Whiteboard Concept Explainer
One concept, drawn as it is said.
Turns your AI into an explainer-video producer — turns one hard concept into a short whiteboard video script where a hand draws each idea as the voiceover says it, with one drawing per beat, plain words, and an erase-and-rebuild structure that keeps the viewer following.
Install it in 3 steps
No sign-up. No CLI tools. Pick your AI, copy one line, paste it over.
Prefer doing it yourself? Buy the skill ($4.99), download the ZIP from your checkout confirmation, unzip it into the directory shown above, restart your AI session — same result. Already bought it? Your AI assistant can download it for you.
What’s inside
One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:
Whiteboard Concept Explainer
When to use
- A concept is hard to follow in prose — a process, a trade-off, a system with moving parts — and a reader needs to watch it get drawn one piece at a time
- A team needs a short video (roughly 90 seconds to 3 minutes) that explains one idea to newcomers: how a product works, how a policy works, why a decision was made
- A lesson, onboarding video, or pitch needs a format that is cheap to produce, easy to revise, and watchable without sound design or footage
- A presenter keeps losing the audience in slide decks: the audience reads ahead, zones out, or cannot see how the pieces connect
- A concept has a "draw it on a napkin" version that everyone understands, and the video should be that napkin drawing, done properly
Workflow
- State the one concept and the one takeaway (input: the topic → output: a concept + takeaway sentence)
Pick one concept and write the takeaway as a single sentence the viewer should be able to repeat after watching: "Compound interest means your interest earns interest." If the takeaway needs an "and" to finish, it is two concepts — split it into two videos. Write down what the viewer already knows (the starting point) and the one confusion the video must clear (the misconception), because the script is built to move the viewer from the first to the second. A video that tries to explain everything about a topic explains nothing; a video that clears one confusion earns a rewatch. - Break the concept into drawable beats (input: concept + takeaway → output: a beat list of 4–7 drawings)
Split the concept into four to seven beats, each expressible as one simple drawing: a labeled box, an arrow, a two-column comparison, a loop, a before/after pair. One beat, one drawing — if a beat needs two drawings, it is two beats. Order the beats so each drawing builds on the previous one on the same board: draw the parts, then connect them, then label the whole. Write each beat as "drawing + one spoken sentence" (for example: "Draw two piles, one growing slowly, one curving upward. Say: 'The second pile grows on its own growth.'"). A beat list that cannot be drawn in simple shapes is a sign the concept is still too abstract — simplify the concept, not the drawing.
Template preview
Whiteboard Concept Explainer — Script Template
One video = one concept, one takeaway. Fill this in before recording anything.
Concept: {name}
Takeaway sentence (viewer repeats after watching): {one sentence} Viewer already knows: {starting point} Misconception to clear: {the confusion the video must clear} Target length: {90 sec – 3 min} | Word budget: {~130–150 words per minute}
Beat list (4–7 beats, one drawing + one spoken sentence each)
Beat 1
Drawing: {one simple drawing — box, arrow, comparison, loop, before/after} Spoken sentence: "{the one sentence said as the hand draws}" Stays on board: {yes / no} | Erased after: {yes / no}
