Spend Shield (Autopilot)
Spend Shield is the Autopilot page that shows each managed product's spend against the weekly budget you set, and lists the moments Pulse Pilot stepped in on a daily budget. It is read-only; the weekly budget itself is set on the product page. Pulse Pilot's own words, such as weekly envelope and managed product, are on Pulse Pilot Vocabulary.
Open Autopilot → Spend Shield.
Weekly envelope
One gauge per live managed product: the product's name, which day of the week it is, a state label, a bar with a tick at the on-track point for today, and the figures Spent, Weekly envelope, Daily pace against the envelope per day, and the On-pace target by today. The state label reads On pace, Watching, Over pace — enforced, Over pace — flagged, or No weekly budget set. A Report-only chip marks a product whose budgets Pulse Pilot reports on but does not change. When no product is live the card says a gauge will appear for each managed product.
When the shield stepped in
Date range. Today, Yesterday, 2d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d, 60d, 90d, All Time, or a custom range. Preselected (30d).
A table with Date, Campaign, Action, Daily budget (old → new) and a short explanation of the change. The Action chip reads Budget trim, Budget restored or Report-only. When nothing has happened in the range the card says no interventions were needed. The table options control switches grid lines, the crosshair and the zoom.
This week's protect moves → opens the Activity feed filtered to protect actions.
Always-on protections
A list of the protections that run for every managed product, each with a one-line description on the screen, and the date and result of the last books-balanced check between Pulse Pilot's records and Amazon.
Good to know
- Nothing on this page changes a budget. The weekly envelope is edited on the product page; daily budgets move by Pulse Pilot's own runs, and each move is listed here with its explanation.
- The state label is a label. On pace, Watching and Over pace describe where this week's spend sits against the envelope; the page does not print the boundaries.
- Report-only products are listed but untouched. Their gauge and any flagged rows show what Pulse Pilot would have done.
- Dates are Pacific time.
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