Discuss the idea
Talk through the video with ChatGPT. Start with a rough thought, a story, a transcript, or an unfinished draft.
CARDS FOR NATURAL DELIVERY
Don't read. Follow the thought.
Cards helps you record structured talking-head videos without memorising a script or reading from a teleprompter.
A script gives you words. It can also take away your voice.
Reading makes it easier to remember every sentence, but harder to sound like yourself. Pure improvisation feels natural, but often loses the hook, repeats the same point, and rushes the ending.
Cards keeps the structure of a script without asking you to perform it word for word.
Full scriptMore control, less freedom
No structureMore freedom, less control
Shooting cardsStructure with room to speak
WORKFLOW
From idea to recording in four steps
Turn it into shooting cards
Copy the editor prompt from Cards. ChatGPT finds the main idea, builds the dramatic arc, and tells you when the story is genuinely missing something.
Record the thought, not the wording
Glance at each card, look back at the camera, and explain the thought naturally. The cards are cues, not subtitles.
Fix only what failed
Review every block as Good, Weak, or Missing. Rerecord the weak parts instead of restarting the whole video.
Cards does not invent the missing part of your story.
Sometimes you have a strong idea but no real Hook, Example, or ending yet. In that case, the editor prompt asks ChatGPT to name the gap, explain why it matters, and give you questions to think about.
It may suggest a direction, but it should not pretend that the suggestion is already your experience, belief, or conclusion.
THE SIX-CARD MODEL
Six cards. Six different jobs.
Hook
Open the tension.
Promise
Create a question the viewer needs answered.
Context
Prove the scale or stakes.
Core Idea
Reveal what is really happening.
Example
Bring the idea to its clearest moment.
Payoff
Answer the question and reinterpret the opening.
The cards are written for your eyes, not your mouth.
Hook and Payoff may be close to final wording. The middle of the video stays deliberately looser.
A good card gives you enough information to reconstruct the thought, but not enough text to tempt you into reading.
BAD
A complete paragraph that must be performed in the correct order.
GOOD
One clear thought, one concrete detail, one reason to continue.
What Cards does—and what it leaves to you
Cards does
Preserves structure
Keeps timing visible
Supports block-by-block recording
Makes selective rerecording easier
You do
Bring the idea
Decide what is true
Speak in your own voice
Choose the final take
Bring the idea. Keep your voice.
Build the structure with ChatGPT, record it naturally in Cards, and fix only the parts that need another take.
Start planning