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AI shorts pipeline field notes
Architecture essays, operator tactics, and dogfood journals from the agentshorts launch loop.
2026-05-23
Dogfood Week 4: First Sale
The close-loop journal for first-sale attribution, what influenced the buyer path, and what deserves another cycle.
2026-05-22
Dogfood Week 3: CPL and Opt-ins
A measurement journal for cost per lead, opt-in quality, channel splits, and the friction between traffic and trust.
2026-05-21
Dogfood Week 2: Hooks
A hook-focused dogfood journal covering prompt variants, retention guesses, review notes, and what gets promoted.
2026-05-20
Dogfood Week 1: Build Receipts
The first dogfood journal: what shipped, what stayed manual, what evidence mattered, and what the next cycle must prove.
2026-05-19
UTM Attribution for Shorts
A practical UTM naming system for organic shorts, paid amplification, affiliate links, blog referrals, and email nurture.
2026-05-18
AI Video Cost Breakdown
A plain accounting view of model calls, rendering, storage, review time, retries, and paid validation for AI shorts.
2026-05-17
Shorts Content Calendar With Agents
Use agents to plan a practical shorts calendar without losing editorial control, source discipline, or publishing cadence.
2026-05-16
Viral Captions Engineering
A builder-focused approach to captions: retention, layout presets, safe defaults, render previews, and platform variance.
2026-05-15
TikTok Posting API Pipeline
How to think about TikTok posting as a guarded pipeline with credentials, retries, captions, labels, and audit logs.
2026-05-14
YouTube Shorts Automation Stack
The moving parts behind a YouTube Shorts workflow: scripts, metadata, rendering, review queues, and upload boundaries.
2026-05-13
The Faceless Shorts System You Own
Why builders should prefer a repo-owned shorts system over rented SaaS, prompt packs, or agency-only workflows.
2026-05-12
AI Shorts Pipeline Architecture
A practical map of inputs, agents, render steps, QA, publishing, and attribution for an owned AI shorts pipeline.