The editing is all ours. You send the webinar, the lesson or the podcast and post what comes back, with your link in your bio. Every clip lands on your Board captioned, with a hook and 2 free revisions.
Views are the number everyone watches. For a seller the number that pays is smaller: the one person who watches a clip, taps your profile and finds your link.
Every clip you post is another shot at that person. Cutting the clips is what keeps most sellers from posting enough of them, so that's the part we take.
A webinar, a lesson, a podcast episode or a live where you talk about what you sell. Upload the file or paste a link, and tell us in a line or two what the offer is.
Vertical, captioned, a hook at the top, up to 90 seconds each. If one's off, you get 2 free revisions on it.
On your own accounts, with the link you want people to find in your bio. We never ask for your logins.
It's the only result we have, so here's all of it. The clips were cut from the creator's own videos, with the creator's OK, and posted on a new page with the order link in the bio.
That's one creator. Views don't always turn into sales.
You've already explained your offer on camera, in webinars and lessons that the people who already know you sat through. But a stranger scrolling TikTok won't give you an hour. They might give you a minute, and turning your hour into a minute a day means 30 clips a month, each one found, cut, captioned, hooked 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. Your part is a short note about what you sell, and posting what comes back.
| What you compare | CSMax | Cutting it yourself | Hiring an editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the moments | We go through the whole video | You scrub through an hour of your own footage | 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 allowances) | 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, without emailing anyone. If a clip needs changing, you ask right under it and see how many revisions it has left. The hours you used to spend editing go back to selling.
Fill it in once, including the claims you never make about your offer. Every clip after follows it, so nothing goes out you'd have to take down.
If you never promise results, never say a price on video or never name a client, write it down the first time, and every clip after follows it.
The first line on screen is something you said, so nobody hears a pitch you didn't write.
Room for one whole idea, including the part where you say what you sell.
Every clip comes back 9:16, so one clip can go up on TikTok, Reels and Shorts. One cut, three profiles where someone can find your link.
The words are on screen from the first second.
Selling on short form brings two rules into play. The first is reused content, which is aimed at people reposting someone else's work, and YouTube says it "applies even if you have permission from the original creator." So we only cut video you own or have the rights to. The second is disclosure. If you're paid on a sale, like an affiliate link, the post has to say so plainly.
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's the day you're buying back, so you can spend it on the part nobody can do for you, which is selling. 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, and more posts means more chances for someone to find your link. 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.
Results depend on your offer, your audience and how often you post. We don't promise sales.
$25 / month
A clip a day from the videos where you already pitch.
$50 / month
About 3 a day, so TikTok, Reels and Shorts each get a new 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. Sales depend on your offer, your audience and how often you post. What we do is the part between your long video and a post: more finished clips a month, so more chances for someone to find your link. The one time we've followed it all the way to orders is on this page, and it's one creator. Views don't always turn into sales.
That's what the claims sheet is for. The first time, you fill in one sheet of what you can and can't say about your offer, like results you never promise or words your industry won't let you use, and every clip after follows it. If one still gets something wrong, use a free revision and it comes back fixed.
In your bio, on every app you post to. A clip can only send someone as far as your profile, so the profile has to finish the job. Put the one link you most want people to find there before your first clip goes up.
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 webinar, a lesson, a podcast, a demo or a live, plus a short note on what you sell. The first time, you also fill in the claims sheet, so nothing goes out that you'd have to take down.
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.
You do. They're cut from your video and you're free to post them anywhere, with any link you like. We'll only show one of your clips as an example of our work if you say yes in writing. Draft
No, you post. Your accounts, your logins and your link stay yours, and you choose when each clip goes up. If a clip promotes something you're paid for, switch on the app's disclosure setting when you post it.
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.
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 about your own offer, 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 sales.
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