Content Machine

Content Machine is a battle-tested AI content pipeline built from 40+ days of real production use running an actual YouTube channel. It operates daily: scraping trends, writing video scripts in YOUR voice, generating thumbnails with YOUR face, publishing X posts, writing SEO blogs, cutting short-form clips, sending outreach, and delivering a weekly newsletter. All while you sleep.

Content Machine has generated real, measurable results: $2,500 MRR in 6 days, 3,700 YouTube subscribers, 1,000s of views per hour, and 71 paying community members. Every video on the Build In Public YouTube channel was scripted by these agents.

Proven Results:

• $2,500 MRR generated in 6 days
• 3,700+ YouTube subscribers
• 1,000s of views per hour
• 71 paying community members
• 6 YouTube videos scripted per day
• 5 X posts published daily
• 12 thumbnails generated daily
• Daily SEO blog posts driving organic traffic

Everything Included — one purchase, no upsells:

9 AI Agents (fully configured cron templates):

• Intel Agent — scrapes Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News for trending topics in your niche daily
• Script Writer 1 + 2 — 4 YouTube video scripts per day in YOUR voice (1,500-2,000 words each, with timestamps and source URLs in descriptions)
• X Post Generator — 5 daily posts using proven viral hook frameworks, all lowercase, hook-first
• Thumbnail Generator — 3 AI thumbnail variants per video using Kie.AI Nano Banana 2 with YOUR face + brand logos (desk, closeup, dramatic styles)
• Blog Writer — daily SEO-optimized blog post with meta descriptions, keywords, slugs, and YouTube video embeds. HTML output connects directly to your website database for auto-publishing
• Clip Factory — auto-extracts 3-5 highlights from your uploads, crops to 9:16 vertical (never letterboxed), burns MrBeast-style captions (Arial Black, ALL CAPS, thick outline)
• Newsletter Writer — weekly roundup in your voice for Substack or any newsletter platform
• Outreach Agent — finds podcast guests, customers, affiliates, and collaborators. Writes personalized DM pitches and tracks follow-ups. Works for sales, networking, or any outreach at scale

Content Machine Dashboard (full Next.js app with shadcn UI):

• Videos — review scripts, copy to clipboard, download all 3 thumbnail variants, mark as filmed/published
• Clip Factory — preview vertical clips with captions, one-click publish to TikTok, IG Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook via PostBridge
• Posts — edit X post drafts inline, one-click publish
• Trends — drag-and-drop Kanban board (trending to considering to in production)
• Outreach — 4-column Kanban (pending to DM sent to follow up to replied), personalized pitches
• Blogs — review drafts and publish directly to your website (connects to the same database your site reads from)
• Dark mode, smooth drawer popups, clean tile cards, auto-starts on boot

Voice Cloning System:

• Voice profiler script — transcribes 3-5 of your YouTube videos locally with Whisper (nothing sent to the cloud)
• Structured voice profile template — signature phrases, sentence structure, energy, opening/closing patterns
• Anti-slop humanize guide — 50+ banned AI words, required patterns, voice matching rules. If it sounds like AI wrote it, it gets caught
• Proven viral hook frameworks baked into every agent so your content grabs attention from the first line

Interactive Setup Wizard (setup.sh):

• Colorful terminal wizard with numbered steps and green checkmarks
• Asks your niche, brand name, YouTube channel ID, community URL, API keys
• Checks for required tools and tells you exactly how to install anything missing
• Creates your database tables automatically (9 tables)
• Customizes all 9 agent prompts with YOUR info
• Builds and installs the dashboard with auto-start on boot
• Prints the exact commands to install your cron jobs in OpenClaw
• From zero to running pipeline in under 30 minutes

Scripts and Tooling:

• generate-thumbnails.sh — full Kie.AI Nano Banana 2 integration with polling and DB storage
• save-clip.sh — clip storage and database insertion
• generate-ass-captions.py — MrBeast-style burned-in caption generator
• voice-profiler.sh — YouTube download to Whisper transcription to voice profile builder
• db-setup.sql — complete schema for all 9 tables

What makes Content Machine different from a prompt pack:

• Production-proven — not theory, but 40+ days of real daily use generating real revenue
• Anti-slop awareness — knows what NOT to write. 50+ banned AI words, voice matching, hook frameworks
• Full dashboard — not a zip file of prompts. A real Next.js app with Kanban boards, drawer popups, and one-click publishing
• Voice cloning — AI writes like YOU, not like every other AI blog post. Whisper-based profiling from your actual videos
• SEO built in — meta descriptions, keywords, slugs, video embeds. Blogs drive organic traffic automatically
• Source URL tracking — video descriptions include links to the original Reddit threads, X posts, or articles your content references
• Dedup protection — script writers check the last 50 videos to never repeat a topic
• Complete pipeline — intel feeds scripts, scripts feed thumbnails, scripts feed blogs, uploads feed clips. Everything connects.

What You Need:

• OpenClaw (installed and running)
• Anthropic API key (Opus 4.6 for content writing, Sonnet 4.6 for utility agents)
• Neon PostgreSQL database (free tier works)
• Kie.AI account (for AI thumbnail generation)
• PostBridge account (for one-click social media publishing)
• YouTube Data API key (for clip factory + video matching)
• Node.js 18+ and npm (for the dashboard)
• yt-dlp + Whisper (for voice profiling and clip generation)

Includes setup wizard, all 9 agent templates, dashboard source code, reference guides, and complete documentation. Designed for OpenClaw. Recommended: Claude Opus 4.6 for writing agents, Sonnet 4.6 for utility agents.