Content factory — AI pipeline
How people actually earn with AI content
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A content factory is not buying ads or click arbitrage. It is batch production of posts and videos: AI drafts, a human checks and publishes. Money comes from six models; most people pick one at the start. 1) Agency for brands: AI UGC packs and a content calendar on a 1,500–10,000 USD monthly retainer for 5–30 videos and edits. 2) Your own faceless channels: platform ads, affiliate links to software, digital products (guides, prompt packs), sometimes Patreon. 3) White-label: resell a ready AI content stack under your brand at 40–80% margin. 4) Your accounts for an offer or your store: one topic, one link; count clicks and orders, not likes. 5) Selling placements in your feeds to advertisers once reach is steady. 6) Training and templates: a course or Notion pack after the factory already has a case. Likes and followers with no link click or client payment are not revenue.
One model for the first month
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You cannot mix all six models in week one: you will not know what worked. Pick one — for example an agency for local brands or one faceless channel in a software niche — and close one cycle: brief → pack of five pieces → publish or deliver to the client → a number (payment, click, order). Agency retainer math: pack price minus AI credits and editor hours. Faceless channel: link and platform ad income minus edit time. Until you have one such number, do not open a second model.
Five pipeline steps
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Idea of the week → script → visual → edit → queue. Each step has a status in a table. Skipping a check rolls the batch back. The pipeline is the same for agency work and your own channels.
ChatGPT for scripts
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At give the week topic. Ask for three 20-second scripts and one caption. Do not copy offer rates or terms from the answer.
Claude for the brief
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At paste offer rules without keys. Ask for a checklist of what you may say on video. Match the offer card.
Midjourney and Ideogram
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Frames: and . One product — one lighting style. No foreign logos or celebrity faces in the prompt.
Kling and Runway
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Motion: and . One frame — one light move. If the product warps, use a real frame.
ElevenLabs
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Voice: — your or licensed voice. Do not clone without rights. Label integrations.
CapCut
Canva sizes
Buffer and Later
Airtable
Make.com
QA before publish
Factory metrics
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Saves, replies, clicks on one link. Like without click — fix the first line, not the image.
Scale and automation
Team and compliance
Variants and retakes
Factory growth