The exact Virlo + AI play to find a video format that's already going viral in your niche and recreate it as an AI video nobody can tell is fake.
Right now there are videos pulling six figures of views that were made entirely by AI, and the people watching have no idea. One walked through a tool as an AI avatar and did 101K views. Another ran an AI presenter and a demo side by side and did 80K.
Here's the thing most people get wrong: the AI being good enough is solved. Viewers can't tell anymore. So the whole game moved to two things: knowing which format is actually going viral (so you don't waste a generation on a dud), and being able to spin one up in minutes for pennies.
Virlo handles the first. AI handles the second.
This is the exact process, in prompts. Paste each one and answer as it asks.
Rather we run it with you? Book 15 minutes and we'll pull what's going viral in your niche live and script your first AI video on the call. → cal.com/team/virlo/booking-demo
You don't invent a video idea. You find a format that's already going viral with live data, recreate it as an AI video, and post it before everyone else catches on.
flowchart LR
A[Find the format<br/>what's going viral in your niche] --> B[Write the script<br/>story-first, Claude]
B --> C[Generate the video<br/>AI avatar + Seedance, ~$0.15 a clip]
C --> D[Post it<br/>trending sound, before your niche does]
The stack is cheap: Virlo for the data, Claude for the script, fal.ai or Replicate running Seedance (about $0.15 a finished clip), GPT Image 2 or Nano Banana for the character, Topaz to upscale, CapCut to finish. The point of the low cost is what it unlocks: you can test a dozen videos for the price of one human creator video, and let the data tell you which one won.
Grab a virlo_tkn_ key at dev.virlo.ai ($10 minimum, never expires; reads are free, about $0.50 to spin up an agent). Paste:
Goal:
- connect you to Virlo so you can pull live TikTok, Instagram,
and YouTube data straight into this chat
Tool:
- Virlo MCP server: <https://dev.virlo.ai/api/mcp/mcp>
- my key starts with virlo_tkn_ (I'll paste it where you tell me)
Process:
- ask which Claude client I'm using (Claude Desktop, Claude Code,
Cursor, Windsurf, or other)
- show me exactly where to paste my key for that client
- have me restart, then test by pulling trending videos in a
niche I name
Important:
- don't print my key back to me
- one action at a time, explain each in a single line
Start.
You're not guessing what to make. You're pulling the video formats already winning in your space, so every generation has a proven structure behind it.
Using Virlo, find the video formats going viral in [my niche] right
now.
- pull the top viral videos in [my niche] from the last 7-14 days,
ranked by how far they punched above the creator's following
- for the strongest 3, tell me: the format (green screen, talking
head, split screen, faceless screen-record, before/after, etc.),
the exact hook in the first 3 seconds, and why it's working
- pick the ONE format I should recreate as an AI video, and tell me
the trending sound to put on it
Rank it. Don't pad.