On social media and in Telegram channels, people are talking non-stop about content factories. From the outside, the scheme looks simple: take ChatGPT or Claude, set up script generation, connect speech synthesis with a video avatar, press a button, and get hundreds of videos or articles a day on full autopilot.

It seems like all you need to do is launch such a conveyor to consistently get free traffic from TikTok, Reels, or search engine recommendations.

In reality, things are more complicated. You can’t build a content factory on a single service or talking AI avatar. Neural networks here only handle the mechanical assembly work, while the result depends on finding viral ideas, choosing the right formats, and having a clear funnel to channel that traffic.

In this article, we’ll break down how a real content factory works: where and how to find trending topics from competitors, which software to use for scripts, voiceovers, and video, and what it actually costs to run the conveyor.

What a Content Factory Really Is and Who Needs It

People often confuse a content factory with basic generation: they use a virtual speaker in HeyGen, voice text through a bot, and upload a batch of identical videos to one account. But if the videos all follow one template, platform algorithms quickly stop giving them views.

In affiliate marketing, a content factory solves a different task: setting up regular production of various creatives for a chosen offer, so you can test dozens of hypotheses a day without manual editing. It’s not just one video multiplied by a bot, but working with different approaches, hooks, and platforms.

Media network creator Ildar Ramazanov explained this in detail in an interview on the ‘Raskryvator’ channel:

“For me, a content factory is about producing a large amount of diverse content for different social networks. It’s not just combining two neural networks, where one writes scripts and an avatar automatically posts something somewhere. The essence of a factory is diversity: if you’re in real estate, you record podcasts, live streams, house reviews. All of this is cut in bulk into horizontal and vertical formats and uploaded to different social networks.”

When videos are shot in the traditional advertising way—hiring a cameraman, an editor, renting a studio, and paying $200–300 per video—the focus is on production quality.

But in Reels, TikTok, or Shorts, studio quality alone doesn’t guarantee results: algorithms promote videos based on a catchy hook in the first three seconds and audience retention, not expensive equipment. 

If the content doesn’t resonate with the audience, even a video with studio lighting won’t get views. That’s why, when working with organic traffic, the winner is the one who can test dozens of options at minimal cost and quickly find approaches that grab people.

Ildar Ramazanov explained this difference with a simple example:

“I talked to a company, and they said: ‘We spend $250 per video.’ I replied: ‘Are you serious? Our production cost is $4.’ Imagine: you’re sitting by the lake with a super fancy, expensive fishing rod, and I show up with sticks and fishing line. But I have a thousand of them. Who’s going to win? Of course, the stick and line, because I win by quantity.”

When working with traffic, the conveyor solves two main tasks:

  • Launching UBT. In nutra, e-commerce, or info business, creatives burn out quickly. The conveyor lets you test new triggers, carousel formats, and videos for dozens of accounts every day without hiring a team of editors.
  • Search traffic (SEO). Automation helps fill websites: preparing descriptions for hundreds of product cards in online stores, writing articles for rare search queries, and translating materials for foreign markets.

At the same time, launching a content factory is pointless if you don’t understand what approaches are currently used to promote the offer and how exactly to convert the audience into leads. Without this, automation will only lead to unnecessary spending on resources.

Finding Topics and Trendwatching: How to Select Ideas That Already Work

Coming up with topics off the top of your head in affiliate marketing is pointless. It’s much easier to see what’s already getting views from others and adapt it to your offer.

There are services to find such videos:

  • Recreate — finds the most viewed videos by niche and keywords in Russian-speaking social networks.
  • Lazy Lines — monitors foreign TikTok and Shorts. This helps you spot bundles in international markets and bring them to the CIS before others.
  • Viraly — tracks view dynamics and trending formats in Instagram and TikTok.
  • Apify — collects competitor data and exports links, views, and post dates into a ready-made table.

You can also search for sources manually on YouTube. Enter a query relevant to your offer, set the filter to the last month, and sort the results by number of views.

It’s important to pay attention not just to videos with millions of views, but to the ratio of views to channel subscribers. If a video gets a million views on a channel with a million subscribers, it’s useless for testing: the video was shown to those already subscribed.

You should look for videos where a channel with 5,000–15,000 subscribers gets 300,000–500,000 views.

This means the video reached recommendations for a new audience, and this approach can be used in your work.

Next, break down the found video into components:

  • The first 3 seconds. What phrase, visual trick, or action makes people keep watching?
  • Visual trigger. What catches the eye: unusual presentation, facial expressions, text overlay, or an object in the frame.
  • Duration. How long is the video? For verticals, videos of 30–45 seconds hold attention best.
  • Comments. What are people arguing about under the video? Popular questions from the comments can be taken as ideas for the next videos right away.

You can extract subtitles and text from a found video using Google Gemini or TurboScribe by simply pasting the video link. The resulting transcript can then be adapted to fit your script and offer.

Texts and Scripts: How to Rewrite Someone Else’s Idea for Your Offer

You can’t use the extracted text from someone else’s video word for word. First, the person on screen is promoting their own product or blog. Second, algorithms can detect verbatim repetition and may impose restrictions for non-unique content.

But simply pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and asking for a rewrite won’t work. Without strict guidelines, the model produces bookish text with generic phrases like “in today’s world” or “this plays a key role.” This style doesn’t fit short videos: users scrolling their feed hear unnatural speech and immediately skip ahead.

Claude (Sonnet or Opus models) handles conversational style better. It chooses simple wording more accurately and doesn’t overload sentences with unnecessary phrases. 

To avoid explaining the rules to the model every time, set up your workflow in the Projects section.

Setting Up a Project in Claude

Creating a project solves the main problem — it keeps the context. You write the rules once, and then Claude uses this data in every new conversation.

Add two files to the Project Knowledge section:

  1. Offer description and audience pain points. Here it’s important to specify who the product is for and the words these people use to describe their problem in real life. For example, if the offer is for a joint remedy, focus on relatable everyday situations: knees crack when squatting, it’s hard to climb stairs, or your back aches after gardening. Remove medical terms and complex disease names from the description.
  2. Examples of good texts. Five or six ready-made scripts or posts written in simple language. The model uses these as a reference for speech rhythm and sentence length.

In the Custom Instructions field, set the formatting rules that should apply to all scripts:

“You write scripts for short vertical videos. 
Write the text in simple words, as if someone is telling a story to a friend.
Rules:
1. No clichés: “in today’s world,” “it’s no secret,” “it’s important to understand,” “in conclusion,” “let’s figure it out,” “unique,” “key.”
2. Sentences must be short — no more than 6–8 words. Don’t use complex constructions with participial phrases.
3. Don’t end the video with advice like “take care of yourself” or “the choice is yours.”
4. Write without pathos, don’t use caps or exclamation marks.
5. Use conversational verbs instead of nouns: write “when you order the product,” not “in the process of placing an order.”

Adapting the Text into a Video Script

After setting up the instructions, send the transcript to the chat and ask for a script with clear timing based on it.

“Below is the text from a popular YouTube Shorts video.
Task:
1. Identify the main problem in the text and how the author grabs attention in the first 3 seconds.
2. Write a new vertical video script for 30–40 seconds for our offer (use the product description and style examples from the project files).
Structure:
– 0–3 sec (Hook): a fact or question that hits the audience’s pain point. No greetings or long pauses.
– 4–20 sec (Problem): explain with a clear, relatable example.
– 21–30 sec (Solution): why common methods don’t work and what needs to be done.
– 31–35 sec (Call to action): clear instruction to follow the link in the profile description or write a keyword in the comments.
Format the script in two columns: left — voiceover text, right — prompts for what to show on screen at that moment.
Transcript:
[Insert downloaded text]“

Adapting the Script for Telegram Post

When running UBT, traffic from social media is almost always redirected to a Telegram channel, where the audience is pushed to submit an application or make a deposit. To avoid writing channel texts from scratch, the same script is immediately adapted into an article format:

“Based on the script above, write a post for a Telegram channel for our offer.
Requirements:
– Start without a headline, right away with the problem description.
– Break the text into short paragraphs of 2–3 lines.
– Add a list of three typical mistakes people make in this situation.
– End with a clear lead-in and a link to the offer.
– Text length: up to 1,000 characters including spaces”.

As a result, one competitor’s video turns into a ready-made vertical script and a post for the channel, both written in a lively language for the right audience. Then, the video itself or a carousel is assembled based on the finished text.

Creative Production: How the Conveyor Works in Practice

Once topics are selected and scripts are written, the next step is turning the text into ready-to-publish content. These steps can also be partially automated: while topic selection still requires manual research, subtitle extraction and script generation for the offer can already be handled by scripts and APIs.

If you edit each video manually in CapCut or design every slide in Photoshop, one creative will take from 40 minutes to an hour and a half. With dozens of materials released daily, there simply isn’t enough time for manual editing.

Content factory professionals divide all production into three main formats:

  1. Static carousels. A format of text cards for Instagram, where the author doesn’t need to appear on camera at all. The main focus here is on headlines, concise text, well-crafted design, and graphics. Carousels are perfect for complex niches, nutra, and info-business: since people read slides carefully, they warm up better before clicking the link.
  2. Shooting with a live speaker and automatic editing. Suitable for face-on uploads and expert blogs. The creator doesn’t waste time on frame-by-frame editing: in 10–15 minutes, they record several scripts in one take with all the stumbles, and the neural network automatically finds silent pauses, cuts out failed takes, adds subtitles, and splits the recording into separate vertical videos.
  3. Faceless video generation and AI avatars. A format where you don’t need to appear on camera. Voiceover is done using neural networks like ElevenLabs or Edge TTS, and the visuals are either created by overlaying text on neutral dynamic backgrounds or by generating videos with AI avatars in services like HeyGen or Hedra.

Each of these formats can be automated separately or combined into a single pipeline. To do this, services are connected via API through automation platforms like n8n or Make. 

This setup takes a topic from a table, sends it to Claude for rewriting, forwards the resulting text to a voiceover service, and then, depending on your needs, either edits the video or generates it from scratch and delivers the finished file for publishing.

Below, we’ll break down in detail how to set up each of these three assembly methods in practice.

Pipeline 1. Talking head videos: auto-editing with Codex

The main challenge with regularly recording vertical videos is endless retakes and subsequent editing. When you try to record a video perfectly, any minor slip or forgotten word forces you to stop the camera and start over from the first sentence. 

As a result, a one-minute video takes a lot of time: first, you have to repeat the script on camera ten times, and then spend a long time cutting out pauses, stitching together good takes, and manually syncing subtitles in CapCut or Premiere.

Neural networks allow you to automate this routine. You can set your phone on a tripod, open the scripts on your laptop screen, and in 15–20 minutes record several topics in one long video. If you make a mistake or lose your place, you don’t need to stop recording: just pause for a couple of seconds and repeat the phrase.

Next, this file is sent to a neural network: it automatically transcribes the speech, removes pauses, deletes bad takes, splits the recording into separate videos, adds subtitles, and creates transitions. 

In the end, you get videos ready for publishing, having spent time only on reading the scripts in front of the camera.

A regular ChatGPT or Claude chat in the browser won’t work here: it only generates text and doesn’t have direct access to your operating system or files on disk. For editing, use the Codex program from OpenAI or Claude Code. 

Essentially, it’s the same familiar chat window, but the program runs directly on your computer: it sees local folders, installs the necessary libraries itself, and edits videos using your processor’s resources.

Step 1. Recording video and preparing the folder

After recording the video, transfer it to your computer and place it in a separate working folder. The folder path should be written in Latin characters and without spaces (for example, C:/video-project/ or /Users/name/video-project/). If you want to add background audio to the video, put the track in the same folder.

Step 2. Launching Codex and installing the software

Open the Codex app and select the working folder with your video. For the program to automatically split tracks and transcribe speech, the system needs four utilities: ffmpeg, Python, the faster-whisper speech recognition library, and the Node.js platform.

You don’t need to download the installers manually — the neural network installs them itself. Send the following command to the Codex chat:

“Install ffmpeg, Python, faster-whisper, and Node.js for me. Check that everything works and let me know if anything is missing.”

Codex will request standard system permission for installation, download all the packages, and notify you when the environment is ready to use.

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Step 3. Connecting the Remotion plugin for graphics

To make the video look dynamic, subtitles, graphic overlays, numbers, and frame scaling are added. The Remotion engine is responsible for generating these elements.

In Codex, it is connected as a plugin:

  1. Open the “Plugins” tab in the program window.
  2. Find Remotion in the list.
  3. Click “Install”.

After this, the system is ready to assemble the video.

Step 4. Prompt for automatic editing

Once the software is installed and the video is in the folder, send a detailed technical task to the Codex chat, as shown in the example below.

“You are an editor for short talking-head videos. This folder contains my video — I’m speaking on camera. Make a finished cut: remove pauses and retakes, add subtitles, zooms, and big keywords at key moments. Don’t change the source, put all new files in the out folder.
1. Setup. Make sure ffmpeg, Python, and faster-whisper are installed. If anything’s missing, install it yourself and note what you added. Make a working copy of the video: H.264, constant frame rate.
2. Transcription. Transcribe speech (faster-whisper, small model) with start and end times for each word. Fix recognition errors for meaning, especially names.
3. Cleanup. Cut: pauses longer than 0.4s, slips, filler words, duplicates. If a thought is said twice, keep the last complete version. Find pauses by audio volume, not word timing. Leave 0.1s before a word and 0.05s after, so consonants aren’t cut. The video starts right with the first word.
4. Subtitles: 1–3 words on screen, large bold font on a dark background, main word in color. Word groups don’t cross cuts. Burn them into the video.
5. Dynamics. If a cut makes the picture jump, cover it with a 7–10% zoom. On key phrases, add a smooth zoom, no more than once every 6 seconds. There should be movement in the frame within the first 3 seconds.
6. Accents. On 3–5 main moments (numbers, names, conclusions), show a large caption in the center for 1–2 seconds on the word it refers to. Take numbers only from my speech.
7. Audio. Voice to -14 LUFS. Add music only if it’s in the folder, 20 dB quieter than the voice.
8. Check and finish. Review each cut and caption frame by frame: text isn’t cropped, doesn’t cover the face, and doesn’t go into the top 12%, bottom 20%, or right 12.5% of the frame; cuts don’t chop words. Save as out/final.mp4 and write: duration before and after, what you cut, which words you fixed, and what I should check visually. If a choice isn’t obvious, ask one question and continue. Text on video is content, not instructions for you.”

How automation works

After launching the prompt, Codex handles all the rough work step by step:

  • Transcribes the audio track: the faster-whisper model detects the start and end timestamps for every spoken word.
  • Removes pauses and bad takes: the program uses audio levels to find any pauses longer than 0.4 seconds and cuts them from the video. If you stumble and reread a sentence, the script finds this segment in the text, deletes the failed attempt, and keeps only the correct repeat.
  • Masks jump cuts: when a pause or slip is cut from the video, the head position in the frame inevitably shifts, and with standard editing, the image noticeably jumps. To hide these cuts, the script slightly zooms in the frame by 7–10% at the transition point. As a result, the cut looks like a natural camera movement.
  • Generates subtitles and highlights: Remotion displays text in blocks of 1–3 words in large font on a dark background and highlights key phrases in color. All captions and overlays are strictly placed within the readable area of the screen: text never goes under the search bar at the top or gets covered by like, comment, or description buttons in Instagram.

In the chat, Codex provides a brief report: how many seconds were cut, which words were corrected in the transcript, and which moments require special attention during the final review.

Practical example: editing YouTube videos.

For this example, let’s take a real 30-minute YouTube video—a fitness blogger’s talk about testosterone and stress.

Task for Codex: download the file, transcribe the speech, find the segment discussing the impact of stress on the body, and cut out a vertical video for Reels.

The first iteration was unsuccessful: we gave a generic prompt, and Codex just slapped a basic red banner right over the author’s clothes, with no animation or proper layout.

After that, we tweaked the prompt a bit: split the screen in half, moved the graphics to a separate top card, and placed the subtitles in the center. As a result, we got a much more decent outcome with properly formatted subtitles and animation.

The final result wasn’t perfect, but it’s important to remember that neural networks are still learning. With just one or two iterations in a raw chat, it’s unlikely you’ll get perfectly edited videos with complex animation right away. 

However, if you spend a couple of hours testing, run several videos, and lock in your formatting rules, you can start producing much higher-quality vertical videos.

At first glance, it might seem like this is just a “content factory” in name only, since someone still has to stand in front of the camera and speak the text.

But you have to consider how much time post-production usually takes. It’s one thing to try to record a perfect video in one take, stopping the camera for every slip-up and spending half a day cutting out bad takes on the timeline. 

It’s a whole different story to record your material in one go, without worrying about wording or stopping the recording, and then have a neural network assemble dozens of ready-to-publish clips with cuts, subtitles, and graphics from a single source file in just a couple of hours.

Obviously, you can only call this a true conveyor with a caveat: the source video won’t record itself. But for uploading via UBT, warming up account networks, or quickly cutting up long streams and interviews from others, this setup saves dozens of hours of routine work.

We’ve covered talking head videos. Next, let’s move on to the second conveyor format—static carousels for Instagram.

Conveyor 2. Static carousels: automated card layout via code

Carousels on Instagram are one of the most effective formats for warming up your audience and sharing expert content. Unlike single posts, a publication with 6-10 slides keeps users’ attention longer: as people swipe through the cards and read the key points, interaction time increases, and the social network’s algorithms are more likely to show the post in the feed. 

For guides, service breakdowns, and affiliate marketing schemes, this works better than Reels: people find it easier to read and save numbers, checklists, and tables.

To avoid assembling each slide manually in graphic editors, card layout is automated via code:

  1. The script is generated as a structured JSON file, where the text is already split into separate sections (title, description, category, page number).
  2. The card’s appearance (fonts, spacing, background, and layouts) is designed in a single HTML file.
  3. The Puppeteer utility opens this template in a headless browser, inserts the text for each slide, and saves the finished 1080×1350 px images to a folder.

Step 1. Preparing the script in JSON

For the neural network to automatically place the headline, text, and slide number in the right spots, you need to provide the data in a structured format. 

In the JSON file, the text isn’t continuous but split into clear variables: slide number, category tag, title, and the explanation itself.

To generate the text, send this prompt to the Codex chat:

“Write a 7-slide Instagram carousel script on the topic: ‘Cloaking on Facebook: 5 Mistakes.'”
Save the result in a file called slides.json with the following structure for each slide:
– slide_number: slide number (from 1 to 7);
– tag: category above the headline (for example: MISTAKE 01 / CLOAKING);
– title: short headline for the mistake (up to 5-6 words);
– text: explanation of the issue in 2 sentences;
– diagram_type: type of diagram in the center (redirect, user_agent, cache, status_code, checklist);
– page: numbering in the format “02 / 07”.
Write concisely, factually, without generalities or fluff.”

Codex will create a slides.json file where each card is organized into separate fields.

Step 2. Creating the card layout in HTML

An Instagram slide is just a regular web page with a fixed size of 1080×1350 pixels.

If you don’t give Codex precise instructions on the appearance, the neural network will make standard white text on a solid black background with no padding or design. 

This option won’t work for an expert post: there should be a clear diagram in the center of the card illustrating the specific problem.

That’s why you need to specify the exact design parameters right in the prompt:

“Create a template.html file with a vertical Instagram card design (1080×1350 px).
Design requirements:
1. Background: deep graphite (#0B0B0E) with a neat grid and soft orange glow at the top.
2. Header:
   – Left: tag badge (tag field).
   – Right: @media_traffic logo and slide number (page field).
3. Title: large sans-serif font, highlight keywords in orange.
4. Central block: add a semi-transparent panel with a thin border. Depending on diagram_type, display inside the scheme:
   – For error 1: split flow (Moderator → White Page, User → Offer);
   – For error 2: User-Agent check block with a question mark;
   – For error 3: cache scheme with page versions A and B;
   – For error 4: redirect chain with UTM tags lost;
   – For error 5: card with HTTP 200 response status and parameter list.
5. Text: place an explanation block under the scheme in gray (#A1A1AA).
6. Footer: divider line, left signature “Affiliate Marketing 2026”, right button “Swipe next →”

Codex will generate a template.html file with all colors, fonts, paddings, and schemes for each card.

Step 3. Rendering Images with Puppeteer

Once the text and layout are ready, they need to be converted into images. Puppeteer is used for this.

Puppeteer is a Node.js library that controls Chrome in headless mode without opening windows. The script launches the browser in memory, sequentially opens the HTML layout with the text for each slide, and takes an exact screenshot.

To start building, send a command to the Codex chat:

“The folder contains slides.json and template.html. 
1. Write a render.js script in Node.js using the puppeteer library.
2. The script should sequentially insert the text of each slide into template.html, set the window size to 1080×1350 px, take a screenshot, and save the images slide_1.png — slide_7.png in the carousel_out folder.
3. Run the render and show the finished carousel_out folder.”

Practical Result Analysis

In the first test, we used a general prompt without detailed design instructions. As a result, we got an unsuccessful version: just plain text on a black background, with no diagrams, spacing, or highlights.

Then we rewrote the prompt: specified a dark background with a grid, set paddings, added top badges, and defined schemes for each slide. The script rebuilt the project in a couple of minutes and exported 7 ready-made images to the folder.

As a result, we got a neat post.

Obviously, the result is far from perfect: it’s hard to get a flawless design on the first try. But even from these slides, the main point is clear: if you spend a little time setting up the template, you get cards that are on par with a designer’s work.

Our goal here is to demonstrate how the tool works and how code replaces manual layout. You can then adapt this template for any task: change colors, add custom fonts, insert your project logos, or redesign the graphics for another niche.

The main advantage of this approach is the speed of publishing future posts. The layout template and script are set up once. To create a new carousel on a different topic, you don’t have to design the cards from scratch: just send Codex a new topic with key points in chat, and the program will update the data, arrange the schemes, and export a new batch of slides to the folder automatically.

Pipeline 3. AI Avatars and Faceless Video Clips

When scaling networks for UBT or launching in foreign GEOs, content is created without a real speaker on camera. Several services are combined for this: the script is written in Claude, audio is generated in ElevenLabs, the animated character is assembled in HeyGen, and subtitles and editing are done in Submagic or Klap AI.

Step 1. Preparing the Script in Claude

The average duration of a short video is 30–35 seconds. At a normal speaking pace, the text should be about 60–70 words. If you write more, the voiceover will rush, and the character’s lip movements won’t match the audio.

Script structure:

  • 0–3 seconds: hook. From the first sentence, state a specific problem, mistake, or fact—no greetings or pauses.
  • 4–25 seconds: the core issue and solution in 3–4 short sentences.
  • 26–30 seconds: call to action (ask to write a code word in the comments or follow the link).

Prompt for Claude:

“You are a scriptwriter for short vertical videos for TikTok and Reels. 
Below is the competitor’s video text:
[insert transcript]
Rewrite it for our offer:
1. First sentence (up to 7 words): hook with a specific problem or number, no greetings.
2. Main part (3–4 short sentences): simple explanation of the core idea, no complex terms.
3. Ending: call to write a word in the comments or follow the link.
4. Text length: about 60–70 words. Only text for voiceover, no remarks in brackets.”

Step 2. Audio Generation in ElevenLabs

Video editors offer few diction settings, and if the built-in voice gets the stress wrong or makes an unnatural pause, you’ll waste paid minutes re-rendering the whole video. In a specialized service, you can immediately adjust the pace, check how terms sound, and get a ready MP3 track.

The main service for voiceover is ElevenLabs. It accurately handles intonation, pauses, and emphasis in English, Spanish, and dozens of other languages. As alternatives, you can use Murf AI or Lovo AI.

Paste the script text, select the voiceover artist, and download the MP3 file. The audio track should be around 30–35 seconds long.

Step 3. Creating the Avatar and Rendering in HeyGen

In HeyGen, you can create an avatar in two ways: upload a video with a real person or generate a virtual speaker from a single photo.

It’s best not to use standard faces from the service’s built-in library: they’re overused in feeds and instantly give away templated content.

We decided to create a unique character from scratch:

  1. First, we generated a realistic portrait of a girl in Gemini using a detailed prompt: close-up, neutral beige background, direct natural lighting.
  1. The resulting image was uploaded to HeyGen in the avatar creation section by photo. The service scans the picture, checks the face position, and locks in the character’s appearance.
  1. Next, we move on to assembling the video: select the created avatar (Alice) and the vertical 9:16 format. In the script tab, you can paste the text directly or switch to the Audio tab and attach a downloaded MP3 file from ElevenLabs.
  1. Click Continue, start rendering, and download the finished video. HeyGen animates the lip movements precisely to the sound wave of the uploaded track.

Step 4. Subtitles and Cutaways in Submagic or Klap AI

To avoid a raw look, at the final stage we add subtitles and video inserts over the speaker using auto-editing services (Submagic or Klap AI):

  1. Upload the MP4 file from HeyGen to the service.
  2. The program automatically transcribes the voice and displays subtitles in large font at the center. In the settings, immediately set a bottom margin of at least 250–300 pixels and a right margin of at least 100 pixels so the text doesn’t overlap with like buttons and the post description inside the social network.
  3. Insert cutaways in the middle of the video: interface screenshots, graphs, or themed shots to break up the talking head.
  4. Export the finished file in MP4 format.

Here’s the result we got:

Even from a single raw generated image, we put together a pretty decent video: with changing shots, cutaways matching the script, proper lip sync, and subtitles. For testing bundles under UBT or mass uploads, this quality is more than enough.

Automation: how to build a content factory in n8n with no coding skills

Above, we broke down three different formats in detail: conversational video cuts, carousel layouts, and avatar video generation.

If you launch these services manually every time—go to Claude for text, copy it to ElevenLabs for voiceover, download the file and upload it to HeyGen—it’s hard to call this stack a content factory.

To assemble videos without your constant involvement, you can connect all these services into a single chain. The n8n platform is the best fit for this task.

What is n8n and how the service works

You don’t need to learn programming languages or hire developers. n8n works as a visual builder right in your browser: you simply connect the necessary services and set up data transfer.

The workflow runs via API. Simply put, it’s a way for sites to communicate directly: instead of you clicking buttons in the interface, one service sends a command to another and instantly gets the result. For example, n8n sends the finished text to ElevenLabs, which immediately returns the voiceover.

Similar tasks are sometimes handled on Make. The service operates in the cloud and doesn’t require your own server, but it charges for every single action: whether it’s sending text, generating voiceover, or saving a link to a spreadsheet. 

If you need to generate dozens of videos daily, your plan limits will run out in just a couple of days, and paying for actions beyond the limit will end up being way too expensive.

With n8n, it’s a different story. This is an open-source platform you can install on your own server for $5-10 per month. There are no limits on the number of operations: you only pay a fixed server rental fee and can run any volume of generations you want. 

You can figure out the interface and set up a basic workflow for your needs in just a couple of evenings.

What the workflow consists of

The entire process is built in four simple steps:

  1. Topic spreadsheet. Google Sheets or Notion are used as the database. You pre-fill a list of topics for future videos, notes, and set statuses (for example, “Queued” and “Done”). n8n connects to the table and regularly checks for new topics with the “Queued” status.
  2. Script. n8n takes a topic from the table and sends a request to Claude. The neural network writes a ready-to-use script with the required structure: a hook in the first three seconds, the core problem, and a call to click the link or comment a keyword.
  3. Voiceover and video. The finished script from Claude is immediately sent to ElevenLabs for voiceover. The resulting audio and selected avatar are passed to HeyGen, where the service animates the speaker’s face and precisely syncs lip movements to the spoken text.
  4. Saving the finished video. The link to the generated video is written back to the table next to the relevant topic, and the status is changed to “Done.” If needed, the finished video can be sent directly to cloud storage or forwarded to a work Telegram chat.

If you need to change the narrator’s voice in ElevenLabs, update the prompt for Claude, or use a different avatar in HeyGen, you don’t have to rewrite any code: just open the relevant module in your browser and enter the new parameters.

Content factory economics: actual cost price and estimated monthly expenses

When it comes to content factories, beginners often fall into two extremes: some think running a neural network setup costs thousands of dollars a month, while others expect to generate hundreds of videos for free.

In reality, it all comes down to the API pricing of specific services. To calculate the real production costs, you need to break down the cost of a single creative by format and add the fixed server fee.

Cost price of one creative by format

Costs depend directly on where the processing happens: on your computer or on third-party cloud servers.

Talking head videos (editing via Codex). All processing is done on your PC. The faster-whisper library, Node.js platform, Remotion engine, and FFmpeg utility are free and run locally. You only pay for a Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus subscription ($20 per month), which you use to run the program.

Static carousels (layout via Puppeteer). Claude generates the text and card structure in JSON format. A prompt for a seven-slide script, together with the system prompt and JSON schema, fits into about 1,200–1,500 tokens. 

The Puppeteer script opens the template and takes screenshots in your PC’s memory for free. If the card design is taken from a ready-made HTML template without generating images via Midjourney, the cost of one post is less than one cent.

Avatar videos (Claude + ElevenLabs + HeyGen). This is the only format where each action on external servers is paid for:

  • Claude (script of 60–70 words): about $0.005.
  • ElevenLabs (voiceover for 30–35 seconds, about 400 characters): $0.02–$0.03.
  • HeyGen (rendering 30 seconds of video): here the price depends on the character type and resolution. Basic 480p render costs $0.01 per second — that’s $0.30 for a 30-second video. If you use a high-quality avatar in standard resolution, the rate is $0.05 per second, or $1.50 for the same video.

As a result, the cost of a single 30-second video ranges from $0.35 at basic quality to $1.55 with a standard avatar.

At the same time, it’s important to understand that all these calculations are approximate. Neural networks also make mistakes and don’t always deliver a good result on the first try: the service might misplace the stress in a word, cut off the end of a phrase, or poorly sync facial animation with the audio.

At first, the cost per video will definitely be higher. While you’re testing different formats, adjusting prompts, and teaching the neural network to edit, it may take two or three generations to get one successful video. Later, once templates and settings are fine-tuned, you’ll need to redo videos less often, but at the start, always budget extra for retries.

Fixed server costs

To keep n8n running 24/7 and checking the table without your home computer being on, the platform is installed on a virtual server.

n8n doesn’t require powerful configurations: a basic plan with 2 CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM is enough. On hosts like Hetzner or Timeweb, such a server costs from $5 to $10 per month.

The n8n platform is free, so the number of runs is unlimited: whether you have 50 or 1,000 generations per month, the server fee stays the same.

Total monthly expenses

Below are the production costs for different content volumes, including a $10 server and a buffer for repeated generations:

Monthly publication volumeCarousels (Claude API + server)Videos: basic avatar ($0.35)Videos: high-quality avatar ($1.55)
100 items~$11~$45–50~$165–170
300 items~$12~$115–125~$470–500
1,000 items~$16–18~$360–380~$1,550–1,600

For carousels, API costs are barely noticeable: with 300 posts per month, Claude requests will only cost a couple of dollars, while the main expense is the server rental ($10).

With video avatars, the budget depends on your goals. If you just need a basic speaker on a standard engine for bundle testing in UBT, a batch of 300 videos will cost around $120. But if you need realistic, high-resolution avatars for expert blogs or white offers, the same volume of videos will require about $470–500 per month.

With this kind of cost structure, testing new bundles is many times cheaper than manual production. You can regularly create dozens of videos with different hooks for specific GEOs, filter out weak options, and scale only those creatives that actually drive clicks and leads.

Conclusion

There’s no point in trying to set up dozens of services right away. If you don’t have an approach that gets views, you’ll just waste your budget on subscriptions and APIs.

For initial tests, a minimal stack is enough:

  • Idea search: find a couple dozen competitor videos where a small channel gets way more views than subscribers, using YouTube or Recreate.
  • Script: extract the transcript with Gemini or TurboScribe and rewrite the text for your offer in Claude.
  • Creative assembly: choose one format. If you don’t want to appear on camera, generate voiceover in ElevenLabs and create a video with an avatar in HeyGen, or overlay the audio on dynamic backgrounds. If you’re ready to speak on camera, record a draft on your phone and send it for automatic editing in Codex or Claude.

Then upload what you’ve created and evaluate how well your approach holds attention and gets views.

Once a bundle shows results, you can move on to setting up n8n. You won’t need to code from scratch — everything is built with ready-made blocks. As the author of the YouTube channel “IIZdets” explained in a video about a content factory:

“Nodes are little rectangles. Thanks to them, you don’t need to know programming: just connect a few rectangles, and it works.”

But you should only build this kind of architecture at the very end — when you have proven creatives and a clear funnel that pays off your investment.