Draft video hooks from a team chat
Give the content team a lightweight assistant that proposes openings using the brand’s approved voice and examples.
How this works
Give the content team a lightweight assistant that proposes openings using the brand’s approved voice and examples. A video hook should make a truthful promise that the rest of the piece can fulfill. An on-brand assistant needs concrete examples and exclusions so it does not default to exaggerated urgency, generic curiosity gaps, or claims the team cannot support.
Use the submitted idea and approved brand guidance to produce a small set of materially different openings. Explain the audience question each opening serves and check it against the planned video. Keep this workflow lightweight: selection and editing matter more than generating dozens of interchangeable lines.
Before you start
Video idea
State the useful point and what the video actually demonstrates.
Brand voice
Provide approved hooks, tone rules, and phrases to avoid.
Audience and format
Specify viewer knowledge, channel, and opening duration.
Prepare the inputs
- idea
- Required
Short concept
Identify the payoff promised by the opening.
- supporting_facts
- Required
Approved evidence
Exclude unmeasured results.
- voice_rules
- Required
Examples and exclusions
Use current guidance.
- audience
- Required
Viewer context
Avoid invented demographic assumptions.
- format_constraints
- Required
Duration and style
Specify spoken or on-screen use.
Implementation, step by step
Clarify the payoff
- Summarize the question the video answers and the evidence it can show.
- If the idea lacks a concrete payoff, refine it before writing hooks.
Checkpoint: A clear promise statement.
Retrieve relevant voice guidance
- Select examples suited to the channel and topic.
- Extract specific choices in tone, sentence shape, and acceptable directness.
Checkpoint: A concise hook-writing context.
Generate distinct approaches
- Draft openings based on different mechanisms such as a question, contrast, demonstration, or common mistake.
- Keep all variants tied to the same truthful payoff.
Checkpoint: A small varied hook set.
Check factual strength
- Compare each promise with the planned script and supporting facts.
- Remove invented numbers, guarantees, or urgency absent from the brief.
Checkpoint: A factually bounded shortlist.
Review spoken delivery
- Read the hooks aloud or time them in the actual production context.
- Simplify awkward phrasing and ensure essential meaning survives the opening duration.
Checkpoint: Production-ready wording.
Select and preserve the test idea
- Record the chosen hook and why it fits the audience.
- Keep alternative hooks as distinct test options rather than mixing several promises into one opening.
Checkpoint: A selected hook with clear rationale.
Decisions along the way
Hook promises more than the video delivers
Narrow the opening or improve the content before production.
Brand examples conflict
Use the most relevant current guidance and flag the inconsistency.
Several variants differ only by synonyms
Regenerate using genuinely different opening mechanisms.
What you will produce
video-hook-options.md
MarkdownHelps the creative owner compare useful alternatives.
Include: variant_id · mechanism · wording · payoff · review_note
selected-hook.json
JSONPreserves the production choice.
Include: idea_id · variant_id · final_wording · reason · status
Check the result
- Confirm every opening promise is fulfilled by the video.
- Read aloud for natural delivery and timing.
- Check prohibited claims and phrases.
- Verify variants are meaningfully different rather than cosmetic rewrites.
When something goes wrong
The model uses a generic sensational hook
Return to the specific audience problem and evidence.
Timing is too long
Simplify wording without dropping an essential qualification.
A chosen hook changes during editing
Recheck its promise against the final video.
A worked example
SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE · NOT A REPORTED BUSINESS RESULT
Request
Write hooks for a video showing a simple reporting checklist.
Inputs
Synthetic example. Synthetic evidence supports fewer missed fields in one reviewed example but no measured time saving.
Expected result
Synthetic expected result. Offer a hook about spotting a missing field before sending a report. Do not use Save ten hours every week or claim universal results.
Run a small pilot
Start small
A small set of ideas with several distinct hook mechanisms.
Record the baseline
Record selection time and editor rejection reasons.
Agree success criteria
Agree truthful payoff and brand-fit criteria before testing audience response.
Stop or revise
Stop a variant when its promise cannot be demonstrated.
Keep the scope clear
- Hook generation does not authorize publishing or running an ad.
- Do not invent personal experiences, endorsements, or measured outcomes.
Check before using
Check clarity, factual claims, and fit with the rest of the video.
Business activities
- Create and publish content
- Run advertising and acquisition tests
FROM A RECIPE TO YOUR WORKFLOW
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For this recipe: Video idea · Brand voice · Approved examples
Start with one recurring task, agree which sources to use, and review the first result with your team.
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