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Why there are only eight of these

An audience page is worth writing only where the job genuinely differs, and for most of this category it does not: a solo creator and an agency press the same button and get the same file. What actually changes is the arithmetic, the volume, and whether somebody else has to sign off on the output before it goes out.

So these pages are about those three things. There are no persona paragraphs, because a page that opens by telling you what you already know about your own job is a page that has nothing else to say.

The arithmetic changes before anything else does

At one video a week the subscription is the whole cost and the per-video figure barely matters. At one a day it inverts: the plan's render allowance becomes the constraint and the monthly price becomes a rounding error against the time spent reviewing output. The Starter plan is $29 a month for 50 renders, which is $0.58 per Short, and that number only means something once you know how many of those 50 you would really finish.

Every page here works that arithmetic for the volume its reader actually runs at, rather than quoting the headline price and leaving the division to them.

Volume changes what breaks

One video a week fails quietly: a weak subject, a flat opening, and you try again next week. Thirty a month fails structurally, because the same mistake is now in thirty files and the review that would have caught it is the step you dropped to keep up. The pages for high-volume audiences are mostly about that: what to check when you cannot check everything.

Sign-off changes the shape of the work

A creator publishes what they made. An agency, a newsroom or a school publishes what somebody approved, and approval needs something to look at before the render exists. Where that applies, the page says which part of the pipeline produces a reviewable artefact and which part does not, because a workflow that only becomes inspectable at the end is a workflow that gets approved by exhaustion.