As of 13 August 2026, AI can create Instagram Reels for your business.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current brand guide, product or service page and price list, then gather the verified facts, offer details, logo, colours, approved images and any footage you have permission to use.
   2. Choose one audience, one business objective and one call to action, such as visiting a booking page or sending an enquiry.
   3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and replace every bracketed slot with your business information, including the exact facts and claims the Reel may use.
   4. Attach or describe the available footage and images, then ask the chatbot to produce the script, storyboard, caption and pre-publication checklist.
   5. Open VEED or another video editor, import the approved assets, and assemble the Reel from the storyboard with vertical framing, captions and the specified call to action.
   6. Compare every spoken and on-screen claim against your current product information, check names and prices, confirm permissions for people and music, and correct any caption the editor has transcribed incorrectly.
   7. Watch the finished Reel with sound off and on, check that the opening, text and call to action are clear, then publish it from the business account only after a named person approves the final version.

   Prompt

   Create a production-ready Instagram Reel for my business using the information below. Make it vertical and suitable for Instagram Reels. Do not invent product features, prices, testimonials, results, qualifications or customer stories. If a required fact is missing, mark it [NEEDS CONFIRMATION] instead of guessing.
   
   Business: [business name and what it sells]
   Target audience: [specific audience]
   Objective: [awareness, enquiries, sales, bookings or other goal]
   Offer or topic: [offer or topic]
   Key facts that may be used: [paste verified facts]
   Call to action: [what viewers should do]
   Tone: [plain, friendly, expert, playful or other]
   Brand rules: [words, colours, style or claims to avoid]
   Available footage and images: [describe or attach them]
   Location and market: UK
   
   Return:
   1. A spoken script for a Reel of about 20 to 30 seconds.
   2. A shot-by-shot storyboard with timings, on-screen text, suggested visuals and transition notes.
   3. Caption text for the post and a short call to action.
   4. A small set of relevant hashtags without unsupported trend or reach claims.
   5. A checklist of every factual claim, permission, copyright issue, advertising concern and missing asset that I must check before publishing.
   Keep the first three seconds clear and specific. Use short sentences and readable on-screen text. Make the result practical for an editor to assemble from the supplied assets.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.