Turn a written idea into a finished short video automatically

Type an idea in Slack and the system writes the story, generates visuals and voice, and sends back a finished video.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs; all paths must finish before it continues; runs once per one per scene in the story.

Pattern: Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12) · Parallel Split (2) · Synchronisation (3)

flowchart TD trig(("you submit idea in Slack")):::human s0["turn idea into scene story"]:::task s1[["illustrate and animate scenes"]]:::mi s2["assemble finished video"]:::task s3["send video to Slack"]:::task trig --> s0 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 gx{"+ generate visuals and audio"}:::gate s0 --> gx p00["illustrate and animate scenes"]:::task gx -->|"visuals"| p00 p10["generate narration and music"]:::task gx -->|"audio"| p10 jn{"+ combine into video"}:::gate p00 --> jn p10 --> jn jn --> s1 out[/"finished narrated video delivered"/]:::out pay{{"fast video production without a crew"}}:::pay s3 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
A stepRuns once per itemA personEvery pathWaits for allResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Image & Media Processing
Connects
SlackRunwayMLElevenLabsCreatomateDropboxNotion

The problem it solves

Producing even a short video means writing a script, sourcing visuals, recording voiceover, and editing it all together, usually spread across several tools and a lot of hours. Most small teams do not have the time or the specialists to do that regularly.

Who it fits

Content creators, marketing agencies, or small teams that need short videos on a regular basis.

How it works

  1. You type your idea into Slack
  2. AI turns the idea into a scene-by-scene story
  3. Each scene is illustrated with AI images and animated into video clips
  4. AI generates narration and background music for the story
  5. All the pieces are assembled into one finished video and sent back to Slack
What you get

A finished video draft from a single idea

You turn a simple idea into a complete short video, with story, visuals, voice, and music all put together for you.

What you get

A finished, narrated short video delivered as a link in Slack.

What you need

Accounts for Slack, an AI story-generation service, an image and video generation service, a text-to-speech service, a video assembly service, and cloud file storage.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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