Everygen audit · 01
Context
What the product is, how it was audited, and how it is put together.
What Everygen is#
- Formerly Viewmax, a YouTube Shorts tool, renamed Everygen to cover video, image, voice and editing.
- A credit-based creative suite: Wizard (agent), Video and Image generators, Ads, Director, Clone, AI Editing, plus 11 utility tools.
- Models sold: Seedance, Kling, MiniMax, Grok Imagine, Gemini Omni, Nano Banana, GPT Image.
- Plans: Starter $24, Pro $49, Creator $139 a month ($9 / $19 / $49 billed annually). An MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
- Audience: faceless-Shorts creators, UGC and ad makers, clippers. The Learn tab is a YouTube channel about making money with AI Shorts.
How it was audited#
- 10 Nov 2026, Chrome, desktop viewport 1456 × 814 plus 388 px mobile.
- A free account created 9 Nov 2026: no plan, 0 purchased and 0 bonus credits (read from /api/me).
- Every sidebar, Tools-menu, Home and footer route was opened. Every picker and modal reachable without credits was opened.
- Performance read in the page: Navigation and Resource Timing, LCP, CLS, long tasks, JS heap, console errors.
- Not reachable on this account: generation results, the video editor, project pages, the checkout. No credits were spent and nothing was bought.
One product, five page shells#
Each shell moves the navigation, the account entry and the upgrade button. Users relearn the app every time they switch tools.
Shell 1
Home shell
Global sidebar with Home, Wizard, AI Editing, generators, Tools, MCP and Library. Rebrand banner on top.
Used by: Home, Account, Prompt Library, AI Editing, Content Machine
Shell 2
Wizard shell
The sidebar is replaced by Home ←, New chat, Assets and Chats. No Upgrade.
Used by: Wizard, Assets
Shell 3
Generator shell
Back, New generation, All videos and Projects. Mode chip under the composer.
Used by: Video and Image generators, Shorts, Ads, Director, Clone
Shell 4
Utility shell
A top bar with the tool name and a second account pill, then SEO copy below the tool.
Used by: Scriptwriter, Voiceover, Voice Changer, Downloader, Captions, Caption Remover, Ideation, Learn, MCP
Shell 5
Stepper shell
"1/3 Setup" with a Previous/Next footer.
Used by: AI Ad Cloner
24 doors into 6 capabilities#
Every way into each capability that the audit found. Two of them lead nowhere.
- 6Clone
- Home hero card
- Home tool grid
- Home Clone banner
- Tools › Clone
- Video Generator mode
- Search
- 5Ads
- Tools › Ads
- Video Generator mode
- AI Ad Cloner
- AI Ad Templatedead
- Home "Ads that sell"
- 4Editing
- AI Editing (sidebar)
- Content Machine
- Video Generator › Edit video
- Tools › Video Editordead
- 3Director
- Home hero card
- Tools › Director
- Video Generator mode
- 3Wizard
- Sidebar
- Home prompt box
- Home hero card
- 3Shorts
- Tools › Shorts
- Video Generator mode
- Home "Shorts that go viral"