Turn a video into instructions your AI follows
A how-to video holds a method: steps, numbers, rules, the mistakes to avoid. Cat & Paste reads what is said in the video and writes that method down as a playbook, a set of instructions your AI assistant follows when the topic comes up.
Try it with a video
First one is free. No card.
What goes in
A link to a public video on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. Links copied from the phone apps work too. The cat reads what is said, from the spoken words or the captions, and you choose the language the playbook is written in: English, Spanish or Italian.
What comes out
About two minutes later, a playbook. It is not a summary of the video: it is the method, rewritten as instructions. Every playbook has the same parts:
- When to use it: the situations where your assistant should reach for it.
- The method, step by step, in order.
- Rules and numbers: the budgets, thresholds and figures the video gives.
- Mistakes to avoid.
- Examples, and questions to try asking.
- The source: the video and its creator.
An example
- One offer per campaign
- Three ads, the same budget each
- 3 days before judging an ad
- Judge by cost per message or call, not likes
Those lines come from a playbook written from an invented lesson about ads on a few dollars a day. Ask your assistant to plan your own ads and it follows them: one offer, three ads, three days, then keep the winner.
Three ways your assistant gets it
- The connector: add Cat & Paste to Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Grok Bot or Meta Muse once, and your assistant finds every playbook by itself. Claude takes one click, the others a few steps.
- A file: download the playbook and add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity, each in the format it asks for.
- Text: copy the playbook and paste it into the chat or the custom instructions of any assistant.
Which videos work
Public videos where someone explains how to do something: a tutorial, a talk, a lesson, a walkthrough. YouTube up to 3 hours with captions and 1 hour without; TikTok, Instagram and Facebook up to 1 hour.
A video needs about 100 spoken words to hold a method. When the cat cannot read a video, because it is private, silent or only music, the read comes back to you by itself.
What it does not do
It reads what is said, not what is shown. A video that teaches only with images on screen, with nobody explaining, gives a thin playbook or none.
Questions
Does it keep the video?
No. The text of what was said is used to write the playbook and then thrown away. Only the playbook stays, in your account.
How much does it cost?
The first read is free, with no card. Then packs of reads cost $5, $15, $35 or $95, with no subscription. One read is one video.
Can I fix a playbook that missed the point?
Yes, once: each playbook has one free redo on its page.
Every way to give your assistant a playbook, step by step: connect your AI