Never stare at a blank page
A fresh list of topics worth explaining is waiting every morning.
Know what to make next, before everyone else.
Research watches the news, live trends and the creators in your niche, and turns what is moving into topics you can make today: what happened, what viewers are asking, and the format that explains it best.
The Research tab in the app: the news feed, a niche filter, a topic with its sources, “Create this”, breakouts, posts and creators.
Make it while it is news
Stories reach the feed the day they break, with a format that fits.
Grounded, not generic
The script is written from the sources behind the story, not from memory.
Daily news & live sources
Fresh every day, with new stories through the day.
Research reads Google News, Google Trends, Wikipedia’s most-read pages, Hacker News and the fastest-rising new projects on GitHub, then keeps the stories you can actually explain.
- Tech & AI, business, explainers, science and news
- Gossip, memes and sports scores are left out
- Stories already covered are skipped, so the feed keeps moving
Creator breakouts
See what is breaking out with creators in your niche.
We scan the YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn creators in your niches. Each post is scored against that creator’s usual views, so a video doing two and a half times its normal numbers stands out, even on a small channel.
- Score = views ÷ the creator’s typical views
- Grouped into topics, with the posts behind them
- A Breakouts tab appears whenever the scans find some
Viewer questions
The question viewers ask, and the format that answers it.
Every topic comes with a hook, the open question people are asking, and a suggested format: an X-Ray reel, a whiteboard lesson, a cinematic film and more, spread across styles so your channel never looks the same twice.
- A hook you can open with
- The question your video should answer
- A format chosen for the story
One click to a lesson
A reel or a course about the event itself.
“Create this” starts a reel or a course with the story already briefed: what happened, who it affects, why, and what is still unknown. Before writing, CourseSmith reads the source articles and the top explainers and runs a deep web research pass, so the script is about this story, not the topic in general.
- Exact names, numbers and dates from the sources
- The brief is yours to edit before you generate
- A short reel or a full course
Start from any post
Turn a post that took off into your own angle.
On the Posts tab, “Create from this” reads a post’s opening and the comments its viewers left, and writes what your video can do that the post did not. From there it is a topic like any other, one click from a reel or a course.
- Every post scored against its creator’s usual views
- Reads the transcript and the top comments
- Your angle, never a re-telling
Know what you have made
Every topic remembers what you made from it.
A Made badge links straight to the reel or course you created from a topic, and a filter shows only what you have not covered yet, so you always know what is next.
- Links to the reel or course
- Filter: made or not yet
- Make it again in another format
Your own creators · Studio
Follow the creators you watch.
On the Studio plan, add up to five creators of your own alongside our curated list, and refresh them yourself up to four times a month.
- Up to five creators of your own
- Refresh them up to four times a month
- Their breakouts join your feed
Find your next video in the feed.
The Research feed is on every plan, including Free. Creating reels and courses from a topic is on every paid plan, and following your own creators is part of Studio.