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Y Combinator - Lamina Labs is building the fastest infra for explainer videos. The

Lamina Labs · Jun 2026 · 1:06 · AI-annotated

Length
1:06
Scenes
60 · 1.1 s avg
Product on screen
0:28
Call to action
1:03 · 95%
Voiceover
Yes
00:00:00 / 01:06:21

Lamina Labs’s 1:06 launch film runs 60 scenes, about 1.1 s each. The product shows up at 0:28. The call to action lands at 1:03 (95% in), over a voiceover. Structure: a fast-cut black-and-white archival montage argues that drawing is the oldest technology, then a hard flip to a dark-teal UI demo where a typed prompt becomes an animated whiteboard explainer, closing with use-case cards and the spiral-eye logo. Signature moves: white caption pills on grainy footage, the spiral-eye aperture reveal, and hand-drawn yellow underlines that land key words.

Footage neededEstimated needs: 3 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 32 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 11 graphic passages — draw or supply · 1 3D passage — build or supply

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  1. 01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00

    Black and white low-angle footage of chimpanzees in a grassy field. A central chimp crouches, gripping a stick to its mouth with both hands, while another sits to the right. Foreground grass blurs the base. A caption sits at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “The oldest technology”

    Camera: Static

  2. 02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01

    A black and white close-up of an elderly person's face fills the frame, hands raised to the mouth as if eating. The shot is locked off and static, with a caption held at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “The oldest technology”

    Camera: Static

  3. 03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02

    Extreme close-up, black and white, locked-off shot of heavily textured hands holding a crinkled leaf-like object. The fingers shift slightly. A white caption on a dark pill sits at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “The oldest technology”, “in the world is a hand.”

    Camera: Static

  4. 04 · Hook · 0:02–0:02

    A black-and-white illustration of two hands reaching toward each other shifts to an anatomical hand and skull drawing, like pages of an old book. A dark caption box holds the line at the bottom center while the frame stays locked.

    On-screen text: “in the world is a hand.”

    Camera: Static

  5. 05 · Hook · 0:02–0:03

    Two black-and-white archival stills cut back to back. First, a man with wild hair and a mustache turns to the camera while writing an equation on a chalkboard. Second, a man in a herringbone suit writes the energy equation with chalk. A small caption sits over the image.

    On-screen text: “in the world is a hand.”, “PIG. II.”

    Camera: Static

  6. 06 · Hook · 0:03–0:03

    A black-and-white photo of a man in a white shirt and tie stands before a chalkboard of equations, then cuts to a close-up of a hand turning a small cylindrical device on a machine. A white caption reads “A line,” at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “A line,”

    Camera: Static

  7. 07 · Hook · 0:03–0:04

    Grainy black-and-white footage shows a person in a white shirt standing on a raised platform, arm raised, drawing a line across a large dark board. The frame is locked-off, and a small caption reading “A line,” sits centered at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “A line,”

    Camera: Static

  8. 08 · Hook · 0:04–0:05

    A black and white lecture hall shows a robed man drawing a curve on a chalkboard before a seated audience, then cuts to a close-up of his hand chalking an oval. White serif captions read “A line,” then “a board.” at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “A line,”, “a board.”

    Camera: Static

  9. 09 · Hook · 0:05–0:05

    A black-and-white shot shows a man from behind, standing before a blackboard packed with handwritten physics equations. The camera drifts slowly, sharpening his silhouette. A white caption box reading “a board.” sits at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “a board.”

    Camera: Static

  10. 10 · Hook · 0:05–0:06

    Black and white archival footage of a man in a light shirt standing before a blackboard filled with physics equations, both arms raised toward the surface. A white caption is fixed at the bottom center of the frame.

    On-screen text: “Feynman taught physics with it.”

    Camera: Static

  11. 11 · Hook · 0:06–0:06

    A black and white photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie in front of a blackboard covered in equations. The frame slowly zooms in on his face while a small caption sits at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “Feynman taught physics with it.”

    Camera: Static

  12. 12 · Hook · 0:06–0:07

    Grainy black-and-white archival shot of a man in a dark suit and glasses standing at a blackboard, his right arm raised and pointing at handwritten text on the board. A caption pill sits at the bottom of the frame while he gestures.

    On-screen text: “Feynman taught physics with it.”

    Camera: Pan

  13. 13 · Hook · 0:07–0:08

    A close-up of a man's face cracks and fades, revealing a Vitruvian Man drawing centered on a background of technical sketches. A caption appears at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “Da Vinci invented with it.”

    Camera: Static

  14. 14 · Hook · 0:08–0:08

    A Da Vinci pen sketch of a fetus in the womb fills the frame, ringed by mirrored handwriting and small anatomical drawings. A white caption in a dark rounded box sits at the bottom center, locked off.

    On-screen text: “Da Vinci invented with it.”

    Camera: Static

  15. 15 · Hook · 0:08–0:09

    A black-and-white locked-off wide shot shows a truss bridge model suspended by cables from a crane frame inside a high-ceilinged hall with tall windows. A caption rests at the bottom center over a dark rounded box.

    On-screen text: “Da Vinci invented with it.”

    Camera: Static

  16. 16 · Hook · 0:09–0:10

    A black-and-white hand-drawn diagram of the early web fills the frame, then a hard cut lands on a close-up of a browser address bar where www.w3.org is typed, with the autocomplete suggestion below. A caption stays at the bottom throughout.

    On-screen text: “Da Vinci invented with it.”, “The web was sketched on one.”

    Camera: Static

  17. 17 · Hook · 0:10–0:11

    Black-and-white medium close-up of a bald man in a dark jacket and open white shirt, speaking and gesturing with both hands in front of a wall covered with pinned sketches and papers. A white caption on a black bar sits at the bottom of the frame.

    On-screen text: “The web was sketched on one.”, “www.w3.org”

    Camera: Pull out

  18. 18 · Hook · 0:11–0:11

    A hand-drawn sketch of the early web, with circles, clouds and labelled arrows linking Proposal, CERNDoc, HyperText and Hypermedia, drifts slowly downward. A single caption line stays fixed at the edge.

    On-screen text: “The web was sketched on one.”

    Camera: Pan

  19. 19 · Hook · 0:11–0:12

    A hand-drawn blackboard mind map of hypertext terms fills the frame. A halftone browser address bar sits at the center, then a white card with a black globe and WWW logo pops over it, and a black caption bar with white serif text appears below.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”

    Camera: Static

  20. 20 · Hook · 0:12–0:13

    A hand writes mirrored equations on a glass pane, marker in focus, while a second figure sits blurred in the warm, dim background. The frame stays locked through the window frame, and a white subtitle line holds at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”

    Camera: Static

  21. 21 · Hook · 0:13–0:13

    A bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and round glasses holds chalk near a blackboard of cyan equations, divided by a vertical wooden post. The locked-off frame is dark with teal light, and a caption sits at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”

    Camera: Static

  22. 22 · Hook · 0:13–0:14

    A man in a dark suit and tie stands at a green chalkboard, drawing chalk circles with his right hand. The frame is locked off and dimly lit. A white serif subtitle sits at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”

    Camera: Static

  23. 23 · Hook · 0:14–0:14

    Over-the-shoulder shot of a person in a tan sweater and glasses writing a fraction on a green chalkboard filled with physics equations. The frame is locked-off while a subtitle holds at the bottom edge.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”

    Camera: Static

  24. 24 · Hook · 0:14–0:15

    A hand holds a pencil and sketches a figure on a sheet of paper, lit in dark teal, with a stack of papers at the upper left. The frame stays locked off while a white caption sits centered at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “For a century, we explained the”, “hardest ideas by drawing them.”

    Camera: Static

  25. 25 · Hook · 0:15–0:15

    Close-up of a hand drawing the digit 1 in white chalk beside a faded 186 on a dark green chalkboard. The locked-off frame holds shallow focus and moody teal light while a caption sits at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “hardest ideas by drawing them.”

    Camera: Static

  26. 26 · Hook · 0:15–0:16

    A close-up follows a hand drawing teal equations and diagrams on a dark chalkboard with white chalk. The hand moves quickly across the surface. A white caption on a black box sits at the bottom of the frame.

    On-screen text: “hardest ideas by drawing them.”

    Camera: Static

  27. 27 · Problem · 0:16–0:17

    A close-up shows a hand holding a white stylus, drawing glowing teal lines on a dark green board. The shot stays soft-focused while the caption “Then we stopped.” holds still in the lower frame.

    On-screen text: “Then we stopped.”

    Camera: Static

  28. 28 · Problem · 0:17–0:19

    The camera drifts across a blackboard dense with handwritten physics equations, blurs into a fast whip, and settles on another section. Subtitles swap from “Then we stopped.” to “Now, billion dollar ideas.”

    On-screen text: “Then we stopped.”, “Now, billion dollar ideas”

    Techniques: Speed ramp

    Camera: Push in

  29. 29 · Problem · 0:19–0:19

    A hazy double-exposure of white handwritten equations fills the frame, with a faint metallic satellite structure superimposed at center. A black caption box holds the line at the bottom as the layered image drifts slowly to the left.

    On-screen text: “Now, billion dollar ideas”

    Camera: Push in

  30. 30 · Problem · 0:19–0:20

    Aerial view of a launch complex with a lattice tower, dust specks and faint equations drifting over it, then a hard cut to a golden hexagonal satellite mirror suspended in a teal cleanroom. White serif captions sit at the bottom center.

    On-screen text: “Now, billion dollar ideas”, “get lost in docs.”

    Techniques: Particles

    Camera: Static

  31. 31 · Problem · 0:20–0:20

    A 3D satellite with orange panels and a magenta dish drifts through starry space, then cuts to a tight shot of a glossy black robot head with two white square eyes against a flat gray backdrop.

    On-screen text: “get lost in docs.”

    Techniques: 3D mockup

    Camera: Static

  32. 32 · Problem · 0:20–0:21

    A bearded man sits at a cluttered desk facing a CRT monitor, then the frame cuts to a wider office shot with two colleagues standing behind him. A caption stays locked at the bottom center throughout.

    On-screen text: “get lost in docs.”

    Camera: Static

  33. 33 · Problem · 0:21–0:21

    A locked-off high-angle shot of a vintage office cubicle maze with teal walls; a low bookshelf of colorful books fills the foreground while two figures stand in the aisle behind. A white caption on a dark pill sits at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “get lost in docs.”, “no one reads”

    Camera: Static

  34. 34 · Problem · 0:21–0:22

    A presenter in a dark suit gestures at a whiteboard beside a projected two-column slide, while audience heads fill the foreground. A dark caption box at the bottom center shows “no one reads,” then switches to “slides no one opens.” The frame stays locked off.

    On-screen text: “no one reads”, “slides no one opens”

    Camera: Static

  35. 35 · Problem · 0:22–0:23

    A man in a dark sweater vest over a white shirt stands before a teal projected slide filled with flowchart boxes and lines, gesturing with his hands as he speaks. The shot is a locked-off medium frame with a caption bar at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “slides no one opens”

    Camera: Static

  36. 36 · Problem · 0:23–0:24

    A group of men sit around a beige conference table in a dim office, one holding a coffee cup, papers and soda cans scattered on the surface. A white caption on a dark bar at the bottom reads the voiceover line, swapping between two phrases. The camera stays locked off.

    On-screen text: “slides no one opens”, “meetings no one remembers.”

    Camera: Static

  37. 37 · Problem · 0:24–0:25

    A static wide shot frames a group of people seated around a large oval conference table in a dim office. A few lean forward while others sit back. A dark caption bar sits at the bottom of the frame.

    On-screen text: “meetings no one remembers.”

    Camera: Static

  38. 38 · Problem · 0:25–0:27

    A desaturated film clip shows a man in a dark suit holding a jacket, walking through a room with a reel-to-reel deck and tape shelves. Large red all-caps text overlays the frame: THE UNDERSTANDING across his head, then BECAME HARD below, with one word sliding in.

    On-screen text: “meetings no one remembers.”, “THE UNDERSTANDING”, “BECAME HARD”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  39. 39 · Problem · 0:27–0:28

    A black and white clip of a man in a dark suit holding a coat and a card stands in a room with reel-to-reel tape equipment. Large red bold text overlays the frame, the word STANDING sliding in to complete the headline.

    On-screen text: “THE UNDERSTANDING BECAME HARD”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  40. 40 · Product intro · 0:28–0:29

    A dark teal disc fills the center, ringed by thin light-gray lines that curve outward in a spiral. The phrase 'We built' scales up from small to full size in the middle of the disc.

    On-screen text: “We built”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pull out

  41. 41 · Product intro · 0:29–0:30

    A small “We built” line scales in on a light gray field of swirling gray spiral lines, then a dark teal disc shows the Simi wordmark as its letters reveal left to right with a bright glint.

    On-screen text: “We built”, “Simi”

    Techniques: Kinetic type, Light sweep

    Camera: Pull out

  42. 42 · Product intro · 0:30–0:32

    A white frame holds the centered question “What should Simi make clear ?”. The type starts tiny and faint, then scales up to full size, with “What should” in bold dark gray, “Simi make” in light gray and “clear” in italic serif.

    On-screen text: “What should”, “Simi make clear ?”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  43. 43 · Demo · 0:32–0:32

    A white Simi app panel, with a grayscale spiral eye and the headline “What should Simi make clear?”, scales from full frame to a centered card. Behind it the background fades from pale blue to a dark night forest.

    Camera: Pull out

  44. 44 · Demo · 0:32–0:32

    A white interface card with a spiral eye mark and the headline 'What should Simi make clear?' floats over a dark forest. A 3D white cursor glides in from the lower right and hovers across four example prompt cards as they fade in.

    Techniques: Cursor demo

    Camera: Static

  45. 45 · Demo · 0:32–0:39

    A white input card floats over a dark aerial night shot of a snowy forest. A cursor types the question about time near a black hole, format chips for PowerPoint, PDF, Word, TXT and MD slide in above the card, then the cursor opens the aspect ratio popover and selects Portrait as the panel reframes left.

    Techniques: Cursor demo

    Camera: Pan

  46. 46 · Demo · 0:39–0:42

    A white rounded card with a LENGTH 30s control hovers over a dark snowy forest. A large white cursor moves onto the chip, a popover with a 1M to 5M slider pops open above it, then the popover closes and the card slides down.

    Techniques: Cursor demo

    Camera: Static

  47. 47 · Demo · 0:42–0:43

    A dark snowy slope at night, two hikers walk along a glowing trail. A white rounded prompt box holding a gray question fades in at the top right, while a thin blue outline box slides in at the bottom left.

    On-screen text: “Why time moves slower near a black hole ?”

    Camera: Static

  48. 48 · Demo · 0:43–0:45

    A dark snowy night backdrop sits behind a white rounded card that scales up on the left. The card shows a gravitational time dilation diagram with earth, watches and a black hole, then switches to a hand-drawn spacetime grid. A speech bubble with the question floats top right.

    On-screen text: “Why time moves slower near a black hole ?”

    Camera: Static

  49. 49 · Demo · 0:45–0:46

    A white card titled SPACETIME SHEET floats over a dark aerial view of a snowy forest at night. A hand-drawn grid, Earth icon and a small dip curve are shown, then the Sun, a deeper dip curve and a black hole label are drawn in. A caption pill sits top right.

    On-screen text: “Why time moves slower near a black hole ?”

    Camera: Static

  50. 50 · Demo · 0:46–0:47

    A white infographic card sits over a dark aerial view of a snowy forest. It shows a SPACETIME SHEET diagram with Earth, Sun and black-hole icons over dip lines, then swaps to a GRAVITY BENDS TIME clock-over-funnel diagram. A speech bubble top-right reads the question.

    On-screen text: “Why time moves slower near a black hole ?”, “SPACETIME SHEET”, “GRAVITY BENDS TIME”

    Camera: Static

  51. 51 · Other · 0:47–0:51

    On a dark teal gradient, oversized white text scales down to “Perfect for” at left as a rounded pill slides in at right, fills with a green gradient, and swaps three italic phrases: L&D and training teams, Course creators, customer education. A small black-hole caption closes the scene.

    On-screen text: “Perfect for”, “L&D and training teams”, “Course creators”, “customer education”, “Why time moves slower near a black hole ?”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  52. 52 · Other · 0:51–0:53

    Centered white lowercase text cycles through short phrases on a dark teal gradient, ending on the line 'explaining anything complex', which scales up from the single word 'explain' and then holds still on a locked-off frame.

    On-screen text: “Perfect for”, “customer education”, “explaining anything complex”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  53. 53 · Other · 0:53–0:53

    Large light-gray sans-serif text builds on the left over a defocused teal diagram of rounded cards with small line icons. The line reads “and it works”, the word “works” fading in after “and it”.

    On-screen text: “explaining anything complex”, “and it works”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  54. 54 · Other · 0:53–0:54

    Centered on a deep blue field, the phrase and it works holds still as works brightens from pale gray to white and a yellow hand-drawn underline scribbles in beneath it. Blurred diagram cards, including a cat photo, sit out of focus in the background.

    On-screen text: “and it works”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  55. 55 · Other · 0:54–0:56

    A dark blue screen shows a masonry grid of white cards holding hand-drawn diagrams and titles. The middle row stays in focus while the top and bottom rows are dimmed. The whole grid pans left, revealing cards on learning from mistakes and gravitational time dilation.

    Camera: Static

  56. 56 · Other · 0:56–0:57

    A grid of white cards on a dark blue background, each holding a hand-drawn diagram with a title: spacetime cone, earth versus black hole, event horizon, cat photo with a DOG? bubble, neural network. The view drifts slowly across the cards while the top and bottom rows fade into the background.

    Camera: Push in

  57. 57 · Other · 0:57–0:58

    A dark blue field with a faded grid of diagram cards sits behind a centered white lowercase line that fades in word by word. A yellow hand-drawn underline then strokes in beneath the word drawn.

    On-screen text: “watch it being drawn”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Push in

  58. 58 · Other · 0:58–1:01

    A dark blue gradient background holds a translucent light blue bar carrying “That's what”. The bar gives way to a larger white line “we're building at” that scales in, then “Lamina Labs” fills a thin rounded outline pill to its right.

    On-screen text: “That's what”, “we're building at”, “Lamina Labs”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  59. 59 · Other · 1:01–1:03

    A silver 3D camera-aperture mark sits at center on a dark blue gradient, then shrinks and slides left as the light-blue wordmark Simi scales in beside it.

    On-screen text: “Simi”

    Camera: Static

  60. 60 · CTA · 1:03–1:06

    A dark teal gradient background holds a centered two-line headline that resolves from a soft blur, the top line in white and the second in teal, with a small gray URL fading in below. The frame stays locked off.

    On-screen text: “Turn anything”, “into a visual explanation”, “laminalabs.ai”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static