YouTube Daily Live SOP
One live stream, one recap upload, 2-4 Shorts, and cross-platform posts, every single day. AI does 80% of the work.
Built 5/7The wheel: Live is an hour of real client work plus AI brand experiments, casual, deep, raw. Recap is the next morning’s tight 5-10 minute polished walkthrough, built from the live and uploaded as the day’s YouTube video. Compounding: every live becomes a permanent searchable asset, and every recap drops fresh content into the algorithm. The live IS the content factory, everything else is packaging.
The daily loop
Post-stream debrief — 15 min, right after the live ends
Andrew drops the stream URL into Claude plus a 1-2 minute voice memo: what happened, what hit, what to talk about tomorrow, and tags any banger moments. Claude pulls the full transcript, identifies the 5-7 strongest moments with retention reasoning, drafts a stream summary in voice, logs the Stream Asset in Notion (views, retention, peak concurrent, clip candidates), and tags it for the repurposer pipeline.
Overnight AI work — 0 min of Andrew's time
Runs as a scheduled task in Cowork while Andrew’s off. By morning: the Morning Briefing doc, a recap script outline in 3 versions (punchy / educational / story-led), 10 title variants ranked by search opportunity and curiosity, a 3-direction thumbnail brief, the top 5 clip candidates with timecodes and cut lengths, a full SEO description with chapter timestamps, cross-platform post drafts for X/LinkedIn/IG/FB, and tomorrow’s tease line. Claude also checks search trends, competitor uploads, and comments in the background.
Morning recap prep + recording — 30-45 min
Andrew scans the briefing (top 3 moments, recommended angle, title and thumbnail concept, tease line), redirects with one sentence if something feels off, then records straight to camera or screen-records over the live’s best moment with voiceover, referencing the beat-by-beat outline rather than reading a script.
Hand it back and ship — 15 min total
Andrew drops the recording or URL back to Claude, who generates the thumbnail copy, final title, full description, pinned comment, end-screen CTA, and SRT captions. Andrew uploads the recap, schedules the pre-built Shorts, cross-posts (already queued), and flips the Deliverable to Published.
Going live
What Claude has ready before Andrew sits down: a 1-page stream brief (topic, goal, 3 talking points, opening line, closing line), the LIVE description pre-written from the existing template, a live thumbnail generated via Nano Banana at 1280x720, promo posts scheduled to push 30 minutes before going live, a rescue list of 5 audience questions queued if engagement is slow, and reference material staged for whatever client work is being demoed.
During the live, Claude listens to the audio feed, live-tags clip-worthy moments by timestamp, watches chat for unanswered questions, and drafts the next-day recap brief in real time so it’s roughly 80% done by the time the stream ends.
The clip factory
The 100x multiplier. Target output: 3-5 clips per stream, AI does about 95% of the work.
Polished recap
1 per stream. 5-10 minutes, talking head plus screen-recording overlay. This is the next-day YouTube upload.
YouTube Shorts
2-3 per stream. 30-60 second vertical cuts of the strongest moments, auto-scheduled via YouTube Studio.
Long-form banger cut
1 per week. Best stream of the week recut into a tight 12-15 minute standalone upload.
AI's clip job
Score every minute on hook strength, payoff density, visual change, and chat/retention signal, then generate frame-accurate cut points.
For each clip, Claude writes the hook overlay (the bold text on the first 2 seconds), the title, the description, hashtags, and CTA, builds the thumbnail via Nano Banana (face crop, bold word, brand color), burns captions in yellow, Poppins, brand colors, and drops an export-ready package into the YouTube Growth System Deliverables DB.
A clip works when it has a strong opening hook in the first 1.5 seconds, a “wait what” moment in the first 5 seconds, a clear payoff under 60 seconds, visual change (screen, demo, reveal, before/after), and stands alone with no context needed from the rest of the stream.
What Andrew never touches
The five prompts that run the whole system
“Live just ended. URL: [paste]. Run the post-stream debrief and prep tomorrow’s recap brief. Voice memo coming next.”
“Pull up today’s recap brief. What’s the strongest angle?”
“Recap recorded. URL: [paste] (or attach file). Build title, thumbnail, description, and the 3 Shorts. Queue cross-posts.”
“Build tomorrow’s stream brief. Tee it up like the daily brief format.”
“Run the weekly performance digest. What worked, what didn’t, what’s the angle for next week’s lives?”
Built vs. next
Already live: the Watch skill (transcript + timestamped screenshots), YouTube Transcript skill, the daily YouTube Studio scan into Business Brain, Nano Banana for thumbnails, AI Research Sprint for competitor/expert research, X-intel for tracking liked posts as content sources, and Activity Log auto-write across sessions.