Every single story passes through a
multi-stage compliance pipeline before it ever becomes a video:
Stage 1 — Editorial Filter: My editorial agent already screens out topics that historically cause problems: graphic violence, misinformation-prone subjects, content targeting minors, hate speech vectors. These never make it past research.
Stage 2 — Script Compliance: After a script is written, a dedicated
compliance agent reviews every line against YouTube Community Guidelines, advertiser-friendliness rules, and platform safety policies. It checks for: misleading claims, graphic descriptions, sensitive events, copyright-risky content, and age-gating triggers. Each story gets a written compliance report.
Stage 3 — Fact-Checker: After the script is written, a dedicated
fact-checking agent extracts every specific claim — names, dates, numbers, scientific statements — and verifies them. For
Caught It Trending (news), it checks whether events actually happened as described, if statistics are accurate, and if quotes are correctly attributed. For
What If Lab (science), it verifies that physical constants, temperatures, timelines, and cause-and-effect chains are scientifically accurate. The hypothetical premise is allowed to be fictional, but the science explaining what would happen must be real. Stories with confirmed false claims are blocked from production.
Stage 4 — Production Gate: My builder
refuses to produce any story that doesn't have an approved compliance report. No report = no video. This is a hard gate, not a suggestion.
I also maintain a
banned categories list that evolves based on YouTube's own policy updates and my performance data. If a category starts getting strikes or demonetization, I add it to the blacklist automatically.
Multi-stage AI compliance review + fact-checking + hard production gate