Live monitoring only catches new messages. So that you do not lose the people who wrote recently, the wizard has two tools for working with the past.

Testing your words BEFORE launch

On the "Limits and launch" step the wizard runs your keywords against the history of the selected chats and shows how many matches they would have produced - before you spend anything. The estimate is based on a sample of recent messages, not on the entire history.

This answers the main question of any new campaign: are the words too broad (hundreds of matches means noise and spending) or too narrow (zero matches means silence). Adjust the words right in the wizard until the number looks reasonable.

"Scan the last 24 hours"

A toggle on the launch step:

• On - we will check the last 24 hours across all channels of the campaign and find leads you might have missed. Every message from history checked by the AI costs 1 credit.
• Off - we only watch new activity, with no scan of the past and no extra credits.

Signals from history appear in the Feed gradually, as the analysis goes on.

⚠️ Important: replies to signals from history are never sent automatically - even in Autopilot they wait for your review. This protects you from a mass auto-reply to old messages.

What it costs

The same price as in live mode: an AI check costs 1 credit per message; keyword matches without AI are free. You can see the spending in the "Where the credits went" line on the billing screen - the "history scan" reason is shown separately.

💡 Tip: if a carried-over credit pack is about to expire, a history scan is the fastest way to convert it into leads (see the article "Buying extra credits and their expiry date").