YouTube expertise, from research to your editor
For solo creators doing the work of a team.
Titles, thumbnails, hooks, scripts, shot plans — Slate does as much of it as you need. Make more videos with better strategy in half the time.
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Every video asks you to be the researcher, the writer, the designer, the shot planner and the editor. Slate does that work with you, so you can stay the one with the taste.
How it works
The life of a video.
Slate takes the video from the first hunch to a cut in your editor, in one project. It does the legwork at every step, and you make the calls.
01
Brainstormed
Start from the videos that already broke out in your niche. Save the outliers, hooks and thumbnail patterns, and every idea Slate brings you is grounded in them.
02
Packaged
Brainstorm titles and thumbnails together and pair them into combinations before you write a word, then compare each one with the videos already winning in your niche.
03
Written
The script is drafted in your voice from your past scripts and saved references. A b-roll track beside each paragraph plans the shots as you write.
04
Shot
Walk into the shoot with a shot list that maps to the script, and reuse the clips you already own instead of filming them again.
05
Edited
Slate reviews the takes, drops the bad ones and the silences, cuts the A-roll to the script and lays the b-roll on top. The timeline opens in Final Cut Pro or Premiere.
Thumbnails
Your own photo, made into the thumbnail.
Slate picks a photo you've already taken and sketches the thumbnail around it, then cleans up the frame and finishes it. The face on the thumbnail is the one you shot.
Then see it next to what it's up against.
Pair each thumbnail with a title and Slate searches YouTube for that title, then sets your video among the real results, so you judge it the way a viewer will.
Similar videos on YouTube
Library
Everything you've made, ready to reuse.
Put your footage, music, sound effects and photos in Slate once. It watches and listens to every file, names it and keeps it searchable in plain words. Then each new video draws on what you already have, edited the way your past videos were.
Slate Video EditorBeta
Claude finishes the edit. You watch it happen.
Slate's Mac editor opens your script as the timeline, with your takes already cut to it. Ask Claude to finish the edit and it cuts, scores and animates the video in the project folder, while the editor plays every change as it lands.
Beta. For Macs with Apple silicon on macOS 26. Exports to Final Cut Pro and Premiere.
iPhoneBeta
All of Slate, in your pocket.
The whole project goes with you: the idea, its packaging, the script, the shoot and the cut, in an app built for the phone.
Where you already work
Slate, inside ChatGPT and Claude.
Hand a task to the assistant you already use and it works in Slate for you. It searches YouTube, researches your niche, pulls what's said in any video, brainstorms ideas and writes scripts, without you opening Slate. Review it all later in Slate or on your phone.
Already plan in Notion? Keep it.
Connect your content database once. Every row becomes a Slate project, and the name, status, publish date and brief stay in step both ways. Drag a card and watch its row follow.
ScriptBeta
Know where viewers leave, before you film.
Slate reads your draft against your own past videos and marks the few places viewers are likely to drop, with the moment in an old upload where they did.
Beta. Needs access to your YouTube Analytics, which Google is still reviewing.
A note from the founder
Making great YouTube videos shouldn't mean many scattered tools and hundreds of hours of your time. Nor should you have to spend thousands on a team of people. Slate takes care of as much of the grunt work as you need, from ideation and strategy all the way to the final edit, so you can focus on your vision and creativity.
And everything else it does for you.
Overnight research
Every night Slate reads your niche and leaves evidence-backed ideas in your feed.
Background research
Send research off and keep chatting. The findings arrive when they're done.
Scheduled tasks
Set recurring work, like fresh ideas every weekday, and read each run when you're ready.
Reels and TikToks
Save them beside your YouTube references, with their plays, likes and hooks broken down.
Short-form scripts
Vertical scripts built around one payoff, exported at 1080×1920.
Voice check
Check a script's voice and tone against your past videos, with notes that point to them.
Channel analytics
Every upload against your typical video, with retention curves and what your best videos share.
Packaging warnings
A quiet flag on a title and thumbnail pair your own history says is likely to underperform.
Photo library
Import your photos once and filter them by what's in them, ready for thumbnails.
Generated b-roll
Short clips from a prompt or a reference image, for the shots you never filmed.
Music and sound effects
Generate them from a prompt and find them in your library with your footage.
Pipeline
Every video on a board, a calendar or a list, moving through your stages.
Multiple channels
Run several channels from one account, each with its own voice, research and footage.
Your own skills
Save the way you work as a skill and Slate follows it whenever you ask.
Share to Slate
Send a video, page or photo to a project from your iPhone's share sheet.
Widgets and Siri
Add an idea by voice and keep the project you're on at the top of your Home Screen.
Command line
Drive Slate from the terminal and sync the footage you record.
Script history
Scripts save as you type and keep snapshots you can go back to.
Simple plans. No surprises.
Choose the plan that matches your publishing system.
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Slate Creator
For creators producing a few videos a month.
$39/month
About 3 long-form videos a month
- Expert YouTube research
- Intelligent ideation engine
- Title and thumbnail concept ideation
- Thumbnail image generation
- Scriptwriting in your own voice
- Video library with auto B-roll surfacing in the script
- Smart video edit — a first pass, ready for your polish
Slate Studio
Most popularFor growing channels turning a repeatable system into weekly output.
$69$89/month
Founding rate for the first 100, locked for life.
About 12 long-form videos a month
- Expert YouTube research
- Intelligent ideation engine
- Title and thumbnail concept ideation
- Thumbnail image generation
- Scriptwriting in your own voice
- Video library with auto B-roll surfacing in the script
- Smart video edit — a first pass, ready for your polish
Slate Pro
For high-output channels running frequent script and packaging cycles.
$159/month
About 25 long-form videos a month
- Expert YouTube research
- Intelligent ideation engine
- Title and thumbnail concept ideation
- Thumbnail image generation
- Scriptwriting in your own voice
- Video library with auto B-roll surfacing in the script
- Smart video edit — a first pass, ready for your polish
Run a serious channel. Without running a team.
Titles, thumbnails, hooks, scripts and shot plans, all in one project that knows your channel. You finish with a timeline that opens in Final Cut or Premiere.
7-day free trial with a card. 30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.