Golpo Guides
Hands-on playbooks for prompting, scripting, and shipping whiteboard explainers — from your first video to your hundredth.
Find a guide
Search by topic, technique, or use case.
A complete breakdown of every Golpo plan — Starter, Creator, Growth, Business, Scale, and Enterprise. Compare credits, features, video lengths, and add-ons to find the right plan for your workflow.
Learn how to edit videos on Golpo frame by frame. With this feature, you can edit visuals with plain text, add images, replace text, upload reference images and edit animations in a super easy and intutive manner. and understand the credit cost before you start editing.
Understand exactly how Golpo AI deducts credits — whether you're generating from a prompt, uploading your own narration, or editing a video. One minute equals one credit, but when and how the charge happens depends on the mode.
Three paths unlock the Golpo AI video API: the Scale plan ($999.99/mo, 800 minutes, platform + API included), the Business plan with the $200/mo API add-on, or the usage-based API-Only tier starting at $2.00 per minute with volume discounts down to $1.20/min. This guide walks through which plan is right for you, how the “Create API Key” button appears in the playground after you purchase, and the exact API-Only volume tiers.
Golpo is now a plug-in for every modern AI tool. With the new Golpo MCP Server , you can generate a finished, narrated, animated video by chatting with Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code (with Copilot), Claude Desktop, or Visual Studio — no API code, no dashboards, no SDK. Just say “make a 30-second video about why the sky is blue” and an MP4 lands on your computer in minutes. Setup takes 2–5 minutes once you have an API key. Free, open-source, MIT licensed.
Golpo AI now lets you record yourself speaking on camera and automatically turns your narration into a beautifully animated video — with your webcam inset in any corner. Available on Business plan and above.
Your sales team has product manuals, demo recordings, and executive speeches sitting in shared drives collecting dust. Golpo AI turns all of it — documents, screen recordings, audio, and live narration — into polished explainer videos your reps can personalize and send to prospects in minutes. Here is how to use Golpo for sales enablement from day one.
Install the Golpo skill for Claude Code and generate animated explainer videos without leaving your terminal. Type a request, hand Claude a prompt, a script, an audio file, or a PDF, and Claude submits the job, polls until it is done, downloads the MP4 to your computer, and prints both the local file path and the hosted URL. This guide explains what the plugin does, how to install it, how the first-run setup works, and how to get the API key you need to use it.
Golpo AI's Own Narration toggle lets you use your own voice, your own audio files, or your own video recordings to create polished explainer videos. Upload an MP3 from ElevenLabs, repurpose a Zoom recording, or record directly from your microphone or webcam — and Golpo turns it into a professional whiteboard-style video. Here is exactly how to do it.
Golpo Canvas turns your scripts into animated videos with a hand-drawn illustration style. But did you know there are 8 distinct visual styles to choose from - plus 3 pen-in-hand animation options? Here's a complete breakdown of every style, what it looks like, and which plan you need.
In today’s fast-evolving corporate landscape, training employees is more than just ticking boxes, it’s about equipping them with the knowledge and tools to thrive in their roles. As organizations seek more dynamic, scalable, and cost-effective training methods, one innovation stands out: AI-powered storytelling through whiteboard animation.
Product documentation is the most-written and least-watched content in any SaaS company. Turning it into AI-generated customer education videos cuts support tickets, lifts activation, and gives you embed-ready content for the help center, in-app onboarding, and the developer-docs landing page. This guide is the practical playbook — what to convert, the prompt patterns that work, real worked examples from real product docs, and how to scale to a whole help library via the API.
The single biggest lever on AI whiteboard video quality is the prompt. This is a copy-paste library of 50 content-only prompts, organized by use case — business explainer, product, training, SOP, compliance, HR onboarding, sales, education, YouTube, support, research, real estate, internal comms, multilingual, and API docs. Each card gives you the recommended UI settings (duration, style, voice) and a sharp main prompt focused on topic, audience, structure, and CTA. Drop into Golpo, set the dropdowns, generate.
Researchers spend months on a paper that gets 30 reads. The work deserves a wider audience but writing a press release, recording a YouTube explainer, or hiring a science communicator costs more time than the team has. With AI, a PDF of the paper becomes a 4-minute whiteboard explainer in about 10 minutes — suitable for the lab YouTube channel, the department newsletter, conference promotion, and grant applications. This is the practical workflow.
If you are looking for a Doodly alternative, you are probably done with the multi-hour asset hunt for one video. Golpo AI generates the entire whiteboard video from a prompt, script, or PDF in about 10 minutes — no asset library, no scene-building, no timeline. This guide shows what changes when you switch, the concrete time and cost you get back, the 3-step migration path, and three real Golpo videos you can watch right now.
You have the words. Maybe it is a script you already wrote, a blog post, a sales pitch, a training outline, or a YouTube idea. With AI, that text becomes a narrated, animated whiteboard explainer in about 10 minutes — no recording, no animation, no manual scene building. This guide shows you exactly how the text-to-whiteboard-video workflow works, what makes a good script for the format, six copy-paste script templates, and the common mistakes that produce weak videos.
A complete beginner's walkthrough for making AI videos with Golpo inside Codex — OpenAI's coding assistant. No coding experience required. Install Codex, sign in, install the Golpo plugin, paste your API key once, and then make videos in plain English. Plan for 15–20 minutes the first time and under 2 minutes per video after that.
Multilingual explainer video used to be the line-item that quietly killed projects — every language meant a new production cycle. With AI, the same source video re-renders in 40+ languages with one dropdown switch. This guide is the practical workflow — what the language dropdown actually does, the 5-step process from one source to a global video library, common mistakes, and how to scale via the API.
Traditional whiteboard animation software (Doodly, VideoScribe, Powtoon, Vyond, Animaker) makes you build every scene manually. AI whiteboard software turns a prompt, script, PDF, SOP, or product doc into a finished whiteboard video automatically. This guide compares the leading whiteboard animation tools in 2026 across speed, quality, cost, and use case — and shows you which one is honestly the right pick for your job.
Corporate training teams produce hundreds of videos a year — onboarding, compliance, SOPs, manager development, product training. The right AI video tool depends on whether you need document-to-video, avatar-led presenters, character-driven scenarios, or screen recordings. This is the 2026 short-list — Golpo AI, Synthesia, HeyGen, Vyond, Colossyan, Powtoon, and Loom — with the trade-off and the right buyer for each.
The fastest way to understand what AI whiteboard explainers can do is to see them applied to real jobs. This collection covers 25 examples — 13 real worked examples you can watch (every one generated by Golpo AI and live on the Golpo YouTube channel) plus 12 more written-up examples across employee onboarding, SOP training, compliance, customer support, exam prep, K-12 lessons, sales enablement, internal comms, finance, YouTube topical content, and multilingual training.
If you have outgrown Powtoon's slide-by-slide template editing, this is the 2026 short-list. Seven Powtoon alternatives compared honestly — Golpo AI, Vyond, Animaker, Doodly, VideoScribe, Renderforest, and Canva — with workflow, time per video, document-to-video support, and the right buyer for each. Quick comparison up top, deep dive below.
A whiteboard explainer video is a short narrated video where an idea is drawn or built step by step on a whiteboard-style canvas. This is the canonical 2026 guide — definition, how it compares to whiteboard animation and doodle videos, cost benchmarks, real use cases across training, education, customer support, sales, and YouTube, and how to make one in minutes from a prompt, script, or PDF with AI.
Your company already has the knowledge. It is trapped in documents. This guide is the full L&D and operations playbook for turning a backlog of SOPs, policies, manuals, and procedures into a searchable, watchable training video library — with a document inventory framework, a priority scoring model, a modular video structure, copy-paste prompts, a maintenance workflow for when policies change, a suggested library structure, the metrics that matter, and a live policy-PDF-to-training-video demo.
If you are looking for a VideoScribe alternative, you are tired of composing whiteboard scenes one asset at a time for every video. Golpo AI generates the entire whiteboard video from your script — or from a PDF, slide deck, exam paper, or one-line topic — in about 10 minutes. This guide shows what changes when you switch, the concrete time and cost you get back, the 3-step migration, and three real Golpo videos you can watch right now.
If you are looking for a Powtoon alternative, you are tired of editing slide-by-slide templates for every video. Golpo AI generates the entire explainer from a topic, script, or training document in about 10 minutes — no templates, no slide editing, no manual narration alignment. This guide shows what changes when you switch, the concrete time and cost you get back, the 3-step migration, and three real Golpo videos you can watch right now.
Every repeated support ticket is a video waiting to be created. This guide shows customer support and CX leaders exactly how to turn the help articles customers don't read into short, narrated explainer videos with AI — with two full worked examples (a password-reset article and an API setup doc), a length-by-use-case guide, prompt templates, and the eight places to embed support videos so they actually deflect tickets.
An honest, side-by-side comparison of the AI explainer video generators worth evaluating in 2026 — Golpo AI, Synthesia, HeyGen, Vyond, InVideo, Pictory, Canva, and Animaker. Different tools win different jobs. This guide explains which to pick based on whether you need whiteboard explainers, avatar presenters, document-to-video, social-format clips, or template-based animations, with a decision tree and a fair pilot you can run on your own content.
