Campaigns used to sit in an awkward middle ground. Even with Autopilot off, an active campaign would quietly pull leads out of its list on its own, a few every day, up to whatever the add limit happened to be. It felt automatic until you noticed every message it produced was still waiting for you to read and approve it. You were in the loop anyway — the campaign had just decided which people you'd be reviewing, and when.
Now there are two clear ways leads enter a campaign, and you pick one. Switch Autopilot on and it handles enrolment, keeping the list stocked from your saved searches and adding leads up to the daily limit. Leave Autopilot off and nothing is enrolled until you select leads and add them yourself — the campaign waits for you.
The daily lead limit has moved accordingly. It now lives in Autopilot Configuration on the campaign, next to the switch it belongs to, and it means one thing: how many leads a day Autopilot may enrol. Adding leads by hand has never been subject to it and still isn't. Setting it to 0 stops Autopilot enrolling while leaving it free to keep the list stocked — useful when you want prospects researched and waiting before you start sending.
Activating a campaign is clearer too. With Autopilot on, leads start flowing immediately rather than on the next quarter-hour. With it off, the campaign tells you plainly that it's waiting for you to add some.
If you have a campaign running today with Autopilot off and a daily limit set, it will stop gaining leads on its own. Turn Autopilot on to hand it back, or add leads from the leads list. Your limit is remembered either way, so switching Autopilot on later carries on where you left off.
Follow-ups are unaffected. Once a lead is in a campaign it moves through the remaining steps on schedule, whether it got there through Autopilot or through you.