Stop losing viewers at the 6-second cliff.
Most videos die at known timestamps — the 6-second drop, the 22-second slump, the mid-pause exhaustion. Soma scores cognitive load across the entire timeline so every cut earns its keep.
Pacing failure is invisible — until the chart goes down.
When a video's pacing is wrong — too fast, too slow, too talky, too cut-up — viewers don't comment. They just leave. By the time the analytics dashboard shows the slump, the algorithm has already deprioritised the post.
3.2x
Average watch-time lift
On creators who re-cut their last 10 videos based on Soma pacing alerts.
−47%
Mid-video drop-off
Cut at the cognitive-load peak, not where the editor felt tired.
ms-level
Pacing precision
Cut suggestions to the millisecond — match the model, not your gut.
Cognitive load scoring tells you exactly where to cut.
Soma maps the cognitive demand of every second — overwhelm shows red, boredom shows grey. The system surfaces millisecond-precise edit suggestions: where to trim, where to pattern-interrupt, where to land the payoff.
The Attention Blueprint, second by second
A heatmap that shows where the brain leans in and where it checks out. Use it to brief your editor, defend a cut to a client, or rescue a long-form piece that's bleeding viewers in the middle.
See pricingCommon questions.
Quick answers about how this fits into your workflow.
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Will this give me one big number or per-frame detail?
Both. You get an overall retention forecast, but the real value is the timeline view with second-by-second cognitive load and arousal traces.
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How granular are the cut suggestions?
Down to the millisecond. The model proposes specific in/out points for every recommended trim and tags the underlying reason (overwhelm, boredom, pattern fatigue).
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Do I need a Soma Pro plan to use pacing optimization?
Soma Lite returns the cognitive-load curve and hook score. The ms-precise cut suggestions and pattern-interrupt density needed to action the curve are Soma Pro features.
Try Soma on a real video.
Drop in a recent post or a raw cut. We'll show you the retention curve before you publish.
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