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An EV check
before you copy
a YouTube business playbook.

Paste the video. Two independent AIs read the transcript, audit the affiliate links, and tell you the realistic outcome — best case, median, P10 — in dollars. Plus the adjacent plays the guru didn't mention.

First 100 beta users: free for life. After that, $9/mo. We’ll email you your video’s report the moment we ship.

The Problem

Most viral biz videos are affiliate funnels wearing experiment costumes.

A creator films an "I tried X for 7 days" challenge. Every tool they use has an affiliate code in the description. They make $50 per signup. You make a $250 bet on a saturated playbook.

The math:  1 viral video × 994K viewers × 1% follow rate × $250 budget = $2.5M absorbed by bad-outcome playbooks from one piece of content.

Recent Case Study · Real

"I Tried AI Dropshipping For a Week (RAW RESULTS)"

Mark Tilbury · 994K views

  • 3 affiliate tools recommended (creator earns commission on every signup)
  • 72% of his revenue came from ONE customer who bought in bulk
  • His "winning product" is now over-saturated — every viewer is selling it
  • ! He literally said "I failed the challenge" — and the comments still want to copy him

What GuruCheck Checks

Six high-risk patterns we look for — before you spend the money.

We don’t call gurus names. We surface evidence, assumptions, and the math. You decide.

01

Affiliate funnel

Tracking codes in the description. We tell you how much the creator earns per signup, per tool mentioned.

02

Hidden course funnel

Free video pointing to a $497 course. We flag the ladder so you see the full ask.

03

Survivorship bias

One success story stands in for thousands of silent failures. We compute the realistic outcome distribution, not the cherry-picked one.

04

Capital required

“Start with $0” that quietly needs $500 in ads + $50/mo in subscriptions. We back out the real number.

05

Saturation signal

When 994K viewers all get the same recommendation, the trade is crowded before you enter. We flag the saturation window.

06

Refund / complaint signal

If the recommended tool has a wave of refund complaints on Reddit / Trustpilot, you should know before you pay.

We show the assumptions and the evidence. Anonymous takedowns are not our style.

How It Works

Three steps. Sixty seconds. Real numbers.

No fluffy frameworks. No motivational fluff. Just the parts of the playbook that survive a brutal review.

1

Paste the URL

Any YouTube biz video. We pull the transcript, the description, the affiliate links, and the channel’s track record.

2

Dual-AI brutal review

Two independent AIs (Claude + GPT) audit the claims, flag the sponsored content, and compute realistic outcome distributions.

3

Get the verdict

Best case / median / P10 in dollars. What’s actually replicable vs. what’s lucky. Adjacent plays that aren’t crowded yet.

See the full pipeline → click to expand
flowchart LR A([📺 YouTube URL]) --> B[Transcript
+ metadata] B --> C{Affiliate
links?} C -->|Yes| D[🚩 Bias flag] C -->|No| E[Continue] D --> F[Dual-AI review
Claude + GPT] E --> F F --> G[Outcome
distribution] F --> H[Adjacent
plays] G --> I([🎯 Verdict]) H --> I style A fill:#fef3c7,stroke:#f59e0b,stroke-width:2px style I fill:#dcfce7,stroke:#16a34a,stroke-width:2px style D fill:#fee2e2,stroke:#dc2626,stroke-width:2px style F fill:#e0e7ff,stroke:#6366f1,stroke-width:2px

Live Demo

We ran this on Tilbury’s video. Here’s what came back.

Not a mockup. Not a hypothetical. The actual output from our pipeline on a real, viral, 994K-view business video.

gurucheck.app/result/rhuYy9LP72M
┌─ VIDEO ────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  "I Tried AI Dropshipping For a Week (RAW RESULTS)"
  Mark Tilbury · 994K views · 28.5 min
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🚩 AFFILIATE BIAS DETECTED
  • buildyourstore.ai      (tracking code: wv43)
  • AutoDS                 (tracking code: il38)
  • createugc.ai           (tracking code: q27c)
  Creator earns commission on every signup.

⚠ CONCENTRATION RISK
  72% of his stated revenue came from ONE customer.
  Without that customer: $110 revenue. Net loss: ~$60.

📊 REALISTIC OUTCOME (30 days, $250 budget, following literally)
  Best case:   +$150
  Median:      −$220
  P10:         −$500

🎯 ADJACENT PLAYS (less crowded)
  1. Branded niche e-comm with US-sourced suppliers
  2. POD with original creative + audience-first approach
  3. SaaS micro-tool serving the dropshipping crowd itself

VERDICT: ✗ Don't follow this literally
  Crowded negative-EV affiliate funnel, not a business edge.

Every report includes citations, the raw AI transcripts, and a one-page TL;DR.

Who It’s For

If you’ve ever thought “wait — is this guru full of it?”

Persona · 01

The Burned Skeptic

You lost $500-$5,000 on a previous YouTube playbook. Now you’re suspicious. Still curious. Unwilling to spend again without validation.

Persona · 02

The Cautious Side-Hustler

You have a W-2 job and $100-$500/month to explore. Evenings and weekends only. Can’t afford to lose because the cash is real.

How We’re Different

Generic AI fact-checkers stop at “is this claim true?”. We start there and keep going: realistic outcome in dollars, hidden incentives in the funnel, and the adjacent plays the guru didn’t mention. Built for decisions, not just information.

Not for: already-successful operators, true believers, or anyone whose income depends on selling courses.

Pricing

$9 per month.

One avoided bad playbook pays for 28 years of subscription.

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