Cleavr · Nov 2026
Callbook AI - We are launching on @ycombinator We are the AI collections agency
Callbook · Aug 2026 · 1:38 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 1:38
- Scenes
- 21 · 4.7 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:33
- Call to action
- 1:10 · 72%
- Voiceover
- Yes
Callbook’s 1:38 launch film runs 21 scenes, about 4.7 s each. The product shows up at 0:33. The call to action lands at 1:10 (72% in), over a voiceover. Two-shot live action in a dim, warm-lit living room plays a fake debt-collector skit, with white sans-serif captions building line by line beside the frame and frosted glass UI cards and a flowchart overlaid on the footage. The structure is a hard comedic pivot from threat to product, then a single borrower case study, a process diagram, and a stats-and-dare close before the logo, cut at a steady ~11 cuts per minute.
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01 · Hook · 0:00–0:05
A bearded man in a black t-shirt sits at a table in a dim room, pointing his finger, while a man in black stands behind him with arms crossed. White text appears in staggered positions across the frame, phrase by phrase, beside a glass of amber liquid.
On-screen text: “This is your final warning.”, “If you don't pay by Friday”, “We're breaking your legs.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
02 · Problem · 0:05–0:11
A bearded man in a black tee sits in a leather chair, gesturing with both hands as he speaks, while a second man in black stands behind him with arms crossed. A glass of whiskey rests on the table in the foreground under warm, dim lighting. White subtitles run along the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “This works.”, “Calling someone 20 times a day recovers”
Camera: Push in
03 · Problem · 0:11–0:15
A bearded man in a black tee sits in a leather armchair, gesturing with both hands as he talks, a second man standing behind him with arms crossed. A large white 18% scales in at left while small white captions track his words along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Calling someone 20 times a day recovers”, “18%”, “more”, “than following up occasionally.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
04 · Problem · 0:15–0:18
A man in a black t-shirt stands in a dim room beside a lit floor lamp, arms folded, then uncrosses them and raises a hammer. On the left, a white caption builds line by line: “Threatening them”, “adds another”, “5%”.
On-screen text: “Threatening them”, “adds another”, “5%”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:18–0:24
A bearded man in a black t-shirt sits in a leather armchair, gesturing with both hands as he speaks, while a second man in black stands behind him holding a hammer. The warm-lit room holds a floor lamp, coat rack and plants; the camera slowly pulls back. Subtitles caption his line at the bottom.
On-screen text: “That's why collections work the way they do,”, “lenders lose millions when borrowers aren't chased.”, “Threatening them”, “adds another”, “5%”
Camera: Pull out
06 · Problem · 0:24–0:27
A bearded man in a black V-neck stands in a warm-lit living room, holding a tool and speaking to camera. On the left, white sans-serif text builds line by line, matching his voiceover.
On-screen text: “Every AI collections company automated exactly this.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:27–0:33
A bearded man in a black t-shirt sits in a brown leather armchair, sipping a whiskey glass, while a second man in black stands behind him holding a hammer. White caption phrases build up in the frame in sync with his speech, in a warm dim living room.
On-screen text: “They”, “didn't”, “fix collections”, “They just”, “made”, “harrassment”, “cheaper.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
08 · Demo · 0:33–0:34
In a dim living room, a bearded man sits in a leather chair with a glass while another man stands behind him holding a baseball bat; 'We built the opposite.' appears word by word on the left, then a cut to a close-up captioned 'This is Thomas.'
On-screen text: “We built the opposite.”, “This is Thomas.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
09 · Demo · 0:34–0:41
A man in a black T-shirt stands in a dim living room and speaks. A frosted glass card on the left fills in line by line with a profile, debt figure, and a Blocked calls chip. Subtitles run below. It cuts to a seated bearded man with a tool behind him.
On-screen text: “This is Thomas.”, “His bank lent him money to plant.”, “He's 4 months late,”, “and nobody there has been able to reach him,”
Camera: Static
10 · Demo · 0:41–0:45
Locked-off medium shot in a dim room: a bearded man in a black tee sits at a wooden table, gesturing as he speaks, while a second man stands behind him holding a hammer. A small overlay card identifies 'Thomas, Farmer, 4 months late'; subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Thomas”, “Farmer • 4 months late”, “Bank lent him money to plant.”, “Some people are easy to reach,”, “others we locate using different strategies.”
Camera: Static
11 · Demo · 0:45–0:47
A bearded man in a black t-shirt sits at a wooden table, gesturing with both hands as he speaks. A second man in black stands behind him on the right, handling a wooden bat. A glass of water rests on the table. A white subtitle line is locked at the bottom.
On-screen text: “others we locate using different strategies.”
Camera: Static
12 · Demo · 0:47–0:49
On a black screen, the phrase “Just kidding.” fades in at center as “kidding” brightens from gray to white, then the line “Actual strategies. No threatening.” builds word by word beneath it.
On-screen text: “Just kidding.”, “Actual strategies. No threatening.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
13 · Demo · 0:49–0:50
Two centered lines of white sans-serif text sit on a black background. The first line scales into place while the second line remains still.
On-screen text: “Just kidding.”, “Actual strategies. No threatening.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Demo · 0:50–0:55
A man with arms crossed stands in a dimly lit living room while a frosted glass contact card for Thomas floats at the left. Lines of text fill the card one by one in step with the voiceover, and subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Thomas”, “Thomas wasn't hiding from anyone,”, “Wasn't hiding from anyone.”, “he gets paid once a year”, “Gets paid once a year.”, “and the harvest hadn't come in yet.”, “Harvest wasn't in”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · Demo · 0:55–1:02
A bearded man in a black shirt sits at a table gesturing, a second man behind him with arms crossed. A frosted phone alert, Unknown, Missed calls, slides in left, its count climbing 5 to 20, as white text builds to We gave him a plan.
On-screen text: “So we didn't call him 20 times,”, “We gave him a plan.”, “we gave him a plan that started the week”, “he sold his crops.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
16 · Demo · 1:02–1:03
A bearded man in a dark t-shirt sits at a wooden table, gesturing with both hands, while a second man stands behind him with arms crossed. The dim room holds a lamp and leather chairs. A white caption reads He paid. on the left.
On-screen text: “He paid.”
Camera: Static
17 · Demo · 1:03–1:04
A man with shoulder-length dark hair and a black t-shirt stands with arms crossed in a warm, dim living room, speaking to camera. White caption lines build on the left side while a short line fades in at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “That's the”, “whole company.”, “We locate people.”
Camera: Static
18 · Demo · 1:04–1:10
A man in a black t-shirt stands with arms crossed in a dim warm room, speaking to camera. On the left, a flowchart of rounded cards and thin connector lines builds node by node, starting from a top card and branching downward. White captions run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “We locate people.”, “We reach them strategically.”, “We negotiate and decide the next best move,”, “for every single one of them.”
Camera: Static
19 · CTA · 1:10–1:31
A bearded man in a black tee sits at a wooden table in a dim room, gesturing as he speaks, while a man in black stands with arms crossed behind him. White overlay text and name cards pop in around him, and he lifts a glass of whiskey near the end.
On-screen text: “Every lender has thousands of Thomas's.”, “We manage portfolios for”, “+3 Banks”, “+20 Fintechs”, “Retailers”, “Last week,”, “we negotiated with”, “100,000 people”, “You're not recovering”, “because you're not listening. We beat every other collection solution in recovery. Put us to the test. You beat us, we paid a”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
20 · CTA · 1:31–1:33
A man sits in a leather armchair holding a glass while a second man stands behind him with arms crossed, both in black shirts, in a warm-lit living room. The locked-off frame holds still as subtitles read across the bottom.
On-screen text: “And for the record,”, “we have never broken anyone's legs.”
Camera: Static
21 · Outro · 1:33–1:38
On a dark navy field, a purple rounded square holding a white C scales up at center, joining the white wordmark Callbook.ai. A small pill badge with an orange Y tile and the credit line fades in beneath the logo, then the frame holds.
On-screen text: “Callbook.ai”, “Backed by Y Combinator”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static






