BETA V3 · Now Open

Stop guessing. Know what to post next.

The grind. The hamster wheel. The Sunday night blank-doc dread of figuring out what to film next. Creator Compass was built to end all of that. Turn the channel you're already pouring everything into back into something you actually love showing up for.

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Dashboard Shorts Long Form Brainstorm
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Dog Tails
Your Dashboard
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Channel Health Score
Fair
↑ 12 vs previous 30 days
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Views
125.4K
12% vs previous 30 days
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Watch Time (hrs)
183.7
5% vs previous 30 days
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Subscribers
+420
9% vs previous 30 days
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Revenue
$238
3% vs previous 30 days
Coach · 3 quick wins this week
Hooks underperforming on your last 4 longforms. Test a 3-second pattern interrupt. Your Tuesday 7pm uploads get 38% more 24-hr views, double down. "Dog training fails" is a rising niche topic, your audience overlap is 71%.
CTR Health (last 10) 8.2%
Subs Gained (30d) +420 ▲
Avg View Duration 62%
Traffic Mix Browse 41%
Built for serious creators · longform, Shorts, or both · 1K to 1M subs
Gaming Food Fitness Pets Education Art DIY Finance Travel Music
Sound familiar?

The grind is real. The guesswork is killing you.

You're posting every week. You're grinding. You're watching someone in your niche blow up and thinking, "what do they know that I don't?"

Stuck on the hamster wheel

Constant content output with no clarity on what's actually working. You're tired, your output's dropping, and you've started to lose the joy.

Drowning in tabs & tools

YouTube Studio. TubeBuddy. vidIQ. Spreadsheets. Three different AI tools. Every answer lives somewhere different, and none of them talk to each other.

Guessing what to post next

Algorithm anxiety. Endless scrolling for "ideas." Staring at a blank doc on a Sunday night. The next video shouldn't be a coin flip. It should be obvious.

The fix

One dashboard. Zero tool fatigue.

Performance tracking, Shorts & longform insights, competitor gaps, and an AI brainstorm trained on your channel data. All in one place. All grounded in your real numbers.

Channel Health Score

Your channel's pulse, at a glance.

Our proprietary 0 to 300 score instantly tells you what's working, what needs fixing, and exactly where to focus this week. No more digging through six YouTube Studio tabs guessing what's broken.

  • One number that captures CTR, retention, growth, and momentum
  • Weekly delta so you can see whether your changes are landing
  • Plain-English coaching: "Test a stronger hook," "Double down on list-style content"

Channel Health Score

↑ +12 this week
192
/ 300
Healthy
InsightWhy it changed
Avg view duration improved 8% after you tightened intros below 12 seconds. Subscriber gain rate accelerated. CTR held steady.
What to Make Next

Ready-to-film blueprints, not "ideas."

Every package comes with optimized titles, SEO recommendations, thumbnail concepts, and script outlines for both longform and Shorts. All pulled from your top performers, your audience, and what's trending in your niche right now.

  • Personalized titles built from your actual best-performing hooks
  • Thumbnail concepts you can hand to a designer (or use as-is)
  • Recommended posting time based on your audience heatmap
  • Script outline so you can go from idea to filming in an afternoon

What to Make Next · This Week

8 ready
Longform📅 Tue 7:00pm· est. 18min
"I Trained 3 Rescue Dogs in 30 Days. Here's What Actually Worked"
#dogtraining#rescuedoglisticle hook
↑ Est. 14.2K views92% niche fit
Shorts📅 Wed 12:00pm· 45s
"3 cues every dog learns in week one (most owners skip #2)"
#shortscuriosity gaptrending
↑ Est. 47K views88% niche fit
Longform📅 Sat 10:00am· est. 12min
"Dog Behaviorists Reacted to My Training Routine. They Were Brutal"
#reactionexpertvulnerable
↑ Est. 22.6K views96% niche fit
Competitor Intel

See what's working in your niche, right now.

Stop refreshing other creators' channels at 2am trying to figure out what they're doing differently. Creator Compass surfaces format gaps, hook patterns, and topic angles your competitors are winning with, then tells you exactly how to adapt them to your channel.

  • Side-by-side format breakdowns (length, pacing, thumbnail style)
  • "Hook libraries" pulled from top videos in your niche
  • Topic gaps your competitors haven't covered yet

Niche Watch · Dog Training

Updated 2h ago
@PupAcademy
Format gap: 60 to 90s "before/after" Shorts
+24% wk
@TheCanineCoach
Hook pattern: "I tried X for 30 days…"
+18% wk
@K9Whisperer
Topic gap: rescue-dog desensitization
Untouched
Recommendation
Adapt @PupAcademy's before/after Shorts format to your "first-week training" angle. 71% audience overlap, low saturation in your niche.
AI Brainstorm

A growth strategist that knows your channel.

Trained on your real channel data, not generic prompts. Ask it anything: "Why did my last video tank?", "What hook should I open with?", "Give me five title variations." It answers like a strategist who's actually been watching your channel for months.

  • Always grounded in your real analytics, not hallucinated
  • Iterates on titles, hooks, descriptions, end screens
  • Available 24/7. No agency retainer, no email lag

AI Brainstorm

trained on @DogTails
Why is my last video underperforming?
Two things stand out: your retention drops 28% in the first 30s. Your hook leads with backstory instead of payoff. And your thumbnail uses 4 colors when your top 5 videos all use 2. Want me to write 3 stronger hook variations?
Yes, and rewrite the title
Ask anything about your channel…

Everything a creator growth team would do, without the $5K/mo retainer.

Creator Compass replaces the stack of tools, consultants, and spreadsheets you're juggling today.

Top & Underperformer Analysis

See exactly why videos succeed or fall short, with the specific change to test next time.

Audience Heatmap Timing

Know the exact 90-minute window your audience is most active. Stop posting into the void.

Thumbnail & Title Concepts

One-click thumbnail directions and 5+ title variations per video. No designer back-and-forth.

Script Outlines

From idea to teleprompter in an afternoon. Hook, beats, pattern interrupts, CTA: all pre-mapped.

Shorts vs. Longform Insights

Separate strategies for both. See which format is actually moving your channel forward.

"Fix This Week" Coaching

The engine surfaces the 2 to 3 highest-leverage moves you can make this week, in plain English. No fluff, no generic advice.

How it works

Three steps. Sixty seconds.

The free Channel Assessment is a working mini-version of the full software. No demo call. No sales pitch.

1

Submit your channel

Six quick questions about your goals and where you're stuck. Mobile-friendly, takes under 2 minutes.

2

We pull your real data

Our automation pulls your public YouTube data and runs it through our proprietary analysis system, competitor breakdown included.

3

Personalized report, in your inbox

The engine writes a warm, plain-English breakdown of what's working, what's not, and exactly what to fix this week.

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TJ Keith, founder of Creator Compass
From the founder

"I built this because I was stuck too."

Posting every week. Grinding. Watching someone in my niche blow up and thinking, "what do they know that I don't?" That question is what built Creator Compass.

I'm a fellow YouTube creator. I've been exactly where you are: burnt out from the hamster wheel, drowning in tabs, guessing what to film next. Creator Compass is the answer I wish I'd had three years ago. If you give it a shot, we'll personally put together a report for you.

TJ Keith
Founder & fellow creator
What creators are saying

Real feedback from real creators.

Pulled from alpha testers across niches, from 200K view dog channels to 280M view sports creators.

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The video recommendations is the best part of the report. Makes brainstorming much easier and it explains why the video idea will work.

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Karsten
KTO · sports/challenge · ~280M views
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Helped generate daily Shorts ideas that regularly hit 15K+ views.

TJ
TJ Keith
Dog Tails · animal facts · 200K views
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Really enjoy the creator comparison (AI coaching) section!

KS
Katie Swanson
Celestial Homebody · crochet/edu · ~900K views
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We're going to use one of the video ideas and are very excited to see how it performs.

BW
Bradley Wilderidge
Cooking niche · professional chef
BETA V3 · limited spots

Two ways to start.

Try the free assessment to see the engine in action. Or jump straight into the BETA for white-glove "What to Make Next" service while we have capacity.

Free Channel Assessment
$0no card required

100% free, no card, no YouTube Studio access required. A taste of the Creator Compass engine: the competitor analysis and coaching creators say changes how they think about their channel.

  • Niche competitor analysis showing what's working in your lane right now
  • Personalized coaching on hooks, formats, and what to fix first
  • A clear, plain-English read on what's working and what's not
  • Personal Loom walkthrough from TJ
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FAQ

The honest answers.

What's the Channel Health Score, exactly?
It's our proprietary 0 to 300 score that combines CTR, retention, subscriber momentum, posting consistency, and a few niche-specific signals. Think of it as a credit score for your YouTube channel: one number that captures whether you're trending up or quietly leaking growth.
Does the free assessment need access to my YouTube Studio?
Nope. The free Channel Assessment is 100% free and runs entirely on public channel data. You drop in your channel handle and we do the rest. The BETA does require YouTube Studio access (read-only, analytics scope only) so the engine can pull your real performance data, retention curves, and audience heatmap and produce a fully accurate report. We never post, comment, or change anything on your behalf.
What's actually included in the $10 BETA?
A full channel analysis (with your proprietary Channel Health Score), 10+ personalized "What to Make Next" video ideas (titles, SEO, thumbnail concepts, script outlines), expanded competitor breakdowns, and engine-generated coaching notes. The $10 isn't a profit play. It covers our AI costs while we deliver the white-glove version. We're keeping the BETA cohort small on purpose.
Is this only for big channels?
No. Creator Compass is built specifically for niche creators in the 1K to 1M subscriber range. Whether you post longform only, Shorts only, or both. If you're showing up consistently and you want clarity instead of guesswork, you're our exact person.
How is this different from TubeBuddy or vidIQ?
Those tools give you raw stats and keyword scores. Creator Compass gives you decisions: what to film next, why your last video flopped, which competitor format to steal. It's the difference between a calculator and a strategist. And it's built around your channel data specifically, not generic best practices.
Is this the full Creator Compass software?
No. This is the V3 BETA, a curated, white-glove version creators can sign up for right now. The full Creator Compass software (with the live, always-on dashboard you've seen in the mockups) launches publicly later this year. BETA testers get locked-in early access pricing, direct line to the team, and roadmap input.
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Stop guessing. Start growing.

Five minutes from now, you could have a personalized growth plan in your inbox. Or you could spend another Sunday night staring at a blank doc. Your call.

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