Episodes

An episode is one original, narrated vertical video of two to three minutes, animated from code with the channel's own kit. Each one is written, rendered, measured by the quality gates and reviewed by an independent critic before it reaches your library — and an episode that does not pass is held for you, not charged.

What an episode contains#

Every episode is made in the house format:

The text is paced to be read: each caption stays on screen 3 to 8 seconds, there are moments with no caption at all, and the picture never stands still for long — the camera travels, and something new happens every few seconds.

The 90-second edit#

The edit is cut from the episode itself, between whole lines, so no word and no caption is ever cut in half. Then a separate reader reads only what the edit says, as a viewer who never saw the full video, and scores whether it makes sense from start to finish; below 8 out of 10, better lines are chosen and the edit is cut again. If no edit makes sense on its own, the episode still ships — but Facebook and Instagram do not get it, and the post says so. YouTube and the other platforms take the whole video.

How an episode is made#

 topic ──▶ the episode agent writes and builds it ──▶ stills checked ──▶ full render (GPU)
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     library ◀── held or ready ◀── critic ◀── quality gates ◀─────────────┘
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                                     └── a fix round when something fails

1. A topic. The channel's backlog gives the most promising unused topic. It can also come from an approved storyboard, a breakout follow-up or a comment theme. The channel's recent episodes are passed along so settings, angles and openings rotate.
2. The episode agent works on a GPU box with the channel's kit. It writes the narration — each line with its caption — builds the scenes from the kit's template on the setting assigned to it, times every shot to the voice, and renders stills to look at before anything is rendered in full.
3. The narration is voiced, the music is made under it, and the video is rendered.
4. The quality gates measure the finished video: picture, length, sound levels, caption pacing, flashing, variety against the channel's last episodes, units and symbols, the narration and the 90-second edit.
5. The critic — a separate reviewer that did not write the episode — looks at frames from start to end, every caption, every line of narration and the title, and scores it for quality and entertainment, checks the facts and the platforms' policies. A short needs 8 out of 10 to pass.
6. Fix rounds. When a gate or the critic fails it, the same agent gets the list of failures and the critic's suggested fixes, and repairs the episode — up to two rounds. An episode that is fine but dull goes back once with the critic's list. An episode that passes its first build below 9 out of 10 gets one extra round to polish it, and the better of the two versions is kept.
7. The library. The episode lands ready — or held, with the reasons, when it still fails after its rounds.

A narrated episode usually takes one to two hours on a GPU. You can leave the page: Activity shows each job's log as it runs, and the episode appears in Episodes when it is done. The gates and the critic are explained in full in The quality gates and the critic.

How to make one#

By hand#

1. Open the channel. Its kit must be built (the Episodes card says "Needs the kit first" until it is).
2. On the Episodes card, choose the quality — Standard or Premium — next to what each reserves.
3. Press Generate. The price is shown under the button before you press it.

The episode is queued for a GPU. It starts as soon as a slot is free within your plan's GPU jobs at once.

By itself#

Set New episodes a day and Keep ready in the channel's Schedule & generation: the channel then makes its episodes on its own, one at a time, until it has enough ready. See Channels and kits. The autopilot of a new channel makes its first episodes for you (see Schedules and autopilot).

Standard and premium#

Both make the same kind of episode in the same format. Premium is for channels whose subjects are hard to get right first time — dense facts, intricate scenes. A channel's Quality setting decides what its daily episodes are made at.

The library#

Episodes in the sidebar is the library: every episode of the workspace, newest first, 36 at a time (Load more shows the next). Tabs filter it by state; when you have more than one channel, the chips above filter it by channel. Each card shows the thumbnail, the state, the critic's score, the length and when it was made; a translation shows its language, a compilation long-form and a clip clip.

An episode's page#

Open an episode to watch it and act on it. From top to bottom:

• The header: its state, the Original & reviewed badge when it passed the critic with its facts and policy checks clear, its length, and Download.
• Under the video: why it is held, if it is; Release for posting or Hold back from the schedule; Share for review (a private link for a client — see Review links); Other languages (see Languages and twins).
• Publishing: each platform, its post's state and Post now, Retry or a link to the post. A TikTok post is made on its own screen (Post…), and so is a Pin (Pin…).
• Carousel, Edit this episode and the hook lab's alternative openings, where the channel has them.
• Post it yourself: the files, the best time and the words for each platform.
• Original and reviewed: what the badge means — every frame rendered from code, the narration a synthetic voice reading a script written for this episode, and the critic's results.
• Quality report: the critic's score and entertainment score, its summary, What held it, What the critic would change and the notes.
• Details: the topic, the hook, the setting, the approval, the credits and a link to the job (view the run).

Holds and releases#

An episode is held when:

• its checks held it — after its fix rounds, the critic or a gate still failed. The page says so in plain words, for example "The critic scored it 7/10 — a short needs 8 to pass", and lists what held it and what the critic would change. It is not charged.
• the originality guard held it — it repeats one of your episodes too closely. See Originality.
• a member held it — with Hold back from the schedule. This also withdraws its approval.
• a client asked for changes through a review link.

To use a held episode, press Release for posting under the video:

Until a checks-held episode is released, it cannot be downloaded or posted, and its ready-to-post pack is not shown. Releasing stays within your spending caps. If its video never finished rendering, there is nothing to release: the page says so, and it was not charged.

Retries and regenerating#

• A failure on our side — a GPU box lost, a provider down — is retried by the job itself and, if it still fails, ends not charged. Its job page says "this was on our side, so it was not charged" and offers Run again, with its price beside it.
• A held episode is not made again by itself: no second episode is made in its place at your cost. Release it, edit it, or generate another.
• There is no "regenerate this episode" button. Generate makes a new episode on the next topic. To change an episode you have, use Edit this episode: each revision is a new version, checked again, and the earlier ones are kept.
• Cancel a running job from its page (Cancel job): a queued one is cancelled at once and its credits released; a running one stops at its next checkpoint and pays for what it used.

Downloading#

• Download at the top of the episode page saves the video as an MP4.
• Post it yourself → The files has the Video (MP4), the Facebook edit (MP4) and the Thumbnail (JPG).

The full video suits YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and LinkedIn as it is; the Facebook edit is for Facebook Reels. If the channel's schedule is on, hold the episode back from the schedule before posting it yourself, so it does not go out twice.

Credits and plans#

An episode is charged what it really used — the agent's and the critic's model work, the narration and the GPU time — at your plan's rate. Measured over recent episodes (to 2026-11-01), a standard episode typically costs about 193 credits on Creator, 177 on Pro and 162 on Agency; a premium episode about 239 on Pro. A longer or harder episode uses more.

• Before it starts, the quality menu shows what it reserves, and the line under Generate what such episodes typically cost — on this channel when it has made enough of them. The reservation is taken when it is queued; what it did not use comes back when it ends.
• A held episode is not charged, and neither is a failure on our side.
• A narration line said again in a fix round costs only that line; a line already voiced is never paid for twice.
• Spending caps stop an episode before it starts, never half-way.

See Credits and plans and Pricing.

Limits and good to know#

• Your plan runs a set number of GPU jobs at once and holds a set number of jobs in its queue. A job past them waits, or is refused with "Your plan allows N jobs in the queue at once".
• An episode's voice, captions and ending are its own. Changing the channel's narrator or caption style later changes the episodes made after it, never the ones already made.
• Episodes are made from code, never from footage: no stock clips, no photographs, no sampled music.

Troubleshooting#

• "Build the channel's kit first." Episodes are rendered with it: build it on the channel page.
• "Not enough credits: this needs about N, and M are available." Add credits or upgrade in Settings → Billing.
• A spending cap stopped it. The message says which cap and where it stands; raise it, or wait for next month.
• It is held. Read the quality report. Release it at its price, edit it, or generate another.
• Facebook or Instagram did not get it. Its 90-second edit did not tell the story on its own; YouTube and the other platforms still take the whole video.

Related#

• The quality gates and the critic — every check, in full
• Voices, casts and brand voice — who narrates it
• Caption styles and endings that loop — how it looks and ends
• The editor and storyboards — change it, or plan it first
• Approvals on your phone — approve before it posts
• Ready-to-post packs — post it yourself