DOCS
Everything you need to ship a documentary.
Short, opinionated guides on each part of LongformHQ. We're writing these as the product hardens — the badges below mark what's ready and what's next.
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Getting started
Sign up, brief Aana once, queue your first 10-minute documentary in under 20 minutes. The whole pipeline in one read.
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Channel personas
What a persona captures (voice, visual style, language, brand) and how to evolve it without resetting your back-catalog.
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Pipeline stages
The nine-stage FSM in detail — script, prompts, images, clips, assembly, voiceover, captions, final, publish — with deep-links into your videos.
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Credits & billing
Plans, credit cost per stage, the rollover and refund rules, top-ups, and how upgrades pro-rate against the current cycle.
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BYO API keys
Bring your own OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and ElevenLabs keys to skip our credit cost. Encryption, scope, fallback rules.
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The editor
Reorder, trim, crossfade. Insert a new clip from a prompt. Re-render the 4K master without re-running the whole pipeline.
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Troubleshooting
Common pipeline failures: xAI quota exhaustion, ElevenLabs subscription issues, Gemini policy refusals, ffmpeg concat mismatches.
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Phase 2API & webhooks
Programmatic access and stage-event webhooks. Coming in Phase 2 — sign up for the announcement.
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