"Why did we decide on this hook?"
Every project keeps your packaging decisions, script direction, and references together. You can trace what changed and why without replaying old chats.
A pre-production studio for YouTube
For solo creatorsdoing the workof a team.
Strategy, scripts, thumbnails, research, and shot planning — Slate carries the prep work behind every role, so you can stay focused on the work only you can do.
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Idea
Script
Visuals
Cold Open
Act I — The Hook
An idea grows into a project
Sketch angles, save references, build a mood board. Promote what's working into a real project — research carries over.
Write with research attached
Reference videos, transcripts, and notes one panel from the script. Ask chat for a rewrite without leaving the page.
B-roll lives inside the script
Tag cutaways paragraph by paragraph. Walk into the shoot with a list that maps to what you wrote.
Decide the hook before you write
Drag titles onto thumbnails. Commit to the packaging your script will serve.
Built for serious creators
For YouTubers wearing every hat.
Slate carries the team's worth of pre-production behind every video — so you can stay focused on the work only you can do.
Fetched video details
Updated idea
Connects to the tools you already work in
YouTubeDropboxGoogle DriveNotionFinal Cut ProPremiere Pro
Script Editor
A script editor where chat can rewrite, restructure, and edit live
Paste a multi-paragraph script and edit block by block. Ask chat to rewrite a paragraph, insert a new block, replace a range, or swap a single sentence — every edit streams live into the document, exactly where you asked for it.
B-roll Planner
Plan visuals paragraph by paragraph
Toggle Visuals mode in the editor and a clip slot opens under every paragraph. Add cutaways inline, drag to reorder, move clips between paragraphs — or ask chat to surface matching clips from your library by describing what you need.
Channel context
Every project knows the rest of your channel
Your past videos, your saved references, and the workflows you've refined are present in every new project. The next video doesn't develop in isolation — it develops as part of what you're already building.
"Where does all that context live?"
In the project itself. Notes, drafts, media picks, and reasoning stay attached to the video so context is still there next session.
"Why does planning keep restarting?"
Because most tools split planning across tabs and docs. Slate keeps preproduction in one place, so you continue instead of reconstructing.
Skills
Save the way you work. Run it on every video.
Turn the prompts, frameworks, and processes you've refined into reusable skills. Install proven ones from other creators. Slate runs them on demand inside any project.
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Edutainment Packaging
Stress-tests title + thumbnail combos against the rules top edutainment channels actually use.
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Title Engineer
Drafts ten title variants for one idea — one per viral element (curiosity, negativity, time-frame, authority…).
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Cinematic B-Roll Planner
Breaks your script into a shot list with framing, motion, and rigging notes.
Research
A vault for the videos that shape yours
Save the outliers, pacing tricks, and thumbnail patterns you study. Pull them into projects without searching YouTube again — and let chat ground its answers in what you've collected.
Media Library
Find the clip you need by describing it
Link Dropbox or Drive once. Search your footage by what's in it — describe the shot, skip the folders.
Thumbnail Studio
Sketch thumbnails before you shoot
Describe the vibe, drop a reference, generate concepts. Decide the shots you actually need to capture — before you set up a tripod.
Title & Thumbnail
Find the most powerful packaging for your idea
Drag titles onto thumbnails to explore title/thumbnail combinations. Validate each one against real competition. Slate helps your video earn its click before you write a word.
Drag a title onto a thumbnail to try a combo.
From Script to Edit
Save hours of boilerplate editing
Slate analyzes your recording transcripts, cleans up bad takes, strips out silences, and syncs everything with your script and B-roll to export a cut A-roll timeline with all of your B-roll already overlaid in the right place. Ready for your (or your editor's) artistic touch.
Export to Final Cut or Premiere with structure already in place.
See it in action
Watch Slate in action
See how a full project comes together—from idea capture to timeline export.
Pricing
Simple plans. No surprises.
Two tiers. Upgrade when you need more.
Slate Essentials
For creators planning and producing consistently every month.
$39/month
- 1,000 monthly credits
- ~2 complete video projects/month
- Includes ideation, scripting, packaging, and visual-planning tools
Typical project: 4 script iterations + 10 thumbnail mocks + B-roll planning + A-roll mapping. Actual usage varies by model choice and iteration depth.
BEST VALUE
Slate Pro
For high-output channels running frequent script and packaging cycles.
$129/month
- 5,200 monthly credits
- ~10 complete video projects/month
- ~1.6x better credit value per dollar vs Essentials
Typical project: 4 script iterations + 10 thumbnail mocks + B-roll planning + A-roll mapping. Best for multi-video workflows and heavier AI iteration.
FAQ
Common questions
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Plan. Create. Publish.
Run a serious channel. Without running a team.
A pre-production studio for solo YouTubers — strategy, scripts, thumbnails, research, and shot planning, all in one project that knows your channel.