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Use Claude as your social media manager

Connect Claude to Radical Tempo so it can see your videos and results on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, then cut and schedule clips you approve.

Joe White · · 5 min read

Short answer

Add Radical Tempo to Claude as a connector (two minutes, no API key). Claude then reads your posts and retention on every platform, cuts clips from the moments that held viewers, writes a post for each platform and schedules them once you approve. PrankU runs this way on under an hour a week.

A great manager who can't see the footage

Lots of creators already use Claude to brainstorm hooks and draft captions. It's good at it. But ask "why did this clip flop?" and it can only guess, because it has never seen the clip or its numbers.

Analytics tools such as vidIQ and Metricool now plug numbers into Claude. Numbers tell you a post fell. They can't tell you which second lost the viewer, or what was on screen when it happened. Radical Tempo gives Claude the video itself, tied to how every part of it performed.

Job Claude on its own Claude with Radical Tempo
Understand the video Only what you paste or describe Knows what's said and shown in every scene, and who's on screen
Know what held viewers Can't see retention Sees the moments viewers left and stayed, across all your posts
Judge results Whatever numbers you copy in Every post on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, compared with your history and about 10 billion views of benchmarks
Make clips Can suggest timestamps Cuts, reframes to 9:16, captions and adds hook text
Post Can't Schedules and publishes to each platform, after you approve
Remember what works Starts fresh each chat Keeps a playbook for your channel, updated weekly from published results

Connect it in two minutes

You need a Claude Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise plan, and a Radical Tempo account (there's a free plan).

  1. Connect your accounts to Radical Tempo. Sign up at app.radicaltempo.com and connect YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Radical Tempo imports your past posts and their results, so Claude has history to work with on day one.
  2. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors. Radical Tempo connects through MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard Claude uses to plug into other apps. Click + Add, then Add custom connector. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds it once under Organization settings, then each person clicks Connect.
  3. Name it Radical Tempo and paste the address: https://mcp.radicaltempo.com/mcp
  4. Sign in with your Radical Tempo account. Choose Sign in now. There's no API key. Claude can do what you can do in the app, and nothing more.
  5. Turn it on in a chat. Click + in the message box, choose Connectors and switch on Radical Tempo. Then ask your first question.

Using ChatGPT? The same address works there as a custom connector with developer mode turned on.

One prompt a week

This is the prompt PrankU runs each week. Claude does the thinking and Radical Tempo does the cutting, posting and measuring. Each week's results change the next week's clips.

PrankU's weekly prompt: Using Radical Tempo: find where viewers left my best video this week, cut 5 clips from the moments that held them, write posts for each platform, and show me before anything goes live.

1. Find what held

Where viewers stayed and left in your best recent videos.

2. Cut clips

From the moments that held, one shape per platform.

3. Write posts

Titles, captions and hook text from what has worked.

4. You approve

Nothing posts until you say yes.

5. Publish

Scheduled to each platform at your chosen times.

6. Measure

Results update the playbook for next week. Then it starts again, a little smarter.

Here's what Claude answered for PrankU's NLE Choppa episode:

Your NLE Choppa episode loses viewers during the greetings (0:17–0:52) and holds from the first "I'm having contractions". I cut these from the stretches that held. Here are three of the five:

  • TikTok and Instagram, 0:20, "Then the gloves broke." Emergency in the first two seconds, ends on the peak. Same shape as your 30M-view cut.
  • YouTube Shorts, 0:37, "NLE Choppa's Uber ride was a setup." Whole story, start to reveal. Your full-story Short was watched 106% through.
  • Instagram, 0:29, "He didn't flinch." A kindness angle you've never posted. A test.

Schedule 3 posts: Thu 12pm PT (TikTok, Instagram) and 3pm PT (Shorts)?

Illustrative conversation. Clips and timings come from PrankU's NLE Choppa plan of 27 Oct 2026.

Results from footage they already had

PrankU is a celebrity prank channel. Its launch posts still do the heavy lifting. Radical Tempo keeps the old footage earning, every week, on every platform.

10M+

Views from Radical Tempo clips of footage that was already published.

3.45M

Views for one clip cut from year-old JoJo Siwa footage.

About 3×

Rise in average views per post between the first and second half of 2025.

Under 1 hour

Of work a week. No new filming, no editing team.

Most clips don't take off. Plenty do 1,000 to 20,000 views. That's why the weekly routine matters: you need volume to find the hits, and three PrankU clips have passed a million.

Goombay Kids is a children's show from the Bahamas. After switching Radical Tempo on in August, it reached 6.3 million views in 90 days and gained 18,000 subscribers, also on under an hour a week. Its biggest Short since starting, "Poor or Rich? One Boy's Answer Shocks Everyone", published 22 Aug 2026 through Radical Tempo, has 4.9M views with 98% watched on average, as of 3 Nov 2026.

Start with one of these

If your views have fallen, start with our guide Why did my views drop?, which walks through five checks with real channel data.

Analyse

Using Radical Tempo, which of my posts did best this month on each platform, and what do the top three have in common?

Analyse

Using Radical Tempo, why did viewers drop off at 0:40 in my latest video?

Make

Using Radical Tempo, make clips from my latest upload: one for TikTok, one for Instagram and one for YouTube Shorts.

Make

Using Radical Tempo, make a 9:16 version of this clip for TikTok and generate cover options.

Learn

Using Radical Tempo, what have you learned about my channel, and what changed in the last two weeks?

Post

Using Radical Tempo, schedule this clip for Friday at 9am on TikTok and Instagram. Show me the posts first.

What stays in your hands

  • Nothing publishes until you approve it. Claude shows you the clip, the post and the time first.
  • Claude signs in as you, with the same access you have in the Radical Tempo app.
  • You can switch the connector off in any chat, or remove it entirely, at any time.

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Frequently asked questions

Can Claude manage my social media accounts?

On its own, Claude can plan, analyse and write, but it can't see your videos or analytics and it can't post. With the Radical Tempo connector, Claude can read your posts and retention on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, cut clips from the moments that held viewers, write a post for each platform and schedule them after you approve.

Can Claude post to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube?

Not directly. Through Radical Tempo it can: Claude proposes each post, shows you the clip, text and time, and Radical Tempo publishes it once you approve.

What is an MCP connector?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Claude uses to connect to other apps. A custom connector is an app added to Claude this way. Radical Tempo's connector address is https://mcp.radicaltempo.com/mcp.

Which Claude plans can use the Radical Tempo connector?

Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans can add Radical Tempo as a custom connector. On Team and Enterprise, an owner adds it once under Organization settings, then each member clicks Connect.

Does Radical Tempo work with ChatGPT?

Yes. Add the same address, https://mcp.radicaltempo.com/mcp, as a custom connector in ChatGPT with developer mode turned on, then sign in with your Radical Tempo account.

How much does it cost?

Radical Tempo has a free plan. Generating clips doesn't use credits; uploading or importing video uses one credit per minute. Claude is billed separately by Anthropic.

Is it safe to connect Claude to my accounts?

You sign in with your Radical Tempo account, with no API key to share. Claude gets the same access you have in the Radical Tempo app, nothing publishes until you approve it, and you can switch the connector off or remove it at any time.