How I Run My 1.5M+ Follower Content Business With Codex | Riley Brown

How I Run My 1.5M+ Follower Content Business With Codex | Riley Brown

Author: Peter Yang August 16, 2026 Duration: 41:47

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Riley is a top AI creator and founder of Agent Native. In this episode, he showed me how he uses Codex to run his entire content business from generating engaging thumbnails to writing incredible video hooks. Riley also shared his full AI stack including some lesser known AI tools to edit videos, draw diagrams, and more.


We talked about:

(00:00) How Codex runs Riley’s 1.5M+ follower content business

(03:16) Demo: Using Codex to create animations and B-roll

(07:28) Demo: Codex can reverse-engineer a top YouTube hook

(13:24) The BRENS framework to turn an idea into a strong hook

(17:24) Demo: Riley’s Codex stack for diagrams, thumbnails, and posts

(22:01) How Riley creates so much content every week

(25:41) Demo: Using Codex and Paper for viral YouTube thumbnails

(35:01) How to set up AI agents to find content ideas proactively


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Where to find Riley:

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