The content pipeline
Track topics across every stage of your content workflow on a drag-and-drop board.
The Pipeline is a board view of every content topic for your brand, organized into six columns — one per workflow stage. Each topic is a card. You move a card to the next stage by dragging it.
The six stages
Each column represents where a topic sits in the workflow. The subtitle under each column header tells you what that stage means:
- Pending — Awaiting approval. New recommendations and topics you've added land here.
- Writing in Progress — Draft being written. The Writer is generating, or a draft exists and is being edited.
- Ready for Review — Awaiting review. The draft is ready for someone to read and approve.
- Ready for Publishing — Ready to publish.
- Scheduled — Queued for publication. The Scheduled column header links to the Calendar, where you manage publish dates.
- Published — Tracking visibility. GEOforge measures Share of Voice on these topics over time.
The count badge on each column header shows how many topics are in that stage.
Moving topics between stages
Drag a card and drop it onto another column to advance it.
When you pick up a card, only the columns it can legally move to are highlighted. If you drop a card onto a column that isn't a valid next step, it snaps back to where it started — no change is made.
Two moves ask for input before they complete:
- Requesting a revision — moving a topic back for changes opens a dialog where you enter revision notes. The card stays put until you confirm.
- Scheduling — moving a topic into Scheduled opens the schedule window, where you pick a publish date and CMS target. The card stays in its current column until you confirm.
A move shows immediately on the board, then is saved. If the save fails, the card returns to its original column and an error appears at the top of the page.
Adding topics
Two buttons sit at the top right:
- Add Your Own Topic — opens a form to create a single topic.
- Generate — runs the Strategist to produce new recommendations from your knowledge base.
New topics appear in the Pending column.
Search and filters
Use the search box to filter cards by topic title, and the format dropdown to show only one type (Blog, FAQ, Case Study, or How-To). Filters apply across all six columns at once.
The summary line under the action bar tells you how many topics match your filters versus the total in the pipeline.
"+N more" links
Each column shows a limited number of cards. When a stage holds more topics than fit, a +N more link appears at the bottom of the column. It opens the Recommendations page filtered to that stage, where you can page through the full list.
When a search or format filter is active, the board only filters the cards already loaded into each column — the "+N more" link is hidden, so use the Recommendations page if you need to search the complete set.
Deleting a topic
Delete a topic from its card. If the topic has been published to a connected CMS, you can choose whether to also remove the published post, or delete only the GEOforge record and leave the live page in place.
If you'd rather work through topics as a ranked list than a board, use Topic Recommendations. To manage publish dates for scheduled topics, use the Content Calendar.