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Launching Gradon (YC F26): The AI Partner for AEC Firms
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The film alternates live-action presenters on a dirt lot and in a glass office with flat UI motion on a pale topographic field, using a recurring frosted stat card and a four-petal logo as visual anchors. Pacing is brisk at roughly 108 bpm with quick cuts, building from a comedic hook through named feature beats into a numbers-driven close and a single URL end card.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 3 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 17 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 4 3D passages — build or supply
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Launching Gradon (YC F26): The AI Partner for AEC Firms, scene by scene
· 32 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
Locked-off wide shot: two men in yellow safety vests stand on a bare dirt lot, one pointing at the empty ground, the other holding a tablet. A dump truck and dozer sit behind them. A white subtitle bar sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “This is a building!”
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:01–0:06
Two men in neon yellow safety vests stand on a bare dirt lot, yellow earthmovers behind them under a clear sky. The left man gestures with open hands; the right man turns and taps his arm. White subtitles on dark boxes sit at the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “This is a building!”, “Well, it will be in three years.”, “You mean six months?”
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:06–0:07
Two men in yellow safety vests stand on a dirt construction site, one looking at a tablet, heavy machinery behind them. The shot cuts to a close-up 3D render of a white device top with an embossed square logo.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
04 · Hook · 0:07–0:07
A dark BIM software screen shows a wireframe building in a 3D viewport. The camera zooms in on the structure, its facade resolving into tan brick with window grids, while the left panel slides out of frame.
Techniques: 3D mockup, UI zoom
Camera: Push in
05 · Hook · 0:07–0:08
A 3D model of a building shifts from a white untextured state to a brick facade. It is framed by a green wireframe bounding box on a dark background. Fast motion blurs the edges of the model.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
06 · Hook · 0:08–0:09
A white chevron with a halftone dot pattern spins in a light gray space, traced by a thin green wireframe, then the frame flips to a dark void where a green wireframe terrain plane and a translucent circuit-board panel float in 3D perspective.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
07 · Hook · 0:09–0:11
A 3D model of a building complex pulls back across the site, then cuts to two men in yellow safety vests standing on a sidewalk before the real structure, one holding a tablet.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
08 · Product intro · 0:11–0:12
A man in a cream sweater stands centered before a floor-to-ceiling glass wall, greenery blurred behind him, speaking to camera. A dark pill caption reading “Introducing Gradon:” sits at the lower center and clears by the end.
On-screen text: “Introducing Gradon:”
Camera: Push in
09 · Product intro · 0:12–0:15
On a pale gray contour-line background, a black four-petal mark holds center, then the bold wordmark Gradon scales in beside it with a tagline below. The lockup clears and the gray question What are we working on? fades in at center, with a caption box at the bottom.
On-screen text: “The AI partner for your AEC firm.”, “Gradon”, “The AI partner for your AEC firm”, “What are we working on?”, “You send it work”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
10 · Demo · 0:15–0:19
A flat interface on a light gray topographic background. A centered chat input with a 'What are we working on?' placeholder types 'here is the survey, cut the sheets for me', a file chip appears, and the send button darkens. A bottom caption pill swaps text.
On-screen text: “You send it work”, “the same way you'd message one of your engineers”
Camera: Static
11 · Demo · 0:19–0:20
A floating input box holding the typed prompt 'here is the survey, cut the sheets for me' expands outward to reveal the full Grador window, with the project sidebar on the left and the chat thread showing the attached survey document. A dark caption bar sits at the bottom throughout.
On-screen text: “and it gets it done start to finish.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
12 · Demo · 0:20–0:21
The Gradon app window rests flat on a light gray field, sidebar static. The document body resolves from overlapping ghost text into a clean bulleted list, then scrolls down as a dark caption bar at the bottom swaps its phrase.
On-screen text: “and it gets it done start to finish.”, “Give it a survey and it comes back with a plan set.”
Camera: Push in
13 · Demo · 0:21–0:24
White plan-set sheets slide left across a pale contour background, revealing a dark CAD drawing sheet on the right. A gray caption bar at the bottom reads “Give it a survey and it comes back with a plan set.”, then updates to “Reports, CAD design,”.
On-screen text: “Give it a survey and it comes back with a plan set.”, “Reports, CAD design,”
Camera: Pull out
14 · Demo · 0:24–0:27
Two rounded cards on a light topographic background hold CAD views of buildings; the strip slides left, swapping a 2D elevation and a dark 3D model for two 3D structural frames, then both fade out. A gray caption box below carries the line.
On-screen text: “Reports, CAD design,”, “anything.”
Techniques: Split screen, 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
15 · Demo · 0:27–0:32
A centered card with a black-and-white construction photo types out the labels Civil and 7 Skills; cards for Structural and Architecture slide in on either side, then the view zooms out to a full grid of category cards as a dark pill caption Gradon does it all. appears.
On-screen text: “Gradon does it all.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
16 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:40
A man in a leather jacket sits on an orange bench before a scribbled wall, speaking to camera. A translucent 3D panel at left stacks labeled tiles that merge into a single Company Brain diamond. Big white words your team and would do it scale in beside him.
On-screen text: “And it's all built on a company brain”, “Past projects”, “Company files”, “City standards”, “Codes”, “Firm Rules”, “that learns your firm's past projects and standards”, “Learned feedback”, “Company Brain”, “so everything comes out”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Morph, Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
17 · Demo · 0:40–0:43
A list of integration cards with icons, names and status labels scrolls up over a pale topographic background while a dark caption bar at the bottom swaps from 'it works inside the tools you already use' to 'and across all your existing workflows'.
On-screen text: “it works inside the tools you already use”, “and across all your existing workflows”
Camera: Pan
18 · Demo · 0:43–0:45
A pale list of civil design tools, each with a line icon and a green Ready label, scrolls upward over a faint topographic contour background. A dark gray caption bar with white text stays fixed at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “and across all your existing workflows”
Camera: Push in
19 · Other · 0:45–0:54
A curly-haired man in a black leather jacket sits on an orange bench against a wall of black line art, talking and gesturing to camera. Large white phrases build on the left and right, then outlined pill badges with icons slide across the frame.
On-screen text: “You won't”, “have to figure”, “any of this on”, “your own”, “we fly out and work one on one with your engineers”, “Flying out”, “one on one”, “office hours”, “most out of AI”, “till they're getting the most out of AI. We constantly keep them up to speed on what's new”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
20 · Other · 0:54–0:56
A curly-haired man in a gray hooded jacket speaks to camera in a bright office. White sans-serif lines stack up on the right reading “your firm is always on the frontier,” while a subtitle caption runs along the bottom.
On-screen text: “We constantly keep them up to speed on what's new”, “your firm”, “is always on”, “the frontier”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
21 · Social proof · 0:56–0:58
A man in a cream sweater stands before a glass wall with greenery behind, gesturing as he speaks. Text lines about the firm slide in and hold beside him.
On-screen text: “your firm”, “is always on”, “the frontier”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
22 · Social proof · 0:58–0:59
A man in a cream sweater talks to camera before a glass wall of greenery. A frosted card with a thin white outline floats over his chest, revealing 'Project time' above a large faint '750 Hours', then dissolves as he gestures.
On-screen text: “Project time”, “750 Hours”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
23 · Social proof · 0:59–1:02
A man in a cream sweater talks and gestures in front of a glass wall with a blurred green backdrop. A frosted glass panel floats beside him showing a large number that drops from 750 to 180 next to a down arrow.
On-screen text: “Project time”, “750”, “Hours”, “180”
Camera: Static
24 · Social proof · 1:02–1:03
A bearded man in a cream sweater speaks in a medium close-up, soft green park blurred behind him. A white statistic, the label 'Output per engineer' over a large '1x', fades in on the right side of the frame.
On-screen text: “Output per engineer”, “1x”
Camera: Static
25 · Social proof · 1:03–1:05
A man in a white sweater speaks at left against a blurred green backdrop. A frosted glass card at right reads Output per engineer, its figure counting from 3x to 4x, then more work slides in, above two bar rows labeled Before and With Gradon.
On-screen text: “Output per engineer”, “3x”, “Before”, “1x”, “With Gradon”, “4x”, “Same engineer. Same time”, “4x”, “more work”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
26 · Social proof · 1:05–1:09
A man in a cream sweater stands before floor-to-ceiling glass with trees and a building outside, speaking to camera and gesturing with both hands. White subtitles on a dark bar sit at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “So the same team finishes projects faster”, “takes on more”
Camera: Pull out
27 · Social proof · 1:09–1:11
A man in a cream sweater talks to a static camera in front of a blurred window with greenery. A small caption reads “takes on more” at the bottom, then large white words “doubles the revenue” appear on the left beside his face.
On-screen text: “takes on more”, “doubles the revenue”
Camera: Push in
28 · Other · 1:11–1:18
Two men in yellow hi-vis vests stand on a dirt construction lot, one gesturing as he speaks, a yellow dump truck and loader behind. White headline words pop in at the frame edges, then a text block slides in on the right as the camera pans.
On-screen text: “The biggest”, “revolution”, “since”, “CAD”, “The firms”, “that move”, “first”, “lead”, “the industry.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
29 · CTA · 1:18–1:19
Two men in yellow high-visibility vests stand side by side at a dirt construction site, heavy machinery blurred in the background. A locked-off medium shot holds on them as a subtitle caption sits at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “See it today on one of your own projects”
Camera: Static
30 · CTA · 1:19–1:20
Two men in yellow safety vests stand on a dirt construction site with parked trucks behind them. The man on the right gestures while speaking. A white petal logo scales in between them. A caption band sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “See it today on one of your own projects”
Camera: Static
31 · Outro · 1:20–1:21
Two men in yellow high-visibility vests stand on a dirt construction site, trucks parked behind. A white four-petal logo pops in between them, then the frame darkens and the logo turns maroon beside the Graddon wordmark and a white tagline.
On-screen text: “83”, “Gradon”, “The AI partner for your AEC firm”
Camera: Static
32 · Outro · 1:21–1:24
The Graddon logo lockup sits centered on a pale topographic-textured background. The tagline holds still while the black URL pill expands from a small square into a full rounded pill, revealing heygradon.com in white monospace.
On-screen text: “The AI partner for your AEC firm”, “heygradon.com”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Static