Your call: rejected the poll
01We put four microphones under forty dollars in the loudest room we have.
- Kept: mic-test-kitchen.mov · 0:08–0:19supporting
- Rejected: community-poll.pnga poll proves nothing about sound
For creators who already have an editor
Send the reasoning, not just the files.
Your editor gets the folder; the reasons stay in your head until round two. ReadyToEdit drafts the brief you would otherwise type: the script, a clip from your footage under each line, your reasons. Round two stops going to “which ten seconds?” Invite your editor in, and what you never wrote down, they ask the assistant.
You: open on the one that surprised us. the ranking can wait.
Assistant: That’s mic C, the cheapest. It holds up in mic-test-kitchen.mov at 1:12, extractor fan on, same sentence as the other three.
You: never call anything ‘the best’
Assistant: Noted. I’ll say which one held up in this room and leave “best” out.
You: draft it. a clip under each line where one fits.
Assistant: Draft 1 saved, four beats. Beat 3 plays mic-test-kitchen.mov 1:12–1:22. Beat 2 has no clip yet; it stays on the page, empty.
How the week changes
Today’s video editing brief: a folder and a paragraph
The files reach your editor on Monday. The reasons stay in your head, and rounds two and three are spent getting them out. One week’s brief, item by item, against the draft 2 handoff in Fig. 3.
01The footage
Today
lorem-sound/112-four-mics/A Drive folder. Four files, no notes.With ReadyToEdit
The same four files, playable in the page, and each one you kept opens from the line it goes under. They stay in your Drive.02The order
Today
“kitchen test is the main one. use the good bit, keep it tight.”A paragraph in Slack, Sunday night.With ReadyToEdit
The script in four beats, readable top to bottom as Whole script.03Which ten seconds
Today
Not sent. It is in your head.→ asked in round twoWith ReadyToEdit
mic-test-kitchen.mov · 1:12–1:22On beat 3, and it plays in the page.04Why C comes before D
Today
Not sent. It is in your head.→ asked in round twoWith ReadyToEdit
Your note on beat 2, added with the waveform still in draft 2: “Point at C, then at D.”05What it must never say
Today
Not sent. It is in your head.→ round three, when a title card says “best”With ReadyToEdit
Out of the script before your editor reads it. You said it once, to the assistant.
Enclosed
Today2 of 5
With ReadyToEdit5 of 5
While you read the draft
Your call, on the record
You read the draft with the assistant open beside it. What you tell it is kept with the draft, and every call you make on the page is marked where it happened, so the version your editor opens already carries the reasons.
Draft 1 · weekly video · Lorem Sound
Four microphones under $40, one noisy kitchen
You: leave the poll out. people voting proves nothing about sound.
You: never call anything ‘the best’. we tested four mics in one kitchen.
Assistant: Noted: say which one held up in this room, and never “best”.
Your call: struck “best”
02The cheapest one was not the worst. (struck: The best budget mic on every list) The one everyone recommends was.
- your video · 12 Mar“If you buy one, buy D.” Cited because this line takes it back.
- No clip matched this line. It stays on the page, empty, until you add one.
You: find the ten seconds where C beats D
Assistant: mic-test-kitchen.mov 1:12–1:22: same sentence, fan on. D clips on the p’s; C doesn’t.
Your call: kept 1:12–1:22
03Here are the ten seconds that changed our minds.
- Kept: mic-test-kitchen.mov · 1:12–1:22supporting
- Your note: “Play it clean. No music under this one.”
You: the hand sliding the mic closer is fine as b-roll. the proof is the close-then-far take.
Your call: kept both, labelled
04The setting that mattered more than the microphone: how close you sit.
- Kept: mic-test-desk.mov · 2:25–2:38supporting
- Kept: mic-test-desk.mov · 0:40–0:46illustrative B-roll, not proof
ApprovedDraft 2, Tue 11:47, after you put the waveform still on beat 2 · sent to your editor
What they open
What your editor opens
One read-only link, and no account to make. Change the draft and update the link: the address stays the same. Revoke it when the video is out.
- Read-only, no account
- Download handoff, as a text file
- Update in place, or revoke
- Never indexed by search engines
- 1Each line with its clip. Press it and the range you kept plays.
- 2Whole script, for reading it through once before cutting.
Inside your workspace
Your editor can ask it what they would ask you
Invite your editor into the workspace, or into one project. They browse the same library you do: every recording, the notes, your past posts. When they would message you — which take, why this order, where you said the number — they ask the assistant and get the file and the timecode.
You: she leads with mic C, not the ranking. is that about the fan noise or the price?
Assistant: Both. Earlier in this chat she said “open on the one that surprised us. the ranking can wait.” C is the surprise: the cheapest of the four, and it held up with the extractor fan on, mic-test-kitchen.mov 1:12.
You: where does she say how close to sit?
Assistant: mic-test-desk.mov 2:25–2:38, the close-then-far comparison. She says it once, at 2:31.
It answers from what the project holds, and says where each part came from.
How it finds the answer
It looks your project up every time it answers, and the answer cites what it used. What it searches:
- 1every line said in your recordings
- 2what it has seen in your footage
- 3your stills and screenshots
- 4your notes and documents
- 5your past posts, and what you decided in review
It has already watched and transcribed your footage, so finding a moment never means rewatching it.
Teach it your answers
- 01
Remember this
Press it under any answer you would give again. It goes to Staging first.
- 02
You keep it, or not
In Staging you read what it saved and keep only what is true.
- 03
It is searched from then on
The next time anyone asks, a kept note is one of the things it finds.
FutureAnswering your editor the way you would, from everything you have taught it, for the questions you have not answered yet.
Where you decide
Every call stays yours
The angle
Each week the Read proposes angles from what you added, on the cadence you set (Friday afternoon by default). You approve one or dismiss it. Nothing is drafted until you ask.
Approve (chosen)Dismiss
Proposal approved: “The one everyone recommends lost.”
Each clip
A suggested clip sits beside the line it would go under. Play it, then keep it or reject it. Only the clips you keep are placed in the edit your editor opens.
✓ Keep (chosen)✕ Reject
Kept: mic-test-kitchen.mov · 1:12–1:22
The draft
You, or a teammate with a reviewer seat, request changes or approve. Each decision saves a snapshot of the draft, so you can see what changed between rounds. Changed your mind? Reopen it.
Request changesApprove (chosen)
Draft 2 approved, Tue 11:47, with its snapshot.
Revision memory
The notes you stop repeating
Some corrections you make every week: cut the hype, lose the exclamation marks, write your own opening. Make the same one across drafts and it carries into the next draft, and is listed on a screen called What I’ve learned, in sentences like these.
“You cut the marketing words out of what I write.”
You rewrote the sales language in “Four microphones under $40, one noisy kitchen”.
7 drafts“You’d rather state a thing than exclaim it.”
5 drafts“My openings do not survive. You write your own.”
4 drafts“You take the emoji out.”
3 drafts
ExampleThe sentences as What I’ve learned prints them.
Before you connect anything
What it will not do
- Edit, render or generate video, voices or avatars. The cut is your editor’s.
- Decide which take is your best. It suggests a range; you keep or reject it, and your editor makes the exact cut.
- Score a hook or predict views. The close read of an opening gives timestamped facts and a comparison with your own earlier openings, never a number.
- Post your video, or post anywhere but Bluesky and Mastodon. To those two it posts a draft’s text, once you connect the account for the project and confirm the exact thread, then reads back its likes, replies and reposts. For YouTube, X, LinkedIn and the rest, you paste it yourself and press Mark as posted.
- Take audio-only files, so a podcast feed is not material yet. It has no Frame.io or Notion integration either.
- See everything in your footage. It describes what it watches, and a description can miss a detail. Play a suggestion before you keep it.
Plans
What a credit buysStarter
$20/month
About one half-hour recording a month (750 credits), one project, one reviewer seat.
Solo
$40/month
About 4 half-hour recordings a month (2,000 credits), one project, up to 2 reviewer seats.
Several recordings a week
Pro
$149/month
About 18 half-hour recordings a month (9,000 credits), up to 3 projects, up to 5 reviewer seats.
Team
$299/month
About 41 half-hour recordings a month (20,000 credits), up to 10 projects, up to 15 reviewer seats.
Free while billing is being set up. We will email before the first charge. The reserve link tells us which price you would pay; no card, no charge.
Questions
- Does it replace my editor?
- No. It prepares what you would otherwise brief: the script, a suggested clip for each line and your notes on them. Your editor still makes every cut, and nothing is edited, rendered or generated.
- Can it pick B-roll for my script?
- It suggests clips from footage you have connected, beside the line each would go under. Never stock, never generated. Supporting footage and illustrative B-roll are labelled differently, a line with no match stays visibly empty, and you keep or reject each suggestion.
- Does my editor need an account?
- No. They open one read-only link with Beats & clips, the whole script, playback of each line’s range and the original Google Drive links. Download handoff gives them a text file. You can update the link in place or revoke it.
- Does it work with Google Drive, Frame.io or Notion?
- Google Drive, yes: import a folder or single files. They stay in your Drive, the handoff links to the originals, and Drive sharing still decides who can open them. There is no Frame.io or Notion integration; the handoff is a link you can paste into either.
- Will it sound like AI?
- A first draft can. You rewrite it, and the corrections you keep making carry into later drafts, on a list you can read and overrule. Nothing appears on camera that you did not film.
Make the calls. Send the link.
Connect the Drive folder you already send, tell the assistant what the video is and what it must never say, and read the draft it prepares.