One free read. Then a producer who works your channel for $18 a month.
See whether the read is worth having.
A producer who studies every video you publish.
Less than VidIQ Boost or TubeBuddy Legend, and it reads the video rather than the metadata. One full video analysis costs 100 credits, so a month runs to roughly 120 of them — automatic, ad-hoc and competitor reads all drawing on the same balance.
Don't see your question? Email dale@shorta.ai.
One analysis without an account (no signup, no card), and one more after you sign up. You can also connect your YouTube channel for free and see the headline findings of your channel audit. The full audit, and everything that runs continuously on your channel, is Producer.
It watches your channel. When you publish, Shorta ingests the video automatically — metadata, retention curve, transcript — writes producer notes grounded in your own history, and emails you a first read within 24 hours. You do nothing; the notes are waiting when you check.
Those tell you what to title and tag. Shorta watches the video itself — the hook, the pacing, where your retention actually breaks — and compares it against your own back catalogue rather than a generic benchmark. Every note cites your numbers: your 0:41 drop, your best five openings.
Before you film, you tell Shorta what you're thinking of making. It answers with a brief built from your channel: which of your formats retain best, the hook shape that worked in your top five openings, and the traps your last attempt at that format hit. Plans link to the eventual upload, so the guidance gets sharper each cycle.
Yes, on Producer. Every analysis — yours, a competitor's, or one the loop runs automatically on your new upload — draws from the same 12,000-credit monthly allotment, which refills when your plan renews. Studying what works in your niche also feeds your channel context, so those analyses make your own notes better.
Producer includes 12,000 credits each month, and the balance resets when your plan renews — credits don't roll over. A full video analysis costs 100, so a month covers roughly 120 of them. It's "roughly" rather than an exact allowance because smaller jobs share the same balance — a thumbnail check, for instance, costs less than a full analysis. Everything spends from one pool: the analyses the loop runs automatically on your new uploads, the ones you run by hand, and the competitor videos you study. The free plan doesn't use credits at all — it's a single analysis, then the paywall.
Cancel anytime from your account page, no exit fee, and you keep access through the end of the billing period. There is no "free trial" that silently converts — Producer starts on an explicit Stripe checkout where you see the $18/month upfront, and it renews monthly on the same cadence.
Your channel history and past analyses stay in your account. Auto-ingest, the first-read emails, and planning briefs stop. Resubscribe and the loop picks back up from your existing history — nothing is thrown away.
Nothing changes without you asking. Existing subscribers keep their current plan, price, and access — you are grandfathered. If you want to move to Producer, email dale@shorta.ai and we will sort it out by hand.
Email dale@shorta.ai — that's the founder. Replies typically inside one business day. We don't route support through a contact form that disappears into a queue.
Cancel any time. No card needed for the free analysis.
Already on an older Shorta plan? You keep it — nothing changes unless you ask.