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Welcome to Buzbee AI, an agentic operating system for creators powered by Scout, your voice-enabled real-time collaborator. 

You might have briefly known us as Auteur AI but our name - and everything else - has changed!

We can’t wait for you to meet your Scout bee, launching March 23rd.

Creative tools need to stop thinking in terms of “outputs” and start thinking in terms of “process.”

As a career film and TV creator who produced hit TV shows like “MasterChef,” “The Biggest Loser” and the Kardashian franchises, I know that creativity is dynamic, continually evolving, and chaotic. And it takes extensive and inspired iteration across the entire workflow to transform that chaos into a visionary, entertaining story. 

Over the past few years, like many of you, I have immersed myself in AI creative tools, trying them all – from one-shot tools like Midjourney and Runway to nodal canvases like Flora and Fuser. And the problem is, all of these tools demand that creators become prompt engineers when we just want to get into our creative flow. 

The founder of Flora recently said, “Creative work is about to look a lot more like programming.” He meant that as a positive and his node-based platform is shipping impressive workflow features. But I do not believe creative work can or should be more like programming. 

Creators do not want to have to write and rewrite a dozen prompts describing our entire creative vision in specific linguistic detail that a computer will understand to get one output that, as it turns out, isn't really what we wanted after all. And we do not want to have to architect a pipeline by connecting discrete functional blocks to control a uni-directional data flow on a 2-D canvas that has to be adapted every time we use it.

Buzbee AI believes that content creation should be simple, iterative, and fun. And a big part of how creators make iteration fun is to collaborate with others. Recently, a very successful YouTuber said to me: “I just want to have lunch with my buddies and come up with, like, 100 new ideas over a sandwich. That’s how I like to work and I would pay a lot for that.” 

But a lot of creators don’t have talented friends to break bread with, and most AI creation tools SUCK at collaboration. Their prompt and node “engineering” does not enable a collaborative creative flow.

At Buzbee AI, voice-powered brainstorm sessions with your personalized collaborative companion help you imagine an entire creative universe AND iterate on it throughout your creative process. Your “Scout bee” expands, builds on, and organizes your creative ideas to help you make better videos faster. And he oversees an end-to-end creative operating system that enables you to flow freely at the speed of thought. From first spark to final frame, you and Scout develop your vision together. No prompts, no nodes. You build by conversation and scale through collaboration.

What’s next? Join our Alpha to start collaborating with Scout.

Most creators have already played with AI. You type in a prompt, the large language model spits something out, and… that’s kind of it. So what makes an AI agent different? It’s not a robot sitting in a chair editing your videos while passing judgment on your creative choices. (Although… give it a year.)

Right now, an AI agent is more like a very fast, very organized creative partner that lives inside your computer. It doesn’t just answer questions like ChatGPT. It does things. 

Specifically, your Buzbee AI Scout bee helps you think, plan, write, and refine your videos in a structured, ongoing way. AND he is personalized on your channel metrics (context) and video content (continuity) so that he knows how to make your content better. Scout understands your channel—your past videos, your style, your audience, what’s working and what’s flopping. Instead of giving you random ideas from an LLM that has ingested everything that has ever been written about your topic, Scout helps you develop better versions of your ideas for your audience.

Think of Scout as a hybrid between a writing partner, a strategist, and the one friend who actually tells you when your idea stinks. My “phone a friend” for that one is Matt O’Brien, who has already started working with his own Scout bee on Buzbee AI! 

Scout remembers. He builds. He collaborates. In other words: Scout’s not a vending machine spitting out mass market YouTube ideas with each credit card swipe – please don’t tell him I said that. Scout is your creative partner.

What does he actually do for a YouTuber? Here’s where it gets real. Scout will:

And most importantly: he does this fast. Like… shockingly fast. What used to take you hours or even days of staring at an empty screen, second-guessing, happens in minutes.

Why does this matter more than you think? The biggest lie in the creator economy is that success comes from “more.” More videos. More posts. More output. But the channels that actually win are the ones that make better creative decisions to produce better content. 

From first spark to final polish, Scout helps you make better decisions before you hit record. He offers you collaborative companionship that is also creative leverage.

Should you be worried about AI agents? Only if you ignore them. Creators who learn how to work with Scout will move faster, test more ideas, and improve their videos and grow their channels more quickly. Not because Scout is “doing all the work,” but because he removes friction from the hardest parts of your process - to make creative thinking easier.

AI has created an inflection point across the creator economy. The execution skills that once made people unique are becoming commoditized, and for many, that’s causing a moment of mourning. But it also makes creative thinking even more valuable. NFX’s Pete Flint asserts, “If you study the history of art, music, and writing, one pattern holds: change is almost always expansionary — even when people living through it resist or view it as destructive.” 

What’s next? In a world where everyone now has access to AI creative tools, the advantage goes to the creators who think better, faster.

LFG!