youtube-channel-automationself-host licence $4,997 once

It publishes before you wake up.

Research, script, visuals, voice, edit, Shorts, scheduled publishing. Every day, per channel, unattended. You own the whole system.

84 files 10 step implementations 8 agents 5 skills one-time · no subscription
overnight run · one scripted channel7 steps
  1. researchtrend sweep, sources collected, policy gate run before a cent of generation spend
  2. scriptlong-form draft, reviewed by a second agent, Shorts cut-points marked
  3. visualsillustration set generated to the channel's brand config
  4. voiceovernarration rendered and timed against the script
  5. assemblelong-form cut, captions burned, thumbnail built
  6. shortsvertical cuts from the marked points, captioned separately
  7. publishscheduled to YouTube with the synthetic-media disclosure set
  8. you are still asleep
Step order and step names are the real ones. Clock times are illustrative: run length depends on your channel config and how busy the vendors are.

The daily bill

Seven jobs. Every day.
Per channel.

Find the story, write the script, make the visuals, record the voice, cut the long-form, cut the Shorts, publish on schedule. Miss a day and the algorithm notices. Here is what buying that labour actually costs.

ANCHOR 01 $2,900–$4,700 per month · DIY

What it costs to run three daily channels yourself with the same AI tools this pipeline uses: roughly 360 pieces a month, editors and tool subscriptions included.

ReelForgeAI, faceless channel costs 2026
ANCHOR 02 $8,550–$13,500 per month · done for you

The same volume bought at AI-native done-for-you market rates. Per channel that is somewhere between $1,000 and $4,500 a month of displaced spend.

Overseeros, YouTube agency pricing 2026
ANCHOR 03 $1,000–$10,000+ per single video · human agency

A human agency rate card, for one video. Full-service retainers run $5,000 to $25,000 a month. This is the band the market has not reconciled with the one above.

Villo Studio, channel management costs

What it does daily

Three things you do once. Then it runs.

STEP 01

Describe the channel in one YAML file

Niche, tone, voice, visual style, cadence, publish targets. Five working channel configs ship with the kit as references, including a scripted long-form channel and a clips-only channel.

STEP 02

Point launchd at it and go to bed

The scheduler starts a run at whatever hour you pick. Each run is a state machine: every step writes a typed artifact, holds a lease, and retries only on transient errors. A run that dies at the voiceover step resumes at the voiceover step.

STEP 03

Read the report over coffee

The long-form and the Shorts are scheduled, each published with the synthetic-media disclosure set. yca status and the monitor skill tell you what ran, what it spent and what the reviewer rejected.

The ten step implementations in src/steps
Scripted channel, in orderresearch · script · visuals · voiceover · assemble · shorts · publish7 steps
Clips channel, in orderviralResearch · viralClips · viralFinish · publish4 steps
Agents, each scoped to one jobtrend scout, researcher, scriptwriter, script reviewer, policy reviewer, visuals producer, voice producer, publisher8 agents

What we can actually show you

It is running tonight on three channels.

Not a prototype and not a demo recording. This is the system we operate, sold as-is.

Live daily output, as of 26 September 2026
Scripted long-form channelfull seven-step pipeline2 long-form + 4 Shorts / day
Second scripted channelsame pipeline, different config1 long-form + 2 Shorts / day
Clips channelfour-step viral pipeline3 AI clips / day
ENGINEERING 01

A failed run resumes where it stopped

Per-run state machine. Every step emits a typed artifact validated with zod, holds a lease so two runs can never touch the same channel, and retries only on transient errors. You re-run one step, not the night.

ENGINEERING 02

The policy gate spends nothing on a bad trend

A deterministic gate rejects real people, brands, music and gore before any generation call is made. The policy reviewer agent runs on top of it. Rejections cost you nothing but the research step.

There are no customer testimonials on this page, because there are no customers yet. The proof on offer is the three channels above, the architecture document, and the vitest suite in the kit. Nothing here is a quote from a buyer.

Cost of ownership

$4,997 once. Then vendor bills.

Against the DIY anchor for three channels, the licence pays for itself in one to two months. After that it costs nothing but the stack it runs on, which is not nothing.

What you keep paying, monthly
Line itemMonthly
A Mac that stays awake and logged inlaunchd will not run the pipeline on a sleeping or locked machinehardware you own
Claude CodePro at the low end; Max 5× is realistic for three daily channels$20–$200
Higgsfieldimage and video generation credits, Starter to Ultra$19–$129
ElevenLabsnarration, Creator to Pro depending on minutes$11–$99
Blotatoscheduling and multi-account publishing$29–$97
Typical, three daily channels$150–$400

Any one of those billing relationships can halt production

A declined card at ElevenLabs stops the voiceover step, which stops the run. So does a Mac that went to sleep, an expired vendor token, or a plan that ran out of credits mid-month. The pipeline logs the failure and resumes cleanly once you fix it, but nothing publishes in the meantime. If you cannot keep a machine and four accounts healthy, buy a managed service instead.

Read this before you buy

Four reasons this might be the wrong purchase.

You would find all four yourself. We would rather you found them here.

1. YouTube's July 2025 inauthentic-content policy points straight at this

On 15 July 2025 YouTube renamed its repetitious-content policy to inauthentic content and now explicitly targets video "produced using a template with little to no variation" and content that is "easily replicable at scale". Mass-produced, generic or repetitive content does not earn ad revenue, and YouTube can demonetise retroactively. A system built to run the same daily pipeline across several channels is structurally the pattern that policy describes. This is an ongoing compliance burden you take on, not a one-off setup step.

What the kit does about it: the policy gate and the reviewer agent reject template-like sameness before publish; every upload sets containsSyntheticMedia, and there is no switch to turn that off; SETUP.md tells you to vary channels genuinely and to apply your own editorial judgement on what ships. None of that is a guarantee. Read YouTube's policy page before you buy.

2. You can buy something similar-sounding for a tenth of this, monthly

White Glove Content charges $284–$354/mo on its multi-channel operator track and already does scripts, AI voice, edits, thumbnails, SEO metadata and auto-posting, with five-business-day delivery. Channel Farm starts at $49/mo. If a few videos a week is your cadence, those are better buys and we will not pretend otherwise.

What this adds: unattended daily cadence at volume, and ownership. A five-day turnaround cannot publish every morning, and a per-channel subscription multiplies with every channel you add while a licence does not. The individual steps are not novel. The scheduling, the run state machine and the fact that you hold the source code are what you are paying for.

3. The revenue side of this genre is weak, and we will not pretend otherwise

Only about 9–17% of YouTube channels ever reach 1,000 subscribers, which is the floor for the Partner Programme, and daily news and trend content sits in a sub-$5 RPM band. This product makes no claim about views, subscribers, monetisation or revenue, and you should treat anyone who does with suspicion. Its value is displaced cost: work you are already paying for, that stops needing a person.

Buy it if daily production is already a line in your budget. Do not buy it as a route to YouTube income you do not have yet. The Partner Programme requirements are here.

4. No support is included at this tier

This is a source licence and a setup guide, not a service. When a vendor changes an API, you fix it in TypeScript you now own. There is no SLA, no onboarding call and no maintenance promise on the $4,997 tier. If that is not the deal you want, the setup tier below exists for exactly this reason.

What you get instead: the full source, the architecture document, a vitest suite so you can see what broke, and a provider layer that keeps each vendor behind one small adapter file. Refund terms are 30 days, below.

The licence

Own the pipeline. Pay once.

$4,997one time · no subscription

Instant download after checkout. A 217 KB zip, 84 files, the whole system as we run it.

  • src/ the yca CLI, the session engine and run state machine, zod contracts, all ten step implementations, the provider layer, the policy gate, the viral report and launchd scheduling
  • .claude/ eight role-scoped agents and five skills: /yca-run, /yca-monitor, /yca-prebuild, /yca-new-channel, /yca-viral-leads
  • channels/ five working channel configs as references, plus bin/ the run, catch-up and status scripts
  • docs/ ARCHITECTURE.md, agent conventions, viral-mirror, and tests/ the vitest suite
  • SETUP.md a first-run guide written for this kit, and LICENCE.md a single-operator commercial licence

Not included, deliberately: support, the original channels' brand image assets (they belong to those channels), any channel run data, and any vendor account. You bring your own Claude Code, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs and Blotato.

30-day refund, no questions asked. Email support@mizudev.com within 30 days of purchase and we refund in full. You keep nothing you have to delete by hand: the licence simply ends.

Platform risk, stated at the point of sale. YouTube's inauthentic-content policy, updated 15 July 2025, explicitly targets templated and easily mass-produced content. This pipeline produces content daily on a template you configure. Every upload discloses synthetic media and that cannot be disabled. No monetisation, view, subscriber or revenue outcome is promised here or anywhere else on this page. What survives on YouTube is decided by YouTube.

Tier 02 · enquiry only
Managed, per channel
from $997/mo

We run the pipeline on your channel. No payment is taken here. Leave an email and we will reply with scope and a real quote.

Tier 03 · enquiry only
Licence + setup + 30 days support
$15,000

The same licence, installed and running on your machine and your channels, with 30 days of integration support. No payment is taken here.

Questions worth asking

The objections, answered.

Why not just use White Glove Content at a tenth of the price?

For a lot of people, you should. White Glove Content runs $284–$354/mo on its operator track and covers scripts, AI voice, edits, thumbnails, metadata and posting. If you want a handful of videos a week and no machine to babysit, that is a better deal than this and you should take it.

The difference is cadence, volume and ownership. A five-business-day delivery window cannot put a long-form and four Shorts out every single morning. A per-channel subscription scales linearly with channels; a licence does not. And at the end of a year with them you have videos, whereas here you have a system you can modify, fork into a new niche, or point at a client's channel. None of the individual steps in this pipeline are novel. What you are buying is that they run together, unattended, every day, and that the code is yours.

Will YouTube penalise channels built this way?

It can, and you need to go in knowing that. YouTube's inauthentic content policy, renamed and clarified on 15 July 2025, explicitly targets content "produced using a template with little to no variation" and content "easily replicable at scale". Mass-produced, generic or repetitive uploads do not earn ad revenue, and YouTube applies this retroactively. A pipeline that runs the same steps nightly across several channels is structurally what that policy describes.

What the kit does about it: a deterministic policy gate and a reviewer agent that reject template-like sameness before anything publishes, forced AI disclosure on every upload through containsSyntheticMedia, and instructions in SETUP.md to vary channels for real and to keep a human editorial pass on what ships. That reduces the risk. It does not remove it, and no seller can honestly tell you otherwise. If a demonetisation would sink your business, this is not a safe purchase.

Do I need a Mac?

Yes, in practice. Scheduling is built on launchd, the media pipeline shells out to ffmpeg and two Python renderers, and the agents run through Claude Code. It needs a Mac that stays awake and stays logged in overnight. A Mac mini left on a shelf is the normal setup.

The TypeScript itself is not Apple-specific, so a competent developer could move the scheduling layer to cron or systemd on Linux. That is your work, not ours, and nothing in the licence promises it will be easy.

What does it actually cost me every month?

Roughly $150 to $400 a month in vendor spend for three daily channels, on top of a Mac you already own. That breaks down as Claude Code at $20–$200, Higgsfield at $19–$129, ElevenLabs at $11–$99 and Blotato at $29–$97, depending on tier and volume. Push more channels or longer videos and it goes up.

There is no licence renewal and no per-video fee from us. The full table is in the cost section.

Is support included?

No. Not at $4,997. You get the source, the architecture document, SETUP.md and the test suite, and that is the whole deal. There is no SLA, no onboarding call, no bug-fix promise and no guaranteed reply time. The only thing the support address handles at this tier is a broken download link or a refund.

If you want someone on the hook, the $15,000 tier includes setup and 30 days of integration support, or the managed tier means we run it. Both are enquiries above and neither takes payment on this page.

What happens when a vendor changes their API?

The pipeline stops at that step, logs the error, and resumes from that step once it is fixed. Fixing it is yours to do. Each vendor sits behind one small adapter in the provider layer, so a breaking change is usually one file, and the vitest suite tells you what broke. That is the honest answer: it is designed so a developer can repair it in an afternoon, not so it never breaks.

We patch the system we run ourselves, but the licence carries no update entitlement. Buying it does not buy you future versions.

Can I run client channels on this?

Yes. LICENCE.md is a single-operator commercial licence: one operator, unlimited channels, including channels you run for paying clients. Agencies are an intended buyer. What it does not permit is reselling, sublicensing or redistributing the code itself, or handing the kit to a client as their own. Read LICENCE.md in full before you buy if this matters to your business model, and email us if your setup sits in a grey area.

What are the refund terms?

30 days, no questions asked. Email support@mizudev.com from the address you paid with, within 30 days of purchase, and we refund in full. We do not ask you to prove you tried it, and we do not ask you to delete anything. This is source code, so we are relying on people being straight with us, and so far that has been fine.