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Find the angle and the title, write the script, cut the footage, edit and publish. Daryl takes the tedious part, you keep the fun one.
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- Title
- Thumbnail
- Script
- Roast
- Teleprompter
- Rough cut
- Storyboard
- Editing
- Shorts
- Render
- Details
- Upload
A tour of Daryl
The 4-day week, one year later
My company switched to a four-day week a year ago. What it did to pay, output and the people, with our own numbers and the UK trial.
- Starting idea
- My company tried the 4-day week for a year. Was it worth it?
- Target length
- 10–15 min
Our own numbers, month by month: output, sick days, hiring, and what it cost.
Keep✓ KeptWhere the UK and Iceland trials worked, and the jobs where it fell apart.
KeepThe objections managers raise, and the ones that actually hold up.
Keep- UK four-day week pilot, final report
- Iceland working-time trials, 2015–2019
- Microsoft Japan, Work-Life Choice Challenge
- Your HR exports: hours, sick days, hires
- Six interview notes
Kept angleA year of 4-day weeks: what happened to pay and output
- The 4-day week, one year later58+
- Why the 4-day week works (and where it doesn't)71+
- 61 companies tried the 4-day week. 56 kept it.82✓
- Is the 4-day week only for tech jobs?63+
- 4 days, same salary: the numbers after a year74✓
- The hidden cost of the 4-day week66+
- Your boss is wrong about the 4-day week54+
Kept angleWe did the 4-day week for a year. Here's the bill.
- Hook 120
- The trial 340
- The numbers 610
- What broke 480
- Verdict 210
HOOK
A year ago, my company switched to a four-day week. Same salary, same goals, one day less.
[VISUAL: a calendar, Friday slides out]
Everyone asked me the same thing: did it work? Here are our numbers, month by month, and the one thing nobody saw coming.
THE TRIAL
We were not the first. In 2022, 61 companies in the UK tried it for six months. 56 of them kept it.
Same output, fewer sick days, and almost nobody wanted to go back. So why did ours nearly fall apart?
Strong hook. The middle drags.
- Say what broke in the hook, not at minute 9
- Cut the second example in The numbers
- End on the question, not on a summary
A001_C004.MP4 · 00:12 → 01:48
A year ago, my company switched to a four-day week.
Same salary, same… hmm, no, let me start that again.Bad take
Same salary, same goals, one day less.
2.6 s of silenceSilence
So I asked the people who lived it what actually changed.
And the first thing they… sorry, the first thing they saidBad take
The first thing they told me was not about Fridays.
1.9 s of silenceSilence
It was about Mondays, and the meetings that piled up on them.
Same salary, same goals, one day less.We show
A week calendar: Friday slides out and the four days stretch to fill the week.
61 companies tried it, and 56 kept it.We show
Two counters tick up side by side in the lower band, 61 then 56.
And then, in March, it nearly fell apart.We show
A strong punch-in on your face, held for the whole line.
- Intro
- The trial
- The numbers
- What broke
- Verdict
- Title card
- office
- survey
- timesheet
- team
- lofi-01
- lofi-02
- lofi-03
- 4 days?A61 companies tried the 4-day week. 56 kept it.
- 56 of 61 kept itB4 days, same salary: the numbers after a year
- We did the 4-day week for a year. Here's the bill.
FridaysC
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:05 The trial
- 04:12 The numbers
- 09:30 What broke
- 15:20 Verdict
- Video rendered · 19:40, 4K
- Titles under 70 characters
- Three thumbnails at 1280 × 720
- Chapters start at 00:00
- Description and tags
- Scheduled for Tuesday, 6 pm
Fits the way you already work
- In your language
- Daryl writes your titles, scripts and descriptions in the language of your channel.
- Your footage stays on your disk
- Transcription and rendering run on your machine. Your rushes go nowhere until you publish.
- Keep your editing software
- Send the rough cut or the edit to DaVinci Resolve or Premiere and finish it there.
One command for the most tedious jobs
Open your AI agent in the repository and type the command.
/music-bedMusic under the whole video, cut to length and ducked under your voice./replace-aroll-takeRe-filmed a passage? Drop it in, and the B-roll, zooms and sounds follow./snatch-cutA burst of close-ups, snap zooms and punchy sounds to wake up a sequence.
A personal tool, shared as is
It follows how I work and evolves in that direction. It is maintained on a best-effort basis. Fork it, take what you need, or use it for ideas.
Try it
You need Windows, Python 3.12, Node.js with pnpm, ffmpeg and Claude Code logged in.
git clone https://rickub.com/hlassiege/daryl.git
cd daryl
py -3.12 -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\pip install -r backend\requirements.txt
cd web; pnpm install; pnpm build; cd ..\backend
..\.venv\Scripts\python -m studioThen open http://localhost:4400. Read the README for the optional services: cloud transcription, thumbnails, YouTube upload, music.