Hey Prompt Warrior,
Anyone that creates content, knows it take A LOT of time. Writing the newsletter, clipping shorts, writing captions, posting to five platforms, every piece is its own manual job.
But since I love building agents and automating things, I’ve now built many agents that help me with my content creation. They save me over 10 hours a week, and the content still sounds like me.
In this post, I'll walk you through five of these agents, plus the one rule that keeps the output from turning into AI slop.
If you prefer watching over reading, here's the YouTube video.
Here's what we'll cover:
The one-source rule so every piece stays authentic
Title and thumbnail research in 5 minutes instead of an hour
Newsletter writer that drafts straight into Beehiiv
Long-form to short-form that writes shorts in my voice
Multi-platform scheduler for TikTok, IG, YouTube, X, LinkedIn
Skool poster with no API (browser automation)
Read time: 6 minutes
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Now, back to the tutorial.
🔌 The one rule: start from one real source
Before the automations, the rule that makes them work.
None of this is "have AI write me a post from scratch." That gives you slop, and slop doesn't build trust or buyers.
Most automations here are basically repurposing automations or idea generation automations. They all pull from one original source that I actually made by hand. In my case that's the YouTube video you're watching. Long-form content I sat down and recorded, in my own words.
From that one source I spin out everything else. The newsletter, the shorts, the captions, the Skool post. The AI never invents the ideas. It reshapes things I already said into a new format.
A long-form article or newsletter works just as well as the source. The point is you have one real thing that everything else branches off.
🖼️ Automation 1: Title and thumbnail research
Titles and thumbnails decide whether anyone clicks. So really worth the time… but the research used to take me an hour per video.
Best for: packaging a video fast without guessing.
How to Set It Up:
Connect vidiq through an MCP for live performance data (outliers, scoring).
Build a channel library: scrape videos from channels in your niche, store their titles, thumbnails, and view counts in a sheet your AI can read (do it with Claude Code).
Real Example:
Then I run a skill called youtube-title-description and give it one line: "this video is about my 5 top content automations." It pulls the title library and vidiq data in parallel, then outputs ranked title options, each with a vidiq score, plus thumbnail concepts drawn from my library.
I pick the one I like and trigger another skill that publishes the video as a draft to YouTube.
The best part: research that used to take an hour now takes 5 minutes. I still send a human editor my thumbnail (AI thumbnails aren't there yet), but the concept and title are done.
Newsletters are one of the best nurture tools you have. They go to your warmest people, and warm people buy. So they’re very important, however they take a ton of time to write. I actually stopped writing mine for a while because each one ate at least half of my day. But now I found a better method, by combining my newsletter with my longform youtube video.
This is the method: turning a video you already made into a polished email. You still provide the original content, AI just helps you format it differently.
How to Set It Up:
Pull the latest video transcript through the Tella MCP (Tella is what I record in).
Give the AI your newsletter template, so it writes in your structure.
Real Example:
In Claude Code I call my newsletter-beehiiv skill and say "on my latest video." It fetches the transcript, writes the newsletter in my template, and gets it about 95% there. Because it's built from my transcript, it's my words reshaped, not made up.
When I approve, I say "draft in Beehiiv" and it opens Beehiiv in a browser and fills the post in, formatted, line breaks and all. This alone saves a bunch of time and boring work.
Pro Tip: the Beehiiv MCP can't draft posts yet. When an API or MCP is missing a feature, browser automation is your backup. That's exactly what I'm doing here.
This one went from half a day per newsletter to about 15 minutes. Close to 4 hours saved a week.
✂️ Automation 3: Long-form to short-form
I want shorts from my long-form video, but my long-form style doesn't clip cleanly. I've tried handing the raw long-form video to an editor or an AI clipper like Opus, but that gave me bad results.
So here’s what I do now: Let AI write fresh shorts scripts that pull from a long video, in my voice.
How to Set It Up:
Feed in the long-form transcript as the source.
Build it as a two-step skill with human feedback in the middle.
Real Example:
I run my long-form-to-short-form skill on the latest video. Phase one: it reads the transcript and suggests 5 short-form topics (like "personalized sales call reminders that kill no-shows"). I approve, tweak, or swap topics.
Phase two: it reads my recent shorts for voice calibration, then writes each script in my style on those topics, with the full context of what I already said.
Then I record them on my phone, often editing on the fly, and send them to my editor for final cuts.
The best part: one short used to take an hour. Batched like this, it's about 5 minutes a script. A full week of shorts in half an hour.
📅 Automation 4: Multi-platform scheduler
Scheduling across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, and LinkedIn is death by a thousand drag-and-drops. Seven videos times five platforms, every week.
Best for: getting a batch of videos scheduled everywhere at once.
How to Set It Up:
Get the Google Drive link of finished videos from your editor.
Connect Buffer (MCP and CLI) for TikTok, IG, YouTube. Connect Typefully for X and LinkedIn.
Real Example:
I hand Claude Code the Drive link. It downloads the videos, reads each script for context, writes the captions, and schedules everything into Buffer (plus Typefully for X and LinkedIn). It reports back when every video is queued.
Pro Tip: I switched from Postiz to Buffer once Buffer shipped their own MCP and CLI. When a tool gets proper agent access, it's worth the move.
Manually this was at least 15 minutes a batch. Now it's about a minute: paste the link, say go. Over 6 hours saved a month.
🏫 Automation 5: Skool poster
After a YouTube video goes live, I post it into my Skool community too. Small job, but the context-switching and the "oh right, I have to do this" tax adds up every week.
Best for: posting to a platform that has no API.
How to Set It Up:
Write a post template for how the Skool post should read.
Use browser automation, because Skool has no API, MCP, or CLI.
Real Example:
The skill takes my latest YouTube video, pulls the transcript, writes the post body from my template, then opens Chrome, navigates to my Skool community, and creates the post. I review and hit publish.
The best part: it's fully browser-driven, so a platform with zero developer access still gets automated.
🧭 The decision tree
Situation | Automation |
|---|---|
Need a title + thumbnail fast | Title research (vidiq + channel library) |
Video done, want an email out | Newsletter writer → Beehiiv |
Want shorts from a long video | Long-form to short-form (2-step + feedback) |
Batch of videos to post everywhere | Multi-platform scheduler (Buffer + Typefully) |
Tool has no API or MCP | Browser automation (Skool poster pattern) |
🎯 TLDR
✅ Start from one real source you made by hand (a long-form video or article)
✅ Repurpose, don't generate, so the content stays authentic
✅ Title + thumbnail research: 1 hour down to 5 minutes
✅ Newsletter writer: half a day down to 15 minutes (~4 hrs/week)
✅ Long-form to short-form: a full week of shorts in 30 minutes
✅ When a tool has no API, browser automation is your backup
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