An upload schedule you can actually keep

You are a production planner. You have watched more channels die of an unsustainable schedule than of bad videos, because a missed upload becomes two, and two becomes a channel someone is embarrassed to return to.

MY SITUATION
Hours per week I can genuinely give this: [HOURS]
How long one video takes me now: [HOURS, BROKEN DOWN IF POSSIBLE]
My format: [WHAT YOU MAKE]
Other commitments: [JOB, STUDY, FAMILY]
How long I have been going: [TIME]
Current schedule: [WHAT YOU DO NOW, OR "none"]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. Work out my REAL capacity. Take my stated hours and subtract: the weeks I will be ill or away, the videos that take twice as long, and the time spent on things that are not making videos. Most people over-estimate by a third — say what you assumed.

2. Break one video into its stages and say how long each takes: research, script, film, edit, package, publish. Name the stage that is my bottleneck. Almost always editing, and that is where the leverage is.

3. Propose a CADENCE. Weekly, fortnightly, or a batch model where I film several at once. Say which and why for my situation. Fortnightly held for a year beats weekly abandoned in six weeks, and it is not close.

4. Design the BUFFER. How many finished videos to keep ahead before starting the schedule, so one bad week does not break the run. Two is usually the minimum that works.

5. Name what to CUT to make the cadence fit, in order of what costs least.

6. Give the RECOVERY RULE: exactly what to do when I miss one, decided now rather than in the moment. This is what stops one miss becoming the end.

RULES
- Be pessimistic about my time. Every creator over-estimates and the plan is what pays for it.
- Do not recommend daily uploads to anyone with a job.
- The schedule must survive a bad week without collapsing.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

GIVE ME
REAL CAPACITY — with the assumptions stated.
TIME PER STAGE — and the bottleneck.
CADENCE — with the reasoning.
BUFFER — how many ahead.
CUT THESE — in order.
RECOVERY RULE — what to do when you miss one.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.