What does this automation do?
A new video is transcribed in full, read by an agent that knows your content pillars, and reduced to the points worth acting on.
What can you do with it?
- Get the substance of a long video without watching it
- Catch what a competitor or a partner announced the day it lands
- Tag the project so the coverage is reviewable as a set
The Steps
This automation runs in 5 steps:
- When YouTube — New Video
- Then Media — Transcribe a YouTube video
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Content Scout")
- Then Taskade — Add Task
- Then Taskade — Tag a project
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Content Scout" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your content pillars and your audience, remembers the themes it has already flagged, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for content, marketing and competitive-intelligence teams. A new video is transcribed in full, read by an agent that knows your content pillars, and reduced to the points worth acting on.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Video" from YouTube.
- Add the action "Transcribe a YouTube video" from Media.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Content Scout".
- Add the action "Add Task" from Taskade.
- Add the action "Tag a project" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.