Glossary

The words ChannelForge uses on its pages and in these docs, A to Z. Labels you see in the app are in bold.

A#

• Activity — the page listing the workspace's jobs, newest first, with their state, log and price. Background work — the measurements, the weekly coach and comment themes, the radar's and retention's reads — is left out.
• Admin — a role: everything an editor can do, plus members, settings and API keys. See Roles.
• Agency mode — on the Agency plan: client workspaces run under an agency's own, a client portal in the agency's brand, connect links, monthly reports and statements with the agency's markup. Agency mode.
• Analytics — the page of each post's plain counters over the last 30 days. Insights is the tested analysis.
• API key — a secret that lets your own code use the ChannelForge API for one workspace, with the scopes you choose. Developers.
• Approvals — the queue of episodes and storyboards waiting for a person's yes, also a swipe deck on a phone. A channel with Ask for approval before each episode posts ticked posts only what was approved. Approvals.
• Autopilot — the one-click setup: from a niche or a format to a drafted channel, its kit, its first episode, its brand suite and then a steady flow of episodes, each step priced as it starts. Scheduling and autopilot.

B#

• Back-catalogue refresh — new packaging (titles, a picture, a description) for an older YouTube video, applied one agreed change at a time through Studio. Packaging lab.
• Backlog — a channel's list of topics waiting to become episodes.
• Brand suite — a channel's logo, banners, covers and every picture size each platform asks for, with its name, handles, bio and description copy. Brand suites.
• Brand voice — your own voice, recorded with your consent, for a channel's narration. On Pro and above; made once Google opens the service to us. Voices.
• Breakout — a post far above its own channel's usual at the same age: at least 3 × its median and a clear record. Breakout follow-ups.
• Breakout follow-up — two sequel topics at the front of the backlog, and extra episodes from them within a weekly cap.

C#

• Caption style — how an episode's captions look: classic, pop, highlight, outline or boxed. Captions and endings.
• Carousel — a photo post made from an episode's own frames, a cover and a closing slide, posted once a day per account. Carousels.
• Cast — up to three voices beside the narrator, for characters in a channel's episodes. Voices.
• Channel — one faceless channel: its niche, kit, brand suite, voice, topics, schedule and the accounts it posts as. Channels and kits.
• Clip — an episode made from footage you uploaded: a moment of 20 to 89 seconds, reframed vertically and captioned. Clipping.
• Coach — the weekly brief that reads your workspace and proposes one-click actions, each priced first. The coach.
• Comment themes — the questions and requests several of your viewers made, grouped each week and turned into topics. Comment themes.
• Compilation — 3 to 12 ready episodes joined into one long video. Compilations.
• Confidence label — how sure a tested answer is: Strong, Suggestive, Not detectable or Not detectable yet. Insights.
• Connection — a platform account connected to the workspace through the platform's own sign-in, in Settings → Connections.
• Credit — the unit work is metered in: $0.10 of list value. A job is charged what it really used, at the plan's markup. Credits and plans.
• Credit history — Settings → Credit history: every credit in and out, with filters and a CSV.
• Credit pack — credits bought once, on top of a plan, valid 12 months.
• Critic — the independent reviewer that did not write the episode and scores it for entertainment, facts and policy; a short needs 8 out of 10. Quality gates.

D#

• Data gap — a number a platform does not let ChannelForge read, listed with its reason and never counted as zero.
• Derived metrics — figures of our own built on a platform's data, such as "× typical" or a projection. YouTube's policies allow them on YouTube's data only after YouTube approves our amendment, which is pending. Platform policies.
• Draft — a channel proposed from a niche: its name, handles, voice, palette, settings and first topics, before its kit is built.

E#

• Editor — 1. a role: can edit projects, channels, episodes and schedules, start work that spends credits, and publish. 2. the light editor: changes to a finished episode (a line, a caption, scenes, or plain words), made as a revision. Editor and storyboards.
• Endings that loop — a channel setting: an episode's last seconds return to its first shot, so it plays as a loop. Captions and endings.
• Engagement rate — likes, comments, shares and saves per view, counted for posts with 100 views or more.
• Episode — one finished video of a channel, with its title, description, tags, thumbnail and 90-second edit. Kinds: a short, a translation, a clip and a compilation; films are made apart. Episodes.

F#

• Facebook edit — see 90-second edit.
• Fair-credits promise — the billing rules ChannelForge keeps: the price before every job, pay what it uses, no charge for our failures or held work, rollover, spending caps, a readable history, cancel in two clicks. Pricing.
• Film — a long-form video of 6 to 10 minutes in 16:9, one story told in acts, with a fixed price quoted before it starts, charged when it reaches 8 out of 10 or when you release it if held. Films.
• Film template — what a channel needs to make films; a format channel has one once its kit is built.
• Fix round — another pass on an episode after a gate or the critic found a problem.
• Format — a proven channel format to start from in one click; your channel gets its own name, colours and look. Proven formats.

G#

• GPU — the graphics machines episodes are rendered on. Each job runs as its own user, apart from every other customer's. GPU fleet.

H#

• Held — an episode or film that did not pass its checks: not posted and not charged. Releasing it costs what it cost to make (a film: its price). Quality gates.
• Hook lab — alternative openings for each episode, posted on different platforms and measured. Hook lab.

I#

• Inbox — Studio's list of every readable comment, corrections and questions first. Studio.
• Inbox assistant — answers comments on the posts ChannelForge made, at a person's pace, only where the workspace switched it on. On Pro and above.
• Insights — your posts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram measured from your own accounts and tested inside each channel, with how sure each answer is. Insights.

J#

• Job — one piece of work: research, a kit build, an episode, a post. A job reserves its price when it starts and is charged what it used when it ends.

K#

• Kit — a channel's own renderer: its scenes, templates and style gallery, with a reference episode. Every episode is drawn with it. Channels and kits.

L#

• Language twin — a channel of its own in another language, mirroring its source channel's episodes or making its own. Languages and twins.
• Library — the finished episodes of the workspace; in Studio, every item its accounts published.
• Link-in-bio — a public page of links for a channel, with click counts and no cookies. Link-in-bio.

M#

• Markup — the factor that turns what a job cost into credits; it is lower on larger plans.
• Mascot — a channel's own character, designed for its kit and approved by you. Mascots.
• May be live — a post whose platform's answer was lost: it is looked for, or confirmed by you, before anything is sent again, so it never goes out twice.
• MCP — the Model Context Protocol server that lets an assistant such as Claude work with your workspace. MCP.
• Media kit — a page for brand deals, shared by an unlisted link. Media kit.
• Monetization tracker — each YouTube channel's progress to the Partner Program, in YouTube's own numbers. Monetization tracker.

N#

• Narrator — the voice that reads a channel's episodes, chosen from a library of natural voices.
• Niche — a subject and audience a channel is built for, scored on demand, competition, depth, risk and more.
• Niche finder — the free public tool that proposes niches from a few words. Niche finder.
• Niche research — a project's study of niches from your brief. Niche research.
• 90-second edit — every episode's own cut of 89 seconds or less, for Facebook and Instagram, made to tell the whole story.

O#

• Opening — an episode's first seconds; the hook lab tests a question, a countdown and a flash-forward.
• Originality guard — keeps each episode apart from the channel's earlier ones and from other channels of the same format; the free originality checker reads titles you paste. Originality.
• Outlier radar — watches accounts you choose for videos far above their own usual, to brief original episodes of yours. Scoring YouTube's videos waits on YouTube's approval of our derived-metrics amendment, and reading Instagram on Meta's App Review; until then it lists YouTube's uploads as YouTube returns them. Outlier radar.
• Owner — a role: everything, including billing and deleting the workspace.

P#

• Package — a title and thumbnail together; the packaging lab writes three for YouTube's A/B test.
• Packaging lab — three packages per film, staged for YouTube's own test, and what the results teach. Packaging lab.
• Plan — the Trial, Creator, Pro, Agency or Enterprise: monthly credits, limits and the features each includes. Pricing.
• Post pack — Post it yourself on an episode: the files, the best time and each platform's words, to post by hand. Post packs.
• Premium quality — a stronger episode writer, on Pro and above, at a higher price per episode.
• Product channel — a channel about one product, its episodes built from the product's own sources. Product kit.
• Profit — each channel's income beside what it cost. Profit per channel.
• Project — a group of channels in a workspace, with its brief, its niches and optionally its teams.

Q#

• Quality gates — the measured checks every episode passes before the critic. Quality gates.
• Quote — the price shown before a job starts: what it reserves, and what jobs like it typically cost.

R#

• Referral — someone who created an account through your link; their first paid month earns you both credits. Referrals.
• Release — choosing to use a held episode anyway, at what it cost to make (a held film: at its quoted price).
• Reservation — the credits a job sets aside when it starts; what it did not use comes back when it ends.
• REST hook — a webhook your automation tool subscribes and unsubscribes itself, such as n8n's, Make's or Zapier's. Webhooks.
• Retention loop — where viewers leave each episode, mapped onto its lines and turned into rules for the writer. Its measurements wait on Meta's App Review and YouTube's approval. Retention to script loop.
• Review link — a private link that lets anyone watch an episode, a storyboard or a film and approve it or ask for changes, without an account. Review links.
• Revision — a new version of a finished episode made by the light editor; every version is kept.
• Roles — owner, admin, editor and viewer, from most to least. Workspaces and roles.
• Rollover — unused plan credits carried into the next month, once, while the plan is active.

S#

• Scope — in Studio, what a page is about: everything, a project, a channel, a platform or one account.
• Settled views — a post's views once it is past 72 hours.
• Showcase — the public gallery of episodes ChannelForge made itself. Showcase.
• Slot — one of a channel's posting times; each platform the channel chose gets one post at it.
• Spending cap — a monthly limit of credits for the workspace or a channel; work that would pass it waits.
• Storyboard — an episode's plan (its hook, scenes, facts and payoff) written before any rendering, for a person to approve. Editor and storyboards.
• Studio — every connected account, post and comment in one place, with the inbox and every change kept with its Revert. Studio.

T#

• Team — a group of members a project can be limited to.
• Topic — one episode idea in a channel's backlog.
• Trial — the free start: 400 credits once your email is confirmed, for 30 days, with no card.
• Trial Reels — Instagram reels shown to non-followers first; the hook lab can post openings as them.

U#

• Units and symbols guard — checks that every shown and spoken text writes units by the SI rules: a space between a number and its unit, the right symbols, and units said in words in the narration. Units and facts.
• Usage — Settings → Usage: what the workspace used.

V#

• Variety — the gate that keeps an episode from looking like the channel's recent ones.
• Viewer — a role: can read the workspace and change nothing. (A project set to "assigned teams only" is visible only to its teams, and to owners and admins.)
• Views for their age — a post's views against the typical post of the same age on the same platform in your workspace, shown as × typical.

W#

• Webhook — a message ChannelForge sends to your address when something happens, such as an episode becoming ready. Webhooks.
• Workspace — your team's home in ChannelForge: its projects, channels, credits, members and connections. Your workspace.

X#

• × typical — see Views for their age.

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