Reverse-engineer viral TikTok and Instagram videos into AI prompts

Turns any viral short video into a detailed prompt you can use to recreate it with AI video tools.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Social Media ManagementMessaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRImage & Media ProcessingSurvey & Feedback
Connects
ApifyGeminiSlack

The problem it solves

You see a video going viral and want to understand exactly why it works and how to make something similar, but breaking down camera angles, lighting, and pacing by hand takes forever. Without a detailed breakdown, you're left guessing at what actually made the video succeed.

Who it fits

Content creators and marketers who want to study and recreate high-performing short-form video content.

How it works

  1. You submit a TikTok or Instagram video link through a simple form.
  2. The video is downloaded and analyzed frame by frame by an AI vision model.
  3. The AI produces a detailed breakdown of camera work, lighting, color, pacing, and subject action.
  4. The full breakdown is sent to your team through Slack, ready to use as an AI video prompt.
What you get

Prompts your team can shoot from

You get a detailed shot-by-shot breakdown of any viral video, ready to hand your team for a recreation.

What you get

A detailed written breakdown of a video's visual style that can be used as a prompt for AI video generation tools.

What you need

An account with the video scraping service, a Google Cloud account with Gemini API access, and optionally Slack for sharing results.

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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