Using Boosts to remix posts and tighten drafts

This article covers the two surfaces (post boosts on Discover, creator, and board items, and document boosts inside a markdown doc), what each boost does, and how the cap works.

Where boosts live

Boosts show up in two places.

The first is the lightning-bolt button on social posts. You see it on:

• The Discover feed
• Creator profile cards
• The post-details modal
• The focus overlay when you open a saved post fullscreen
• Saved social link cards on a board

Click the bolt, pick a boost from the dropdown, and Eden opens a chat thread named for the action you picked, with the post pre-loaded as context.

The second is the boost panel on a markdown doc. Open any doc, look for the boost panel on the right (or bottom in narrow pane layouts), and pick a goal. Eden reads every block in the doc, then writes back inline suggestions you accept or reject one at a time. The doc stays the doc; nothing is overwritten until you click accept.

Both surfaces decrement the same monthly counter (see The monthly cap below).

Post boosts on short-form items

Short-form means X posts, Instagram posts and Reels, TikTok videos, LinkedIn feed posts, YouTube Shorts, and Substack notes. The bolt menu surfaces four options on these:

• Variations. Generates 3 short-form variations of the post in different angles (Contrarian, Hot take, Personal story, How-to, and more), formatted to the platform's character budget. The variations appear as a card in chat. Each one has its own Insert to board button that drops it on a board of your choice as a sticky note, with paragraph spacing preserved so you can read it at a glance.
• Reverse Engineer. Breaks down why the post works structurally (hook, promise, audience, point of view, proof, pacing, format, payoff). Returns reusable takeaways and then offers to coach you toward your own version of the same shape.
• Replicate. Returns a structure map plus fill-in prompts you can use to build the same shape with your own ideas, without copying the source's unique phrasing.
• Expand to Longform. Drafts a publishable long-form piece that carries the same thesis as the short post but expands it into a full arc. On a YouTube Short the draft comes back as a shoot-ready video script. On everything else it comes back as a Substack-style essay with intro, sections, and conclusion.

Post boosts on long-form items

Long-form means full YouTube videos (not Shorts), Substack newsletter posts (not Notes), and LinkedIn articles. The bolt menu on these surfaces:

• Headline Variations. Asks once what your niche is, then generates 10 headline angles you could write about in that niche, using the source's structure or framing as the pattern (never copying its topic). Discover-only.
• Break into Post Ideas. Mines the long-form piece for 5 standalone short-post ideas. Each idea includes an angle label (Contrarian, Hot take, Paradox, Personal story, How-to, and others), a punchy seed line, and 2 staccato spark bullets, written so you can paste it into a content calendar and start writing from the seed. At the end you can ask Eden to flesh out a specific idea for a specific platform, or generate another batch of 5.
• Reverse Engineer. Same shape as the short-form version. Useful on a long video to map out structural moves you can borrow for your own essay or video.
• Replicate. Returns the structure map and fill-in prompts.

What happens after a post boost

Every post boost lands in a chat thread, not on a board. The thread is named after the action and the post title (for example, Reverse engineer "The Curse of Knowledge in Hooks"). It's yours to continue: ask follow-up questions, request more variations, ask the assistant to coach you toward a draft, or paste your own attempt and ask which lines are weakest.

For Variations specifically, the chat returns selectable cards. Each card has its own Insert to board button that saves that one variation as a sticky note on the board you pick. Multi-paragraph variations keep blank lines between paragraphs on the sticky so the post structure stays readable.

Document boosts that apply edits

Open a markdown doc and the boost panel reads every block. Pick a goal and Eden returns inline suggestions you accept or reject, one card at a time. Five goals come built in:

• Boost engagement. Sharpens every layer at once: opening, hook, voice, momentum across sections, specificity, closer, and CTA. Use this when you have a draft that is technically fine but reads like a treadmill.
• Boost persuasion. Strengthens the claim, the proof, and the ask. Use this on sales-leaning pieces, landing-page copy, or essays where you need the reader to do something at the end.
• Boost readability. Fixes grammar and spelling, cuts filler words, and smooths dense or slow sentences. Use this as the last pass before publishing.
• Headline variations. Returns stronger options for the first line (Eden treats the first line as your headline). Click one to swap it in.
• Identify blind spots. Returns 2 to 4 important missing angles, objections, context, or stakes the piece has not addressed. Each blind spot includes a thinking checklist of questions you answer in your own words and an anchor pointing at the block where the resolution belongs. You can also click Draft an insertion for me and Eden writes a starting paragraph at the anchor for you to edit.

Suggestions appear as cards next to the affected lines. Each card shows the original text, the proposed rewrite, the rationale, and sometimes a few alternatives. Accept moves you to the next card. Reject leaves the text alone. Nothing is written until you click accept.

The credit cost

Boosts, Discover post searches, and chat messages all draw from one workspace-scoped EdenAI credit bucket that resets on your billing anniversary (so on the same day each month, even on annual plans). Searching for creators by handle or topic is free.

• Starter workspaces get 200 EdenAI credits per month.
• Pro workspaces get 750 EdenAI credits per month.
• Studio workspaces get 2,000 EdenAI credits per month, pooled across the team.
• Each boost costs 1 credit. Each Discover or creator-list post search costs 1 credit. Creator lookup costs 0 credits. Each EdenAI Lite message costs 1 credit; each EdenAI Max message costs 2 credits. Very large chat turns add a separate surcharge when the actual provider input exceeds 100,000 tokens.

The remaining credit count is visible in the billing screen Usage panel, in the boost dropdown footer, on the Free-plan banner, and inline on the document boost panel, so you always see what you have left right where you're about to spend a credit.

A boost only counts when the server returns a usable response. If the request fails or you abort it before it completes, no credit is deducted. If you hit zero, Eden shows the credits-exhausted popup before any work starts, with one-time top-up packs (200 / 750 / 1,500 credits at $19 / $59 / $129) and a plan-upgrade CTA. Free workspaces get a single 50-credit allotment and are routed to the plan picker instead of top-ups.

Which boost to pick when

A short cheat sheet:

• You found a viral post you want to learn from. Reverse Engineer first, then Replicate if you want a usable structure for your own version.
• You found a short-form post and want a draft in your voice. Variations to see 3 to 5 angles, then save the one that sounds like you to a board and write from there.
• You found a long video or newsletter and want to spin it into a week of shorts. Break into Post Ideas, then ask Eden to flesh out the two or three angles that land hardest for the platform you're writing for.
• You have a draft and the hook is soft. Boost engagement on the doc, or Headline variations to swap just the first line.
• You have a draft and you can't tell what is missing. Identify blind spots. The thinking checklists tell you the questions to answer, not the words to write.

Where to go next

• For the empty-chat presets that pair well with post boosts, read chatting with a board.
• For curating a board the boosts read well from, read boards as swipe files.
• For the boost cap and plan differences, read plans and pricing.