I Automated My Entire YouTube Workflow with AI

This one's a story, not a build-along - here's the write-up version.

What I built

A system that automates about 80% of my content pipeline - ideation, scripting, production, and distribution - around one agent: Axiom, my personal brand agent running on Claude Code. The net result: one long-form video becomes nine pieces of content across platforms, and the only parts I still touch are the parts that actually need me (talking to a camera, light edits).

How it works, stage by stage

Ideation → Notion. When an idea hits, I open Axiom and ramble for 2-3 minutes: "add a new YouTube video idea to my Notion dashboard, title it automating credit card expenses, difficulty medium, tags automation, and give me a couple prep tasks." It files the idea into my Notion video-ideas database with structure, tags, and prep tasks before recording. Speaking the idea beats typing it every time - the structure then lives on my left monitor while I film, so I never go off track.

Scripting. I talk through the video's structure with Claude and have it outline the key points. Not a word-for-word script - a skeleton that keeps me on rails.

Recording. The toolkit, in upgrade order: started on a FIFINE desk mic, ditched it because it picked up every keyboard and mouse click, moved to a DJI Mic Mini. Added an Insta360 webcam that shoots 4K (previous videos were the MacBook Air webcam through Loom at 1080p - rough). And Screen Studio for screen recording, which does the automatic zooms for tutorial content. Small, relatively cheap purchases that made everything look professional.

Distribution. Once I finish the edit in Screen Studio, I tell Axiom to upload the final video to Vizard AI. Vizard auto-clips the most engaging moments into three shorts with transcripts. I go in for small edits only - fixing "Claude" spelled as "Cloud" in captions, applying my template. Then I tell Axiom: "publish it on the other accounts, write a good title and SEO tags." It handles titles, descriptions, hashtags, and schedules everything out to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram. When I open the scheduler and try to publish manually, it's already scheduled - I did nothing.

That's the loop: film one long-form → Vizard clips it into three shorts → Axiom titles, describes, and schedules across three platforms → nine pieces of content, zero manual scheduling. The whole point is consistency with no willpower involved.

What to steal

Put one agent at the center. The wins aren't any single automation - it's that ideation, titling, and scheduling all route through the same agent that knows my brand. You talk to it; it touches the tools.
Ramble, don't type. Every handoff in this system starts with 2-3 minutes of voice. The friction of writing things down is where ideas die.
Automate the handoffs, keep the craft. Recording and taste stay human. Everything between the creative moments - filing, clipping, titling, scheduling - is agent work.
Upgrade gear only where it's embarrassing. Mic first, camera second, Screen Studio for tutorials. That's it.

Why bother

Content is like real estate - the videos I make now only grow more valuable as the AI space grows. A few months ago everyone was making Make.com content; now it's Claude Code; in three months it might be something else. That's the point: making content on this stuff forces you to stay current. And the most valuable currency right now is creativity - coming up with ideas and articulating them well - because you're not the one executing anymore, the agents are. I work a full-time job, build an agency, and run this channel while still lifting, reading, and occasionally touching grass. It's possible because the friction - technical skill, time - disappeared the second Claude Code came out.

Stop waiting, stop watching the next tutorial. Just get out there and start building. It's more fun that way.

Resources

Screen Studio - screen recording with automatic zooms: https://screen.studio
Notion - where the video-idea database lives: https://notion.so
My free skills repo: https://github.com/austinpeechatt/creator-skills