Epex is a clipping agency turning long-form podcasts/interviews/panels into short-form clips for TikTok, Reels, LinkedIn, and YouTube Shorts for finance & business creators.

We're looking for a skilled short-form editor to take on a paid test task:

The task:

• Cut ONE raw long-form clip into a punchy, scroll-stopping vertical short

• Hook in the first 1-2 seconds — no buried lede

• Clean, retention-optimized captions (not raw auto-caption dumps)

• Tight pacing, jump cuts where needed, clear CTA moment at the end

Pay: $11 for the approved test clip. Nail it, and you're first in line for ongoing paid client work as we scale.

How to apply: Comment below or DM with a link to your best short-form edit (any niche is fine — we care about pacing, hooks, and captions). We'll send the winning applicant raw footage to work with.

Ran an internal audit across dozens of finance/business podcast clips this year. The pattern is almost always the same 3 mistakes:

1. The hook is buried past 3 seconds. On finance content specifically, the strongest line is usually mid-answer, not the intro. Scrub the whole segment before you cut — don't just clip from the start.

2. Captions match the platform, not the moment. Bold, high-contrast captions with a 1-2 word emphasis style outperform full-sentence subtitles on finance/business clips by a wide margin — the content is already dense, don't make people read paragraphs.

3. No clear CTA loop. The best-performing finance clips end on a specific, single next step ("full episode linked," "part 2 tomorrow") — not a generic "follow for more."

We run a done-for-you clipping service for finance and business creators (Epex) — if you're sitting on hours of unused podcast/interview footage, this is exactly what we fix. Happy to answer questions here either way.