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Part 4 of 7 · Content repurposer series ~5 min read

How a clip gets drafted

A point has been picked and it carries the passage it came from. Now the drafter has to turn it into something you’d actually post — the right format for each platform, in your voice, the right length, and still true to what the source said. Get any of those wrong and the draft is more work than writing from scratch: a post that sounds like a robot, a thread that’s too long, a caption that says something the source never did. Four small gates sit between a chosen point and a draft on your desk.

Key takeaways

  • Each point is drafted into the formats the rules doc asks for: a thread, short posts, a quote-card caption.
  • The voice doc steers the wording so drafts sound like you, not like a generic assistant.
  • Every draft is checked back against the source passage; anything the source didn’t say is cut.
  • Each format is trimmed to its platform’s length before it’s allowed through.
  • A draft only reaches the review desk if it passed all four gates, with its source passage attached.

Four gates on every draft

Four gates between a chosen point and a draft on the review desk A horizontal flow diagram. On the far left, a "Point chosen" box: a strong point picked from the source, carrying the exact passage it came from and a strength tier — top, strong, or backup. Four gate bars sit in a row to the right. Gate 1: Pick formats — reads the rules doc to see which platform-sized drafts this point should become: a thread of several short posts, one or more standalone short posts, and a quote-card caption. Gate 2: Write in voice — Bedrock Haiku drafts each format using the voice doc, which holds your real examples and your do and don't words, so the draft sounds like you; the harder long pieces can use Claude Sonnet instead. Gate 3: Check against source — takes each draft, finds the passage that best matches it, and confirms every claim in the draft is backed by the source; anything the source didn't say is cut, and a draft that drifts too far is sent back to be rewritten once. Gate 4: Trim to length — checks each draft against its platform's length limit from the rules doc and tightens it if it's over, without adding anything new. After all four gates pass, the draft goes to the review desk with its source passage attached and its format and point tier labelled. A note at the bottom: every gate is a plain check — a draft that can't be tied to the source never reaches you. Point chosen carries its source passage + tier Gate 1 Pick formats rules doc says: thread, posts, a caption one point → several drafts Gate 2 Write in voice Haiku drafts from voice doc your words, your openings, your closers Gate 3 Check vs source match draft to its passage cut anything the source didn’t say Gate 4 Trim to length platform limit from rules doc tighten if over, add nothing new Review desk — each draft with its source passage and format label thread · short posts · quote-card caption, each tied to a passage nothing here has posted — every draft waits for approve, edit, or skip Every gate is a plain check — a draft that can’t be tied to the source never reaches you.
Fig 4. Four gates between a chosen point and a draft on the review desk. Pick the formats. Write in your voice. Check against the source. Trim to length. Then the draft lands on the desk with its source passage attached, waiting for you.

Gate 1: pick the formats

One point can become several drafts, and the rules doc decides which. A typical setup asks for three formats per point: a thread (a handful of short posts that build on each other), one or two standalone short posts (a single punchy post that stands alone), and a quote-card caption (a short caption to pair with a graphic that shows the quote). Not every point gets every format — a top point might get all three, a strong point just a short post and a caption. The rules doc holds the recipe, so you can add a platform or change the mix without anyone touching code.

The point keeps its source passage through this whole step. Every draft that comes out of it inherits that same passage, which is what the source-check in Gate 3 needs.

Gate 2: write it in your voice

This is where Bedrock writes. The drafter takes the point, the source passage, and the voice doc, and asks Haiku 4.5 to draft each format. The voice doc is doing the heavy lifting on tone: it holds three or four real examples of your own short posts, a short list of words you use and words you avoid, whether you use emoji, and how you tend to open and close. The prompt points at all of it: “Write a [format] from this point. Match the voice in these examples. Use only what the source passage supports.”

Most pieces draft fine on Haiku 4.5, which is the cheap, fast model. The harder long pieces — a dense technical post, a rambling transcript where the good lines are tangled up — can be sent to Claude Sonnet 4.6 instead, which reasons better at the cost of being a little slower and dearer. The rules doc picks which model by source kind, so you only pay for the heavier model when a piece actually needs it.

Gate 3: check it against the source

The most important gate. A model rewriting a point for punch can quietly add something the source never said — a rounder number, a stronger claim, a detail that sounds right. Gate 3 catches that. It takes the finished draft, finds the passage that best matches it (using the fingerprints from Part 3), and checks that every claim in the draft is actually backed by the source. Anything that isn’t gets cut. If the draft has drifted too far to fix by trimming, it’s sent back to Gate 2 to be rewritten once, with a note to stay closer to the passage.

This is the rule that makes the whole system safe to use. Without it, repurposing with a model is a slow-motion way to publish things you can’t back up. With it, the worst case is a draft that’s a little flat — never a draft that’s a little false.

Gate 4: trim to the platform’s length

Each platform has its own limits, and the rules doc holds them: a short post capped at a certain number of characters, each post in a thread kept tight, a caption short enough to read at a glance. Gate 4 checks each draft against its limit and, if it’s over, tightens it — cutting words, not adding them. The constraint is one-directional on purpose: trimming can only remove text the source already supported, so it can’t reintroduce a claim Gate 3 just cut.

A draft that passes all four gates lands on the review desk with everything you need to judge it fast: the draft itself, the format it’s for, the point tier, and the exact source passage it came from. Nothing has posted. Every draft is waiting for you.

Next post: the review desk itself — the three buttons on every draft, what approve, edit, and skip each do, and how every choice gets logged so you can see what worked next month.

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