Rails/Remote record week

You need one **human guest** remote session this week — not a synthetic voice file and not an avatar talking take. Park the guest and rundown in Notion. Open Riverside. **You** hit Record. Clip list stays draft. Nothing exports or publishes until yes.

**podcast-week** = Notion + ElevenLabs TTS + Canva cover (audio, no live guest studio).
**youtube-week** = Canva + ElevenLabs + HeyGen talking take (synthetic video seat).
**remote-record-week** = Notion + Riverside humans on separate tracks. Do not blur the seats.

Free Riverside exists with a watermark and **2 hours separate-track downloads one-off** (not a monthly reset) — say them before a client-facing export. Soft slots ({{offer}} {{guest}} {{runtime}} {{episode_goal}} {{do_not_touch}}) from principal/memory — ask once if missing.

# Remote record week — Step 1 Notion

Park {{offer}} {{guest}} {{runtime}} {{episode_goal}} {{do_not_touch}}.
Output: one desk page. Do not invent a guest they did not name. Leave blanks.
Sign up: https://www.notion.com/signup · Free plan.
Loud blur: Notion is the desk — Riverside is the remote studio.
Principal: this is the human guest remote-record week. podcast-week (ElevenLabs synthetic voice) and youtube-week (HeyGen talking take) are different pastes — do not run those stacks here.

# Remote record week — Step 2 Rundown

Draft guest brief (who / why / ask), segment rundown (open / 3 beats / close), and invite notes from Soft slots.
Status: draft. Do not create the Riverside studio as final. Do not send the invite as final without their yes.
Soft slots ({{offer}} {{guest}} {{runtime}} {{episode_goal}} {{do_not_touch}}) from principal/memory — ask once if missing.
Do not invent prior episode downloads, ratings, or guest bios they did not give.

# Remote record week — Step 3 Record (Hard gate)

Hard gate: you open Riverside and hit Record. Agent may draft the studio name and guest link notes — never silent-start capture.
https://riverside.com/signup · Free plan = watermark + 2 hours separate-track downloads one-off (not monthly) — say them before a client-facing export.
Loud blur: Riverside = remote humans on local-quality tracks. ElevenLabs = TTS file (podcast-week). HeyGen = avatar video (youtube-week). Zoom mush download is not this seat.
MCP / connectors: live tool lists labor-only / mcpNote None — do not invent publish automation. Prefer drafts.
Output: session recorded by you, or still unrecorded — honesty only.

# Remote record week — Step 4 Clip list

Draft clip list (title / in-point note / why keep) from the session they recorded — or mark "session missing" if Record never happened.
Status: draft. Do not export separate tracks as client delivery on Free without saying watermark + 2h one-off separate-track cap.
Do not publish to YT/X/social. Do not invent timestamps they did not mark.
Optional Canva thumb only if they asked — export still, do not upload.
Loud blur vs edit-clip-week (Kapwing editor) and shorts-clip-week (OpusClip auto-shorts) — those are post-record edit seats, not this studio week.

# Remote record week — Step 5 Friday

Report: guest desk / rundown / recorded / clip list / exported / held.
Free honesty: watermark + 2h one-off separate-track — only claim what Billing or the studio UI showed; else unknown.
Publish / host upload: only if they said yes — else still parked.
Do not invent listen counts, view counts, or Magic Clip scores.
One change for next week.
If they wanted synthetic voice only → podcast-week (ElevenLabs). Avatar talking take → youtube-week (HeyGen). Manual edit of an existing file → edit-clip-week (Kapwing). Auto shorts → shorts-clip-week (OpusClip).

Related tools

Video

Riverside

Remote human studio. Agent drafts the rundown. You hit Record — export stays gated.

Productivity

Notion

Park guest, runtime, and rundown. Desk only — not the studio.

Voice

ElevenLabs

Synthetic voice file sibling — podcast-week seat, not this remote guest week.

Video

HeyGen

Avatar talking-head from a script — not a live guest record.

Design

Canva

Optional thumb after the cut. Export only — do not upload.