Ghost Crew

Sound familiar?

You have followers. You don't have invoices.

"Post more"

Every course says it. You've posted for two years. The DMs are other videographers asking what lens you use.

The 700-video library

You bought the gear course. You can light a room better than anyone in your city. Still no one is paying you to.

Business stuff is a wall

Website, ads, email, proposals, contracts. You open a template, stare at it, close it, go edit something instead.

Hourly for someone else

Weddings for a studio. Second-shooting. $25 an hour for your skill, while the studio bills $4,000 a day.

Meanwhile, the one-person shop across town looks like an agency.

Website. Ads running. Emails going out. A three-minute video that closes clients while they sleep. They didn't hire anyone. They didn't learn to code. They have a ghost crew.

The mechanism

Six people an agency pays. Claude plays all six.

A real crew around a solo shooter costs more than most first-year studios make. Claude does the same jobs for the price of a subscription. Ghost Crew teaches you which prompt replaces which person.

Strategist

Picks your niche

Researches local industries by budget and video demand. Points you at the ones that pay $2k+ per job.

Agency rate $150/hr

Copywriter

Writes your pitch

Scripts the 3-minute VSL that sells for you. Hook, problem, proof, offer, call to action.

Freelance VSL script $800–2,500

Web developer

Builds your site

One prompt. A live one-page site with your video on it. Edits are a sentence, not a ticket.

One-page site $1,500–4,000

Media buyer

Runs your ads

Writes 3 ads, sets the audience and budget, reads the numbers every week and tells you what to change.

Ads manager $1,000/mo minimum

Email manager

Follows up

A capture page and a 5-email sequence so the people who didn't buy today buy next month.

Sequence build $500–1,500

Operations

Runs the week

One Monday prompt: leads, follow-ups, ad numbers, invoices. Five hours a week, the business runs.

Part-time ops $2,000/mo

To hire this crew once

$6,000+before the first client, before the first month of ads

Ghost Crew, founding seat

$297

How it works

Watch. Paste. Ship.

Step 1

Watch the lesson

8 to 10 minutes. One question, answered on screen while Claude does the work in front of you.

Step 2

Paste the prompt

Every lesson's prompt is in the vault. Fill in the brackets with your business. Claude builds your version.

Step 3

Ship it today

You leave each lesson with the thing built: your niche, your offer, your site, your ads. Not notes. Assets.

Vault · Lesson 4 promptCopy, fill, paste

Build and publish a one-page website for my video business.

Business: [name]. I make [offer] for [niche] in [city].

Style: dark, minimal, cinematic. One accent color.

Sections, top to bottom:

1. Headline: [promise from lesson 2]. Under it, my VSL (link: [unlisted YouTube]).

2. Three lines on who it's for.

3. Three proof points: [credential, result, result].

4. One button: "Book a call" → [Calendly or DM link]. Repeat at the bottom.

5. Footer: name, city, email.

Mobile first. No stock photos. Publish it and give me the link.

That's the whole lesson 4. Ten minutes later you have a live website with your pitch video on it. This page you're reading was built the same way.

The shot list · 10 lessons · about 90 min total

Each lesson ends with something built.

Who paysWhat's your niche?

You leave with: one niche, picked by money. Med spas, realtors, contractors, coaches, dentists.08 min

What they buyWhat's your offer?

You leave with: one offer, one price. The default is a $2–5k VSL for a local business.09 min

Why they say yesHow do you present it?

You leave with: your own VSL script, filmed in one take on your phone.10 min

Where they find youClaude builds your website

You leave with: a live one-page site, done before the lesson ends.10 min

How they hear about youClaude runs your Facebook ads

You leave with: three ads live at $20 a day, and a weekly prompt that reads the results.10 min

How they come backClaude runs your email

You leave with: a capture page and a 5-email follow-up sequence, loaded.09 min

How you closeDM to deposit, no sales call

You leave with: a proposal and contract written from your notes. 50% deposit in.09 min

How you deliver fasterThe job docs in one prompt

You leave with: brief, script, shot list, and handoff email. Shoot-ready in an hour.08 min

How you get paid againInvoice, case study, referral

You leave with: all three written. Your next client comes from this one.08 min

How it runs in 5 hours a weekClaude as business manager

You leave with: the weekly operating prompt. Leads, follow-ups, ad numbers, invoices, every Monday.09 min

The spineYou make one VSL in lesson 3. It goes on your site, in your ads, in your emails, and in your pitch. The same skill is what you sell: a VSL for a local business is a job only a videographer can deliver.

Your first 30 days

Thirty minutes a day. Here's the calendar.

Buyers pay for certainty of steps. This is what you do, week by week, from the day you get access.

Week 1 · Lessons 1–3

Decide and film

Pick your niche by money, not by taste
Set one offer and one price
Film your VSL. One take. Phone.

Your pitch exists

Week 2 · Lessons 4–6

Build the crew

Site live with the VSL on it
Three ads running at $20/day
Email capture and follow-up loaded

Leads start coming in

Week 3 · Lesson 7

Close the first one

Reply to leads with the DM script
Send the proposal Claude writes from your notes
Collect the 50% deposit

First paid client

Week 4 · Lessons 8–10

Deliver and repeat

Job docs in one prompt, shoot in a day
Invoice, case study, referral ask
Set the Monday operating prompt

A business that runs

Total time in the lessons: about 90 minutes. Total time doing the work: about 30 minutes a day. The one thing that moves it faster is sending outreach every day in week 3 instead of waiting for the ads alone.

Proof

This was a $1,997 program first.

Before it was a course, I taught this one-on-one. Two videographers went through it. Both landed a paying client. Ghost Crew is that system, recorded, with Claude doing the heavy lifting.

2 for 2

Videographers who went through this system one-on-one. Both landed a paying client.

<60 days

From starting the system to the first paid job, for both.

$2–5k

What a single local VSL job pays. One client covers the course 7 to 17 times over.

[Paste testimonial 1 here, word for word. Keep it to 2–3 sentences. Lead with the result.]

[First name, last initial] · [City] · Landed [client type] in [N] days

[Paste testimonial 2 here, word for word. Keep it to 2–3 sentences. Lead with the result.]

[First name, last initial] · [City] · Landed [client type] in [N] days

Who's teaching

I'm Brandon Maldonado. Fifteen years in film. Co-writer on Suga Rush, a produced feature. I've run a membership community, shot commercial work, and spent this year teaching videographers to get paid instead of liked.

Everything in Ghost Crew is something I've done with Claude for a real business, including this page. I'm not teaching theory. I'm showing you the prompts I run.

Founding 20 · you're the case study

Everything you get

The 10 lessons

About 90 minutes. Lifetime access. New AI tool demos refreshed every 6 months.

Value $697

The prompt vault

The 10 prompts that build everything, one per lesson, with the brackets to fill in.

Value $297

Proposal and contract templates

Claude fills them from your notes. Deposit language included.

Value $197

The website template

The lesson 4 prompt plus the structure that converts: video, fit, proof, button.

Value $497

3 Facebook ad templates

Screen-recording ad, face-to-camera ad, text-on-screen ad. Audience and budget settings included.

Value $297

The 5-email follow-up sequence

Written and timed. Paste into any email tool.

Value $197

The weekly operating prompt

Leads, follow-ups, ad numbers, invoices. Every Monday, 20 minutes.

Value $197

Founding-member Blackbook rate

If you stall at lesson 4 and want me to build it, founding members get Blackbook for $1,497 instead of $1,997.

Save $500

Total value

$2,379

Founding seat, today

$297$697

Get my founding seat →

20 of 20 seats open

Why $297: the first 20 buyers are the case studies for the December launch. Your result is the sales page. On Dec 1 it's $697.

What happens after you click

Stripe checkout. Card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. 30 seconds.
Receipt lands in your inbox immediately.
Your access link follows within 24 hours. Lessons 1–3 are ready now; the rest drop daily this week.
Day 14: I email you one question. "Did you land one yet?" Your screenshot becomes a case study.

14-day refundSecure Stripe checkoutNo subscription

Three ways to do this

Pick your lane.

	Figure it out alone	Ghost Crew	Blackbook
Who does the work	You, nights and weekends	Claude, with you pasting prompts	Me, with Claude
Time to a live site + ads + email	Months, if it happens	Week 2	5 days from intake
Cost	$0, plus $6k+ if you hire the crew	$297 founding ($697 Dec 1)	$1,997 ($1,497 founding)
Your time	Unlimited	90 min of lessons + 30 min/day	One form + 3 minutes on camera
Calls or community	—	None. Watch and build.	None. Form in, assets out.
Course included	—	Yes	Yes
Refund	—	14 days, no questions	Before intake is submitted

Blackbook · done for you

Don't want to build it? I build it.

You fill out one intake form. Five days later your whole crew is in place. You film three minutes and hit go. No calls. The full course is included so you understand what you're running.

DAY 1VSL script

DAY 2Site live

DAY 33 ads set up

DAY 4Emails loaded

DAY 5Operating prompt

Right for you if you already have a camera and a city, and you'd rather spend the next five days shooting than prompting.

$1,997

Build mine for me →Intake form arrives within 24 hours of purchase. Founding course members pay $1,497.

The guarantee

Fourteen days. No questions.

14 dayFull refund

Go through it. Decide after.

Watch every lesson. Run every prompt. If in 14 days you don't believe this gets you a paying client, reply to your receipt email and you get every dollar back. No form, no call, no "but did you really try."

I can offer this because the system has already worked twice at seven times the price.

Fit check

Be honest with yourself here.

For you if

You already shoot and edit at a professional level
You have zero or one paying client
You want local business clients, not brand deals or a YouTube career
You'll spend 30 minutes a day for 30 days
You'd rather have invoices than likes

Not for you if

You can't run a camera yet
You're doing this as a hobby
You want someone to make the sales calls for you
You want a community to hang out in
You're going to buy it and not open it

Questions

Before you buy

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You describe what you want, Claude builds and publishes it. You never touch code, hosting, or a template. If you can write a text message, you can run every prompt in this course.

Is this a videography course?

No. You already shoot and edit. This teaches the business around the craft: niche, offer, pitch, site, ads, email, and closing. There is not one lesson about gear.

What do I need besides the course?

A Claude account (the free tier works for most lessons; Pro is about $20/month and faster), your camera or phone, and about $20 a day for ads once you reach lesson 5. That's it. No website builder subscription, no funnel software.

When do I get access?

Your access link arrives by email within 24 hours of purchase. Lessons 1–3 are ready now. Founding members get the rest as they drop this week, which is why the price is $297 and not $697.

How much time does it take?

About 90 minutes of lessons total, then about 30 minutes a day doing the work for 30 days. The calendar above is the real schedule.

I'm not in a big city. Does this work?

Yes. The niche lesson picks by budget, not by population. Med spas, realtors, contractors, and dentists exist in every town of 20,000 people, and almost none of them have a pitch video.

What's the difference between this and Blackbook?

Ghost Crew: you paste the prompts and build it yourself in about two weeks. Blackbook: you fill out one form and I build it in five days. Both include the course. Blackbook is for people who'd rather shoot than prompt.

What if it doesn't work for me?

You have 14 days to ask for a full refund, no questions asked. Reply to your receipt email.

Why is it only $297 right now?

Twenty founding seats. You're the case studies for the December launch, when it goes to $697 with your results on the page. After 20 seats, this link closes.

Last call

Stop posting. Start invoicing.

Twenty seats. Thirty days. One paying client, or your money back.

Ghost Crew

$297

You build it with Claude. 10 lessons, the vault, lifetime access.

Get my founding seat →

Blackbook

$1,997

I build it for you in 5 days. One form, no calls. Course included.

Build mine for me →

20 of 20 founding seats openPrice goes to $697 on Dec 1. 14-day refund either way.