Runway · AI · Sep 2026
Evardi: Agents that engineer the grid edge
Evardi · Nov 2026 · 1:44 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026
Tone is confident and explanatory, a corporate tech explainer that pairs calm live-action interviews with precise technical graphics. The palette is a deep forest green and warm cream with gold accents, the type is a high-contrast serif for big headlines and a clean sans for UI, and the music is a steady mid-tempo pulse. The structure is a cold open of line-traces over real infrastructure, a problem statement with a counting dollar figure, then three numbered feature chapters (Visibility, PLANN,
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Evardi: Agents that engineer the grid edge, scene by scene
· 41 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
Yellow line outlines trace the CHEO hospital building, the emergency entrance and the helipad sign in a locked-off winter exterior, snow on the ground.
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
A white and yellow line-art schematic of a mechanical device fades out on a dark teal background. The lines dissolve, leaving a single horizontal yellow line in the center.
On-screen text: “中”
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
A wide live-action shot of a red-brick building with a white-columned portico. A wireframe overlay draws over the facade, tracing windows in white and the columns, doors and steps in yellow, with small square markers at each corner.
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:02–0:03
A gold and white line drawing of a classical building facade sits on a dark teal field. The white window grid and side walls fade to black, leaving only the gold outline of the central portico, columns and arches.
Camera: Static
05 · Hook · 0:03–0:04
Top-down aerial view of a water treatment plant with four circular basins. Yellow contour lines trace the rims of two basins, the connecting walkway, and a small building box.
Camera: Static
06 · Hook · 0:04–0:05
Thin gold and white line drawings of circular dials, a ladder, and small cubes sit on a dark teal field, then the whole schematic fades to black.
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:05–0:08
A woman in a neon safety vest sits on a wooden swing outdoors, speaking to camera. A dark green card slides in from the left carrying the figure $121B and a caption, holds, then slides out.
On-screen text: “$121B”, “lost to outages every year”
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:08–0:10
A dark green card shows the cost of outages: a large ivory number counts up in the center, with a static headline above and a caption below, plus a small source credit at the bottom edge.
On-screen text: “$121B lost to outages every year”, “lost since this sentence began”, “Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory / DOE”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
09 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
A dark teal card holds a large cream counter that ticks up fast in the center, bracketed by '$121B lost to outages every year' above and 'lost since this sentence began' below, plus a small source credit at the bottom. The figure blurs out at the end.
On-screen text: “$121B lost to outages every year”, “$18,392”, “lost since this sentence began”, “Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory / DOE”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
10 · Problem · 0:11–0:13
A woman in a neon safety vest sits on a garden swing, speaking to camera. A white circle with a substation line drawing holds in the top left. A dark gray bar slides in at the bottom left carrying a small white substation sketch.
Camera: Static
11 · Problem · 0:13–0:21
A white wireframe substation schematic on dark green, with yellow lines and dot markers tracing routes through the structures. The view pulls back to reveal the full grid as three underlined labels with leader lines pop in over the drawing.
On-screen text: “New connection”, “Planned outage”, “Switching order”
Camera: Pull out
12 · Problem · 0:21–0:25
A woman in a high-visibility vest sits on a cushioned swing in a sunlit garden, talking to camera. A dark green lower-third block fades in at the bottom left with her name and title.
On-screen text: “Diva Shah”, “CEO, Evardi”
Camera: Static
13 · Problem · 0:25–0:29
A woman in a neon safety vest sits on a garden bench and speaks to camera. In the top-left corner, a white circular badge cycles through black line icons: server racks with a cloud, a car at a charger, a house with solar panels.
Camera: Static
14 · Product intro · 0:29–0:31
A woman in a high-visibility vest and glasses sits on a cushioned wooden swing in a garden, speaking to camera. A dark teal lower third with her name and title slides up in the bottom left.
On-screen text: “Aarya Borele”, “CTO, Evardi”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:31–0:33
A dark green frame opens tight on the cream word Visibility and the EVARDI logo, then zooms out to reveal a wireframe isometric city and bridge on the right. A thin three-step progress bar sits below, its 01 segment drawing in.
On-screen text: “EVARDI”, “Visibility”, “01 VISIBILITY”, “02 PLANNING”, “03 ACTION”
Camera: Pull out
16 · Feature reveal · 0:33–0:34
A dark green title card shows the cream word Visibility under the EVARDI mark, with a faded wireframe city on the right. A solid green panel slides in from the left, masking the headline as the line-art city grows on the right.
On-screen text: “Visibility”, “01 VISIBILITY”, “02 PLANNING”, “03 ACTION”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Static
17 · Feature reveal · 0:34–0:42
A wireframe 3D city of houses, power lines and a substation drifts in perspective as the camera glides and pulls back, floating load labels riding the rooftops, while a fixed top bar fills in data-source counts.
Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax
Camera: Pull out
18 · Feature reveal · 0:42–0:42
A gold wireframe blueprint of a power substation fills a cream background. White callout cards and a blue button appear over the drawing, and two cursors hover on the grid as the view drifts slightly.
On-screen text: “Twin check, step by step”, “Monitoring load”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Pull out
19 · Feature reveal · 0:42–0:54
A cream blueprint grid map fills the frame as a cursor clicks the blue button top-left. Orange markers pop across the map, transformer blocks gain red low-voltage tags, and a load bar fills. Two alert cards with line graphs pop up, then a dark green shape slides in bottom-left.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Push in
20 · Feature reveal · 0:54–0:57
A dark green title scene zooms out from a tight crop to the full layout. The word Planning in large cream type sits left of an isometric wireframe city with a bridge and power lines. A thin progress line fills under 02 PLANNING along the bottom tracker.
On-screen text: “Planning”, “01 VISIBILITY”, “02 PLANNING”, “03 ACTION”
Camera: Pull out
21 · Feature reveal · 0:57–0:58
A dark green chapter card with the EVARDI mark, a large Planning headline and a three-step progress line holds, then the scene opens to a sunny garden where a woman in a yellow safety vest walks forward holding a tablet.
On-screen text: “Planning”, “01 VISIBILITY”, “02 PLANNING”, “03 ACTION”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
22 · Feature reveal · 0:58–0:59
A woman in a yellow high-visibility vest walks across a sunlit lawn toward the camera, gesturing with both hands as she speaks. Lush green trees and palm plants fill the background. The shot is a static wide framing.
Camera: Static
23 · Feature reveal · 0:59–1:10
A flat cream wireframe grid map shows a pulsing red 89 outage-risk marker on the left; a Mitigation agents card slides in from the right and a cursor clicks Applied. The view then zooms and tilts into a 3D substation as a Twin check card steps through five checks.
Techniques: Cursor demo, UI zoom, 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
24 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:13
A wireframe city in 3D perspective sits on a cream background beneath a forecast card. A cursor drags the timeline slider from 2031 to 2036 as the camera tilts to top-down and green checkmarks pop in across the map.
Techniques: 3D mockup, Cursor demo
Camera: Pull out
25 · Feature reveal · 1:13–1:15
A top-down map of pale orange building footprints on a cream background fills the frame. Light blue check badges fade in across the map while a white card in the top left shows a green timeline and the confirmation title.
Camera: Static
26 · Feature reveal · 1:15–1:16
A woman in a yellow high-visibility vest with reflective stripes walks toward the camera across a green lawn, smiling and swinging her arms. Tropical trees and flowering shrubs fill the sunlit background.
Camera: Static
27 · Feature reveal · 1:16–1:17
A smiling woman in a yellow high-visibility vest with reflective stripes moves quickly past the camera across a green lawn, blurring out of frame left. Lush tropical plants and palm trees fill the background.
Camera: Static
28 · Feature reveal · 1:17–1:17
A woman in a yellow hard hat and neon safety vest talks to camera at a construction site, raising her hand to gesture, while a worker in a white helmet stands near a ladder in the blurred background.
Camera: Static
29 · Feature reveal · 1:17–1:18
A woman in a yellow hard hat and high-visibility vest walks toward the camera on a dirt path, a worker and ladder blurred behind her. The word Action appears at left over a green arrow.
On-screen text: “Action”
Camera: Static
30 · Feature reveal · 1:18–1:22
Opens zoomed in on the cream word Action, then pulls back to reveal the EVARDI lockup, a wireframe isometric city and a three-step line at the bottom. The green field shrinks to a card over a blurred outdoor shot as the 03 ACTION step turns cream.
On-screen text: “EVARDI”, “Action”, “01 VISIBILITY”, “02 PLANNING”, “03 ACTION”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Pull out
31 · Feature reveal · 1:22–1:25
A woman in a yellow hard hat and high-visibility vest talks to camera in front of a blurred building and ladder, gesturing with both hands. A large headline word and a small numbered label overlay the shot.
On-screen text: “Action”, “01 VISIBILITY”
Camera: Static
32 · Feature reveal · 1:25–1:27
A two-panel control console UI sits static. A cursor glides to the green release button on the right and clicks it, the button label shifting to a step-one field note while a blue marker ring pops onto the tie diagram at left.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
33 · Feature reveal · 1:27–1:28
A two-panel console view scrolls down: the left shows a tie-line diagram and interlock status, the right a sign-off list with a blue status bar and a cursor. The scroll reveals a phone mockup at the bottom carrying the crew's task.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Pan
34 · Feature reveal · 1:28–1:30
Side-by-side view of a desktop work-order panel and a phone app. On the phone, the top step switches from a blue 'Released at 06:05' line to a green 'Done, confirmed 06:05' with a filled checkmark.
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
35 · Feature reveal · 1:30–1:32
A woman wearing a yellow hard hat and a neon high-visibility vest faces the camera and talks, moving her hands slightly. The shot is locked off with a shallow depth of field, blurring the greenery, a small building, and a ladder behind her.
Camera: Static
36 · Social proof · 1:32–1:33
A worker in a yellow safety vest and white cap stands beside a tall aluminum ladder, reaching toward a gray equipment box mounted on a pole above a stone wall. Lush green plants and a house roof fill the background in bright daylight.
On-screen text: “YN”
Camera: Static
37 · Social proof · 1:33–1:35
A utility worker in a white hard hat and yellow safety vest holds a notepad and looks up at a ladder leaning on a pole. The shot cuts to a close-up of a solar panel and colored wiring mounted on the same pole.
Camera: Static
38 · Social proof · 1:35–1:36
Low-angle shot of a utility pole with a transformer and looping colored wires against an overcast sky. A worker in a white hard hat sits at the bottom edge, palm fronds and a street lamp to the right.
Camera: Static
39 · CTA · 1:36–1:37
A worker in a yellow high-vis vest and white hard hat stands among overgrown plants, then turns and holds up a sheet of paper. A ladder leans against a brick wall behind him.
Camera: Static
40 · CTA · 1:37–1:42
A woman in a yellow hard hat and high-visibility vest stands in a leafy greenhouse, talking to the camera with small hand gestures before clasping her hands, then the frame fades to black.
Camera: Static
41 · Outro · 1:42–1:44
A solid black screen holds for the full duration with no text, graphics, or motion, serving as a blank beat between scenes.
Camera: Static






