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Drop a video.
Get a publishing kit.

ChannelHelm is a video-to-publishing command center. It watches your video — audio, visuals, and meaning — and drafts every asset for every platform. You review, edit, approve, and ship.

Illustrated command deck overlooking a harbor of publishing destinations
40asset types, each with its own prompt
15publishing destinations
4analysis layers per video
6animated subtitle styles
0bytes of your media sent to a SaaS
Four-layer understanding

It doesn't just transcribe. It watches.

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1

Audio

Transcription and speaker diarization with word-level timing.

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2

Visual

Scene cuts, frame descriptions, and on-screen text (OCR).

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3

Fusion

Audio and visual aligned into one timestamped scene log.

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4

Intelligence

Topics, hooks, retention: the brief every asset is drafted from.

How it works

From drop to dispatch in four moves.

1

Ingest

Drop a file or paste a link. For a YouTube URL, the brand is auto-detected from the channel — no manual picking. A package is created and the pipeline queues.

2

Understand

Background workers transcribe the audio, analyze the visuals, fuse them into a scene log, and extract the intelligence layer: topics, hooks, and retention windows.

3

Review in the Studio

Every asset is drafted and waiting. Read scored options, edit inline, regenerate a section, or generate one on demand — and watch the rest fill in as the pipeline completes.

4

Approve and ship

Approve what's ready and dispatch: YouTube and social through your connected accounts, editorial to your publishing destination. Track each asset through to published.

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What you get

Every asset, drafted and on-brand.

One ingest produces the whole kit — scored where it counts, editable everywhere.

YouTube

  • Title options, each scored 0–100 with a character budget
  • Full description with chapters and hashtags built in
  • Scored tags
  • AI-generated thumbnails — plain and headline-overlay variants, with a frame-grab fallback
  • Clean transcript

Clips and Shorts

  • Short-clip plans cut from the highest-retention moments
  • A full Shorts editor: word-snap trim, captions, 6 animated subtitle styles
  • Live subtitle preview — style without re-rendering
  • Rendered vertical clips with auto-written descriptions, ready to post

Editorial

  • Article briefs and blog drafts from the same source
  • Newsletter summaries
  • Routed to your editorial service for publishing

Social

  • Posts and threads tailored per network
  • 15 destinations from one analysis
  • Drafted in your brand voice
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Publishes to

Social and clips go out through your connected accounts. Editorial goes to your publishing service. Every dispatch is logged.

YouTubeX LinkedInInstagram TikTokFacebook ThreadsPinterest RedditBluesky TelegramSnapchat WhatsAppDiscord Google Business
The Studio

Review the way you think.

The per-package review is where you live. Three layouts, one keystroke apart — pick the one that fits the job.

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Console

Two-pane daily review: platform rail, video plus live pipeline plus stacked assets, and a confident approval panel.

Editor

A file tree of every asset, a focused single-asset editor with side-by-side comparison, and a provenance inspector.

Atlas

An overview canvas of every platform with completion percentage. Triage what's ready; click in to focus.

Shorts, cut where attention peaks

  • word-snap trim never cuts mid-word
  • 6 animated subtitle styles with live preview
  • per-language dubs and captions per network
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Your machine, your models

Nothing leaves the deck.

Media stays local

Bring your own model (cloud or on-device, per task)

Provenance on every asset (model, prompt version, inputs)

Why it's different

Built like a studio, not an admin panel.

Scored, legible options

Titles and tags carry 0–100 scores against character budgets, so the best pick is obvious at a glance — then editable inline.

Regenerate anything

Don't like a section? Regenerate just that one. Empty section? Generate it on demand straight from the transcript.

Multi-brand, auto-detected

Run many channels. Paste a link and ChannelHelm matches the right brand from the channel, falling back to the website domain.

Bring your own model

Choose the AI you trust for each kind of work — cloud or fully on-device — set per task or as a default, with your own image provider for AI thumbnails too.

Pipeline you can see

A four-layer progress indicator shows exactly what's done and what's still generating. Partially-ready is a first-class state.

Provenance on everything

Every generated asset records the model, provider, prompt version, and inputs that produced it. Nothing is a black box.

Backlog Revival

Re-mine an old video through the pipeline with your current prompts — defaults to the cheap transcription-only profile, so back catalogues yield fresh kits without re-recording.

For creators

A plain-English guide, no technical background needed

A plain-English walkthrough of how ChannelHelm turns one upload into a whole channel's worth of on-brand content — the learning loop, the planning desk, and the business layer.

Read the creator guide →

Ready to see it on your own footage?

Send us a link to one of your videos. We'll walk you through the kit it produces, live, on a local machine.