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Find finance short-form videos that went viral. Show me the verbal hook, visual hook and script structure for each one.
Found 5 posts in Benchmark
You can look rich and still feel broke.

You can look rich and still feel broke.

219.7K views
The bank just refused to give my money back!

The bank just refused to give my money back!

11.2M views
It feels very ‘99 to me how ridiculous some of this is:

It feels very ‘99 to me how ridiculous some of this is:

258K views
Why Your Traditional Bank is Costing You Money

Why Your Traditional Bank is Costing You Money

422.1K views
How to Save $4,000: The 26 Paycheck Savings Challenge

How to Save $4,000: The 26 Paycheck Savings Challenge

2.3M views

Verbal hooks, visual hooks and script structures

Verbal hook

What is a rich, poor person, Somebody that lives a wealthy life, very comfortable lifestyle, owns homes, and at the same time has such a high cost of living.

What is a [positive], [negative] person, Somebody that lives a [positive] life, very [positive] lifestyle, [owns or has] [valuable things], and at the same time has such a high [ongoing burden].

Visual hook

Close-up of [person] speaking into a microphone, with a small [topic label] at the top and a bold quote overlay showing a [positive] yet [negative] contradiction.

Script structure

The Paradox Hook → The Impressive Lifestyle → The Hidden Financial Struggle → The Repeating Money Crisis → The Year-End Shortfall → The Rising-Cost Escalation → The Surprise Confirmation

Ask for examples you can use.

Three requests and what each one returns.

"I'm making a carousel about building a personal brand. Find a few examples and show me opening hooks I could adapt. Link the posts."

Most creators are writing like the feed is a classroom.Have you noticed how many people treat their personal brands the way corporations do?A few more details on the New Instagram 👇My 20s were spent obsessing over the constant hustle and grind to figure out what success truly meant.

Four carousels from the library, each above its account's median. Every opening hook sits beside its pattern, with a link to the post.

"I'm writing a YouTube video about investing. Find related videos and show me how their intros lead into the main idea."

What The Elites Are Planning

What The Elites Are Planning

Andrei Jikh

780.4K views

The 200 Trades a Day Strategy That Made Him 7 Figures

The 200 Trades a Day Strategy That Made Him 7 Figures

Humbled Trader

292.6K views

Ferrari 355 F1 vs 1981 Corvette: Which Is the Smarter Buy? | Jay Leno's Garage

Ferrari 355 F1 vs 1981 Corvette: Which Is the Smarter Buy? | Jay Leno's Garage

Jay Leno's Garage

213.9K views

Three videos above their channel's median. Each one's opening lines sit beside its intro template, with the script steps that follow.

"Compare these three competitor announcements on X. Show me how their hooks and structure differ, and suggest a launch hook I can adapt."

GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash are now available in Cursor!GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI is now live on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference.Today we’re introducing Gemini 4 Argon.

Cursor, DigitalOcean and Google announcements from the library, with their opening hooks, structure and a launch hook you can adapt.

What comes back with every post.

Read the hook, the visuals, the script steps and the pacing. Outlier scores (coming soon) compare reach with the account's median. Adapt the templates to your subject.

Spoken hook

The first line as said, its hook type, and the reusable pattern.

Visual hook

What is on screen in the first seconds, and how it works with the words.

Script structure

Named steps, each with the original line and the template.

Pacing

Fast or slow, and the emotional arc from the first line to the last.

Outlier score (coming soon)

Reach against the account's own median, percentile and review tier.

Metrics

Views, plays, likes, comments, shares and saves, with the observed time.

Topics and emotions

Categories, keywords, emotions, styles and the estimated target audience.

Title and thumbnail

For long form: the title template, the thumbnail composition and how they relate.

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Server URL
https://api.benchmark.app/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http benchmark https://api.benchmark.app/mcp

Cursor

{ "mcpServers": { "benchmark": { "url": "https://api.benchmark.app/mcp" } } }

The server has four tools: whoami, list_operations, query and mutate. They cover the same operations as the public API.

Ask for help with your next post.

Compare openings or review a draft with examples from the library. Your agent links the posts it uses.

"Find personal finance hooks I can adapt. Group them by pattern and include the original lines."

Hook patterns grouped by shape, each with the line as it was said and the post it came from.

"Compare these three competitor announcements. How does each one open and introduce the product?"

The first line of each, side by side, with the structure that follows and where they differ.

"Here's my draft. Find related posts and suggest changes to the hook and structure."

Your draft next to the closest posts in the library, with specific changes and the templates behind them.

"Find YouTube videos on our topic. Compare their title and thumbnail templates and suggest a pairing."

The title and thumbnail templates that recur across the top videos, and one pairing to try.