Bot Studio Series Bots: Post a Recurring AI Series With the Same Cast in Every Episode

A series bot is how you post a recurring AI series with the same characters in every episode: it writes the whole story first, turns each character into a fixed face and voice, then films and publishes one episode on every scheduled firing. We build ReelMint, and series mode is the part of Bot Studio people ask about most, so this post covers how it works, what it costs, and the rules that decide when an episode films and how it is posted.

Why a series needs a fixed cast

Ask a video model for "the same girl as yesterday" and you get a different girl. A series only works if the faces and voices are pinned by something stronger than a prompt. In series mode each cast member becomes a real Character in the studio, with a generated face sheet and a gender-matched voice, bound into a collection that every episode attaches. The voices are chosen deterministically for each bot, so rewriting the story never recasts the show. The cast is invented; a series never uses a real person.

How a series bot is built

1. Write the premise. Studio, then Bot Studio, then New bot, and choose Series. The brief is the premise: the world, the kind of characters, the tone. For example, "A night-shift courier in a rainy city who delivers one strange package each night."
2. Set the episode count. The story is split into that many chapters. Turn on "continue" and when the finale posts, the bot writes the next arc with the same people, picking up where the last one ended. Without it, the bot pauses itself and tells you the series is complete.
3. Let it write the story. One writing pass produces the title, the logline, the world, the cast and every episode's outline. A plain story has 2 to 8 characters. A match or tournament can use a cast plan instead, which draws whole squads with their coaches.
4. Pick the model, length and schedule. The same settings as any bot: model, scenes and seconds per scene, dialogue and subtitle languages, music, a firing time in your timezone, and the destinations.
5. Read the quote and save. The quote shows the one-off lines separately from the per-episode figure, then the monthly total.

The cast gate: no episode films before its cast is drawn

Every cast member's portrait is drawn in the series' own look before any episode is filmed. If a firing comes up while portraits are still being drawn, for example on a bot you created five minutes before its first slot, the slot waits instead of filming against a text description. If a portrait fails, it is redrawn once. After a 20-minute grace period the episode films with the portraits that are ready, and the log records who was missing.

The story wait works the same way: a bot created at 05:55 with a 06:00 slot still posts its first episode once the story lands, rather than failing.

The cast is also paid for up front. When you save a series, the balance has to cover the story, the outlines and the portraits. If it does not, the save is refused with an insufficient-credits message, rather than starting a story the account cannot finish.

What a series costs

• The story, once: 5 credits plus 1 per episode. A 10-episode series is 15 credits.
• Cast portraits, once: 20 credits per character. A five-person cast is 100 credits.
• Per episode: the generation itself, plus music, upscale and captions if you chose them. A series pays nothing per run for writing, because the story already exists.

The one-off lines are kept out of the monthly figure on purpose; folding a single charge into the per-run price would multiply it by thirty. The monthly figure is the per-episode cost times the episodes per day times 30. For scale, a 30-second daily episode on a mid-priced model with music and upscale runs around 900 to 1,400 credits per firing. Plans start at Lite, $9.99 a month for 800 credits, Bot Studio is on every plan, and credits are the only limit.

The daily cap

One bot can fire up to six times a day, and the cap is counted in the bot's own local calendar day, not in UTC, so a bot in Tokyo capped at one episode posts exactly one per Tokyo day. A slot that was skipped, such as one that waited for its story, does not count against the cap. Most series run one episode a day; a cap above that multiplies the spend just as fast.

Auto-publish: every episode posts on its own

A series bot saved active publishes every episode to every destination you picked, without asking: the episode is filmed, the caption writer produces the X post, TikTok caption, Instagram caption, Facebook post and YouTube title and tags, and it goes out. You get one notification per post and one for any failure. A failed episode posts nothing, is not charged twice, and the next slot tries again.

If you want to see the first episode before anything goes out on a schedule, save the bot paused and press "Run now". Pausing clears the schedule; resuming re-arms from the current time and never replays the slots you missed. To change the plot, "rewrite story" re-plans the unfilmed episodes only. Posted chapters and the whole cast stay as they are.

The badge rule, per plan

A bot's watermark switch is on by default, and it can only add the badge, never remove one your plan requires:

• Lite and Starter: every bot episode carries the small ReelMint badge, whatever the switch says.
• Creator and above: the badge is on by default and you can switch it off per bot for clean episodes.

Separately, each render gets a page in ReelMint's public gallery by default. Turn "share renders" off to keep the episodes on your own channels only.

Where series bots work best

Anime serials, kids' stories with a recurring cast, workplace comedies, sports seasons with two rival teams, mystery chapters that end on a hook. The anime tab defaults to Japanese dialogue with subtitles in any language you choose, which suits a daily anime short; the anime guide covers the tab itself. For the bot screen, the one-minute Bot Studio tutorial and the autopilot page go through it step by step.

Does a series bot keep the same faces every episode?

Yes. Each character has a face sheet and an assigned voice created once, and every episode is filmed against that cast and that look.

What happens when the series ends?

With "continue" on, the bot writes the next arc with the same cast and keeps going. With it off, the bot pauses itself and tells you the series is complete.

Can I review episodes before they post?

Save the bot paused and use "Run now" to see a real episode first. Once a bot is active, every episode posts on schedule; you can pause at any moment.

Can I remove the ReelMint badge from episodes?

On Creator and higher plans, yes, with the bot's watermark switch. On Lite and Starter the badge always stays.

Which plan do I need for a series bot?

Any plan. Bot Studio has no tier; the quote shows the one-off cast cost and the monthly figure before you save.