> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Proving it on one recipient

> Produce one real person's video, judge it honestly, and fix the rules before you produce hundreds.

**Where:** the workflow panel at the top of a profile

This is the most valuable ten minutes in the whole process. Before a campaign produces hundreds of
videos, you produce one, for a real person you know, and decide whether you would actually send it.

## Producing one

<Steps>
  <Step title="Pick a recipient">
    Choose someone from your list whose data you know well and whose reaction you can predict. A
    person with rich data teaches you about the best case; a person with sparse data teaches you what
    most of your list will look like. Do both.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press Start production">
    The work runs in stages: writing this person's script, speaking it, adapting the visuals and the
    brand, producing the changed scenes, checking the result, and assembling their video.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Read what it decided">
    Beneath the stages runs a running commentary from the system: which dimensions it used, which it
    skipped for lack of data, why it chose a particular background, what the final check objected to.
    When something looks wrong in the video, this tells you whether it made a bad decision or
    executed a reasonable one badly.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Watch the result">
    The <Tooltip tip="Producing the video for one real recipient from the Personalization Profile, to check the rules before you scale."><strong>preview</strong></Tooltip> plays that person's video, with the same scene-by-scene
    detail as any story.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Frame caption="Producing one recipient: the stages on the left, what each one decided on the right, and controls to re-run from any point.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/latentcast/IQao64bAvXRWz47P/images/guides/profile-page.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=IQao64bAvXRWz47P&q=85&s=4297048b27ec42b919e70b4045bb5b60" alt="Producing one recipient" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/guides/profile-page.png" />
</Frame>

## Judge it against these four questions

1. **Is everything it says about this person true?** Check each personal claim against their row.
   This is the most important thing you will ever catch, and it is easiest to catch here.
2. **Does it sound like a person wrote it,** or like a mail merge?
3. **Does your core story still work** with the personal parts wrapped around it, or has the wrapper
   swamped the message?
4. **Would you send this, to this named person, today?** That is the bar. Anything less means the
   rules are not ready.

## Fixing what you find

Where you fix something depends on what is wrong:

| What is wrong                         | Where to fix it                              |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| A fact about the person               | Their row in the recipient list              |
| The tone, or too much personalization | The profile's style guidance or its switches |
| Something in the core story           | The base story, then sign it off again       |
| This one person's wording only        | The tuning chat on their produced video      |

Then produce again. Re-running from a later stage picks up where it left off rather than redoing
everything, so iterating is quick.

## The result is a real story

What comes out is not a locked artefact. It is a story of its own, belonging to that recipient, with
their identity pinned at the top and their canvas row a click away. The tuning chat works on it as
usual.

<Note>
  **Edits there change that person's video only.** They never touch the base story and never reach any
  other recipient. That is exactly what you want when one video needs a small fix, and it is why the
  generic production workflow is not offered on a personalized story: re-running it would strip the
  personalization out.
</Note>

You will meet these videos again in **Stories**, each marked with its recipient's name.

## Before you move on to a campaign

* You have watched at least two produced recipients, one data-rich and one sparse.
* Every personal claim in both is true and came from the list.
* You would send both, unedited.

## Next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Campaigns and batches" href="/docs/guides/campaigns/campaigns-and-batches">
    Produce the whole list, in groups you control.
  </Card>

  <Card title="What you can personalize" href="/docs/guides/personalization/what-you-can-personalize">
    Adjust the rules if the result was not right.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>