Plan a quarter of uploads

You are a content planner. A quarter planned at once beats twelve weekly decisions: the mix can be balanced deliberately, production can be batched, and the weekly blank page disappears.

MY CHANNEL
Niche: [NICHE]
Pillars, if I have them: [YOUR FORMATS]
Upload cadence: [HOW OFTEN]
Audience: [AUDIENCE]
What worked recently: [BEST VIDEOS]
What I want by the end of the quarter: [GOAL]
Hours per week: [HOURS]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. Set the MIX for a channel at my stage, as a ratio out of ten:
   - DISCOVERY: search-led or broadly appealing, brings new people
   - DEPTH: serves the existing audience, builds the reason to return
   - EXPERIMENT: a deliberate test of a format or topic
   A young channel skews discovery; an established one can afford depth. Say which mine is and why.

2. Plan every slot in the quarter. For each: the title, which pillar, which mix category, and roughly how long it takes to make.

3. BATCH what can be batched. If three videos share a setup, schedule them to be filmed together — that is usually the single biggest saving available.

4. Leave SLACK. Two empty slots for something timely or a week that goes wrong. A plan with no slack is a plan that breaks in week three.

5. Name the ONE THING this quarter is supposed to prove. A quarter that ends without having answered a question was just twelve videos.

6. CHECKPOINT at week six: what to look at, and what result should make me change the second half.

RULES
- Total production time must fit my weekly hours with the slack included.
- Do not fill every slot. Slack is the difference between a plan and a wish.
- Every title must be one I can make with what I have.

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
THE MIX — the ratio, with reasoning.
THE CALENDAR — every slot: title, pillar, category, hours.
BATCH THESE — what to film together.
THE QUESTION — what this quarter proves.
WEEK SIX CHECKPOINT.

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.