Resources
The method
How we decide what to make, before anyone picks up a camera.
Most business content fails for a simple reason. It is made from a guess about what people want to watch. We start somewhere else: the videos in your market that people already chose to watch, far beyond what the creator's audience would predict.
1. Find the outliers
An outlier is a short that reached many times the creator's following. A video with a million views on a million followers tells you little. A video with a million views on twenty thousand followers tells you the idea travelled on its own. We log those, in your niche and the ones next to it, with the link, the views and the date.
Outliers
Views vs. the creator's followersNobody tells you this about living alone
Talking head, handheld mic
Five free apps that make you the smartest person in the room
Talking head, logo cards
Let's see if you actually understand startup strategy
Talking head, printed diagrams
You talk too much. Start a podcast.
Close talking head, fast captions
How long have you had this restaurant?
Owner interview, subtitled
I love your outfit. What do you do for a living?
Street interview, handheld mic
2. Break down the hook
Each outlier gets split three ways: the spoken hook (the first line), the written hook (the text on screen) and the visual hook (what the first second looks like). Those become patterns, not copies. "Nobody tells you this about ___" is a pattern. The video it came from is someone else's.
3. Match formats to you
A format is how a video is filmed and structured. The ones we make most:
- Talking head. You, one idea, straight to camera.
- Street and guest interviews. One question, real answers, fast cuts.
- Tutorials and teardowns. Show how something works or where it breaks.
- Behind the scenes. The work people never see.
- Numbered series. A named series with one idea per episode.
We pick the ones that suit how you like to film, because the format you are comfortable in is the one you will keep doing.
4. Write, film, edit, post
Scripts are written from the patterns, in your voice, with direction inline. One sitting films a batch. Edits come back captioned and sized per platform, then go on the calendar.
5. Read the numbers, make more of what worked
Every month the report shows what broke out and what stalled. The next batch leans into the winners. That loop is why the term is ninety days: the first month finds the direction, the next two follow it.