How to Start an AI Cat Stories Channel for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts

An AI cat stories channel posts generated short stories of photoreal cats living human lives — working a shift, saving up, coming home — and it runs as a ready-made naïve template.

There is no cat to film.

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 cat stories 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 cat-stories version is a style of the faceless short-form channel — the same underlying setup, with the cat-stories skill (a pinned set of instructions) on every agent so it already knows the format.

Each video follows the same recognisable shape:

• One recurring cat family, invented for your channel: a name, a coat, an outfit and a trait for each cat.
• A story in three or four scenes, each a different place — the diner, the bakery, home — dissolved into one video of about 15 to 25 seconds.
• The same cat in every scene, because every scene is generated from a frame of that cat.

Every video has an arc: the setup shows who the cat is and what they want, the turn is the sacrifice or the secret, and the payoff is the release — a hug, a gift, a reunion — or a cliffhanger that earns a part 2.

Before you start

You do not need much, and that is the point. Still, two things make the first week go better:

• A tone. Tearjerkers and dramas alternate, and a channel that only posts sad stories wears its audience out. Decide early how warm you want the endings to be.
• 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:

1. 01

   Sign up for naïve

   Create a naïve account at app.usenaive.ai. The template and its agents run there.

2. 02

   Open the company

   Start from the AI Cat Stories Channel. The cat-stories skill is already pinned, so the team knows the format on day zero.

3. 03

   Answer the question

   Your posting cadence. On day one the team invents the channel's cat family.

4. 04

   Agents produce

   On your schedule, they write a story in scenes, generate each scene from a frame of the same cat, and dissolve the scenes into one video.

5. 05

   You approve

   Each finished video waits in a queue with its caption. 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 the AI Cat Stories Channel

From your naïve account, start from the company template page and deploy the template. Because cat-stories is a style of the faceless short-form channel, the agent team arrives already knowing the format — you are not teaching it what a cat story is, you are pointing it at your version of one.

3. Answer the setup question

The template asks one question before it sets anything up:

• Posting cadence — how often you want the channel to post.

The answer is not thrown away after setup. It becomes part of the project context every agent reads at the start of every run, and you can edit it later. Change the cadence in week three and the next batch follows it.

Studio · Setup

Posting cadence

The agents read this before every run, so pick a pace you will actually approve at.

• Once a day
• Twice a day
• A few times a week
• Once a week

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4. Let the team produce the first batch

On the schedule you set, the agents wake up and go to work. They do not run around the clock; they 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:

• Casts the channel on day one: it invents two or three cats and generates one portrait frame of each, which every later scene is generated from.
• Writes the story as three or four scenes, one visible beat each, so it reads with the sound off and in any language.
• Generates each scene from a frame of the same cat, then joins the scenes in order with a short dissolve and burns in one line of on-screen text, with a caption drafted against it.

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.
• The caption, drafted in your channel's voice.
• Where and when it is queued to go.

You watch it, edit the caption if you want, and approve or hold. Approving is the only path onto TikTok, Reels, or Shorts — there is no setting that lets a video skip you.

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Caption

She saved for weeks for this.

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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:

This format lives on emotion: the first second is the cat's face, not the scenery, and a soft original piano bed is part of the generated video. 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 — stories, generated videos, 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 set your cadence. Let the team cast the channel and build the first batch on the next scheduled run. In the morning, open the queue, watch a handful of stories, and approve the ones 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 whether your audience comes back for the tearjerkers or for part 2 of the drama.

If you want to run a different generated format on the same platform, the dancing animals channel generates one animal dancing on the beat, and the faceless video channel guide covers the base company these styles are built on. You can also browse the full faceless video channel company to name any niche at setup. The approval and budget rules in this guide are identical across all of them.