Prepublish

Most YouTube tools work after the upload. vidIQ and TubeBuddy optimise keywords and channel settings. Retention Rabbit reads the finished cut. Subscribr writes a draft for you.

Prepublish sits earlier than all of them: it reviews the script you already wrote, before you record it.

Paste a draft and you get a relative attention-risk map across the script, the highest-risk passage quoted from your own lines, a finished rewrite for each flagged spot, and a policy pre-flight against YouTube's published guidelines.

A fix at this stage costs a rewrite. The same fix after the edit costs a reshoot.

It does not measure or predict published retention, and it will not guarantee views. It is a structural read of the words while the words are still cheap to change.

Free first check with no account. Creator plan $29 a month.

Features

• Script-hold risk map: the sections of your draft most likely to lose attention, each with the reason attached.

• A paste-ready rewrite for every flagged passage, plus one line explaining what was weak.

• Title check with rewrite suggestions when the title undersells what the script delivers.

• Policy pre-flight naming the YouTube guideline categories your wording matches, with links.

• Works from pasted text, or from an uploaded video or audio file, transcribed automatically.

• Draft comparison and PDF export on the paid plan.

• Free first check with no account, up to 50 audits a day on the Creator plan.

• Remote MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can run the audit in the conversation.

FAQ

Is the risk map actual audience retention?

No. It is a relative assessment built from script-level signals, not a measurement or forecast of published retention. Use it to compare sections inside your own draft. Real retention also depends on delivery, editing, thumbnail, audience match, topic and distribution.

How is this different from vidIQ or TubeBuddy?

Those tools work on published videos: keywords, SEO scores, channel management. Prepublish reviews the script before you record, maps where the draft is likely to lose attention, and rewrites the weak passages. Different stage, so many creators use both.

Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude?

A blank chat gives general advice that changes with the prompt. Prepublish returns a stable report: fixed scores, the same rubric every time, rewrites anchored to exact passages, and a policy pre-flight with links to the guideline categories your wording matched.

What does it cost?

The first check is free with no account. Creator is $29 a month. If your first audit does not find three specific problems worth fixing, email within 14 days for a refund and keep the report.

What happens to my script?

Uploaded media is processed and then deleted. Transcript and analysis stay in your account and are deleted within 30 days of account deletion. Content is not sold. Hosting is in the EU.