TL;DR
- A channel cloning channel posts new generated videos in the format of a channel you name.
- It is a ready-made template that runs on naïve: an agent team makes each video, and you approve what posts.
- It clones the format only, never the source channel's clips, characters, names or branding.
- To start, sign up for a naïve account, then deploy the AI Channel Cloning template.
AI Channel Cloning is a ready-made template that runs on naïve: an agent team studies a channel you name and generates new videos in its format.
It clones the format, never the content. Every video is labelled AI-generated.
Step one is a naïve account. Then you deploy the template, and every video waits for your approval before it posts.
What is an AI channel cloning channel?
It is one ready-made company template, not a pile of tools you wire together. When you deploy the template, naïve sets up — in a single step — a small team of AI agents, a channel dashboard to manage the queue, your connected posting accounts, and the budgets those agents run under. The channel-cloning version is a style of the faceless short-form channel — the same underlying setup, with the format pinned (a built-in set of instructions) on every agent so it already knows how to study a channel and work in its format.
Unlike the other styles, this one has no fixed look of its own. Its look is the look of the channel you name. Each video follows the same shape:
- The cloned format — the same hook pattern, pacing, look and caption shape the agents found when they studied the channel.
- Your own content — an original subject, story and characters in that format, never the source channel's clips.
- A clear arc — a hook, a middle and a payoff, 15 to 30 seconds in all.
Before you start
You do not need much, and that is the point. Still, two things make the first week go better:
- A channel whose format works. Pick one account with a format you can describe — a repeating hook, a recognisable look, a clear payoff. The agents study how its videos are made; they do not copy its videos.
- A cadence you will actually approve at. One a day you review is worth more than ten a day you ignore.
Set it up in five moves
Setup is a short interview, not a configuration screen. Here is the whole shape before you touch it:
01
Sign up for naïve
Create a naïve account at app.usenaive.ai. The template and its agents run there.
02
Open the company
Start from AI Channel Cloning. The channel-cloning skill is already pinned, so the team knows how to study a format on day zero.
03
Answer the questions
The channel to clone and your posting cadence. That is the entire brief.
04
Agents produce
On day one they study the channel. Then, on your schedule, they generate new videos in its format with their own subjects.
05
You approve
Each finished video waits in a queue with its caption and AI label. Approving is the only way it posts.
1. Sign up for a naïve account
The channel runs on naïve, so start by creating an account at app.usenaive.ai.
2. Open AI Channel Cloning
From your naïve account, start from the company template page and deploy the template. Because channel-cloning is a style of the faceless short-form channel, the agent team arrives already knowing the job — you are not teaching it how to break down a format, you are pointing it at the one you want.
3. Answer the setup questions
The team asks you two questions before it sets anything up:
- Channel to clone — the channel whose format you want your channel to run in.
- Posting cadence — how often you want to post.
These answers are not thrown away after setup. They become the project context every agent reads at the start of every run, and you can edit them later. Name a different channel later and the next run reads the new answer.
Which channel do you want to clone the format of?
The agents study how its videos are made, then generate their own. They never reuse its clips, characters or branding.
- A channel I watch every day — paste its link
- A channel whose hook I keep seeing in my feed
- A channel in my niche with a format I can describe
- A channel built on a recurring character or mascot
4. Let the team produce the first batch
On day one, the agents study the channel you named. They open several of its videos and write down how they are made — the hook in the first 1–3 seconds, the pacing and cuts, the framing, colour and lighting, the narration and caption style, the formats it repeats, and what it never does. That note becomes the channel's standard.
From then on, the agents only run at the scheduled times you choose, so between those runs nothing is running and nothing is spending. When a scheduled run starts, the team:
- Plans an original subject for the channel's niche, written as a hook, a middle and a payoff, naming which pattern of the format each beat follows.
- Generates an opening frame in the cloned look, animates it segment by segment, and joins the segments into one video.
- Writes the on-screen text and caption in the cloned caption shape, labelled AI-generated.
If the queue is already ahead of you, it makes nothing. The backlog is treated as a signal to stop, not a number to grow.
5. Approve before anything posts
This is the step that matters most, so it is worth being precise about. Every finished video is filed as a pending post, not a published one. It lands in a review queue with everything attached:
- The video, ready to play, already carrying its AI-generated label.
- The caption, written in the cloned caption shape.
- Where and when it is queued to go.
You watch it, edit the caption if you want, and approve or hold. If a video could be mistaken for the source channel's own, hold it. Approving is the only path onto TikTok, Reels, or Shorts — there is no setting that lets a video skip you.
Publisher wants to post to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
- Caption
- Wait for the ending. AI-generated. #shorts #fyp
- Goes out
- Tomorrow 4:22 PM ET
- Visibility
- Public
What are the specs for each platform?
The output is a single vertical file that fits every short-video surface, so you are not re-cutting for each app. The specs below are the same across all three destinations — only the caption framing changes:
| Destination | Duration | Aspect ratio | Structure | Caption |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 15–30s | 9:16 vertical | Hook, middle, payoff | In the cloned caption shape, labelled AI-generated |
| Instagram Reels | 15–30s | 9:16 vertical | Hook, middle, payoff | Same file; caption tuned for Reels, labelled AI-generated |
| YouTube Shorts | 15–30s | 9:16 vertical | Hook, middle, payoff | Same file; labelled AI-generated |
9:16 is the default; if the channel you clone uses a different ratio, the agents can match it. On-screen text and captions are added when the segments are joined, not baked into the generated footage. Post the same video to all three, or pick the ones your channel uses at setup. Either way, each post still parks in approval first.
What keeps the channel in your control?
Two guarantees sit under everything the agents do, and both are enforced by the platform itself rather than left to the agents to honour on their own:
- A budget it cannot raise. You set a daily cap per agent and a cap per task. Every generation is priced before it runs, and a batch that would blow the cap stops instead of spending. The channel cannot surprise you on cost.
- A queue it cannot skip. The agents do the week's work — studying the format, planning, generating videos, writing captions — but your posting account itself is yours alone. The pending-approval queue is the only way anything reaches it.
What does your first week look like?
A realistic first week looks like this. Sign up for naïve, deploy the template, and answer the two setup questions. On day one the agents study the channel you named, and the first batch builds on the next scheduled run. In the morning, open the queue, watch a handful of videos, and approve the two or three that are genuinely good. Repeat. The team reports which videos did best, so by the end of the week you will have a feel for what lands, and you can tune the setup answers to chase it.
If you would rather run a fixed format on the same platform, the animals eating video channel generates one healthy animal eating a big feast, and the faceless video channel guide covers naming any niche at setup. You can also browse the full faceless video channel company. The approval and budget rules in this guide are identical across all of them.
FAQ
- Does it repost or copy the channel I name?
- No. It copies the format: the hook, the pacing, the look and the captions. Every video is generated and new, with its own subjects and characters. It never reposts, re-uploads or recreates the source channel's clips, characters, names, voice or branding, and it never implies any association with that channel.
- What does the team learn from the channel I name?
- On day one it studies several of that channel's videos and writes down how they are made: the hook in the first 1–3 seconds, the pacing and cuts, the framing, colour and lighting, the narration and caption style, the formats it repeats, and what it never does. That note becomes the channel's standard, and every plan names which pattern it follows.
- Do I need to film anything or supply my own footage?
- No. Every video is generated. The agents generate an opening frame in the cloned look, then animate it into segments — a hook, a middle and a payoff — and join them into one video of 15 to 30 seconds. Every video is labelled as AI-generated.
- How many videos can it make per day?
- As many as the cadence you set and the budget you give it. If the review queue is already ahead of you, the agents make nothing rather than piling up more — the backlog is a signal, not a target.
- What does it cost to run?
- You set a daily cap per agent and a cap per task at setup, and the platform prices every generation before it runs. A batch that would exceed the cap stops instead of spending, so the channel cannot surprise you on cost.