A faceless channel in a niche that cannot pay you fails at ten videos and fails at a thousand. The decision that ends most channels is made before the first upload — and it is usually made on a feeling. This is the method for making it on evidence instead, in an afternoon.
The faceless-content economy sells effort. Post more, batch harder, buy the tool. It is the most profitable advice in the category, because when volume fails you blame yourself and buy again.
But output cannot rescue a niche with no advertiser demand, no buying intent, and no room for a two-hundredth channel. Those properties are knowable in advance. Almost nobody checks, because checking has never been written down as a procedure with a threshold you are not allowed to argue with.
Ad RPM ceiling, faceless feasibility, evergreen demand, competitor gap, script clarity for AI narration, audience buying intent, topic breadth. Ten points each, seventy total, and a hard reject below 62 — the number exists so you cannot negotiate with a bad idea at 9pm.
Divergence sweep, ruthless elimination, competitor teardown, 100-title stress test, validation and packaging. Copy-paste, with the model each one is written for and the reason it is sequenced where it is.
The rubric run end to end on a real candidate niche, including the axis that kills it. Watching a plausible idea fail the test is the part that transfers — a passing example teaches you nothing about where the line is.
Sliders for RPM, views, upload rate and cost, so you can see what a niche would have to do to be worth your year. Built from published RPM benchmarks. Arithmetic on your inputs — not a forecast, and not anybody's results.
Stated before the price rather than after it, because you have almost certainly been sold something in this category that buried this section.
Checkout is not live yet — card processing is still being set up, and a button that appears to take money and then fails is worse than no button. Add your address and you get one message the day it opens, with the launch price held.