I didn't touch CapCut once. @CreaoAI built my faceless YouTube channel from scratch, and the first video is already live. Quick context. My last channel ran on Grok Bot, and the character kept drifting, even after I simplified the task. I needed to know whether my setup was the problem or the tool. So I ran a fair test. Brand-new channel. One agent on CREAO, given four rules: → Continuity rule: every scene follows on from the last → Natural realism rule: she has to look and move like a real person → Consistency rule: her face, body and look never change → Negative rule: a clear list of what she must never do or become Then I let it build everything: → CREAO picked the channel name → CREAO created the character and her bible sheet → CREAO wrote the idea → CREAO wrote the script → CREAO created and directed the scenes → CREAO made the video clip by clip and merged it, with no CapCut → CREAO added the voiceover → CREAO added the captions → CREAO posted it on YouTube It's live now. The link is in the first reply, so go and judge it yourself. I said last time I'd split the work into three agents. I'm testing one first, on purpose. If one agent on CREAO holds the character, the tool was the problem. If it drifts, I'll split it and find out exactly what broke. We're taking this channel from zero to 100K subscribers, and I'll post what works and what breaks, so you don't make the same mistakes. Subscribe to the channel to watch it grow, and follow me here so you don't miss a single update.

I gave an AI agent $11 and under an hour to use @MonidHQ, the pay-per-call tool store for AI agents. It spent 5.3 cents. Here's what each call cost me and what broke. Disclosure: The $11 was free credit on my new account ($1 signup + $10 bonus). Your start may differ. I paid nothing and bought nothing. What I tested Real calls through a limited key (runs + wallet read, 3-day expiry), with a $3/day cap and a $0.30 per-call cap switched on. 1. Easy: read a web page as clean text. 3.7 seconds and $0.00015. 2. Typical: a company profile for stripe.com. 2.7 seconds and $0.0049. 3. Hard: ask Gemini how it describes a brand, with web search. 6.6 seconds and $0.0363. The listed price was $0.0006. Also ran: a free web search (8 results, $0), an Instagram profile (async, 5.6 seconds, $0.001) and an Exa search (5.3 seconds, $0.007). What it does well → Billing is honest. My balance went from $11.00 to $10.946646. Monid's own run records add up to the same $0.053354, to the last digit. → Failed calls cost $0. I hit 8 runs that failed, came back empty or were stopped. Total charged: $0. → The budget cap works. It blocked a $0.40 job before any money moved (0.2 seconds on Monid's own clock) and told me why. → Search is fast. One plain sentence returned 5 ranked tools with prices in about a second. → The same job can differ 100x in price. Reading a page ranged from $0.00015 to $0.015 across the top results. Your agent can pick. → Keys can be limited, and a permission error names the exact missing scope. → The most-called tool on its rankings, TinyFish web search, is free. What it does badly → The wallet balance check failed about 1 time in 4 (11 of 47 reads). The errors I could see were HTTP 500. → A listed price is not always the price charged. Gemini: listed $0.0006, billed $0.0363, because token costs are added on top. → Amazon reviews, the data behind its "Analyze customer sentiment" starter prompt, returned nothing. Two review tools gave me 3 rejected requests and 2 empty results. Cost $0, but no reviews. (I tested the tools, not the prompt itself.) → A failed run can still say COMPLETED, and a blocked run returns HTTP 200. Your agent has to check more than the status. → The homepage says "no sign-up needed". The docs say create an account and an API key, then "send the key to your agent". That means pasting a secret into chat. → App pages sat on "Setting up your workspace" for around 10 seconds. → I can't confirm "zero markup". It matched on one tool (DataForSEO, $0.00015) and is unclear on Exa ($0.007). The site's own hidden text says "Some include one." What $1 buys, at the prices I measured → About 6,600 page reads at $0.00015 → About 1,000 Instagram profile lookups at $0.001 → About 204 company profiles at $0.0049 → About 142 Exa searches at $0.007 → About 27 Gemini answers at $0.0363 Some tools charge per result, so check the price on the tool's page first. Scores (my judgment) → First impression 7 → Ease of first run 5 → Billing honesty 9 → Guardrails 9 → Speed 8 → Reliability 5 → Honesty of claims 6 Verdict: 7.0/10 Honest billing and real spending limits. Held back by a flaky balance check, a price that can hide token costs, and Amazon reviews that returned nothing. → Use it if you build or run AI agents and want pay-per-call access to search, scraping and lead data, with caps you set. → Skip it if you need Amazon reviews to work today, need guaranteed uptime, or would paste keys into a chat. What I'd fix first → Retry the balance check, or say clearly when it's down. → Show "from $X + token cost" on variable-priced tools. → Mark a run FAILED or EMPTY when nothing was delivered, not COMPLETED. → Fix the "no sign-up needed" line, or make it true. → Add a "provider price vs Monid price" column. → Bring the cost column into view on the Usage page. → Make every suggested command https. Before your agent runs anything, turn on the $0.30 per-call cap. Mine was off by default. Bookmark this so you know what each call costs before you let an agent spend.

Part one. Here's the plan to take a faceless YouTube channel from 0 to 100K subscribers. The platform I moved to is @CreaoAI. My first agent failed because it did everything alone. This time I'm splitting the work, and every agent gets one job. The setup → One workspace for the channel I'm uploading a channel bible to it: the niche, the audience, the tone, banned topics and my character reference images. Every agent reads the same files, so nothing is left to guess. → Research agent Uses the live browser and web research to find topics rising in the niche, including on Pinterest. Every week it gives me five ideas, ranked, with the angle to take. → Video agent Writes the script, builds every scene from my character reference, adds the voiceover and captions, then saves the finished Short. → Channel agent Uses CREAO's YouTube connector to upload each video, add it to the series playlist and pull channel analytics into a weekly report. The prompt that keeps the character the same "Make a 9:16 Short under 50 seconds from today's approved script. Build every scene from character_sheet.png. Never change her face, build, skin tone or hair. If a scene drifts from the reference, regenerate it before saving." The rules I'm keeping → Nothing goes live without my yes. The channel agent is set to "Ask first". → Every video gets its own story. YouTube rewards an original character with new episodes, not copy-paste videos. → I'll check the numbers every week and change what isn't working. Starting from zero subscribers. I'll post every update here: the wins, the drops and what I change. If you want to build a faceless channel alongside me, follow now and turn on notifications. Part two is the channel going live.

My AI agent made the videos that got the most views. I hid every one of them. Here's why, and what I'm doing about it this week. I set up an agent on @grok @bot to run a faceless YouTube channel on its own. Research, make the videos, post, reply to comments, report back. For a few days it was perfect. Then my character started changing. The face, then the build, then the skin tone. Those drifted videos pulled more views than the originals. I made them private anyway. A channel built on one face can't change that face every week. So I cut the jobs down. Fewer tasks, tighter rules. It still drifted. That's when I stopped blaming my prompts and changed my setup. I've found a better way to run a faceless channel with AI, one that keeps the character the same every time. This week I'm building it live, right here. The platform, the prompts, the mistakes and the results. If you've wanted to start a faceless YouTube channel but didn't know where to begin, follow me now and turn on notifications. Part one goes up this week.

I spent 1,000 credits testing @CreativeFlyai, the AI ad maker. Here's what each ad cost me and what it got wrong. Disclosure: The 1,000 credits came from a creator invite link on their X post. New users start with 0 credits, so your start will be different. I paid nothing and bought nothing. What I tested Default models, with videos set to Private. 1. Easy: a white mug on an oak table. 37 seconds and 9 credits. Nothing needed fixing. 2. Typical: a 5-second ad from that photo, using the Product ad template. 3m 31s and 114 credits. Clean, though it swapped my oak table for a grey backdrop. 3. Hard: a 15-second vertical ad with a pouring hand and an end card. 3m 41s and 341 credits. The pour looked convincing. The exact text, "Morning Pour" and "Open 7 to 3", came out right, and so did the spoken line. What it does well → The image was right the first time. → Generated images go straight back in as references for video. → The credit cost shows before you click Generate, and my balance dropped by exactly that amount. What it does badly → Video is slow, over 3 minutes per clip. → New videos default to Public, with a "Save 5%" label. Private costs 5% more. → The pricing page estimates 227 credits for a 5-second clip. I was charged 114. → Pricing is only linked in the footer. → Every template link goes to a login page, so you can't try anything before signing up. → After signing up, you have to scroll down the homepage, click a template to see its description, then upload your product before you can try it. → The privacy policy says deletion and backup cleanup procedures "are still being established", and you can't delete your own account. Pricing, as listed → Starter $15, Plus $38 and Ultra $83 a month, billed annually, for 1,500, 4,000 and 8,888 credits. → Monthly billing is $18, $45 and $99. → Top-ups are $0.015 per credit. Used credits are non-refundable. → At the Starter annual rate, a 5-second clip works out at about $1.14 and a 15-second clip at about $3.41. Scores → First impression 7 → Ease of use 6 → Output quality 7 → Speed 4 → Value 5 → Trust 5 Verdict: 5.7/10 Good output for patient users who watch their credits. Slow video, a Public default, a price estimate that doesn't match and weak deletion terms hold it back. → Use it if you sell products, want short vertical ads and will set every video to Private. → Skip it if you need speed, a clear free plan or guaranteed data deletion. What I'd fix first → Default new videos to Private, at no extra cost. → Make the pricing page estimate match the real charge. → Let people try one template before signing up. → Put pricing in the main menu. → Add self-service account deletion. Start with the 9-credit mug image before you spend anything on video. Bookmark this so you know what each clip costs before you click Generate.

Most people ask AI for a logo. A brand needs a logo system. I built an agent that takes one brand brief and returns: Primary lockup Stacked lockup Icon Mono version Construction specs Usage rules Everything comes back as a draft for review, so nothing goes out before you have checked it. Copy this and give it your own brief: "Build a full logo system from the brand brief below. Include primary, stacked, icon and mono lockups, with construction specs and usage rules for each. Deliver everything as review-only drafts. Brief: [your brand in one line]"

A good agent can still give you a bad logo. Here's why. I built a logo agent once, with the rules already inside it. I don't rewrite the prompt each time. I just give it a brief. The prompt sets the agent up. Your input decides the result. I tested it twice. Thin input: "Make a logo for a café that repairs phones." The agent had to guess. It guessed a coffee cup, steam, a wrench, a screwdriver and lightning bolts, then made up a name. Solid input: a seven-line brief. Nothing left to guess. One clean ampersand mark, two colours and spacing rules for each version. Same agent. Different input. Different result. This is the input I give it now: Brand name: What it is: Audience: Personality: Colours: Must have: Avoid: Once the logo is right, don't start a new chat. Stay in the same conversation and ask the agent to turn it into your full brand system, so everything builds on the mark you already approved. Bookmark this and fill in the seven lines before your next run. The brief takes a minute. Fixing a guessed logo takes much longer.

Founders without a designer, this one is for you. I tested @CreaoAI on a logo system. The brief was short. A fictional café that also repairs phones and laptops, called Kettle & Cord. Deep green and cream only. No coffee cups, no lightning bolts. What came back: Primary lockup, with the ampersand as the logo between the two words Stacked lockup for square spaces Light and dark versions of both Construction specs for each, covering size, spacing and alignment The scorecard: Time to first result: under 10 minutes Does what it claims: yes. It kept to the two colours and avoided both clichés I banned. Price against value: I ran it on the free plan. A designer would charge for a system like this, so the value is hard to argue with. Who it is for: founders without a designer Would I pay for it: yes The specs are the part to keep. A logo on its own gets stretched and squashed the first time someone builds your website. Spacing and size rules stop that. The brief and prompt are in the quoted post. Change the brand name and run your own.