PROD. SECOND UNIT UGC/ONE-SHEET REV. C/Pink pages/Revised 2026-08-14/$149.99 · one product/† illustrative figure, not decided

For UGC creators — from a first brand deal to a full week of them

Land the deal on Monday.
Deliver it by Thursday.

That’s the outcome. Here’s the mechanism: you stop being the talent in front of the camera and start running the unit behind it. The camera department, the editor and the turnaround time got cheap. Your judgement didn’t.

Eleven modules — what to charge, what to send a brand, and a way of working you can repeat every week, with a portfolio online by Friday. Nothing here assumes you’ve done any of it before.

See what’s inside →See the actual work firstNo account needed to browse the curriculum.
11Modules, 0A → 7
0Experience needed
1Payment, then yours
$0To host your portfolio

Imagine this — one week, start to finish

TreatmentWeek one
MONA brand you already use emails you back. They want three videos about the thing you’ve been telling your friends about for a year. They ask what you charge — and you know the number, so you send it without a second draft.
TUEYou spend twenty minutes writing down how they talk and the things they’d never let you say. You will not have to write it again for this brand.
WEDYou film for forty minutes at your kitchen counter. The rest of it — the cuts, the second version they’re going to ask for, the vertical crop — is finished before dinner.
THUYou send three videos and a fourth nobody asked for. They use all four.
FRIThe invoice clears. Next week is empty, and you say yes to someone else.

Every day in that week is ordinary except Wednesday. What changed on Wednesday is what the rest of this guide is about.

The thing doing the cutting is Claude — an AI assistant you give written instructions to, in plain English. If you’ve never opened it, you’re exactly who this starts with.

01The cost
asymmetryAcct. 4200

The line item that used to be per-video is now a subscription.

Every UGC rate card in the industry prices per deliverable. Every AI production tool prices per month, against an allowance — metered in credits or minutes, never in videos. That’s not a discount, it’s a different unit of measure, and it’s the whole reason this is worth learning. This is about the tools you’ll use, not about us: the guide itself is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

AcctLine itemRate
4210Traditional UGC creator — beginnerHired per video. Rate rises with your reel, not your output.$50–150per video
4211Traditional UGC creator — experiencedWhere you’re trying to get. Still priced per deliverable.$350–500+per video
4290AI production stack — voice, avatar, assemblyA starting setup, typically two tools. Every one of them has a free tier. Module 2 §5 lists them with verified prices.$0–60per month, metered
—Your effective cost per finished videoOnly holds if your volume fits your plan’s allowance. Tools meter in credits or minutes — check yours before trusting this line.$0.00–3.00per video, inside allowance

Monthly spend at 20 videos — hiring out at mid-range $180/video

$3,600

Monthly spend at 20 videos — running the stack yourself

$60 ceiling — starting setup

Both bars are on the same scale. The rate ranges are market research carrying a review date, not a fixed scale — someone owns re-checking them, because what a deliverable is worth moves, and a rate card nobody maintains is worse than none. Tool prices were checked against each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-08-14 and are listed per tier in Module 2 §5, which is versioned and re-verified on a 90-day cadence; this line is a summary of that document, not a separate claim.

Why there is no clean per-video number. Tools meter differently and not comparably — one plan is 600 credits a month, another is 10 minutes, another is 30. None of them meters in videos. So the figure above is real arithmetic on one condition: that your month’s work fits inside the allowance you’re paying for. Past that you’re buying more credits, and the honest answer becomes “it depends what you make.” Your own time isn’t in this ledger either. It should be, and Module 5 puts it back in.

20
260

Hiring it out
$1,000 – $10,000
at $50–500 per video

Running the stack
$0 – $60
flat within your allowance — not per video

02The strip
board11 modules

Eleven modules, in shooting order.

Module 0A’s teaching is deliberately AI-free — plain UGC industry grounding, rates and outreach and posting cadence. It’s there because the AI-native modules only land credibly on top of it. Every strip below is live: the titles, section counts and reading times come from the curriculum itself, and each one opens the real module.

0AUGC Craft BasicsThe trade, before any of the tools.9 §
~61 min0BFinding Your Starting PointYour niche isn't invented. It's noticed.1 §
~9 min1The Shift — Why AI-Native UGCThe argument, before any of the tools.1 §
~6 min1.5Starting From Absolute ZeroSkippable by design, and labelled so.1 §
~12 min2The AI Production StackThe module the rest of the guide is trying to earn.21 §
~128 min3Brand Voice & Guardrails at ScaleThe document that makes the second client possible.6 §
~46 min4Proof & TrustHow to build a truth-based proof habit.5 §
~32 min5Scaling & SystemsDoing it twice without doing it twice.4 §
~29 min5.5Build Your PortfolioSix questions in. A finished website out.4 §
~24 min6MonetizationThree paths, and the one most people should take first.4 §
~23 min7Affiliate Program WalkthroughHow to sell this guide, what you keep, and what you are not allowed to say.6 §
~34 min

The contract template in the 0A kit is a starting document, not legal advice — have it reviewed for your own market before you send it to anyone, framed the same way as the disclosure requirements in Module 7: something to confirm for yourself, not a rule we assert on your behalf. The Module 2 tool landscape is the fastest-moving thing on this board, which is what the optional update layer in §04 exists to keep current.

03 Proof & Trust / file 04 / circulated on blue pages / read this before the pricing

MemorandumRev. B · 1 of 1
To
Anyone about to buy this
From
Production
Date
2026-08-13
Re
What we will and won’t claim about results
CC
Module 4 — Proof & Trust

There are two kinds of proof in this product, and confusing them is how guides like this one go bad.

The first kind is ours, and we’ll meet it.

Every sample script, hook and generated asset in these materials was actually generated, and the prompt that produced it is printed alongside it. When a take flopped, the flopped take is in the appendix with the others. That’s a standard we can hold ourselves to, because it’s a claim about our own work.

The second kind isn’t ours to give. It would read like this:

Readers typically earn per brand deal within of finishing Module 2, and % go on to .1

We couldn’t print that paragraph, so we didn’t print it. The words are gone rather than softened, because a hedged version of an invented number is still an invented number.

What Module 4 teaches instead is a habit, not an outcome: show the real generated output, show the prompt that made it, show what the client actually saw. Audiences start more sceptical of AI content than of anything else you will make. Honest provenance is the only thing that survives that — and it costs nothing.

One stated exception, so you don’t have to work it out yourself.

The week sketched at the top of this page did not happen. It is labelled imagine this, it is typeset as a treatment — the document a production writes to propose how something will feel, before anything is shot — and it contains no rate, result or figure presented as real. That is a different category from a sample asset: an exhibit claims this is what we made, a treatment claims this is what we are proposing. We would rather name the distinction here than let a reader wonder whether we quietly exempted ourselves from our own rule.

  1. 1.Redacted because the evidence doesn’t exist yet and won’t belong to us when it does. Proof of your results sits with your clients, after you’ve done the work. Any figure printed here would have been invented, so nothing is printed here.
Initialled — Production, rev. BAttachments: A — the instruction and what came back  /  B — the assembled scene  /  C — standing provenance line

Attachment A — the instruction we wrote, and what came back

PROMPT  hook.v3brand-voice.md loaded
Write 3 opening lines for a 22-second
testimonial. Constraints from brand-voice.md:

  · never say "game-changer" or "obsessed"
  · one concrete sensory detail, no stacked
    adjectives
  · 9 words maximum, no question hooks

Audience: renters, 24-34, cook 4x a week,
already own one pan they hate.
A person wrote this. It is about forty seconds of typing, and it is the entire job.
PrintedTake 2 · shipped
OUTPUT  take 2 of 3claude-opus · 2026-08-11
1. Honestly, this pan changed my mornings.
2. You know the sound a bad pan makes.
3. The eggs came off clean. First try.
Take 2 shipped. Takes 1 and 3 are printed in Module 2 unedited — including the one that flopped. Line 1 was cut for “honestly,” a filler word the guardrail should have caught and didn’t.

Attachment B — the scene assembled from take 2, unretouched

↖ this beat was a
human note. that
part stays yours.
SCENE 4  hook · 0:00–0:03rev. B
INT. KITCHEN COUNTER — MORNING

Hand enters frame. Pan already hot.

                  TALENT (V.O.)
     You know the sound a bad pan makes.

          (beat — hold two seconds on
           the empty pan, no music)

                  TALENT (V.O.)
     Yeah. That one.
Assembled from take 2 in Attachment A. The model wrote the line; a person decided where to hold.

Attachment C — the provenance line that goes on everything we publish

PROVENANCE  standing templateapplies to all sample output
Generated 2026-08-11 · claude-opus · take 2 of 3
Prompt shown in full · human edit: cut line 1
Client saw: this version, unretouched
04One
priceEverything in it

One product. Everything in it. $149.99.

There used to be a tier comparison here. It’s gone — removed, not hidden — and the empty slot beside the price explains why, because that’s how this page treats everything else.

The product — all of itThe complete guide · Module 0A → 7

The Full Unit

The industry grounding, the AI production stack, the working assets, the Skills. One payment, then it’s yours.

$149.99
  • All 11 modules, 0A → 7 — yours permanently
  • The 0A kit: rate calculator, contract template, outreach scripts, deal tracker
  • The daily brand list exercise (0B)
  • Module 2’s template library, all four formats
  • Brand Voice & Guardrails Intake — one per client
  • Both Claude Skills, editable, yours to keep
  • Portfolio builder + free hosting walkthrough
  • Affiliate program access
  • One payment, lifetime access. No subscription to keep reading it.
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This is where the second tier goes.

There isn’t one, and there were going to be two. The original plan split this into Foundations (Modules 0A–7) and a Pro tier (Modules 1–7) — until the pricing pass noticed that Foundations already contained every page of Pro, plus two more modules. A smaller-but-not-cheaper subset isn’t a second product; it’s a confusing sell wearing a second price tag. So it was cut rather than discounted. One price, everything, decided 2026-08-14 — and this slot stays empty for the same reason the portfolio builder’s upgrade slot does.

Optional · not priced yet

Keeping the fast-moving parts current

Everything above is yours the moment you buy it, and it stays readable for as long as you keep the files. But a small part of this guide describes other companies’ products, and those change every few months — the tool landscape, the connector walkthrough, the pieces that name things which get renamed.

Updates to those specific parts will be available as an optional layer on top. Whether that layer is free or $X a month (illustrative figure, not a decided number) is genuinely not decided yet, and we’d rather show you the empty slot than pretend it isn’t there.

What is decided: the guide you buy stays complete and useful without it. Nothing you paid for stops working, and nothing gets held back, if you never take a single update.

The price is real; the checkout isn’t built yet. $149.99 is the decided price — what’s missing is the payment flow, which is next on the build list. Until it ships, the whole curriculum is open to read without an account, so the button above does exactly what it says. Nothing is sold separately: the Skills, the templates and the portfolio builder are all in the one purchase. The affiliate split (33% of net) is worked line by line in §05 below.

05Affiliate
programModule 7

You can sell this. Here’s one sale, worked all the way through.

Here is a statement for a single sale at the real price, with the arithmetic left in — processing fee, net, the 33/67 split, and the line that doesn’t exist. Every figure is checkable, and that’s the point of showing a statement instead of quoting a percentage.

Real figures$149.99 · decided 2026-08-14
Remittance advice  statement SU-AFF-0001One sale · standard card fee
The Full Unit — the complete guide, 1 × $149.99$149.99
Less card processing — 2.9% + $0.30−$4.65
Net collected$145.34
Affiliate share — 33% of net
paid once, to the person who made the sale$47.96
Publisher share — 67% of net$97.38
Second-level / recruiting commissionThere is no such line. There will not be one.$0.00
One field behind this statement is still genuinely blank: the payout rail. Stripe Connect is the leading candidate and isn’t decided. Everything else is real — $149.99 list, and the split is taken on net: the card fee comes off the top first, then both shares divide what’s left. That’s why your share is $47.96 and not 33% of the sticker; the arithmetic is left in so you can check it rather than take it on trust.
✓Flat % of net, single level, paid to the seller
✓One SKU — no per-component splits to track
✓Module 7 lists exactly what you may claim
✕No commission for recruiting other affiliates
✕No multi-level structure, under any circumstance
✕No income claims you can’t evidence — including ours
DISCLOSURE  required on every affiliate post
I earn a commission if you buy through
this link. I paid for the guide myself.
Module 7 ships this line and tells you where it has to appear. Disclosure norms are actively changing, so it’s framed as confirm the current requirement for your platform and market — not as a fixed rule we assert.

The brief is yours. The crew is cheap. Go make forty of them.

Eleven modules, two Skills, a template library, and a portfolio online by the end of the week.

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