AI Content Pipeline for X/Twitter

The recipe

1. Research in Perplexity Pro ($20/mo). Ask for cited answers on your niche’s weekly news; save threads per content pillar. Citations double as your fact-check receipts.
2. Draft in Claude Pro ($20/mo). Create a Project with your voice guide and 10 best past posts. Generate thread drafts there — Claude holds tone better than ChatGPT for long-form-adjacent writing.
3. Edit by hand. Delete the first and last paragraph of every draft; that’s where the LLM filler lives. Your edits are the moat.
4. Images in Ideogram ($8/mo). Thumbnails and quote cards need readable text — Ideogram’s text rendering is why it’s here instead of Midjourney.
5. Video clips in Kling ($10/mo). Turn the top post of the week into a 5-10 second motion clip for reach. Free daily credits absorb experiments.
6. Voiceover in ElevenLabs Starter ($6/mo). Read the thread, clone your voice once, reuse. 30k credits cover a month of shorts.
7. Schedule natively. X’s own scheduler or a free tool — don’t pay for a social suite at this stage.

When this breaks down

Past ~3 platforms or a team, per-tool subscriptions and copy-paste between them become the bottleneck. Move to an n8n-automated pipeline then.