Getting started

Most operators are publishing their first AI-assisted video inside 30 minutes. Here is the path.

1. Sign up

Sign up at channelforge.io with Clerk (email magic link or Google). The free trial is 14 days, 2 500 credits, no card.

2. Run the onboarding wizard

After sign-up you land on the Onboarding wizard. It walks five steps: workspace, niche, channel stub, persona, first project. You can skip any optional step.

3. Ship the first script

Open the cockpit, click into your project, hit Generate script. The script runs through the LLM (Claude Sonnet by default) and lands in the editor in about 30 seconds.

4. Optionally wire your Claude Code key

If you have a Claude Code Max subscription, drop your Anthropic key under Settings → Personal API keys. From the next run on, script + thumbnail steps that have useUserKey: true route through your quota, and your next renewal invoice gets the 30% BYOK discount.

5. Run your first workflow

Pick the Daily outlier to draft template under Workflows / new. Trigger it manually to see the research → script flow fire end-to-end. Read the daily-outlier guide for the deep dive.

What's next

• Read Workflows for the YAML contract.
• Read BYOK Claude Code for the discount mechanics.
• Read Credits + billing for how every action draws credits.