The three modes
Scheduled
Four job types have a schedule, and every project gets all four:
A new project gets all four daily at 00:00 UTC, enabled. Report delivery is scheduled separately, per report — see Automate delivery.
Each schedule has three parts:
Cadence is a real interval — three days means three days, everywhere in the year. It isn’t a day-of-week or day-of-month rule, so “weekly” is seven days from the last run rather than a fixed weekday.
Leaving the run hour unset makes the cadence pure elapsed time: the job runs every N hours from whenever it last ran, with no calendar involved.
The scheduler wakes every minute and claims whatever is due. Claiming a schedule advances its next run in the same statement, so a job can’t be picked up twice — there’s no dedup window to reason about and no “did this already run recently” guard.
Collected on demand
These have no schedule. They run when you ask:- Site audits — start a crawl from the Audits page
- Web vitals
- AI search — AI Mode, ChatGPT visibility, benchmarking, citation gap
- Domain overview and tech stack
- Keyword research
Creating a project does not collect anything immediately. Its first jobs run when their schedules come due — which, on the default midnight-UTC schedule, may be up to 24 hours later. A new project looking empty is expected.Audits and web vitals never run on their own at all. A months-old audit score means nobody has crawled since.