Locked · Direction A

Showrunner — Locked style · Family

The shared visual language for all Stage B pages. Everything on this page lives in showrunner.css — page agents link it and compose; no local reinvention of tokens or components. Identity accent: YouTube orange. Warm brand gradient: primary CTAs only. Gates: navy diamonds.

Tokens — palette
Background
#F8FAFC · gray-50
Surface
#FFFFFF
Ink
#0F172A · gray-900
Muted text
#64748B · gray-500
Border
#E2E8F0 · gray-200
Navy (gates)
#1A1A2E
Accent
#E37400
Accent light
#F5A623
Accent gradient
135° E37400→F5A623
Success
#0D9488
Danger
#D93025
CTA gradient
F77062→FE5196→BC4CF4

Radii: 6 / 8 / 12 / 16 / full · Shadows: xs→xl (gua scale) · Motion: .15s fast, .25s base, cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1) · Dot-grid + accent-blob body texture ships on body.

Type specimen
Showrunner.
Production is a pipeline, not a pile of files.

Every episode moves left to right through the same stages, from idea to published. Producers always see what to make next.

Plus Jakarta Sans · display & UI · 400–800 DM Sans · body · 400/500/700

Kickers/labels: Uppercase microlabel 10.5px/700/.08em

Buttons — .btn + variant
on-navy secondary, inside .gtx
Status chips (the 5) · stage badge · pillar · type · tag · version
Delivered In progress Needs changes Queued Gate
Production AI builds Avatar (HeyGen) heygen v1v2 · active
Citations sit in running text12 · inline AI note:verify: free-tier limit changed?
Avatars · form fields
DPA P av-d Deven · av-p Priya · av-a Arjun · av-sm · av-ghost
App shell — sidebar (.sbx) + glass topbar (.tbx) · shown in miniature; on pages: body > .shell (sticky sidebar/topbar)
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EP-014 · Pillar: AI builds

I Replaced My Marketing Team With 5 AI Agents (Full Build)

Production Target 12:00 DPA

Sidebar user chip swaps per seat (queue.html → “Arjun — Producer”; task.html → “Priya — Producer”). Settings is a disabled span.off with the “Soon” tag — never a link.

Pipeline rail (signature) — .rlc > ol.rlx · li.done / li.cur / li.todo / li.gate.gatepass / li.gate.gatetodo
  1. Idea
  2. Research
  3. Brief
  4. Script
  5. Direction
  6. Gate passedScript & direction · approved by Deven · Jul 9
  7. ProductionCurrent · 3/7 clips
  8. Assembly
  9. GateFinal-cut approval
  10. Package
  11. Published
Mini-rail (page headers) Stage · Research
Stat strip · section-heading kit
1In production
1Awaiting your review
1Needs changes
2Delivered this week
Needs your attention 1 most urgent first
Banner strip (default / accent / warn) · empty state · hint row
You’re looking at the direction pass as approved on Jul 9.
Gate 2 — Final-cut approval is open on this episode.
Recording caught the wrong workspace — re-take with the demo brand.
Nothing in Direction — scripts move here when locked.

No cut uploaded yet

Cards — .cdx (+bar / bar.dim / bar.danger / .muted) · brief fields · ref chips

Locked brief

accent bar · dim + danger variants exist
Angle

Not another ‘AI will replace you’ take — a real build: five agents doing research, content, ads and reporting.

References
Pricing sheet — agent run costs

After publish

Performance reporting lands with the YouTube API phase.

Navy gate card — .gtx (checklist goes dark automatically inside)
Gate 2

Final-cut approval

Package unlocks only after Deven approves a cut.

  • All 7 clips deliveredJul 12
  • Captions file attachedpending

Approving unlocks Package

Kanban board — .kbx (h-scrolls inside its container) · columns · cards · idea .lite · empty state
Idea2
AI-proposed
Is BYOK dead? The platform-key economics
Cost & strategy
Production1
EP-014
I Replaced My Marketing Team With 5 AI Agents (Full Build)
AI builds3/7 clips · Gate 1 ✓PA
Direction0
Nothing in Direction — scripts move here when locked.
Published1
EP-011
Stop paying for 10 AI tools — build this instead
Cost & strategyJul 3 · 12,4K views
Task rows — .tkx-list > .tkx > .tkx-row (+ .tkx-note for a director comment)
S1–S3 Avatar (HeyGen) Cold open + framing PPriya Delivered v2
S9–S11 Screen recording Agents 2+3: content + ads run AArjun Needs changes
Recording caught the wrong workspace — re-take with the demo brand. — Deven
S13 Motion graphic Cost breakdown animation Unassigned Queued
Activity list · team list
  • Priya uploaded avatar-open-v2.mp4 → Clip 12h ago
  • Gate passed: Script & directionJul 9
  • AI proposed the segment breakdown (13 segments)Jul 8
  • PPriya
    Producer    3 tasks
  • 1 task unassigned
Script side card (.scx) · generic list rows (.lsx — sources, pillars, compact tasks)
Locked script v4
13 segments · 1,860 words
View script View direction
  • MiniMax M2 pricing & benchmarks
    Web research run · 14 sources · Jul 12     Done
  • MiniMax M2 launch post
    Added by you · link
Chat bubbles (.chx — user right / AI left) + composer (.cpx, shared with comments)
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Tighten the intro — get to the stack by 0:40.
Cut 3 sentences; the promise now lands in the first 80 words. Draft updated to v2.
Selectable options — .opx-row / .opx-card (+ .sel, .opx-tag)
HeyGen avatars are getting scary goodDirect, matches the search head-term.
Default-to-cheap: when M2 is enoughAI-recommendedAngle option as a selectable row.
Card variant Same states, grid layout.
Segment list — .sgx-group (task header) > .sgx-row (S# + narration + direction note)
Clip 1 · Cold open + framing Avatar (HeyGen)
S1
“I fired my marketing team. Well — I never hired one.”
org-chart sketch.png
DirectionCold open: avatar, tight crop, energy high — hook line on screen as kinetic text.
S2
“Five AI agents run the whole thing — and today I’m showing you the build.”
DirectionHold the avatar; cut on “build” to the org chart.
Player frame (16:9) · version rail
Gate 2 open 11:12
Cut v1
uploaded by Priya · Jul 12 · 1.9 GB In review
v2 —
Upload dropzone · checklist (light) · version chips live under “Chips”
Drop the take here MP4/MOV, any size
  • Final cut approvedJul 10
  • Thumbnail finalin progress
  • End screen & cardspending
Comment thread (.cmx — timecodes are plain text) + shared composer
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DevenJul 13
02:14 — the jump from schema to admin UI is abrupt; hold the schema screen 2s longer.
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PriyaJul 13
Both noted — v2 tonight.
Citations in a digest + numbered source list (.cix / .cix-srcs)

M2’s per-token price undercuts Claude Sonnet by roughly 8×13, but agencies report real spend is dominated by retries and long contexts2.

  1. 1MiniMax M2 pricing page — retrieved Jul 12
  2. 2“What agencies pay for AI in 2026” — survey, 9 sources
  3. 3Anthropic pricing docs — retrieved Jul 12
Prompt block (.pmx) · numbered steps (.stp) · ref thumbs (.thx, + .sel)
Seedance 2.0 prompt — copy-ready Five luminous worker-nodes in a dark premium space, passing glowing artifacts along a network, GoUltra orange-to-amber palette, slow orbital camera, abstract, no text in frame.
  1. 1Open Higgsfield
  2. 2Seedance 2.0 · 15s · 16:9
  3. 3Paste prompt + attach refs
brand-palette.png
node-motif.png
Script prose (.prx: h3 sections, elide, inline annotation) · chapters (.chp)

Hook

Everyone’s selling you a $500-a-month AI stack. Today I’m building one for exactly zero dollarsverify: free-tier limit changed? — and it publishes every week.

…section continues…
  • 00:00Cold open
  • 01:12What changed in 2026
  • 03:05The clone test