Workflow
Daily YouTube Tech News Scripts
Automatically gather the latest tech news, analyze top stories, and generate highly engaging, production-ready YouTube scripts tailored to your channel's brand.
Tags
Content CreationYouTube AutomationTech NewsVideo Scripts
AI YouTube News Script Auto-Pilot
This workflow automates the creation of daily YouTube scripts focused on the latest technology news. Designed for tech-oriented channels, it gathers fresh, authoritative news, analyzes and ranks the stories, applies brand voices and sponsor segments, and crafts a polished video script ready for production.
Key Features
- Triggers automatically each day at your preferred time.
- Searches the internet for technology news published in the last 24 hours from trusted sites.
- Analyzes and filters gathered news items, scoring them for viral potential and technical depth.
- Selects the top three stories for the daily video.
- Retrieves the channel brand voice guidelines, banned topics, and sponsor details from a private knowledge base.
- Generates a complete, production-ready YouTube script using an AI scriptwriter.
- Evaluates the draft script's quality with an AI retention hook reviewer, repeating revisions up to three times until criteria are met.
What You Need
- Access to the Needle platform with permissions to create scheduled workflows.
- Internet search API or Needle Search Internet connector.
- Access to a private knowledge base with your channel brand voice, banned topics, and sponsor details.
- Enabled AI models to handle scriptwriting and review loops.
- Active connections to Notion and Slack to save and share the final script.
How The Flow Works
| Workflow Step | Description |
|---|---|
| Schedule Trigger | Starts the workflow automatically every day at 9 AM Eastern Time. |
| Internet News Search | Gathers full article texts from high-authority sources within the last 24 hours. |
| AI News Analyst | Removes duplicates, scores stories by viral potential and technical depth, and selects the top three. |
| Knowledge Base Search | Extracts brand voice guidelines, banned topics, and sponsor segments from your knowledge base. |
| Merge | Combines the selected top stories with your channel guidelines. |
| AI Script Writer | Drafts an 8-to-12-minute YouTube script with an engaging hook, main stories, b-roll cues, and sponsor segment. |
| Quality Review Loop | Evaluates the script for audience retention features and triggers up to three automated revisions if improvements are needed. |
| Code Compiler | Formats the final approved script along with meta information like retention score and revision count. |
| Deliver Results | Saves the final script to a Notion database and notifies your team via Slack. |
Output Information
At the end of the workflow, you receive a fully polished video script, automatically documented and shared with your team.
| Output Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Script Title | A compelling, clickable YouTube video title. |
| Script Body | The formatted narrative structure, sponsor integration, and b-roll cues. |
| Retention Score | A quality score out of 10 based on hooks and curiosity loops. |
| Quality Gate | Pass or fail status indicating if the script met all engagement criteria. |
Important Notes
- The workflow depends on the quality of the search results. Tweaking search queries or source lists will improve content variety.
- Keep your brand voice and sponsor restrictions up to date in your private knowledge base for the best results.
- The quality review loop helps maintain high retention but may require customizing prompts to fit your specific audience preferences.
- The timezone defaults to Eastern Time but can be adjusted in the trigger node to match your specific publishing schedule.
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