Medium content automation that keeps your own site the original.
Medium content automation is a second home for articles you already write. We build the workflow that prepares each piece from your website for Medium, publishes it through Medium’s own import so your page is credited as the original, keeps it within Medium’s rules on AI-written work, and tracks which pieces find a readership there.
Why your site stays the original.
The risk with any republishing is competing with yourself in search. The fix is to tell everyone which copy came first.
An article on your own website builds your domain, links to your services and belongs to you. The same article on Medium reaches a readership that would never find your site. Done carelessly, the two copies compete. Done properly, Medium credits your page as the source, and the two help each other.
Medium’s import tool does that crediting itself: an imported story carries a canonical link pointing at your original page, which tells search engines which copy came first. Medium cross-posting done properly is therefore a small, repeatable process — a lightly adapted version, the right tags, the import that records the original, and a person submitting it to a relevant publication where that makes sense. Small and repeatable is exactly what a system should do.
What Medium allows, and what that means for automation.
Medium has made two decisions that shape any system built around it: it closed its API to new integrations, and it wrote down a policy on AI-written work.
| Question | Medium’s position | What the system does |
|---|---|---|
| Can publishing be automated through an API? | Medium no longer issues tokens for new API integrations | Prepares the piece, then a person runs Medium’s import — one short manual step |
| Who gets the search credit? | An imported story carries a canonical link to the original page | Imports from your site every time, so your page stays the original |
| Is AI-written work allowed? | Yes, disclosed — but writing mostly generated by AI can’t be paywalled and isn’t eligible for Boost | Republishes articles your team wrote and edited, with AI used for the adaptation only |
| What counts as AI-assisted? | Outlining, grammar and fact-checking tools are not treated as AI-generated writing | Keeps the argument and the body as your team wrote them |
| Can it go into a publication? | Each publication sets its own submission rules | Flags the publications that fit, for a person to submit to |
The Medium workflow.
It starts the moment an article is published on your site.
Pick what belongs on Medium
Not every article does. Arguments and explanations travel; pages written mainly to rank for a narrow search usually do not. The rule is written down once and applied to every new article.
Deliverable: a selection rule applied to every new articlePrepare the Medium version
Claude Code adapts the opening and title for a reader who has never heard of you, chooses tags, and keeps the body and its argument intact — so what Medium receives is your team’s writing, introduced for a new audience.
Deliverable: a Medium-ready draft for approvalImport with credit
The approved piece is published through Medium’s import, which records your page as the original. n8n handles the reminders and the record-keeping around it, because Medium’s closed API means the import itself is a short manual step, not a bot’s.
Deliverable: a published story credited back to your siteTrack and feed back
Which pieces found readers on Medium, and which drew people back to your site. That tells you which arguments travel beyond your existing audience.
Deliverable: a per-article log across both copiesYour site and Medium do different jobs.
Both are worth having. Only one of them is yours.
| Your website | Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns it | You | Medium |
| Who finds it | Search and your existing audience | Medium’s readers and publications |
| Links to your services | Everywhere | Sparingly |
| Its role in the system | The original | A second readership |
The honest cost.
Medium is somebody else’s platform with its own priorities, and they change — its API closing to new integrations is one example. That is the reason your website stays the original and Medium stays the second copy.
It also only works if you are already writing long-form. If you are not, start with the writing system on your own site and add Medium once there is something worth republishing.
Related systems.
Medium sits downstream of the writing you publish on your own site.
Content automation specialist
The pillar: the system the Medium workflow is one output of.
What we buildSEO content writing
The articles on your own site that Medium republishes.
What we buildThe other place expertise travels beyond your own channels.
What we buildSubstack
Long-form writing sent to readers who subscribed, on a list you own.
What we buildPlatform systems
Where Medium sits among every channel we build for.
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Questions people ask before they book.
Will republishing on Medium hurt our SEO?
Not when Medium credits your page as the original, which its import tool does by adding a canonical link to your page. That tells search engines which copy came first. Publishing the same article on both by copy and paste, without that link, is what causes the problem.
Can Medium posting be fully automated?
Not any more, and not by us. Medium has stopped issuing tokens for new API integrations, so a newly built system cannot post through the API. The preparation, the reminders and the tracking are automated; a person runs the import, approves the Medium version and submits to a publication where that makes sense.
Does Medium allow AI-written articles?
Medium allows AI-generated writing if it is disclosed, but writing mostly generated by AI can’t go behind its paywall and isn’t eligible for Boost, its curated distribution. AI-assisted tools such as outlining or grammar checks are not treated as AI-generated. Because the system republishes articles your team wrote and edited, using AI only to adapt the title and opening, the pieces stay on the right side of that line.
Should every blog post go to Medium?
No. Arguments, explanations and stories tend to travel. Pages written mainly to rank for a narrow search are better left on your own site. The system applies a written selection rule.
Do we need a Medium publication?
No. Pieces can live on a personal or company profile. Submitting to an existing publication that fits the topic can reach more readers; each publication sets its own rules, and that is a judgement a person makes per article.
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