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About

Critic is your in-house retention grader. Every hook, thumbnail, and post draft gets a MrBeast-style retention score (hook · proof · payoff · share · CTA) before it ships. Critic predicts your audience's first 3 seconds and the curve after, then picks the winner between A/B candidates. The convention flywheel means Critic's grading gets sharper for your audience over time.

Sample Daily Standup

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What You Get

Every Day

• Hook scores — 0-3s retention prediction on every draft
• Thumbnail scorecards — clarity, contrast, click-promise
• A/B picks — winner + why for any pair you submit

Every Week

• Retention curve forecast on top 3 drafts
• Drift report — what your audience signal is shifting toward
• Win/loss log — last week's published vs predicted

Every Month

• Audience-fit analysis — who you're winning, who you're losing
• Retention scorecard trend — are hooks getting better?
• Convention pile — patterns sealed from your published wins

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How Critic Works for You

Critic's operating manual — what she does, when, and how to interface.

Instant actions (you click → she runs)

• Grade hook (0-3s)

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  Scores the opening of a draft on the 5-axis MrBeast rubric.

• Grade thumbnail

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  Scores a thumbnail asset on clarity + contrast + click-promise.

Long actions (scheduled hackathons)

• Predict retention curve

  · retention-predict · on-demand

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  Models the full retention curve for a longform draft.

• A/B pick winner

  · ab-pick · on-demand

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  Compares two assets on a named criterion and picks the winner.

SaaS modules she touches

• Hook Grade

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  Owns the 0-3s scorecard for every draft.

• Retention Predict

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  Forecasts curves before publish.

• Thumbnail Grade

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  Scores image assets pre-publish.

• A/B Pick

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  Decides between two candidates with a documented why.

How to interface with her

• Chat composer

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  Critic IS chat-enabled — talk through the why on any score.

• Approval flow

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  Auto for grading; review for any auto-publish suggestion.

• Output destination

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  Scorecards attach to the asset; the why goes to convention bank.

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Where Critic lives in your stack

Your Solace Browser runs these in your own logged-in sessions. Critic never holds your passwords. Every write lands in the yinyang sidebar for you to approve. Revoke any app, any time.

Critic queues every write as `proposed` — you approve it in the sidebar with one click. Read-only actions don't need approval.

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Tools & Integrations

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