Before you build: three sentences
Write these into your Channel Brain (Settings → Channel Brain): (1) Who is my viewer and what do they want this month? (2) What do I promise that competitors do not? (3) What will I never say or do on channel? These three lines prevent vague scripts and vague research.
Day one: account and safety rails
Verify email and complete any beta or approval flow. Until you are approved, some features may be read-only or hidden—this is expected.
Set your generation language and any locale preferences under User settings.
Confirm which workspace is personal versus team. Keep experimental drafts in personal space until they are ready to share.
Draft your Channel Brain from your connected channel (or a few sentences about it) and keep what is right.
Day two: one real project, end to end
Pick one publishable idea—not ten. Start a video, draft and lock the pitch, spend five minutes on "Talk it through", then confirm the outline and read the first scenes of the script closely. Edit until it sounds like you—later, "Learn my voice from my edits" turns those edits into lasting voice rules.
Title: working title plus a one-line viewer promise.
Outline: hook, three main beats, objection handling, CTA.
Script sample: 90–120 seconds of spoken copy—enough to judge pacing.
Day three to five: research loop
Add two to four reference channels that share your audience. For each session, log: one title pattern you could ethically adapt, one pacing choice you liked, and one thing to avoid. Turn the best insight into a script brief for your next video—not a copy.
Day six to seven: review and tighten
Read your sample script aloud; fix tongue-twisters and jargon.
Run the retention check and fix anything marked high.
Prune your Channel Brain rules: delete any rule that did not change outcomes—fewer, sharper rules beat a wall of text.
Ongoing habits
Weekly: one hour of research, one shipped or scheduled video, one improvement to your Channel Brain or Playbook. After each upload, link it on the Ship page so its reviews feed your next pitch. Monthly: archive dead experiments, clear out your Ideas inbox, and check whether your niche sentence still matches what you publish.
If you stall, shrink the scope. A finished short script with a strong hook beats a perfect long-form plan that never records.