Launch the story-time slideshow series
Open Playbooks on the web to launch the story-time slideshow series: a question hook, anecdotes, a soft sell on slide 7, then a schedule you can pause.
Launch the story-time slideshow series from Playbooks on the web. It is a seven-slide recipe: a question hook, a run of anecdotes, a soft sell on slide 7. Open the card in the gallery, or tap the matching chip in chat. Either door prefills the agent. The agent then asks for a premise, a cadence, and which auto-post accounts to use, and it runs new episodes on that schedule. Pause and resume in the same thread. The credit and time figures on the Playbook cards are estimates, not a quote.
That is the whole object. It is not a one-off carousel. It is not a recurring video series. It is a clock on a stills format, with the sell locked to slide 7 so it does not wander into the hook.
Seven slides, always the same jobs
The series is a shape, not a mood. Every episode uses the same seven jobs:
| Slide | Job |
|---|---|
| 1 | A question hook |
| 2–6 | Anecdotes that answer it |
| 7 | A soft sell |
Slide 1 is a question a stranger would stop on. Slides 2 through 6 are the story, one beat per frame. Slide 7 is the offer — the product, the booking, the follow — quiet enough that the first six slides still read as a story, specific enough that it is not "follow for more."
Do not ask the agent to turn the deck into a talking-head or to "make it move." Motion is a different job. A single carousel from a sentence is generate a slideshow from a prompt. That job makes one deck. This Playbook attaches a clock and keeps the seven-slide contract.
If you already keep a brand kit, slide 7 has something real to sell: voice, products, the words you actually use. If you do not, the closer will invent a generic line. Set the kit before you launch the series, not after episode four has already posted a cousin of "link in bio."
A hook pack is the other neighbour people confuse with this. A pack is six video openings from one brief, charged once for the set at 132 credits. Story-time is seven stills on a cadence. Launch the Playbook when you want the carousel series.
Open the gallery, or tap the chip
Two doors. Both prefill the same agent job.
From the gallery. On the web app, open Playbooks. There are 12 launchable recipes. The headline card is the story-time slideshow series. Open it and launch it. The agent receives the recipe already filled in — question hook, anecdotes, slide-7 sell — so you are not typing the format from a blank chat.
From chat. The same recipes sit as chips in the agent chat. Tap the story-time chip. Same prefill. Use the chip when you are already in a thread. Use the gallery when you want to read the card first.
The credit and time numbers printed on those cards are estimates. Read them as a planning hint. The real charge is shown in the agent before anything that spends credits runs, and you confirm it. Free setup is free. Generation waits for your OK. Playbooks are not a Pro-only shelf; credits are the meter, and every plan gets the same models and editor.
Do not look for this recipe on the workflow canvas. A saved video workflow is scenes and nodes, and "Run now" there produces the next video episode. Story-time is a slideshow series. Different object, different clock, different named job: schedule a recurring slideshow series.
What the agent will ask
The Playbook prefills the format. It does not guess your stories. Be ready with four answers; the agent will ask for them in chat.
The premise. What the anecdotes are about. "Client disasters from running ads for dentists." "Things I got wrong in my first year of wholesale coffee." A premise has to yield a new brief every tick. "The time I spilled coffee on a client" is one episode. It is not a series.
The cadence. How often, and at what local time. "Every weekday at 8am." "Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7pm." "Once a week on Sunday." Name the timezone. If you do not, treat the time as UTC and say so. An unspecified "morning" is how a series posts at 4am for the people you meant to reach.
The accounts. Which connected auto-post destinations should receive each episode. Name them. "Instagram and TikTok" is a real answer. "Everywhere" is how a seven-slide carousel lands on a platform that did not want one.
Whether to auto-post. Generation and publishing are separate. You can run the series into your library and post by hand. You can let each finished episode land in Auto Post on the cadence you set. Say which.
If no social accounts are connected yet, stop and connect a social account first. Auto Post supports Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Threads, Reddit and Bluesky. Connect once. The series will not invent a destination.
Keep the sell out of the premise. The premise is the stories. The sell is slide 7, and it should come from the brand kit or from one sentence you give the agent ("the offer is a 30-minute audit booked from the link in bio"). Mixing "sell the course" into every anecdote is how slide 1 starts sounding like slide 7.
Confirm the credit quote before the first run. The number on the Playbook card is not that quote.
How episodes reach Auto Post
Once the series is on, each tick writes a fresh brief that fits the premise, generates a new seven-slide deck, and — if you asked for auto-post — sends it to the accounts you named.
Open Auto Post. The Queue tab is a week-grid calendar. An accounts rail of avatars runs down the side so you can see which destination you are looking at. Dashed "Autopilot" placeholders mark the posting times you already set. A series episode occupies a slot on that grid the same way a hand-composed post does.
Click a slot if you need to inspect the caption or move the time. Rescheduling a post, or editing the caption, is not billed again. The generation already happened. Moving Tuesday to Wednesday does not regenerate the deck.
A single future-dated post you placed by hand is not the series. Checking or cancelling one item is manage my scheduled posts. Pausing the series stops new episodes from being made. It does not wipe what is already on the grid. If Thursday's carousel is already queued and you have changed your mind about the sell, pull that post. Do not assume pause rewrites the caption.
Watch the first episode land before you leave the series on Autopilot. Read slide 1 on a phone. Check that slide 7 is your offer, not a cousin of slide 6. If the first deck is wrong, pause, tighten the premise, then resume. A bad first episode is cheap. A fortnight of near-duplicates is the expensive version of the same mistake.
The Android app is the same account on your phone. Use it to check the queue when you are not at the desk. The long setup — Playbooks, the first confirm, the brand kit — stays on the web.
Pause, resume, and stop the repeats
Pause and resume are chat instructions, not a delete. Tell the agent to pause the story-time series. Tell it to resume the same series. Do not launch a second story-time Playbook because you could not find the first. Two overlapping series with the same premise is how you get two cousins on the same morning.
Repeats are a premise problem before they are a product failure.
On each tick the agent invents a fresh brief that fits the premise and avoids the last few. That is the built-in guard. It is not a memory of your entire back catalogue. If the premise is thin — one anecdote, one client, one joke — the guard still has to write something, and something will look like last Tuesday.
Keep episodes from repeating by doing the boring work:
- Write a premise that can yield dozens of anecdotes, not three.
- Name the things you will not reuse: a specific client story, a specific number, a punchline already posted.
- After a few runs, ask the agent what it used last. If two decks share a hook, say so and tell it to retire that angle.
- Pause while you retune. Resume when the premise is wider, not by stacking a second schedule on top of the first.
The series is not a reprint job. If you wanted the same six slides next Thursday, that is a scheduled post of an existing file. Story-time is supposed to mint a new deck. That mint is what spends credits. Turning the clock on is not a bulk purchase of the quarter; each run is charged when it actually generates.
Credits are the meter. A free account is enough to start. Weekly is 240 credits, Standard Monthly 774, Pro Monthly 1,600, Standard Annual 9,600, Pro Annual 19,200, rolling over while you stay subscribed. Read the quote on the first episode against those numbers. Do not treat the card estimate as a weekly budget.
Three clicks, then watch the first deck
- Connect the accounts you actually post to, from chat or from Auto Post, before you launch anything. Instagram and TikTok are enough for a first series.
- Open Playbooks on the web, or tap the story-time chip in chat, and launch the story-time slideshow series.
- Answer premise, cadence, and accounts. Confirm the credit quote. Watch the first seven slides on a phone. If slide 1 is a question and slide 7 is your sell, leave the schedule on. If not, pause and fix the premise before the next tick.
The format holds when the premise is wide, the seven-slide shape stays locked, the queue is visible, and you are willing to pause it.