The cutting is all ours. Creators, clippers and agencies all pay the same plans. You send the long video and post (or hand over) what comes back, and each clip lands on your Board vertical, captioned, with a hook and 2 free revisions.
An app can only show people a clip you actually posted. The good minutes in your last podcast sit in a folder until someone cuts them out, and cutting is the slow part. That's the part we take.
A podcast, a stream, a long YouTube video or a live of yours. Upload the file or paste a link, and tell us in a line or two what your channel is about.
Vertical, captioned, a hook at the top, up to 90 seconds each. If one's off, you get 2 free revisions on it.
Every clip is 9:16, so the same one goes up on TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Your accounts, your logins. We never ask for them.
It's the only result we have, so here's all of it, the sales part too. The clips were cut from the creator's own videos, with the creator's OK, and posted 2 to 3 times a day on a new page.
That's one creator. Views don't always turn into sales.
Posting every day from one long video sounds easy when you say it. But a clip a day is 30 clips a month, and each one has to be found, cut, captioned, given a hook and exported vertical.
When John cut 30 clips for a book creator, it took him a full 8-hour day. So that's the day we take off you, every month. You send the video and post what comes back.
| What you compare | CSMax | Cutting it yourself | Hiring an editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the moments | We go through the whole video | You scrub back through your own stream | The editor does |
| 30 clips a month | You send the video and post what comes back | About a full 8-hour day (John's own count, 30 clips for a book creator) | The editor's hours, at their rate |
| Fixes | 2 free revisions per clip, never a credit | More of your time | Whatever you agree with them |
| Price | From $25 a month Draft | Your time | Their rate |
Each video you send gets its own request on the Board, and its clips land under it. You can see where it is, from received to ready, so you never have to ask anyone where your clips are. If one needs changing, you say so right under it and see how many revisions it has left.
The first line on screen is something you said, so your audience hears you and nobody else.
Paste a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link in your note. We use it as a guide for your clips and never repost it.
Room for one whole story or one whole point, start to finish.
Revisions never cost a credit. You pay for clips, never for fixing them.
Every clip comes back 9:16. Post each one to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and Pro's 30 clips fill 90 posts a month Draft.
The rules that get clip pages flagged are aimed at people reposting someone else's work, and having permission doesn't save them: YouTube says its reused content rule "applies even if you have permission from the original creator." So we only cut video you own or have written permission to clip, every clip comes back changed, and it is posted from accounts you or your client run.
I record and edit short clips for my own pages at john.m3d, and you can watch CSMax get built there as it happens. The one result on this page came from clips I edited for a book creator, and 30 of those clips took me a full 8-hour day. That day is what you're buying back. It's one result, and I'd rather show you one real number than ten made-up ones. If something here isn't clear, send me a question from the Support page.
John McDonald
Building CSMax in public
Follow the build at john.m3d
A finished clip up to 90 seconds is 1 credit: vertical, captioned, with a hook. A longer clip uses 1 more credit for each extra 90 seconds. Revisions are free, 2 on every clip, and they never use a credit.
More credits means more posts a month. Each plan also has a monthly cap on how many hours of long video you can send. Cancel any time, no contract.
Opens November 1
The first 25 members get 2 months of Pro free: 30 credits a month, so 60 clips. No card needed, and nothing is charged on its own afterward. When the 2 months end, you pick a paid plan or you stop, and you keep every clip we made.
Not in the first 25? Join the waitlist and we'll email you the day plans open.
Draft Credit amounts and footage caps are DRAFT and may change before launch.
Reach depends on your content, your audience and how often you post. We don't promise views or followers.
$25 / month
A clip a day from videos you already have.
$50 / month
About 3 a day, so TikTok, Reels and Shorts each get a different clip daily.
$100 / month
About 5 a day, and your requests go to the front of the line.
Unused credits don't roll over to the next month Draft. Need more partway through a month? You can move up a plan.
We can't promise that, and you should be careful with anyone who does. The app decides who sees a clip. What we control is how many finished clips you have to post, and that each one opens on a hook with captions from the first second. The one result on this page is from one creator, and it's the only one we have.
Nobody can promise a platform will never flag a post, and anyone who does is guessing. What we control is the part those rules care about: we only cut your own footage, every clip is edited and given a hook, and you post it yourself on your own account. YouTube's reused content rule is about reposting other people's work.
One credit is one finished clip up to 90 seconds: vertical, with captions and a hook. Credits follow length: a longer clip uses 1 more credit for each extra 90 seconds it runs, so a 2 minute clip is 2 credits and a 4 minute clip is 3. Revisions are free, 2 per clip, and they don't use a credit. Your plan also has a monthly cap on the hours of long video you can send Draft.
A long video you own or have the rights to, like a podcast, a stream, a long YouTube video or a live, plus a short note on what your channel is about. The first time, you also fill in one sheet of what you can and can't say, so nothing goes out that you'd have to take down. If it's someone else's show, we can't cut it for you.
Yes. Paste a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link in your note and say what you like about it. We use it as a guide for your clips. We never repost it.
Turnaround for each plan will be posted here before launch. Draft
Every clip comes with 2, free. Tell us what to change, a different start point, a fix in the captions or a new hook, and the clip comes back with the change.
No, you post. Your accounts and your logins stay yours, and you choose when each clip goes up and on which apps. If a clip promotes something you're paid for, switch on the app's disclosure setting when you post it.
You do. They're cut from your video and you're free to post them anywhere. We'll only show one of your clips as an example of our work if you say yes in writing. Draft
Yes, any time. No contract.
Move up a plan, or wait for your month to reset and your credits to refill. Unused credits don't roll over Draft.
Slop is the same template stamped on every video with nothing of the person in it. Your clips are cut from what you actually said, the hook is your own words, and if one doesn't sound like you, you have 2 free revisions to fix it.
From $25 a month for about a clip a day Draft, with 2 free revisions on every clip. Cancel any time. We don't promise views.
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