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YouTube Channel Automation Pipeline

Fixed-fee Sprint + Monthly Retainer

3×

Output growth · 62% lower cost per video

The challenge

A 240K-subscriber personal-finance YouTube channel was spending 3 days of human time per polished long-form video. They wanted to triple output without tripling the team — and stop their best educator from doing thumbnails at 11pm.

The approach

Modular content production pipeline orchestrated in n8n
AI handles the parts humans hate (research, drafting, thumbnails, repurposing)
Humans handle the parts that matter (creative direction, on-camera, final approval)
Three human approval checkpoints: script, thumbnails, final cut

The build

Idea agent pulls trending topics from Reddit, Twitter, Google Trends, competitor channels
Scriptwriting agent fine-tuned on the channel's last 80 transcripts
ElevenLabs voice clone for placeholder narration during editing
B-roll via Pexels/Pixabay + Runway generation for gaps
Thumbnail factory: 6 variants/video scored by CTR-prediction model
Publishing + SEO automation via YouTube Data API
Repurposing: 4–6 short-form clips/video with burned-in subtitles

The results

Output: 4 → 12 videos/month (3x)
Cost per video down 62% ($2,400 → $910)
Channel growth accelerated 2.4×
Host time per video: 8 hrs → 1.5 hrs
Short-form: 0 → 60 clips/month

"We were skeptical that AI could do this without sounding like AI. The trick wasn't the AI — it was Alian's pipeline design. The voice still sounds like me."

— Channel host & founder