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YC Launch
ChemPilot.ai · Oct 2026 · 1:29 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026
The video opens with rapid cinematic cuts of defense and supply-chain footage, shifts to slow precise 3D molecule renders on a dark grid, then settles into locked-off founder interviews with word-by-word caption builds. Signature moves include rounded film-frame vignettes on live shots, corner-bracket framing on 3D assets, and benefit lines that blur and drift upward.
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01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
Night launch filmed through an out-of-focus chain-link fence. A launcher on a dark field fires a missile that climbs steeply, leaving a bright flame trail and a billowing smoke plume.
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
A helicopter flies against a dark night sky, releasing flares that arc outward in two symmetrical wings of orange streaks. A large static numeral 7 fills the frame. The camera is locked off.
On-screen text: “7”
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
A locked-off wide shot of a desert test site at dusk: a large nozzle on an industrial structure fires a bright flame that billows into a thick smoke plume on the right, while a blurred concrete wall sits in the foreground.
On-screen text: “7”
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:02–0:03
A tight close-up of two fighter jet engine nozzles on a dim runway. Afterburners blaze orange and white, flickering, while a plume of smoke streams left across the frame. The shot holds steady on the glowing exhaust ports.
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:03–0:05
Close-up in a dim workshop: a hand in a dark knit glove traces the edge of a carbon-fiber panel, fingers sliding along its surface. Warm lamp glow and blurred tools fill the teal-tinted background.
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:05–0:06
A cream paper-textured card with rounded corners flashes white, then a diagonal row of iridescent chrome cubes spins into view on black, surrounded by small glowing sparks.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:06–0:07
A fast diagonal streak of orange light blurs across the frame, then decelerates into a macro view of a translucent, faceted glass-like structure with bright bokeh dots on a dark maroon field, finished with vintage film grain and rounded corners.
Techniques: Speed ramp
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:07–0:08
Extreme close-up of glittering dark powder, then the shot pulls back to a black-gloved hand holding a glass vial filled with the sparkling granules, set against a blurred teal lab with warm orange bokeh.
Camera: Pull out
09 · Problem · 0:08–0:09
A black-gloved hand holds a small glass vial filled with a dark granular liquid, centered in frame. The background is a blurred laboratory bench with teal overhead lights and a warm orange glow on the right.
Camera: Pull out
10 · Problem · 0:09–0:10
A high aerial shot looks down into a vast terraced open-pit mine at dusk, a small truck with headlights on travels a winding road while dust drifts on the right. A rusty railing cuts across the foreground and a rounded film-frame vignette borders the shot.
Camera: Static
11 · Problem · 0:10–0:10
A wheel loader pushes a coal pile at night under orange floodlights, dust or steam drifting from the bucket. A rusty rail sits blurred in the foreground while the loader works. Camera holds still.
Camera: Static
12 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
A top-down aerial view of a chemical storage yard fills the frame, hundreds of teal and rust-colored barrels packed in tight rows. A pale concrete path cuts diagonally across the scene as the camera drifts slowly. A dark vignette frames the edges.
Camera: Static
13 · Problem · 0:11–0:13
View through a dusty car window at a sun-bleached checkpoint: a uniformed soldier with a rifle stands by a guard booth and an open metal gate, industrial pipes behind. The car drifts forward, shifting the background.
Camera: Static
14 · Problem · 0:13–0:15
A gloved hand steadies an orange rack of microcentrifuge tubes as a pipette dispenses dark liquid into one well. The bench sits in warm backlight with blurred bottles and equipment behind. The pipette tip lifts out of the tube while the close-up holds.
Camera: Static
15 · Problem · 0:15–0:16
A man in a white lab coat walks away from the camera down a laboratory aisle, carrying two white trays of vials. Shelves of glassware and bottles line both counters. The camera tracks steadily behind him.
Camera: Push in
16 · Problem · 0:16–0:21
Locked-off wide shot of a dim, empty factory floor, rows of machines and hanging lamps receding into darkness. The line 'We dont have decades' fades in centered, then the whole frame fades to black.
On-screen text: “We dont have decades”
Camera: Static
17 · Product intro · 0:21–0:24
A dark industrial corridor holds the line 'We dont have decades', then fades to black as 'at' scales in beside the teal atom logo and 'ChemPilot' joins to form the brand lockup. The text cuts to 'we're building a faster way', a light sweep glinting across the letters.
On-screen text: “We dont have decades”, “at”, “at ChemPilot”, “we're building a faster way”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Light sweep
Camera: Static
18 · Product intro · 0:24–0:26
A ball-and-stick molecule framed by white corner brackets rotates on a dark grid, then expands into a ring of molecules around the center as the line to discover and develop slides in.
On-screen text: “to discover”, “and develop”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
19 · Product intro · 0:26–0:27
A ring of ball-and-stick molecular clusters, gray with cyan, orange and yellow accents, surrounds a centered caption on a dark grid. The clusters give way to a glowing white wireframe armored vehicle in 3D, pointed to by a leader line from the KEVLAR tag.
On-screen text: “to discover and develop”, “KEVLAR”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
20 · Product intro · 0:27–0:27
A glowing blue wireframe armored truck floats on a black background, its dotted holographic surface lit from within. A boxed KEVLAR label hovers at the upper right. The truck morphs into a wireframe jet as the clip ends.
On-screen text: “KEVLAR”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Morph
Camera: Static
21 · Product intro · 0:27–0:28
A translucent blue point-cloud airplane floats on black and rotates slowly, nose toward the lower left. A boxed callout with a leader line tracks the tail, reading POLYMIDE, while the shell shifts from dotted mesh to a solid white surface.
On-screen text: “KEVLAR”, “POLYMIDE”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
22 · Product intro · 0:28–0:33
Two men sit at a light wooden table in front of a whiteboard covered in blue molecular diagrams. Dark lower-third cards with cyan corner handles identify them as Sam Cogan, Founder/CEO, and Ofir Simhi, Founder/CTO; the second card slides in after the first. Locked-off shot.
On-screen text: “POLYMIDE”, “Sam Cogan”, “Founder/CEO”, “Ofir Simhi”, “Founder/CTO”
Camera: Static
23 · Product intro · 0:33–0:43
A man in a white lab coat walks into a bright lab and stops beside a white bench unit, resting a hand on it while talking to camera. On the right, benefit lines stack up one by one, the active line sharp while the others blur and drift upward.
On-screen text: “Better Performance”, “Lower Costs”, “Scalable Production”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
24 · Feature reveal · 0:43–0:44
On a dark grid, the word Agents scales up and brightens at left while a white-and-teal atom logo holds center; two small image tiles fade in at the bottom corners.
On-screen text: “Agents”, “Scalable Production”, “ITEM 4000”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
25 · Feature reveal · 0:44–0:47
On a dark grid, teal-tinted video tiles of liquids and molecules pop in around a central white atom icon, linked by thin lines. Labels mark the nodes as the network shifts and settles.
On-screen text: “Agents”, “reasoning”, “designging”
Camera: Push in
26 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:48
A dark grid background holds a collage of floating panels showing cyan-and-black molecular models and a liquid texture, with an atom icon and pixel square at center. The word designging slides down the right side as the panels drift.
On-screen text: “designging”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
27 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:48
Two teal gradient cards flank a small white atom icon, each holding a rotating 3D molecule of black, gray, and cyan spheres. The right card carries viewfinder brackets and a wireframe cube. The bottom caption crossfades into the word refining.
On-screen text: “designging”, “refining”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
28 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:50
A ball-and-stick molecule inside a wireframe cube rotates on a dark grid, framed by corner brackets. Two leader-line labels swap between candidate codes, descriptions and a Pass or Reject status on the left, and a single-source tagline on the right, matching the screening voiceover.
On-screen text: “CP-0542”, “Borane precursor analog”, “Pass”, “Single-source refining”, “CP-0866”, “Silane coupling agent”, “Reject”, “Single-source ingredient”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
29 · Feature reveal · 0:50–0:51
A black field of square tiles, each outlined by thin corner brackets, holds a multicolored ball-and-stick molecule that rotates slowly in place. The tiles remain fixed while the structures turn, the grid filling the frame edge to edge.
Camera: Push in
30 · Feature reveal · 0:51–0:52
A cloud of small white and purple math equations drifts in 3D space, then condenses into a ball-and-stick molecule of white, black, and lavender spheres. Lines of code appear at the right edge on a dark grid.
Techniques: Particles, Morph
Camera: Static
31 · Feature reveal · 0:52–0:53
A 3D ball-and-stick molecule of white, black and cyan spheres rotates in a dark gridded space, condensing into a denser cluster as the cyan atoms multiply. A block of Python code sits blurred at the right edge.
Techniques: Morph
Camera: Pull out
32 · Demo · 0:53–0:55
A blue-gloved hand holds a clear plastic vial as a graduated glass pipette, filled with amber liquid, dips into it and draws the fluid up. The shot is a tight macro close-up with a soft-focus lab background, framed by a rounded black border.
Camera: Static
33 · Demo · 0:55–0:56
Over-the-shoulder shot of a scientist in a white shirt typing on a laptop at a lab bench. The screen shows a molecular structure diagram with a small colorful heatmap. Petri dishes, cables, and lab equipment sit on the desk in soft focus.
Camera: Static
34 · Demo · 0:56–0:58
A white robotic arm grips two small vials above a metal rack of amber-filled vials in a lab, framed behind a glass panel. The arm lowers and shifts the vials over the rack, while a pipetting device sits to the right.
Camera: Static
35 · Demo · 0:58–0:59
A lab bench shot: a white robotic gripper hovers over a metal rack of amber test tubes, with a multi-tip pipette at right. Cool, desaturated grade and shallow depth of field; the arm shifts slightly.
Camera: Static
36 · Demo · 0:59–1:01
Static wide shot of a bright wet lab: a cluttered workbench runs along the left, a white robotic arm works inside a glass enclosure on the right. A person in a white lab coat dashes across the central aisle, blurred by motion, framed by a dark rounded border.
Camera: Static
37 · Demo · 1:01–1:03
A scientist in a white lab coat and blue gloves sits at a bench, turning pages of an open notebook. A laptop shows a molecular diagram and color grid. Shelves of boxes and a glass-enclosed machine fill the background. The camera holds a steady side profile.
Camera: Push in
38 · Demo · 1:03–1:06
Gloved hands hold a small square solar cell with a textured gold surface, tilting it above a metal frame on a lab bench as light glints across the texture. A blurred robotic arm sits in the background.
On-screen text: “LAS WIPES”
Techniques: Light sweep
Camera: Push in
39 · Other · 1:06–1:10
A man in a white lab coat stands in a bright laboratory, his hand resting on a dark counter holding a laptop and bench equipment. He speaks to the camera in a locked-off medium shot, with glass-fronted cabinets of supplies behind him.
Camera: Static
40 · Other · 1:10–1:25
Two men in lab coats stand in a lab, one speaking to camera, with stainless nitrogen and argon tanks behind them and wire shelving at right. A slow push-in tightens the frame while white captions build word by word along the bottom, the current word tinted teal.
On-screen text: “Building a new type of chemical prime”, “one that can autonomously”, “discover”, “develop”, “and ultimately manufacture”, “the materials the west needs”, “Our future should be determined”, “by what we can make”, “not what others are willing to supply”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
41 · Outro · 1:25–1:29
On a near-black background, a line-drawn rocket-atom logo with teal accents settles in the center as the ChemPilot wordmark slides up from the bottom and the Backed by Y Combinator credit and the URL chemipilot.ai fade in above and below, then hold.
On-screen text: “ChemPilot”, “Backed by Y Combinator”, “< chemipilot.ai >”
Camera: Static







