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Content Intelligence

14 articles

Competitive Gap Analysis

Competitive Gap Analysis identifies content opportunities where your competitors rank but you don't. It analyzes up to 5 competitor domains across multiple...

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Content Arbitrage Finder

Content Arbitrage Finder discovers "easy win" keywords where competition is weak but search volume and commercial value are strong. These are opportunities...

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Content Decay Monitoring

Content Decay Monitoring tracks your published content for signs of declining performance before significant traffic loss occurs. It detects three types of...

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Content Gap Discovery

Content Gap Discovery finds topics your audience searches for that you have not covered yet. Unlike Competitive Gap analysis which shows keywords...

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Creating Trend Briefs

A Trend Brief transforms emerging trends into strategic content opportunities. Instead of starting with a keyword, you start with a trend signal—a topic...

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Entity Gap Analysis

Entity Gap Analysis identifies topical entities people, products, concepts, places that your competitors cover but you don't. It builds a semantic knowledge...

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Entity Mapping & Topical Authority

Build semantic authority by mapping entities and topics across your content.

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First-Mover Signal Correlation

First-Mover Signal Correlation identifies high-confidence opportunities to create content before your competition by correlating multiple early signals...

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Pattern Detection Library

ILLIXIS scans every generated article against 200+ quality patterns to catch AI tells, clichés, placeholders, and weak writing before you publish. The...

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Research-Backed Trend Analysis

Research-backed trend analysis uses deep research to discover industry trends relevant to your business. Unlike other trend sources that rely on search...

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Rising Search Detection

Rising Search Detection identifies keywords with accelerating search volume before they peak. This first-mover advantage lets you create content while...

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Semantic Clustering for Audiences

Automatically group content into topic clusters for retargeting. ILLIXIS analyzes your published content, identifies shared themes, and creates audiences...

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Trend Detection (Deep Research)

Trend Detection uses deep research to discover research-backed industry trends before competitors. Unlike basic keyword trend tools, this feature identifies...

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Trend-to-Opportunity Conversion

ILLIXIS automatically converts detected trends into scored, actionable opportunities. This guide explains how the conversion pipeline works and how to act...

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SEO & Keywords

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AI Visibility

8 articles

Strategize

Plan and set up your program

Getting Started

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Advertising: Omnichannel Paid Media

Run advertising campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft Bing, TikTok, Spotify, Pinterest, and Snapchat from one dashboard. ILLIXIS handles...

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Brand Playbook

Your Brand Playbook is the strategic voice and language rulebook for your brand. It defines what your content should sound like — the words to avoid, the...

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Content Optimizer

Content Optimizer analyzes your published articles against the current top-ranking pages for a target keyword, identifies exactly what's missing or...

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Date-Bounded Sequence Variants

Anchor a sequence on a future event launch, webinar, sale start, Black Friday and route subscribers by how far they are from it. You can run two or three...

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Distribution Planner: Find Where Your Content Belongs

Great content needs distribution. The Distribution Planner uses AI to discover relevant communities, newsletters, podcasts, and forums where your content...

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How ILLIXIS Gets Smarter: Preference Learning

ILLIXIS learns from every decision you make. Approve a brief. Reject a recommendation. Publish an article. Each action teaches the platform what you care...

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Landing Pages: Page Builder

Create high-converting landing pages with a visual builder. Describe your goal, ILLIXIS generates a complete page, and you customize every detail with...

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Lead Magnets: Quizzes, Calculators, Assessments & Recommendation Engines

Turn website visitors into leads with interactive content. ILLIXIS generates complete quizzes, calculators, assessments, and recommendation engines from a...

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Learning Quality System

ILLIXIS learns from every quality fix you make. The first article might have 12 issues. By article 50, you'll see 2-3. The system tracks what you fix, what...

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Maya Autonomy Levels (L0–L5)

You decide how much of the work Maya owns. Levels run from L0 Maya is off to L5 Maya can publish on opted-in surfaces autonomously. You always retain...

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Meet Maya: Your Chief Growth Officer

Maya is your always-on growth leader who analyzes your data, spots opportunities, and tells you exactly what to do next. No more wondering "what should I...

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Originality Checking

Detect plagiarism and duplicate content before publishing your AI-generated articles.

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Post-Onboarding Automation: What Happens After You Complete Setup

Once you finish the onboarding wizard, ILLIXIS starts working in the background. This guide explains what happens automatically, what data starts syncing...

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Setting Up Without a Website

If you don't have a website yet, ILLIXIS can build your complete brand identity from scratch. Just answer 3 questions and AI does the rest.

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Showcase: Shoppable Product Placement

Showcase turns your article images into shoppable touchpoints. Every inline image in your articles gets a clickable "Shop the Look" badge that links...

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Site Intelligence

Expert-level website analysis that combines SEO auditing, structured data analysis, and conversion rate optimization in one tool.

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Strategy Hub

Your AI-powered command center for content opportunities. Review, approve, and act on recommendations from 12 different discovery engines — all in one place.

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Video Production: Turn Articles into Videos

ILLIXIS transforms your written content into professional videos with AI-generated visuals, voiceovers, and music. The unique storyboard approval workflow...

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Visual Email Sequence Builder

The Visual Sequence Builder creates sophisticated email automation workflows using a drag-drop canvas interface. Build welcome sequences, nurture campaigns...

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Account & Settings

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Account Deletion & Grace Period

This guide explains how to delete your ILLIXIS account, what happens during the 30-day grace period, and how to export your data before deletion.

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Approval Escalation & Overdue Handling

When approvals sit too long without action, ILLIXIS automatically detects overdue items and can escalate them to ensure content keeps moving. This prevents...

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Approval Workflows

Control who reviews and approves content before it goes live. ILLIXIS approval workflows let you build multi-stage review chains with role-based approvers...

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Audit Logs

ILLIXIS automatically records every significant action in the platform with an immutable audit trail. Track who did what, when, and from where - critical...

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Bulk Operations

Process multiple content opportunities at once with bulk actions. Instead of approving, snoozing, or rejecting items one by one, select a batch and handle...

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Content Comments

Add collaborative feedback and notes directly on your content for team review and quality improvement.

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Data Retention Policy & Cleanup

This guide explains what data ILLIXIS stores, how long we keep it, and your rights regarding data export and deletion.

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Decision Journal

Log strategic marketing decisions and track their outcomes over time.

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Inactivity Triggers

Inactivity triggers start email sequences when subscribers or customers go quiet. Instead of waiting for someone to take action, these triggers fire when...

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Nightly Model Retraining

Every night at 3:15 AM, ILLIXIS retrains machine learning models that power personalized recommendations. The system learns from every decision you make...

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Notification Management & Retention

ILLIXIS keeps you informed about important events through in-app notifications and optional email alerts. This guide explains how to manage your...

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Offer Calendar

The Offer Calendar helps you plan promotional campaigns around holidays, seasonal events, and custom occasions. It combines a curated holiday database with...

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Performance Feedback Loop

The Performance Feedback Loop connects content outcomes to recommendation quality. Seven days after you publish content, ILLIXIS fetches real-world...

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Settings Export/Import

What it does: Backup, restore, and transfer your workspace settings.

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Team Invitations: Add Members to Your Organization

ILLIXIS allows you to invite team members to collaborate on your marketing work. Each invited member gets their own login and assigned role with specific...

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Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Setup

Two-factor authentication 2FA adds an extra layer of security to your ILLIXIS account. When enabled, you'll need both your password and a verification code...

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User Roles & Permissions

Control what each team member can access and modify. ILLIXIS uses role-based access control RBAC to ensure team members have appropriate permissions for...

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Weekly Planner Dashboard

The Weekly Planner is your AI-powered command center for planning each week's content and marketing activities. It aggregates opportunities from all 12...

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White-Label Branding

Replace ILLIXIS branding with your own across the entire platform. Perfect for agencies delivering client work or businesses wanting a fully branded experience.

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Zapier Integration

Connect ILLIXIS to 6,000+ apps using Zapier. Automate your marketing workflows with real-time triggers and actions.

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Billing & Plans

3 articles

Create

Produce content and assets

Content Creation

22 articles

Auto-Fixing Content Issues

ILLIXIS detects and fixes quality issues automatically. Use one-click fixes for common problems or batch-fix multiple issues at once.

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Brainstorm Ideas Dashboard

The Brainstorm Ideas dashboard generates AI-powered content topic suggestions based on your brand context, themes, and audience. Instead of staring at a...

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Content Archetypes: Pattern-Based Article Generation

Content Archetypes generate articles following specific structural patterns. Each archetype has distinct formatting, tone, and organizational logic designed...

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Content Extension

Content Extension expands existing articles with new sections, deeper coverage, or updated information. Use this when you need to add depth to thin content...

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Content Grading

ILLIXIS automatically grades all generated content with a letter grade A+ to F based on 100-point scoring across 7 quality categories. Every piece of...

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Content Inventory Dashboard

View per-article analytics with performance metrics, detected issues, decay warnings, and action recommendations. The Content Inventory provides a...

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Content Version History

Track all changes to your content and revert to earlier versions when needed.

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Creating Calendar Briefs

A Calendar Brief turns holidays, seasonal events, and promotional offers into strategic content opportunities. ILLIXIS analyzes event relevance, generates...

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Creative Element Selection

Creative Element Selection is ILLIXIS's AI-powered system for selecting unique creative angles for every brief. Instead of using the same voice, structure...

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Creative Hub

Browse, search, and organize every image generated across ILLIXIS in one unified library. Favorite your best images to build a Brand Asset Library.

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Custom Briefs: Create Content on Any Topic

Custom Briefs let you create content about topics you choose, not just keywords from search data. Use this when you want to cover a specific subject...

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Fact-Checking

Validate claims and statistics in your AI-generated content before publishing.

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Freestyle Content Generation

Freestyle mode lets you create social captions, graphics, and content on-the-fly without creating a full brief first. Perfect for quick social posts...

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Generating Long-Form Articles

ILLIXIS generates SEO-optimized long-form content from briefs in 1-2 minutes. Articles are pre-researched, structured, and matched to your brand voice.

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Inline AI Editing (Ask Maya)

Refine and improve your content by selecting any passage and asking Maya to rewrite it.

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Maya Proposes Briefs Before Drafting Them

Each night Maya scans your data and decides which insights deserve a full brief and which deserve a cheaper "topic proposal" you review first. The split is...

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Multilingual Content Generation

Feature: Generate content in multiple languages from a single brief.

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Package Content (Pillar + Supporting)

What it is: Creates coordinated content sets with one pillar article plus 3-4 supporting pieces that link together to form a topic cluster.

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Plagiarism & Originality Checking

ILLIXIS detects duplicate content and measures originality before you publish. Two detection methods are available: Copyscape premium full-text analysis or...

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Quick Copy Generator

Generate instant marketing copy for emails, ads, and social posts without creating a full content brief. Get ready-to-use copy in under 60 seconds.

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Repurpose Hub: Turn One Article Into Multiple Formats

The Repurpose Hub transforms your articles into multiple content formats with one click. Generate Twitter threads, Instagram carousels, podcast outlines...

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Writing Contrarian Briefs

A Contrarian Brief is a research-backed argument against a mainstream view. Instead of covering a topic the usual way, ILLIXIS inverts the research: it...

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Visual & Media

6 articles

Video & Audio

10 articles

Audio Ad Production

Audio Ad Production is a full pipeline for creating ready-to-upload audio ads for Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and programmatic audio platforms. You...

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Brand End Card Music: Custom Audio for Your Videos

Every ILLIXIS video includes a branded end card with your logo and call-to-action. Brand Music lets you add custom music to these end cards, creating a...

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Caption Modes

Social video captions in ILLIXIS have two configuration dimensions: Caption Type content angle and Caption Style visual presentation.

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Custom Voice Cloning

Create personalized AI voices from audio samples for use in video voiceovers.

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Designed Video: A Short Video From a Page or a Topic

Designed Video turns one page on your website, or a topic your products cover, into a short vertical video, ready for Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Stories. You...

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Ken Burns Mode: Motion from Still Images

Ken Burns Mode transforms static images into engaging videos with smooth pan and zoom animations. It's the faster, lower-cost alternative to full AI video...

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Video Generation

> Starting a new video? Choose Designed or Motion Graphics under Video Production → New video. This guide covers Cinematic videos you already have; new...

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Video Scripts from Articles

Transform your articles into platform-ready video scripts with scene breakdowns, timing, and B-roll suggestions. Perfect for creating TikToks, Reels, and...

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Video Storyboard & Approval

The storyboard is the pre-production review step between script generation and final video rendering. You see every scene laid out visually -- image...

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Voice Library: Custom Voice Cloning

ILLIXIS offers voice cloning to give your brand a consistent, recognizable voice across all video and audio content. Clone your CEO's voice, brand...

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Distribute

Publish and amplify everywhere

CMS Integrations

8 articles

Email & Automation

16 articles

Broadcast Email Campaigns

Send one-off marketing emails to your audience segments. Unlike automated sequences, broadcast campaigns are manually triggered for announcements...

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Choosing an Email Provider

ILLIXIS supports four email platforms for sending campaigns, sequences, and digests. This guide helps you choose the right one for your setup.

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Connect Resend for Email Broadcasts

Resend is a developer-friendly email platform that lets you send marketing campaigns broadcasts to your audience. ILLIXIS integrates with Resend to publish...

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Decision Digest Emails

Weekly email summaries that consolidate all strategic decisions ILLIXIS made on your behalf, along with prediction accuracy updates and actionable...

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E-commerce Email Automation: Automated Customer Lifecycle Flows

Turn every store visitor into a repeat customer. ILLIXIS automatically triggers personalized email sequences based on customer behavior in your Shopify or...

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Email Automation Trigger Engine

The trigger engine monitors customer behavior and automatically enrolls contacts into email sequences when specific conditions are met. This guide covers...

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Email Digest Builder

The Email Digest Builder creates branded email newsletters from your published content and products. Select articles, add products, and ILLIXIS generates a...

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Email Playbooks

Browse and install pre-built email sequences, or generate custom playbooks with AI.

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Email Sequence Triggers

Email sequence triggers determine when subscribers enter your automated workflows. Configure the right trigger to reach customers at the moment they're most...

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Klaviyo Integration

Connect Klaviyo to ILLIXIS to send email campaigns, sync metrics, and manage audience lists. The integration supports campaign sending from the email...

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Mailchimp Integration

Connect your Mailchimp account to send email campaigns and track performance directly from ILLIXIS.

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Push Sequences to Klaviyo

Turn your ILLIXIS email sequences into native Klaviyo flows with one click. The Push to Klaviyo feature converts your visual sequence — including email...

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Renewal Reminder Campaigns

Renewal reminders are automated emails sent before your subscription charges. They give you advance notice of upcoming payments and time to make changes if...

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Trial Email Sequences

During your 7-day trial, ILLIXIS sends a small, deliberate set of emails — one transactional welcome on signup, three drip emails timed to your trial...

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Trial Expiration & Upgrade Flow

Your ILLIXIS trial gives you 7 days of full access to explore the platform for just $7. This guide explains what happens as your trial ends and how to...

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Win-Back Email Campaigns

Win-back campaigns re-engage customers who have cancelled their subscription. ILLIXIS automates this process while giving you control over messaging and timing.

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Social Media

8 articles

Campaign Planner

What it does: Coordinates multi-channel content distribution across social media and email. Select content, choose a campaign template, and ILLIXIS...

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Connect Social Media Accounts (LATE API)

LATE API integration enables social media publishing across 10+ platforms with a single connection. Connect Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok...

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How ILLIXIS Learns What Social Content Works: Preference Learning for Social

ILLIXIS tracks every social post you publish, measures engagement, and learns which formats, platforms, and post types perform best. Within weeks, the...

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Instagram/LinkedIn Carousels

Carousels turn your article into 8-16 swipeable slides, optimized for Instagram or LinkedIn. Each slide has a headline, body text, and visual direction for...

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Smart Template Recommendations

AI-powered campaign template suggestions based on historical performance data. The platform tracks engagement metrics across all campaigns and recommends...

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Social Hub Dashboard

The Social Hub consolidates all your social media scheduling, publishing, and analytics in one place. No more jumping between platforms to manage posts...

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Social Studio: Multi-Content Generation Hub

Social Studio turns a topic or an article into one of five formats: Post, Carousel, Reel, Story or Pin. Two modes: Freestyle any topic or From Article...

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Twitter Threads: Article to Viral Thread

Turn blog posts into 6-10 tweet threads with AI-generated images. Optimized for engagement, ready to copy and publish.

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Advertising

16 articles

Google Ads Integration

Connect your Google Ads account to ILLIXIS for retargeting, prospecting, and performance tracking. ILLIXIS creates Display and Search campaigns, syncs...

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LinkedIn Ads Integration

The LinkedIn Ads integration connects ILLIXIS to LinkedIn's Marketing API, allowing you to sync retargeting audiences as DMP Segments Matched Audiences...

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LinkedIn Retargeting Opportunities

LinkedIn retargeting opportunities identify your high-performing content that could benefit from B2B retargeting campaigns. ILLIXIS automatically monitors...

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Lookalike Audiences

Expand your reach by finding new customers who share characteristics with your best-performing audiences. Lookalike audiences let you target people similar...

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Meta Ads Integration

The Meta Ads integration connects ILLIXIS to Meta's Marketing API, allowing you to sync retargeting audiences as Custom Audiences, create ad campaigns, and...

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Microsoft Ads Integration (Bing & Partner Network)

Connect your Microsoft Advertising account to ILLIXIS for retargeting across Bing, MSN, Outlook, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and other Microsoft partner properties...

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Paid → Organic Intelligence

Paid → Organic Intelligence identifies paid keywords where you're spending on Google Ads but could rank organically instead. It cross-references your Google...

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Pinterest Ads Integration

Reach high-intent shoppers on the world's visual discovery platform. Pinterest users actively search for ideas, products, and inspiration -- making them...

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Pontiac Intelligence DSP

Run programmatic advertising campaigns across Display, Video, Connected TV CTV, Audio, Native, and Digital Out-of-Home DOOH channels. Pontiac is a...

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Prospecting Campaigns

Find and acquire new customers who haven't visited your site. Unlike retargeting which re-engages existing visitors, prospecting campaigns target cold...

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Roku CTV Advertising

Reach TV audiences through Roku's Connected TV platform. ILLIXIS makes TV advertising accessible to small and medium businesses with a $500 minimum budget...

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Snapchat Ads Integration

Sync retargeting audiences to Snapchat Ads as Segments, track server-side conversions via CAPI v3, and reach Snapchat's younger demographic with video and...

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Spotify Ads Integration

Connect your Spotify Ads account to ILLIXIS for audio ad retargeting, Custom Audience creation, and campaign targeting across Spotify's streaming platform...

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TikTok Ads Integration

Connect your TikTok for Business account to ILLIXIS for retargeting audience sync, Custom Audience creation, and video ad campaigns targeting TikTok's 1...

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Visual Ad Builder (WYSIWYG)

Create professional animated banner ads with a drag-and-drop visual editor. Design once, export for all standard Google Display Network sizes.

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YouTube Demand Gen Campaigns: Turn Videos into Ads

Run video ad campaigns on YouTube using videos created in ILLIXIS. Google Ads Demand Gen campaigns put your content in front of new audiences across YouTube...

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Lead Management

9 articles

CRM Integrations

Connect your CRM to trigger email sequences automatically when deals change stages. Supported platform: HubSpot.

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HubSpot Field Mapping

Map ILLIXIS lead data fields to HubSpot contact properties for seamless CRM sync. Configure how contact information flows between systems.

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Lead Capture Forms

ILLIXIS-hosted forms that capture leads and trigger email automation. Embeddable or shareable via direct links.

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Lead Nurturing Playbooks

Lead Nurturing Playbooks install complete email automation systems in one click. Each playbook includes pipeline stages, lead capture forms, email...

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Lead Pipeline Management

Lead Pipeline Management is a Kanban-style visual board for tracking contacts through your sales process. Unlike traditional CRMs, it's simple, visual, and...

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Opportunity Scoring Algorithm

ILLIXIS scores every opportunity on a 0-100 scale so you can focus on what matters most. This guide explains how scores are calculated and how your actions...

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Promotional Offers: Manage Sales, Discounts, and Campaigns

ILLIXIS helps you plan and promote your sales events. The Offer Calendar lets you schedule promotional campaigns, and the promo widget automatically...

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Self-Classification Links

Self-classification links let leads segment themselves by clicking links in your emails. No forms. No friction. Just a click that moves them to the right...

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SMS Integration

Add text messaging to your email automation sequences. Send appointment reminders, time-sensitive offers, and multi-channel nurture campaigns using Twilio.

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Measure

Track results and optimize

Analytics & Reporting

15 articles

AI Visibility Category Benchmarks

Your AI visibility score doesn't mean much without context. Are you performing well compared to other companies in your industry? Category Benchmarks show...

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Analytics Dashboard

Your intelligence hub. Four intent-based tabs that combine data from multiple sources to answer specific strategic questions — insights no single tool can...

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Campaign Metrics Refresh Automation

How ILLIXIS automatically syncs performance data from your advertising platforms and email service providers, plus when and how to trigger manual refreshes.

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Competitive Share of Voice

What it does: Shows your market position vs competitors. Computes how much of the search market you capture compared to competitors ranking for the same...

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Content Performance Summary

The Content Performance Summary provides an aggregate view of how all your published content is performing across traffic, rankings, engagement, and...

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Content Velocity Dashboard

Tracks how fast your published content reaches Google's first page positions 1-10. Shows average days-to-rank, identifies your fastest performers, and...

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CookieYes Consent Banner Integration

Connect CookieYes to add a GDPR/CCPA-compliant cookie consent banner to your ILLIXIS-hosted landing pages. CookieYes auto-blocks marketing pixels Meta...

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Executive Reporting

Generate professional PDF reports for stakeholders and leadership.

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GA4 Audience Creation

Create Google Analytics 4 audiences from your published content. ILLIXIS builds retargetable audiences automatically using topic clustering, syncs them to...

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Gap Analysis Reports

Generate and share competitive gap analysis reports with stakeholders.

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Google Analytics 4 Integration

Connect Google Analytics 4 to sync traffic data and create retargeting audiences. ILLIXIS automatically fetches pageviews, engagement metrics, and...

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Google Tag Manager Integration

Connect Google Tag Manager to inject ILLIXIS promo banners and e-commerce tracking on any website with GTM installed. No code changes required on your site.

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Local Presence

See the actions local customers take on Google calls, directions, and website taps, keep your reviews answered, and track where you rank in the local map...

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Prediction Accuracy Tracking

Tracks how accurately ILLIXIS predicts content performance before publication. Every brief generates a prediction of traffic and rankings. After...

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Quality Insights Dashboard

Track content quality patterns across your entire library. The Quality Insights dashboard shows grading statistics, learning system status, and actionable...

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