A workspace built around one rule

The problem we set out to fix

Making a video means moving between a research tool, a notes app, a document, an image editor and a chat window — and copying things between all of them. By the time a video is published, the research that justified it is in a browser tab nobody will find again, and the three script drafts are called final, final2 and final-real.

PublishBench keeps all of it attached to the video it belongs to. Research becomes a project. The project holds the script, its versions, the transcript, the thumbnail and every piece of metadata generated for it. Nothing is orphaned.

The constraint we took on

The obvious way to build a YouTube research tool is to show impressive numbers: search volume, RPM, projected revenue, a competition rating out of ten. None of those figures are published by YouTube. Every tool showing them is modelling, extrapolating from a different platform, or inventing.

We decided not to. What you get instead is a smaller set of numbers that are actually real, each labelled with where it came from, plus one clearly-marked ranking heuristic whose formula and weights we publish in full. It is less impressive on a screenshot. It is more useful when you are deciding what to make on a Tuesday morning.

What we will not do

• Invent quantitative facts. No search volume, no RPM, no CPM, no revenue projections, no competition score pulled from nowhere.
• Ingest channels you do not own. Brand voice profiles are built from channels you connected and authorised, or from writing samples you paste in yourself. There is no path that scrapes a competitor to imitate them.
• Present a broken integration as working. If a provider is not configured, the feature says so and returns an error. It does not fall back to a plausible-looking fake result.
• Charge you for our failures. Credits are refunded automatically when a generation fails, and cached research is not charged at all.

How we make money

Subscriptions, and optional credit top-ups. That is the entire model. We do not sell data, we do not run ads, and there is no free tier designed to become unusable — Starter is a permanent plan with access to every tool.

Independence

PublishBench is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. We use the public YouTube Data API under its terms, and we only access your channel with read-only permission you explicitly grant and can revoke at any time.