For YouTube creators who publish regularly

A producer who studies every video you publish.

Shorta watches the video itself — the hook, the pacing, the beats where attention goes — and hands back a graded read with the timestamp attached. Connect your channel and it works from your own back catalogue instead of a generic benchmark, so the notes cite your numbers.

Free to start — one full analysis on us, no card.

First read · exampleHook
Hook
6.4
Struct
8.1
Clarity
7.2
Deliv
7.9
  • 0:00–0:03Opening line lands 1.4s later than your five best openings.
  • 0:41Beat 4 is where you lose them — the demo stalls before the payoff.
  • ChannelYour long-form cuts hold 12% better than this format.

Illustrative numbers. Real reads are computed from your video and your channel's retention history.

Start with one video

Find out exactly where you lose them.

Paste a YouTube link, a Meta Ad Library link, or upload the file. Shorta watches it frame by frame and comes back with a graded read — not a vibe check.

Four scores
Hook, structure, clarity and delivery, rolled into a letter grade from S to F.
Beat map
Every cut and script line, timestamped, with the beats losing viewers flagged by severity.
Ranked fixes
A short list of what to change first, tied to the second it happens.
Your real curve
Connect your channel and your measured YouTube retention curve is overlaid on the beats.
Connect your channel

Then it keeps working without you.

One analysis is a report. A producer is someone who is still thinking about your channel on a Tuesday. Connect your channel once and this runs on every upload from then on.

  1. 01You publish

    Shorta notices on its own.

    Your channel is checked for new uploads every few hours, day and night. Nothing to paste, no button to press — publishing is the trigger.

  2. 02Within hours

    The video gets the full read.

    The upload is pulled in with its metadata and retention numbers and run through the same read you'd get from the analyzer: hook, structure, clarity, delivery, beat by beat, with your measured retention overlaid where YouTube has it.

  3. 03Your audit

    And your catalogue view keeps up.

    Patterns across your channel — which formats hold viewers, what your best openings share, where your videos keep losing people — live in your channel audit, which is recomputed as the new data syncs. Your numbers, not an industry average.

  4. 04Within 24h

    A first read lands in your inbox.

    One email per new video, usually the same day you publish. You do nothing; the notes are waiting when you check.

The loop, the full channel audit, and 12,000 credits a month — about 120 video analyses, covering your automatic, ad-hoc and competitor reads.

Producer is $18/month. Connecting your channel and seeing the headline audit findings is free. Cancel any time.

Questions

The things creators ask first.

What does the Shorta analyzer check?

It watches the video itself, not the metadata. Four scores — hook, structure, clarity and delivery — roll up into a letter grade, and you get a beat-by-beat map of the video with the beats losing viewers flagged and a ranked list of fixes tied to the second each one happens. Paste a YouTube link, a Meta Ad Library link, or upload the file. Your first analysis is free and needs no card.

Why are my Shorts not getting views?

Usually it isn't the tags — it's that viewers leave before the payoff. Shorta pinpoints where: it maps the beats of your video, scores the hook, and flags the beats that shed attention with the timestamp attached, so you're fixing a specific second rather than guessing. Connect your channel and your measured YouTube retention curve is overlaid on those beats.

How is my channel audit computed?

From your own catalogue. Once you connect your YouTube channel, Shorta pulls your videos and their retention curves and looks for patterns across them — which formats hold viewers, what your best openings have in common, where your videos consistently lose people. Findings cite your numbers, not an industry average, and the audit is recomputed as new data syncs. The headline findings are free; the full audit is Producer.

What happens when I publish a new video?

Shorta notices on its own. On Producer your channel is checked for new uploads every few hours — when one appears it is pulled in with its metadata and retention numbers, put through the same read the analyzer gives, and a first read lands in your inbox within 24 hours, usually the same day. Those automatic reads cost 100 credits each from your monthly allotment, the same pool your ad-hoc and competitor analyses use. Comparisons across your back catalogue live in your channel audit, which updates as the new data syncs. You do nothing; the notes are waiting when you check.

How is this different from VidIQ or TubeBuddy?

Those tell you what to title and tag. Shorta watches the video itself — the hook, the pacing, where your retention actually breaks. Connect your channel and it works from your own back catalogue rather than a generic benchmark, so the notes cite your numbers: your 0:41 drop, your best five openings.

What does Shorta cost?

Two plans. Free: a full video analysis on signup with no card, plus connecting your YouTube channel and seeing the headline findings of your channel audit. Producer, $18/month: the full channel audit, automatic analysis of every new upload with a first-read email within 24 hours, and 12,000 credits a month — about 120 video analyses at 100 credits each, covering your automatic, ad-hoc and competitor analyses together. Cancel any time — you keep access through the end of the billing period.

Something else? dale@shorta.ai reaches the founder.

Start here

Start with one video. Then hand over the channel.

  • Paste a YouTube link or upload a file — graded, beat by beat
  • Your first analysis is free, no card
  • Connect your channel free and see the headline findings of your audit
Dale Ma, founder of Shorta

Dale Ma

Founder · ex-Meta

I built Shorta because “post more, be consistent” is not feedback. Support goes to me, not a queue — dale@shorta.ai, usually answered inside a business day.

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