Pulse Mode Guide

Pulse Mode is the swipe-to-approve interface at /pulse. It's where rendered pieces go before they hit your calendar.

The point: review 50 videos in 5 minutes, and rejected ones don't burn credits.

How a session works

You see one card at a time. The card shows the rendered piece (autoplaying with sound, by default), the format badge (e.g. Meme Reaction), and visual hints for APPROVE and SKIP.

Decide with the keyboard or the on-screen buttons:

The keyboard hint "← skip · approve → · M mute" sits at the bottom of the screen during a session.

Where the queue comes from

A piece enters Pulse when:

• An automation is set to "Render now & decide later" — every rendered piece lands in Pulse for swipe approval before scheduling.
• A manual generation finishes rendering — by default, the piece is reviewable in Pulse before it reaches Calendar.

A piece does not enter Pulse when:

• An automation is set to "Render & download zip" — pieces skip Pulse and Calendar entirely. You get a zip of MP4s.
• You explicitly Schedule a piece from the manual editor — it bypasses Pulse and goes directly to a Calendar slot.

What "skip" actually does

Skipping a piece marks it rejected. Specifically:

• It does not publish.
• It does not count against your monthly video cap.
• It stays in the Library, filterable under Archive, in case you want to revisit.

This is the single biggest difference between Prolifik and most AI video tools. Other tools bill on render. Prolifik bills on approved render — so the cost of generating wide and curating ruthlessly is essentially zero.

What "approve" actually does

Approving a piece marks it ready (if it wasn't already), then queues it to the next available slot for its brand based on that brand's posting schedule. From there it follows the normal scheduled → posted flow.

If you've connected multiple platforms, approval queues a post to all connected platforms for that brand.

Edit before approval

Click Edit while a card is on screen to:

• Rewrite the script in place.
• Swap the prompt and re-render in the same format.

Edits don't burn an additional credit unless you trigger a re-render — small text edits on already-rendered pieces save the new version against the same piece.

Preferences (filtering the queue)

Click Preferences to filter what shows up in your session:

• By brand — only show pieces from one brand.
• By format — e.g. only Image Carousels.
• By source — only manual or only automation-generated.

This is helpful when you want a focused review session — for example, swiping through 50 carousels for one brand back-to-back, which is much faster than mixed formats.

How fast is "5 minutes for 50 videos"?

The shipped pace assumes:

• ~3 seconds per Text Story / Meme Reaction (you read the first line, decide).
• ~6 seconds per Image Carousel / Clip Montage (you skim the slides or watch a beat).
• ~10 seconds for a Video Hook & Demo (worth watching).

A mixed batch of 50 averages ~5 minutes. Power users on a focused single-format batch hit ~3 minutes for 50.

Why the swipe interface beats a list

The decision is binary, fast, and irrecoverable on purpose. A list view encourages:

• Fence-sitting ("I'll come back to it").
• Bulk approval ("looks fine") — which produces median content.

A swipe forces you to taste-test each piece. That's the lever on quality.

Tips

• Run Pulse on your phone for batch reviews. The interface is built for it.
• Mute by default if you're commuting. Hit M before the first card; sound stays off the rest of the session.
• Save the ambiguous ones with Edit. Don't approve a piece you're not sure about — fix the script in place, then approve.
• Pulse isn't required. If you trust an automation's output, set it to render-and-zip and skip Pulse entirely.