Documentation
How to use ChannelForge to its full potential — from your first channel to an agency running a hundred — and how it is built, for developers who connect to it.
5 pages
Getting started
What ChannelForge is, your first channel in minutes, the ideas everything else builds on, and how credits work.
- What ChannelForge is
- Quick start: your first channel
- Concepts
- A tour of your workspace
- Credits and plans
6 pages
Plan your channels
Find a niche worth a channel, start from a proven format, and stay original: research, the free tools and the radar.
- Niche research
- Proven formats
- The free niche finder
- Originality guard and checker
- Outlier radar
- Comment themes to topics
13 pages
Create
Channels, kits and brand suites; episodes, voices, captions and languages; films, carousels, products and your own footage.
- Channels and kits
- Brand suites
- Episodes
- Voices, casts and brand voice
- Channel mascots
- Caption styles and endings that loop
4 pages
Quality and approval
The checks every video passes before it can go out, and the ways you and your clients approve work.
- The quality gates and the critic
- Units, symbols and facts
- Approvals on your phone
- Review links for clients
11 pages
Publish
Schedules and autopilot, the nine platforms and their rules, link-in-bio pages and ready-to-post packs.
Start reading7 pages
Grow and learn
Insights, the hook and packaging labs, retention, breakouts, the coach, comment themes and the Studio inbox.
- Insights
- Hook lab
- Packaging lab and back-catalogue refresh
- Retention to script loop
- Breakout follow-ups
- The coach
4 pages
Earn
Monetization progress, profit per channel, the sponsorship media kit and referrals.
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Teams, agencies and billing
Workspaces, projects, roles and teams; agency mode for client work; plans, credits, invoices and caps.
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Developers
Drive ChannelForge from your own code or assistant: the REST API, the MCP server, webhooks and automation apps.
- Developer overview
- REST API reference
- Using the API: a walk-through
- MCP server
- Webhooks and REST hooks
- n8n, Make and Zapier
7 pages
Architecture
How ChannelForge is built: the pipeline, the quality system, the GPU fleet, storage, security and reliability.
- System overview
- The episode pipeline
- The quality system
- The GPU fleet and isolation
- The publishing engine
- Data, storage and retention
3 pages
Security, privacy and policies
How your accounts, content and data are protected, where they live, and the platform policies we follow.
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Help
Answers to common questions, fixes for common problems, the glossary and what changed when.
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Try it as you read.
Every guide here works on the free trial: start a workspace and follow along.