Carousel Factory — AI Studio for Instagram Carousels

What it does

Everything Carousel Factory does for you

• Research

  Facts you can stand behind

  The Research Agent searches the live web and breaks what it finds into single claims, each linked to its sources. A source can only come from a real search or fetch result, never from the model's memory. The Fact Check Agent then quotes the evidence word for word, and the app looks for that quote in the page it fetched itself — a claim is only marked verified if the quote is really there.

  • ✓ verified · ⚠ needs context · ? unverified · ✕ rejected
  • Every number on a slide must trace to a verified claim
  • Your own overrides are logged with a note

• Control

  You approve at every gate

  It stops after the research, after the script, before production and at the end. The server enforces those gates, so nothing reaches production without your approval. Any stage can be re-run on its own; the stages after it are flagged for review instead of thrown away, and a slide you lock is never changed by any AI step.

  • Approve research → script → design → final
  • Version history: duplicate, compare, restore
  • Ask the assistant for targeted edits: “make slide 4 more visual”

• Design Studio

  Every look, yours to change

  The Creative Director proposes three directions, rendered with your real slides. Then change anything: 20 design templates, 28 colour palettes each tuned for dark and white, 23 font pairings, 18 layout traits and the motion style. Save a look as your own style and every new carousel can start from it.

  • Per-slide photo placement, focus point and treatment
  • Contrast warning below 4.5:1
  • Charts, cards, flows and timelines drawn on the slide

• Motion

  Animated, from the same slides

  Choose static, animated, hybrid or the director's choice. Each slide animates by what it holds: headlines arrive word by word, numbers count up to the exact value, charts and diagrams draw themselves, the CTA keyword pops. HyperFrames renders it by default and Remotion is built in as a second engine, both from the same slide renderer, so the video matches what you approved.

  • Live preview before you render
  • Draft, Standard or Final quality
  • One MP4 for the carousel, or one per slide

• Your own script

  Bring a script instead of a topic

  Paste notes, a draft or a transcript into Script Studio. Polish & arrange tightens it into slides; Arrange only keeps your words; Exactly as written lays out slides you marked up yourself with a live preview, and no AI reads it. Afterwards every number and quote on the slides is compared with your text without a model, and anything not in your script is flagged on the slide.

  • Steps become flows, numbers become charts
  • Nothing is researched or added
  • Writes in the language of your script

• Images

  Images it actually looked at

  Image Scout reads each slide, gathers openly licensed photos from Openverse or Wikimedia Commons and screenshots of the pages the slides talk about, looks at every candidate and keeps only the ones that show what the slide is about. Upload your own photos and the Image Director places each one on the slide it fits best. Every image carries its licence, and CC BY credits are added to the caption for you.

  • Your own asset library with recolourable logos
  • Optional AI images through Higgsfield, cost confirmed first
  • QA warns about images whose rights aren't confirmed

• Publish

  Canva, PowerPoint, PNG, MP4 — or straight to Instagram

  Production builds an editable PowerPoint master and, with Canva connected, imports it as one 1080×1350 Canva design. The Metadata Agent writes the caption, hashtags, alt text for every slide and a cover title from the approved slides only. After your final approval, it can post the carousel (or the animated cut as a reel) to Instagram through Meta's official API — with one last confirmation that shows the account, the slides and the exact caption.

  • Caption checked against Instagram's 2,200-character and 5-hashtag limits
  • Nothing over a limit is cut silently
  • A Claude Code handoff command for Canva is included too

• Discover

  Trend Radar finds what to post

  The Trend Agent searches for what is gaining momentum in the categories you pick, confirms the dates against sources, and for each trend gives the why-now, content signals, a suggested hook and five to seven angles. Pick one and the carousel starts from it — or ignore it and start from your own idea, link or keyword.

How it works

One line, twelve stations

Every carousel moves down the same line. The diamonds are where it waits for you.

1. 01DiscoverTrends with why-now, sources and angles — or your own idea.Trend Agent
2. 02ResearchSources and single claims, each linked to its sources.Research Agent
3. ◆Verifyyou approveEvery claim given a status with verbatim evidence. You approve the research.Fact Check Agent
4. 04AngleThree angles, each with a thesis and format. You choose one.Content Agent
5. 05HookFive hooks: curiosity, contrarian, number, pain, insight. You choose one.Hook Agent
6. ◆Storyyou approveThe slides, every fact linked to a claim, and five comment-keyword CTAs. You approve the script.Content + CTA Agents
7. 07DesignThree directions on your real slides, plus a static, motion or hybrid recommendation.Creative Director
8. ◆Approvalyou approveThe full creative direction — moodboard, type, colour, sample slides. You approve and produce.
9. 09CanvaAn editable PowerPoint master, imported into Canva as one design.Design Agent
10. 10MotionWhich slides to animate and how; HyperFrames or Remotion renders it.Motion Director
11. ◆QAyou approveA scorecard on research, facts, story, design, mobile and CTA. You give final approval.QA Agent
12. 12ExportCaption, hashtags, alt text, cover title and every file — then publish when you say so.Metadata Agent

What you get

What a finished carousel gives you

Everything to post it, edit it elsewhere, or show where every fact came from.

PNG carousel (.zip)

Every slide at 1080×1350

MP4 — full carousel

1080×1350 · 30 fps · H.264, plus one MP4 per animated slide

Editable PPTX master

Real text boxes, fonts and colours, with the evidence in the speaker notes

Canva design

One editable 1080×1350 design, with Canva connected

Caption · hashtags · alt text · cover title

Written from the approved slides, within Instagram's limits

image-credits.txt

The licence and credit for every image used

Evidence records

Claim, source, URL, date, status, confidence and notes for every fact

Project JSON

The whole project — research, strategy, content, design, motion and QA

Extend and customise

Make it yours

It is the full source, laid out so the parts you will want to change are each in one place. Open the folder in Claude Code or Cursor and ask for the change; these are the files it will touch.

• Add a design template

  A template is the structure: header, footer, alignment, panels, decoration and image treatment. Copy one and change it — it works in dark and white with every palette and font.

  src/lib/design/families.ts

• Add your brand palette or fonts

  Palettes are five colours tuned for dark and white; font pairings are a display, body and label font. Fonts load on demand, one small stylesheet per family.

  src/lib/design/palettes.ts · fontPairs.ts

• Change what the agents write

  Each agent's instructions, output schema and checks live together. Change the voice, the slide structure, the hook styles or the research depth.

  src/lib/server/agents/

• Add or move an approval gate

  The stage runner owns the order, the gates, invalidation and versions. A stage has an input, a process, a structured output, validation and an approval.

  src/lib/server/orchestrator.ts

• New animations

  The HyperFrames choreography is one GSAP timeline over the real slides; the Remotion scenes are React components.

  hyperframes/choreo.js · remotion/src/scenes/

• New slide layouts and charts

  One renderer draws every slide for the app, PNG export, Canva and both motion engines, so a new layout appears everywhere at once.

  src/components/slides/ · src/lib/design/diagram.ts

• Trend categories

  Add your own niches in Trend Radar from the app — no code. The scan is shaped by the category and an optional focus line.

  Trend Radar → Custom category

• Other platforms or sizes

  Square posts, Stories or LinkedIn documents are not built in. Every renderer reads one 1080×1350 canvas, so a new size is a real change across the slide renderer and the motion compositions — doable, but plan a session for it.

  src/components/slides/SlideRenderer

Read this before you buy

What Carousel Factory is — and what it isn't

No asterisks. If something below would change your mind, it should change it now rather than after checkout.

Setup guide

From zip to your first carousel

Five parts. Do Part 1 or Part 2 for your computer, then Part 3 and Part 4. Part 5 is optional. The same steps ship in the pack as `SOURCE-PACK-README.md`.

Read README.md and SOURCE-PACK-README.md. Check that Node 20.9+ and FFmpeg are installed, run npm install and npm run dev, and give me the URL. Don't add keys or change any code unless I ask.