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Build a better content plan with Oscar

Learn how to use Oscar to brainstorm, create and edit posts using AI that understands your brand voice and context.

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Oscar is an AI-powered assistant built into HeyOrca that helps you build a content plan that is consistent with your brand voice and current chat history. Oscar can help you write better captions, summarize your content schedule, brainstorm ideas, and draft posts in your calendar. You can chat with Oscar, ask for suggestions, and apply those suggestions directly to your caption while staying consistent with your brand voice.


What Oscar can help you do

With Oscar: Captions Helper, you can:

  • Get caption suggestions and improvements

  • Create a post from an event

  • Create a post based on your month’s content

  • Make changes on your publishing details (posting time, date, etc.)

  • Ask for feedback on your captions, such as how well your caption aligns with your brand voice

Oscar understands the context of what you’re working on, including:

  • Your current caption

  • Your current chat history

  • The social platform of your scheduled post

  • The images you've added to your post

  • Your content calendar


How to chat with Oscar

Adding your brand voice gives Oscar the context needed to deliver great results. It's not a required step to start chatting, but we highly recommend doing this first. You can set up and edit or add to your brand voice at any time.

From your post:

  1. Create a new post, or open an existing post.

  2. Click to open the text editor and click the Oscar (AI) icon

  3. The Oscar chat panel will open next to your post content.

Image of a post in HeyOrca, most of the image is greyed out except for an Oscar the whale icon in the post caption.

From your calendar:

  1. Open the calendar you want to create content for.

  2. Click the Oscar icon.

  3. The Oscar chat panel will open next to your content calendar.

    Close-up of a calendar interface with an arrow highlighting a circular button featuring an Oscar the whale symbol.

Ask Oscar for help

You can interact with Oscar like a chat assistant without having to provide additional context! Since these chats are calendar-specific, you can get help tailored to the client workspace you're in, eliminating the overhead of setting up multiple personas in an external AI tool.

Examples of things you can ask:

  • “Rewrite this to sound more playful.”

  • "Create a post for our latte art workshop on April 22"

  • "What should I post this week based on my calendar?"

  • "Move this post to next Thursday."

  • “Adapt this caption for LinkedIn.”

  1. Type your request in the chat input.

  2. Press Send.

  3. Oscar will respond with suggestions based on your caption and brand voice.

You can also click one of the quick actions at the top of the screen as a shortcut!

A chat interface titled "Chat with Oscar" displays a friendly message inviting users to engage. Below, three button options are presented: "Create post," "Summarize my content schedule," and "Brainstorm ideas."

Apply Oscar’s suggestions to your caption

  1. Review Oscar’s response in the chat.

  2. Click Apply on the suggestion you want to use.

  3. The caption editor will update with the selected changes.

Apply Oscar’s suggestions to your caption

  1. Review Oscar’s response from the chat

  2. When you’re satisfied, instruct Oscar to proceed

  3. Oscar will start creating your posts right away

You can continue chatting with Oscar to refine your content further.


How to review post edits made by Oscar

  1. Open the post you would like to review and click the “Audit trail” icon

  2. In the Audit trail, you can see which edits were made by which user via Oscar

A screenshot of a post's "Post History". The history shows a log of a user making changes to the copy of the post via Oscar.


Current limitations

At this time, Oscar is unable to perform certain tasks, including:

  • Access specific features on the post like:

    • Bio link

    • Auto DMs

    • Location Tagging

    • Hashtag library

  • Create a set of recurring posts

  • Answer questions about other features in HeyOrca

  • Edit posts without your approval

  • Approve posts or change the stage of a post

  • Reply to comments on a post


How to turn Oscar off

  1. Go to your settings page from the side navigation bar, or click “Manage your AI Settings” at the bottom of the chat window.

A screenshot of a chat box with the words "Write a prompt to dive into content creation." A blue arrow on the right side of the chat box lets you send messages.

  1. Toggle off “Enable all AI features” to disable Oscar and other AI features in HeyOrca.

  2. To turn Oscar back on, simply toggle “Enable all AI features” back on.

Note: Conversations with Oscar may be stored and reviewed by HeyOrca to help improve the quality, accuracy, and usefulness of the feature over time. This helps us improve responses and suggestions, and improve the overall experience.

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