How an episode is made.
Channels, ideas, nine steps.
This page explains what your customers do in the studio, so you can set prices and answer questions.
01Channels
A channel is set up once and holds what stays the same from video to video: the name and handle, the niche and the audience, the language, the tone, the narrator's voice, the style pack (the look of every scene), the target length, a channel "bible" (house rules, recurring phrases), topics to avoid, the sign-off, the posting schedule, a brand kit, and the YouTube channel it publishes to. Every episode inherits all of it.
Style packs set the look: colours, type, film grain, vignette, letterbox, caption style, music mood and how scenes move. The operator chooses which packs are offered (Settings, Studio).
02The Idea Lab
The AI proposes video ideas for a channel: a working title with three title variants, the hook, the angle, why it should work for this audience, a length and whether people search for it. People approve, reorder or discard ideas. Approved ideas are the queue the autopilot takes from. Each batch costs the "Idea Lab" credit price.
03The nine steps
An episode moves through these steps. Each step is visible, editable and can be run again on its own. Each costs its own credit price, shown before it runs, and is refunded when it fails.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Research | A dossier for the topic: facts, each tied to a numbered source the AI actually retrieved with web search, plus links and notes the person gave. Facts whose source was not retrieved are dropped. Gaps are listed. |
| Script | An outline built for retention (hook, promise, chapters, payoff, call to action), then the spoken narration by chapter. Each paragraph names the dossier facts it uses. Editable as a document. |
| Fact check | Every claim of the script is marked supported, unsupported, contradicted or opinion, with sources and a suggested fix. Until each unsupported or contradicted claim is settled (the fix applied, the paragraph edited, or kept as is by a named person), Visuals, Footage and Render do not run. |
| Visuals | One storyboard per chapter: footage scenes with search queries, maps, newspaper and document scenes, rankings, profile and quote cards, charts and timelines, chapter cards. Scenes that state facts must name their dossier facts. Opens in the scene editor. |
| Footage | Every footage scene gets a licensed clip or photo from Pexels, Pixabay, Wikimedia Commons or the workspace's own uploads, with its credit. People can swap any clip. See Footage, licences and credits. |
| Render | Narration, captions, music and every frame are rendered on this server into a 1080p MP4 (4K on plans that allow it). |
| Package | Three titles, the description with chapter timestamps, sources and footage credits, tags, hashtags, a pinned comment, the category, and thumbnail designs to pick from. |
| Shorts | The AI picks self-contained moments of the long video; each becomes a vertical 9:16 Short with a new first line. |
| Publish | A person uploads the video and its Shorts to YouTube: private, unlisted, public or scheduled. See Publishing to YouTube. |
Before publishing, the originality report checks the episode against YouTube's policies on inauthentic and repetitive content: the narration is written for this video, the script fills the video, designed scenes are mixed with stock footage, no shot repeats, facts have sources, footage is credited, the AI disclosure is set, chapters follow YouTube's rules. It is a self-check, not a promise of how YouTube will judge a channel.
04Language versions
A finished episode can be remade in another language as its own episode: script, storyboard texts, titles, description and thumbnail texts are translated; footage, sources and credits are kept; the narration is recorded in the new language. The version then goes through render, package, Shorts and publish like any episode, on the same channel or another one. Facts and source titles stay in their original language. Plans decide whether translation is allowed; the price is the "language version" credit price.
05The scene editor
Any episode's storyboard opens in the scene editor: scenes grouped by chapter with timecodes, a live preview, forms for every scene, chat edits ("make chapter 3 calmer"), rewriting one field, translating, pronunciation rules, versions with restore, and the render dialog with the YouTube (16:9) and YouTube Shorts (9:16) presets.
06Autopilot
When the operator turns it on (Settings, Channels and publishing) and a channel has a posting schedule, the autopilot takes the next approved idea of the Idea Lab up to two days before a free slot and runs research, script, fact check, visuals, footage and render on its own, charging the same credits. It always stops at Ready for review: a person reads the script, watches the video and publishes it. The autopilot applies the fact check's suggested fixes and stops when a flagged claim has none. The autopilot never publishes and never makes language versions.
07Review links
A workspace can send a review link to a client: they watch the render, pin comments to moments of the video and approve it, without an account. Plans decide who can create them.