Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Viral short-form video can be produced at scale by reverse-engineering a top-performing competitor video with AI, cloning its structure for your niche in ChatGPT, and rendering the finished product in InVideo without a camera or editor.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

A solo entrepreneur or small business owner posting Reels, Shorts, or TikToks who wants to increase output without spending more time on production.
Someone already using ChatGPT who wants to extend it into a full video-creation pipeline.
A content creator who wants data-backed reference material before writing a script, rather than guessing what works.
Anyone curious whether fully AI-generated short-form video using InVideo and ElevenLabs voice cloning can produce publishable content without appearing on camera.

SKIP IF…

You already have a production team and your bottleneck is strategy, not volume.
You are building a face-forward personal brand where authentic presence is the product.
You are brand-new to content creation and have not yet defined your target audience, since step one depends on that clarity.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

The more you post the more you grow but posting quality content at volume is the hard constraint for most solo operators. This tutorial solves it with five tools in sequence: SortFeed surfaces a reference creator's most-viewed content, ScreenApp.io runs a multimodal analysis that reads cuts and pacing not just words, ChatGPT converts that analysis into a shot-by-shot outline for your niche, and InVideo renders a finished video using AI B-roll and optional voice cloning. ElevenLabs is recommended as a better TTS layer. The first run takes hours; once the analysis exists, all future runs jump straight to step four.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:52

01 · Hook & Premise

Universal positioning claim, algorithm truth, five-step teaser for solo entrepreneurs and busy business owners.

00:52 – 02:12

02 · Step 1 - Build Your Creator List

Find 5-10 creators whose audience overlaps yours. Audience overlap beats niche overlap. Use ChatGPT for audience analysis if stuck.

02:12 – 03:03

03 · Step 2 - SortFeed Chrome Plugin

Install SortFeed to sort Instagram reels by views. TikTok and YouTube have native sort-by-popular.

03:03 – 05:39

04 · Step 3 - ScreenApp.io Analysis

Paste a viral video link into ScreenApp.io with a 7-part prompt covering hook, visuals, audio, pacing, emotion, rewatchability, and viral summary.

05:39 – 06:15

05 · Optional Exit Point

You can stop at the analysis and use it as a springboard to write your own script. AI generation is optional.

06:15 – 08:07

06 · Sponsor - HighLevel

30-day free trial pitch for HighLevel, an all-in-one business backend.

08:07 – 09:41

07 · Step 4 - ChatGPT Script Generation

Paste ScreenApp analysis into ChatGPT with a specific outline prompt: hook text, shot-by-shot breakdown, on-screen text, voiceover script, retention notes.

09:41 – 11:06

08 · Step 5 - InVideo + ElevenLabs

Drop ChatGPT output into InVideo for text-to-video generation. Use ElevenLabs for better TTS/voice cloning quality.

11:06 – 12:14

09 · Speed & Reuse

First run takes time; after that, skip to step 4 and generate unlimited variations.

12:14 – 12:49

10 · CTA

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Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

The more you post the more you grow but only if you are not sacrificing quality or burning yourself out in the process.
Audience overlap matters more than niche overlap when picking reference creators: a creator your audience already watches is more useful than one in your category.
ScreenApp.io analyzes cuts, pacing, and visual elements not just spoken words, making it fundamentally different from a standard transcription tool.
The 7-part ScreenApp prompt produces a structured breakdown that functions as direct input for the ChatGPT outline step with no reformatting required.
After one full pipeline run you can skip steps one through three entirely and generate unlimited script variations from a single stored analysis.
InVideo can clone your voice from a sample so the AI-generated narration sounds like you without recording a single line.
ElevenLabs produces more natural-sounding voiceovers than InVideo's built-in TTS and is recommended as a drop-in replacement for the audio layer.
AI-generated video output from InVideo should be treated as a rough cut requiring prompting and refinement, not a finished product on first generation.

Takeaway

One analysis powers infinite short-form variations.

WHAT TO LEARN

The heaviest part of the AI content pipeline, finding a winning reference video and extracting its structure, only needs to happen once.

Reverse-engineering a high-performing video means analyzing cuts, pacing, and visual rhythm not just the script; tools that read only words miss most of what made the video work.
Audience overlap not niche overlap is the right filter when choosing reference creators: a creator your audience already watches is more useful than one in your category.
The ScreenApp analysis becomes a reusable prompt asset; feed it to ChatGPT with different niches or topics to generate many outlines from a single research pass.
AI-generated video through InVideo should be treated as a rough cut that needs prompting and refinement, not a finished product on first generation.
The fastest path after the first full setup is jumping directly to step four and generating new script variations without repeating the research phase.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

SortFeed: A Google Chrome extension that lets you pull up any Instagram account and sort their Reels by views, likes, or comments, a capability Instagram does not expose natively.
ScreenApp.io: An AI video analysis tool that goes beyond transcription by examining cuts, visual elements, camera movement, and pacing to explain why a video performs well.
InVideo: A text-to-video AI tool that generates short-form video from a written outline, sourcing royalty-free B-roll, creating voiceovers with built-in narrators, or cloning a user's voice.
ElevenLabs: A voice AI platform specializing in highly realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning, commonly used as a higher-quality alternative to built-in TTS inside video generation tools.
Pattern interrupt: An abrupt change in pacing, camera angle, sound, or visual during a video that resets viewer attention and reduces drop-off.
Multimodal analysis: AI analysis that processes multiple types of input simultaneously; in this context both the audio content and the visual frame data of a video.

Resources Mentioned

Things they pointed at.

03:32toolSortFeed ↗

03:03toolScreenApp.io ↗

08:07toolChatGPT ↗

09:41toolInVideo ↗

10:10toolElevenLabs ↗

06:15productHighLevel ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

05:10

“This analysis that ScreenApp IO created is basically instructions. It's the recipe for a viral video.”

reframes a research tool as a reverse-engineering weapon→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

00:00

“I do not care what niche you're in or what platform you are on.”

universal entry hook with zero friction for any viewer→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

11:06

“You don't need to do steps one through five every single time.”

preemptive objection handling that lands as a genuine payoff→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

The Script

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00:00This is your complete tutorial for creating viral videos for Instagram reels, YouTube shorts, and TikTok. I do not care what niche you're in or what platform you are on. There is one truth about the main algorithm of all of these major platforms, and it is that the more you post, the more you grow.

00:16As long as you aren't sacrificing quality and you're not going to burn yourself out, increasing your output or the amount of times that you are posting will increase the number of followers that you gain. And so whether you're a solo entrepreneur who has to wear a dozen different hats, a small business owner who hardly has time to make content, or really anyone who wants to post more and see better results without having to spend more time, energy, and effort.

00:39Well, then I'm so glad you clicked on this episode because I'm gonna walk you through the five steps that I use to able to increase my output, post more, and create entire viral videos almost 100% with artificial intelligence. Step number one, make a list of five to 10 of your favorite content creators.

00:57These can be content creators on any platform and in any niche. These just need to be people who make really good videos. The kinds of videos that every time you see them, they stop your scroll.

01:07The kinds of content that is grabbing your attention and making you want to buy whatever it is that they're selling or watch all the way to the end. Look for people who are great storytellers. And ideally, look for people who have a similar target audience to your own.

01:22Like I said, they don't have to be in the exact same niche as you, but you want there to be some overlap in their ideal audience. For example, my average follower and my target audience on Instagram is a woman solo entrepreneur over the age of 35 years old.

01:37So if I find a great content creator who makes super engaging videos, but he happens to be in the gaming niche, that probably wouldn't be someone who I would recommend adding to my own list. Because even though it's engaging content, even though it's captivating videos that I enjoy watching, I am not my target audience.

01:55And so I have to keep in mind, his average viewer is probably a man under the age of 30, and that doesn't align with my target audience who is a female over the age of 35. If you need help coming up with this list or you're struggling to figure out who the target audience is of these content creators that you love watching, use ChatGPT.

02:12ChatGPT is a great tool for researching and doing some audience analysis and some content analysis to figure out who are these posts meant for. Then once that's done, I want you to download the Google Chrome plugin that's called sort feed. Sort feed will allow you to pull up someone's Instagram account, and then sort their reels based off different metrics of your choosing.

02:32For our purposes, we're going to use sort feed to sort the reels based off of views for the different content creators on that list that you just made. Basically, this will show you the most viral videos from your favorite content creators. And I should note that this plugin is only necessary for Instagram because Instagram doesn't allow us to automatically, natively sort based off of views or really sort based off of anything besides chronological order.

02:55If you go to TikTok, if you find some of these creators on TikTok, TikTok has a built in feature that allows you to sort based off of latest or most popular, and the same is true on YouTube. So if you find a content creator who you love on YouTube and you pull up their YouTube shorts, you can sort by popular rather than latest, and that will automatically show you their videos that have the most views.

03:14Then, step number three is to create an account on the AI tool screen app dot io. Screen app I o is the best tool that I've found for annotating videos.

03:24There are other AI tools out there that can automatically transcribe videos, but Screen App takes it a step further because it's not just looking at the spoken text or the words being said in the content. It's actually analyzing the video and looking at the cuts, the duration of the cuts, the visual elements, what's on the screen, and all those different elements.

03:43Because as we know, it's not just the words you say that cause a video to go viral, it is all of those other elements baked on top of the words that you're saying. Once you're all set up on screenapp.io, all you're going to do is take one of the popular videos from the content creators from that list that we made earlier, and copy the link to one of their videos.

04:03Then you can paste that link into screenapp.io, and I want you to copy and paste the following prompt. And bear with me because this is going to be a pretty long prompt, and regardless of where you are watching or listening, I will put this in the show notes below today's episode.

04:16But here it goes. Analyze this video and explain why it has performed well. Do not summarize the plot or the closed captions.

04:25Identify the specific elements that boost retention, watch time, shares, and views. Breakdown number one, the hook, the first three seconds.

04:36What is the hook and why does it work? What psychological trigger does it use? Number two, visual techniques.

04:43Notable visuals, camera movement, facial expressions, text, prompts, transitions, colors, b roll, and explain how each supports retention or clarity. Number three, audio choices. Voice tone, pacing, music, sound effects.

04:57How do these things boost engagement or emotion? Number four, pacing and speed of cuts, pattern interrupts, zooms, retention spikes, and how do these things keep people watching?

05:10Number five, emotional drivers. What emotions are triggered? Humor, curiosity, relatability, tension, etcetera.

05:17And how do these things increase shares or replays? Number six, rewatchability triggers. Fast visuals, hidden details, surprises, or anything that prompts a replay.

05:27And number seven, viral summary. List the top five reasons this video likely performed well, make it direct and actionable. Again, just copy that prompt and paste it into screenapp.io, and then it will give you a very in-depth analysis of this video.

05:43This analysis that ScreenApp IO created is basically instructions. It's the recipe for a viral video. It's the prompt that that creator used to create their viral video.

05:55And you could stop here and just use those instructions to create your own content in the future. You could go out and write your own script and come up with your own content using that as a baseline or a springboard to jump off from. Or you could keep watching today's episode, and I will talk you through how we can use those instructions, that analysis, in order to have AI literally create the content for us.

06:18But before I do that, I wanna quickly interrupt myself and tell you about one of my favorite tools that has AI baked into it, and that's HighLevel. HighLevel is your all in one business back end. I was recently at a conference, and I heard this statistic that absolutely blew my mind.

06:34For every $1 that content creators spend on email marketing, they make $42 in return on investment.

06:44And the amazing thing about HighLevel is that it's not just for email marketing. Yes. You can use it to create a landing page.

06:50Yes. You can use it to collect opt ins, a k a emails, and then send those emails, and schedule your emails, and write your emails, and you can do that for marketing. You can do all that on HighLevel.

07:01HighLevel is kind of like a jack of all trades, and so it allows you to cancel your 16 other subscriptions. You no longer need a tool just for your email marketing, and then another tool for your sales products, then another tool for your website, and then all these other things. Instead, you can just have it on HighLevel.

07:18And HighLevel grows with you because I know oftentimes when we sign up for these new tools and we start using, you know, automations and technology, it can feel very overwhelming, especially when these platforms have everything like HighLevel does. But the cool thing about HighLevel is that it's very much user friendly.

07:36It's very much a platform that can grow with you, and that can meet you regardless of whether you're a newbie setting up your first ever online business, or you're someone who's a pro and you're looking for a little bit more advanced automations. HighLevel really has it all. And my personal favorite thing about HighLevel is their amazing customer support team who is there literally twenty four seven available to not just hop on a call, but hop on a Zoom with you and walk you through whatever troubleshooting or tech issues or dream ideal scenarios you have cooked up.

08:08So if you wanna join HighLevel today, you can do so. No commitment. Cancel any time, and you can try it for thirty days for free at the link down in the show notes below.

08:18But let's get back to talking about creating viral content using AI. Once we have this analysis created by ScreenApp IO, we're going to copy the entire analysis and bring it back into ChatGPT. And I want you to use the following prompt within ChatGPT.

08:33It's another long one, so buckle up. I'm going to give you a detailed analysis of an Instagram Reel. Or if it's a YouTube Short, say YouTube Short, TikTok, say TikTok.

08:42Use the analysis to create a brand new Reel outline for me designed for my niche of blank, and then tell chattypt whatever your niche is. Replicate the style elements, pacing, structure, and retention tactics of the analyzed reel, but not the topic.

09:00Apply those stylistic elements to a completely new idea that fits within my niche. Please include a hook with exact text on screen, shot by shot outline, including camera angles, pacing, and visuals, on screen text outline, voice over script, in my tone, and a note on why the original Reels elements increase retention and how you applied each of those elements here.

09:25Here is the analysis, and then you can paste in the analysis that was created by Screen App IO. Once you hit enter, ChatGPT will create a very robust outline for your short form video content. From there, you could go out in the field and shoot it and film it yourself, or you could take it into our fifth and final step and our last AI tool for creating viral content, and that is InVideo.

09:50InVideo is a tool that will create entire short form videos from text. It can use Sora to create AI generated videos. It can source royalty free b roll from around the Internet, or you can even insert your own b roll clips.

10:03Additionally, NVIDIA can create the entire voice over for the video using one of their built in AI narrators, or it can even clone your own voice so that the narration and voice over sounds like it was spoken by you, and it does all of this with text prompts. So essentially, we're going to take the output that chat GPT created, and we are going to give that to NVIDIA.

10:23Now, when you hit enter, you might see a little tiny warning at the very bottom of NVIDIA saying NVIDIA makes mistakes, And it does, just like any AI tool. It's not perfect. It might need a lot of prompting and refining to create a nice finished final product.

10:37I personally think one area where Nvidia isn't the best, it's pretty good, but it's not the best, is in the actual text to speech. Like, the voiceovers and narrations that NVIDIA creates aren't always super seamless. They don't always sound like natural human speech.

10:51So as an alternative tool, you could use NVIDIA to create the video components of your short form video, and you could use Eleven Labs for your TTS, your text to speech, because Eleven Labs is much better when it comes to voiceovers. Now, one of the premises of today's episode was being able to create more content with less time, energy, and effort.

11:12And what I just described to you is something that's probably going to take you a while, and that is true. The very first time you do it, it's gonna take you a while. There's going to be some trial and error.

11:21There's going to be some mistakes made. But number one, it will get a lot faster with time. And number two, you don't need to do steps one through five every single time.

11:30Now that you've done this once, you could theoretically jump straight to step number four. Since you already have a video analyzed by ScreenApp IO, you already have the elements of a viral short form video. You could just have ChatGPT create different versions, different varieties, different scripts based off different niches or different topics, and then plug all of those into InVideo or Eleven Labs to generate different short form content.

11:55And of course, like I mentioned earlier, you can stop at any point in the process. You could use AI, like I described today, to create everything from a to z, from idea to script to outline to final product, or you could stop halfway through and just use the analysis of your favorite content creators viral video and use that to create your own from your own human imagination, pen to paper, old school style.

12:20I do wanna ask you this though. If you learned anything today, if you found this valuable at all, hit that thumbs up button and make sure that you're subscribed as well because I've said this before and I'll say it again, over 80% of our weekly viewers are not subscribed to the channel. So you're coming back every week to watch these episodes, but you're not subscribed.

12:37So if you did find today valuable, hit that thumbs up and then hit that subscribe button so you can get all of my future episodes automatically showing up in your YouTube app. Thank you so much for listening today, and as always, happy networking.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The promise is sweeping and deliberate: niche does not matter, platform does not matter. What matters is a five-step pipeline most creators have never assembled, one that converts a competitor's best-performing video into a finished short-form production without a camera, an editor, or a script written from scratch.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

00:52list

The 5-Step Viral AI Pipeline

Build a list of 5-10 reference creators with audience overlap
Use SortFeed or native sort to find their most-viewed content
Run ScreenApp.io multimodal analysis with the 7-part prompt
Feed analysis into ChatGPT with the outline prompt to generate a niche-specific script
Drop ChatGPT output into InVideo plus ElevenLabs to produce the finished video

A repeatable pipeline for converting a competitor's top-performing video into publishable AI-generated short-form content for any niche.

Steal forany content creator, solo operator, or brand that needs to increase short-form video output without proportionally increasing production time

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