Viral TikTok/Shorts Automation — Step-by-Step AI Workflow Guide

Viral TikTok/Shorts Automation: A complete pipeline to research trends, script, generate, and auto-post viral short-form videos.

Steps: 5 · Tools: 5

About this workflow

A complete pipeline to research trends, script, generate, and auto-post viral short-form videos.

This AI workflow is broken into 5 practical steps, each matched with a recommended tool so you can execute end-to-end without piecing the stack together yourself.

Each step below lists the action to take and the recommended AI tool for that step. You can substitute alternatives from the same category if you already have a preferred tool.

Workflow steps

Step 1: Trend & Hook Discovery

Analyze current TikTok/Reels trends and generate viral hook ideas.

Recommended tool: Perplexity

Step 2: Script & Storyboarding

Write engaging, fast-paced scripts optimized for short attention spans.

Recommended tool: Claude

Step 3: Visuals & Voice Generation

Generate dynamic visuals, B-roll, or AI avatars, paired with trending AI voices.

Recommended tool: HeyGen

Step 4: Auto-Editing & Captions

Automatically edit clips to the beat and add dynamic, eye-catching captions.

Recommended tool: CapCut

Step 5: Auto-Posting & Analytics

Schedule your shorts across TikTok, IG Reels, and YouTube Shorts natively.

Recommended tool: Metricool

AI tools used in this workflow

  • Perplexity — AI-powered search engine providing real-time answers with source citations. Features Deep Research for comprehensive reports an...
  • Claude — Anthropic's flagship AI model, now powered by Opus 4.6 (Feb 5) and Sonnet 4.6 (Feb 17) with 1M token context window (beta). Lea...
  • HeyGen — AI video generation platform with hyper-realistic digital avatars, video translation with lip-sync in 175+ languages, and voice...
  • CapCut — AI-powered video editing platform with auto-captions, background removal, AI avatars, and text-to-speech. The leading free vide...
  • Metricool — Metricool helps you analyze, manage, and grow your digital presence. It supports auto-publishing for TikTok, Instagram Reels, a...

How to use this guide

Work through the steps in order. Each step's recommended tool is a suggestion — if you already use an equivalent tool, substitute it freely. Where steps feed into each other (outputs from step N become inputs for step N+1), keep artifacts organized in a shared folder or notebook.

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