep your profile active.

Industry Presets & Brand Intake

Tell theStacc what makes your business different - your selling points, certifications, tone, conversion goals, and seasonal angles - so every Google Business Profile post sounds like you, not a template.

Keywords & Local Rankings

Manage the local search keywords theStacc tracks for your business and see where you rank in the map pack, local pack, and organic results.

Multi-Project & Shared Access

How Local SEO works across multiple projects and team members: how locations link to projects, who can view and edit, and how invited members always see the right business data.

Locations & Business Details

Manage your Local SEO business locations: which fields are read-only from Google, which you can edit, validation rules, and how many locations a project can have.

Onboarding & Business Setup

Set up Local SEO by searching for your business, confirming the right Google listing, reviewing AI-generated business context, and letting theStacc build your first month of posts.

Subscription, Trials & Limits

How the Local SEO trial works, what your trial and paid plans include, how many locations and posts you get, and how Google Business Profile publishing limits are counted.

Overview

Tour the Social Media dashboard: the stats bar, content calendar, post list, post statuses, formats, and how each platform handles your posts.

Connecting Platforms

Connect your Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X (Twitter) accounts to theStacc so it can publish your AI-generated social posts. Covers the OAuth flow, connection statuses, refreshing, account tiers, limits, and troubleshooting.

Brand & Style

Set up your brand kit, colors, logo, fonts, voice, image styles, art-direction presets, reference images, and an optional QR code so every AI-generated social post looks and sounds like you.

Content & Scheduling

Set content pillars, generate 7- or 30-day content plans, edit captions, hashtags, first comments and images, set a weekly posting schedule, and watch per-platform character limits in real time.

Approval & Review Workflow

How the Draft for Me approval mode works for social posts: where generated posts wait for review, and how Approve, Reject, and Edit move a post through review until it is ready to publish.

Connection Management & Sync

Keep your social connections and post statuses accurate: refresh connections, sync a post's live status, fix stale connections, and how publish events flow back into theStacc.

Content Plans & Generation

How theStacc builds your multi-day social content plan, picks the topic and post type for each post, and turns each one into per-platform captions and images.

Content Preferences & Pillars

Choose content pillars, pick how posts go out (Full Autopilot, Draft for Me, or Manual), set your posting schedule, content language, and words to avoid for your AI social posts.

Platform Character Limits

Every social platform caps how long a caption can be. Learn the exact limits theStacc enforces, why X counts characters differently, and how the editor warns you before publishing.

Post Customization

Fine-tune your AI-generated social posts: per-platform caption overrides, hashtags, emoji style, first comments, your call-to-action bank, and content language.

Post Deletion & Unpublishing

Delete social posts from theStacc only or take them down from the platforms too, see exactly which platforms were unpublished, and mark posts you removed by hand so your records stay accurate.

Post Quota & Limits

How many social posts your plan allows each cycle, what counts toward the limit, when you'll be blocked, and how the quota resets.

Post States & Failures

Every state a social post can be in - ready, ready with warnings, and each kind of failure - what the message means, and the one button that fixes it.

Publishing & Scheduling

Publish social posts now or schedule them, push to a subset of connected platforms, and choose how new posts go out with the Full Autopilot, Draft for Me, and Manual presets.

Repurpose from Blog

Turn a finished blog post into ready-to-publish social drafts. Find your repurposed drafts, publish them, and use this even if you only have the Content SEO module.

Website Auto-Extraction & Asset Uploads

Auto-fill your social brand kit from your website, then fine-tune it by uploading a logo and style reference images that teach theStacc your visual style.

Workspace & Team

Manage your projects, invite teammates by email or share link, assign roles, and control who can see and change your content.

Billing & Plans

Module subscriptions, the $1 trial, plan tiers and pricing, the bundle discount, subscription states, quotas, the Dodo billing portal, invoices, payment methods, and project deletion.

Add-ons & Managed Services

Add extra content, posts, keywords, or priority support to any plan - or hand the whole thing to our team with a fully managed Local Growth, Growth Pro, or Growth Complete service.

Payments, Invoices & Payment Methods

See the card on file, review your recent payments, find your invoices, and update your payment method or billing address through the secure billing portal.

Plans & Pricing Reference

A complete reference for every theStacc plan: module tiers and monthly prices, annual billing, the multi-module bundle discount, the all-in-one Pro plan, currency, plan codes, and trials.

Subscription Status & Access

Understand what each subscription state means for your access, how trials and cancellations work, how team access is shared, and where to check your current plan.

Trials Explained

How theStacc trials work: the $1 trial per module, what is included, how many days you get, what happens when a trial ends, and how to upgrade or cancel.

Public Blog API

API reference for fetching published blog posts onto static sites, custom frontends, and third-party integrations using your project's read-only pk_live key.

Static Site Integration

Step-by-step guide to display theStacc blogs on Astro, Next.js, Hugo, and Nuxt — with environment setup, styling, a testing checklist, build-time error handling, and auto-rebuilds.

Deploy Hooks

Set up a deploy hook so your static site rebuilds automatically whenever theStacc publishes, updates, or unpublishes a blog post.

Webhook Reference

Production reference for the Custom Webhook integration — handshake, HMAC signing, every event, every field, response contract, idempotency on retry, self-hosting images, database schemas, troubleshooting, and receiver examples in six languages.

Agent Keys & MCP Server

Connect an AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or your own) to theStacc to plan, generate, edit, and publish blogs. Learn how agent keys work, how they differ from the Public Blog API key, and the full tool catalog with its limits.

MCP Tools Reference

A complete reference for every tool the theStacc MCP server gives your AI agent: planning, drafting, generating, editing, adding images, and publishing blog posts.