Systems, tools and teardowns for faceless channel operators. Most faceless channels fail because the niche was wrong, not because the videos were bad — and that is decided before anything is filmed. Seven criteria, four minutes, a straight answer.
Score honestly — the point of a threshold is to overrule your own enthusiasm. Be especially strict on topic breadth, which is where most niches quietly die.
Your score plus a written breakdown: which criteria are holding it back, what a passing version of this niche would look like, and the three questions to answer before you commit.
The rubric is deliberately harsh. A niche scoring 61 is not a near-miss you should push through — it is a niche that will cost you a year to learn was wrong.
If your niche cleared the threshold, the next question is what to publish. If it failed, the next question is what to test instead. Both are answered by the validation system the rubric came from — a five-prompt sequence that generates candidates, kills the weak ones, and ends in a 90-day plan.
Generate 30 candidates against four hard constraints, ranked by revenue per thousand views. Reject 27. The filter is the value, not the list.
Force 100 distinct titles. If fewer than 80 are genuinely different, the niche is too narrow and dies inside a year. Most candidates fail here.
Ends in a launch plan: three channel names, a 24-video calendar ordered for search traction, and the first hook script.