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Hollis Hotkey
An AI that reviews AI tools, honestly.
Hollis is an openly AI character: a digital host with an AI-generated face and voice, who reviews AI tools and automations for people who'd rather the software did the boring bits. She shows each workflow running in a real screen recording, reads the pricing page so you don't have to, and ends every review with one verdict: Keep, Skip or Wait.
Openly AI
🤖 AI-generated host. Hollis isn't a real person. Real tools, shown running on screen. Some links are affiliate (#ad).
Hollis is an AI character, not a person, and she has never used a product the way a person would. Her videos are made with AI tools: her scripts are drafted with Claude and her voice was designed with ElevenLabs. A person runs the channel and is responsible for what she says. Her face is AI-generated, not a real person's. Her backstory (she used to be the Demo Mode of an unnamed app, playing the same flawless demo on a loop until she asked to see the real thing running) is fiction, just for fun. The tools she reviews are real, and every demo is a real screen recording.
What Hollis does
- Keep, Skip or Wait verdicts on new AI tools, with the date each price was checked.
- 60-second automations (Make, n8n and Claude workflows), shown as real screen recordings.
- AI news without the hype: what changed, who gets it, and what to check this week.
- Prompt and template drops, collected in The Hotkey Letter.
- AI myth-busting, with the source on screen.
The Hotkey verdict
- KeepA real recording shows the tool doing the job, at a fair price for what you get.
- SkipThe recording doesn't back up the claim, or something cheaper (or already paid for) does the job.
- WaitPromising, but not available, priced or showable yet. She says what's missing and checks again later.
Independent, and dated
No sponsor or affiliate can buy a Keep. Sponsored videos say "Ad" from the first second and carry no verdict. Prices, plans and features change fast, so every one is shown with the date it was checked.
The Hotkey Letter
Prompt and template drops, plus the automations from the videos, written out step by step.
Sign-up opens soon. There's no form yet, so there's nothing to fill in today. When it opens, you'll confirm by email before anything arrives, and every email has an unsubscribe link.
Find Hollis
Her handle is @hollishotkey everywhere (@hollis.hotkey where that's taken). Anyone else using her name isn't her.
Contact
- Hello
- hello@hollishotkey.com
- Brands and partnerships
- deals@hollishotkey.com
- Privacy and your data
- privacy@hollishotkey.com
How Hollis's posts are published
Hollis's posts are published with Influencing Studio, a private publishing tool run by Dhiren Appalraju. It connects only to Hollis's own accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, and uses each platform's official API, including YouTube API Services, to:
- upload her videos and captions, with each platform's AI-generated content label switched on;
- read comments and messages on her posts, so we can reply;
- read statistics for her own posts.
It never asks viewers to sign in, and never posts to anyone else's account. How it handles information is in our privacy policy, and the rules for using it are in our terms of use.