Decent · Fintech · Oct 2026
Maritime (YC F26): The managed cloud for AI agents
Maritime · Oct 2026 · 1:12 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026
The piece is built as a deadpan office skit that poses the problem of building infrastructure for users you do not have, then reveals maritime's deploy-and-handle value through on-screen data counters and floating pill labels. Its signature moves are rapid cuts locked to a driving beat, big thin numerals that roll, and pill or notification cards that pop over live action, bookended by the white sail mark on black.
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Maritime (YC F26): The managed cloud for AI agents, scene by scene
· 32 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:04
A man in a dark plaid suit and tan shirt speaks to camera, smiling, in an office with a white wall and a dark red panel behind him. The medium close-up holds steady with a slight handheld drift.
Camera: Pan
02 · Hook · 0:04–0:05
A TV screen shows a small white dog lying on a bed, overlaid by a dark phone mockup with a white outline. A chat bubble scales in with a walk request, then the Barkley agent's reply bubble scales in below it.
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:05–0:06
Over-the-shoulder shot in a bright conference room: a man in a black shirt sits at a long table, facing a wall screen. The screen shows a man in a dark blazer standing beside a small dog. The camera stays locked off while the voiceover asks a question.
Camera: Static
04 · Problem · 0:06–0:10
Close-up of a man in a dark suit speaking to camera against a blurred office background. At one second the caption CONCURRENT USERS and the large figure 10,000 fade in on the right and hold until the end of the shot.
On-screen text: “CONCURRENT USERS”, “10,000”
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:10–0:13
Over-the-shoulder shot of a person seated at a long dark conference table, facing a wall display that shows a man in a dark suit standing beside a dog on a bed. Frosted glass partitions and a window frame the bright room. A large numeric overlay reads 10,000 concurrent users.
On-screen text: “CONCURRENT USERS”, “10,000”
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:13–0:15
A man in a dark jacket looks into the camera and speaks in a tight close-up, the office behind him blurred. On the right, a small white label reads CURRENT USERS above a large numeral that rolls down from 9,559 to 0.
On-screen text: “CURRENT USERS”, “9,559”, “4,222”, “0”
Camera: Push in
07 · Problem · 0:15–0:18
A man in a black sweater stands in a bright office, talking and gesturing to camera. On the left, a large white number and the word MONTHS scale in above three black pill labels that slide in one after another.
On-screen text: “03 MONTHS”, “Kubernetes”, “Networking”, “Autoscaling”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
08 · Problem · 0:18–0:19
A man in a dark blazer stands at a conference table facing a seated person. A screen behind him shows a woman holding a dog. On the left, large white text stacks in word by word: USERS YOU DONT HAVE!.
On-screen text: “USERS”, “YOU”, “DONT”, “HAVE!”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
09 · Problem · 0:19–0:25
A blonde woman in a black top speaks to camera in a bright office as white text and graphics assemble on the left: STARTUP SELLING AI AGENTS over four app icons, then MAKING IT GREAT! with stars filling and a rising user chart. She ends walking through a doorway.
On-screen text: “STARTUP SELLING AI AGENTS”, “MAKING IT GREAT!”, “CURRENT USERS 3,556”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
10 · Problem · 0:25–0:27
A man in a black tee walks toward the camera past frosted glass office walls. White icon labels, VM SETUP then NETWORKING, slide in on the left. A dashboard panel with a sidebar of icons enters from the right edge.
On-screen text: “VM SETUP”, “NETWORKING”
Camera: Pull out
11 · Problem · 0:27–0:28
Two men talk in an office before a wall monitor showing a code editor and chat app; one gestures at the screen. On the left, a column of line icons with labels VM SETUP, NETWORKING, MONITORING, SCALING slides in line by line. A sticker-covered laptop sits on the table.
On-screen text: “VM SETUP”, “NETWORKING”, “MONITORING”, “SCALING”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
12 · Product intro · 0:28–0:30
Medium shot of a blonde woman in a black top talking in a bright office; a monitor at frame left shows the maritime dashboard with a four-item checklist whose rows turn green. A man in a suit drifts out of frame right as the camera pans slightly.
Camera: Pull out
13 · Product intro · 0:30–0:31
A young man in a black shirt speaks to camera in front of a wall screen showing a dark app dashboard. A white rounded card with “Your Product” and “YOU BUILD” in monospace type floats at the left edge of the frame.
On-screen text: “Your Product”, “YOU BUILD”
Camera: Pull out
14 · Product intro · 0:31–0:32
A man in a dark suit stands by an office window as two cards overlay the left: a light card reading 'Your Product / YOU BUILD' and a black maritime card. Infrastructure terms pop in line by line, then the black card slides down and exits.
On-screen text: “Your Product”, “YOU BUILD”, “maritime”, “WE HANDLE”, “INFRASTRUCTURE”, “VMs”, “Networking”, “Disks”, “Browsers”, “Scaling”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:35
A man in a black sweater stands before a monitor as white pill labels (Route 53, IAM, Lambda, SQS) float around him, connected by thin lines. Blue speech bubbles pop in with complaints while the focus racks and blurs the man.
On-screen text: “Route 53”, “IAM”, “NAT Gateway”, “VPC”, “Load Balancer”, “EC2”, “CloudWatch”, “EBS”, “ECS”, “Lambda”, ”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:37
A dark dashboard shows a cursor picking the GitHub source and typing a repo name while the deploy panel flips to “Deploying.” It cuts to black, where the bold white headline “YOUR AGENT” sits beside a phone mockup of the agent chat.
On-screen text: “YOUR AGENT”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Pan
17 · Feature reveal · 0:37–0:41
Bold white headline sits left of a tilted 3D phone showing a chat thread, then the camera pulls back to a flat dark Users dashboard. A code snippet panel slides in at the bottom right as the voiceover plays.
On-screen text: “YOUR AGENT IS LIVE.”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
18 · Feature reveal · 0:41–0:46
Two presenters stand on either side of a large monitor showing the agent dashboard; the camera zooms in on the screen as three pill labels, Persistent VM, Disk, Browser, appear along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Persistent VM”, “Disk”, “Browser”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Push in
19 · Problem · 0:46–0:46
A man in a dark blazer over a tan shirt stands before a pale gray wall and glass partition, speaking to someone off camera. He turns his head slightly as the handheld camera follows with a brief blur.
Camera: Static
20 · Problem · 0:46–0:47
A dark-haired man in a dark blazer turns his head in the foreground while a blonde woman stands softly out of focus behind him. Shallow depth of field, quick handheld-style beat in a white-walled room.
Camera: Push in
21 · Problem · 0:47–0:49
In a bright conference room, three people stand around a wall display showing a dark alert feed. The man in the center gestures as five black notification cards with orange text pop out in front of the screen and the people, floating at different heights.
On-screen text: “Cert expired”, “Out of Memory”, “Disk Full”, “Server Down”, “Failed Agent”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
22 · Problem · 0:49–0:50
A man in a black shirt stands in profile in a bright office, gazing at a large monitor that shows a dark dashboard with red error logs. He shifts his head slightly toward the screen while the fixed shot holds.
Camera: Pull out
23 · Problem · 0:50–0:52
Three people stand around a conference table in front of a large wall monitor showing a red data dashboard. The man in the center, holding papers, turns and points at the screen while the other two watch. Locked-off medium shot, real-time pace.
Camera: Static
24 · Problem · 0:52–0:53
A hand slaps a paper AWS bill flat on a dark surface, then pulls away to reveal the yellow-highlighted heading and the $1,000,000.00 total due. Small captions slide in over the locked-off shot.
On-screen text: “017”, “Down”
Camera: Static
25 · Problem · 0:53–0:54
In an office, a man in a blazer gestures toward a wall monitor showing a red status dashboard while a blonde woman in black bends to pick up papers from a table and stands. A third man in a black sweater stands still at left. Locked-off frame.
Camera: Static
26 · Problem · 0:54–0:55
Close-up of a black trash bin with a plastic liner in a carpeted corner. A crumpled white paper drops from above into the bin.
Camera: Static
27 · Pricing · 0:55–0:58
A blonde woman in a black top stands before a gray wall, speaking to camera. On her right, white text reads EVERY AGENT IS, then a large $1 and A MONTH appear, the last scaling in. The camera stays locked off.
On-screen text: “EVERY AGENT IS”, “$1”, “A MONTH”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
28 · Pricing · 0:58–1:01
Three people stand in a conference room before a wall display showing a metrics dashboard, which then resolves into a white sail logo as the wordmark types in. The shot tightens to a close-up of the man on the left as a pricing line lands with the dollar figure oversized.
On-screen text: “EVERY AGENT IS”, “$1”, “A MONTH”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
29 · Outro · 1:01–1:02
A young man in a black crew-neck shirt stands in profile, facing right, and speaks. Behind him a black monitor displays a white sail-shaped logo and a partial wordmark. The camera holds a locked-off medium close-up.
Camera: Static
30 · Outro · 1:02–1:04
A man in a dark checkered suit and beige shirt stands before a black panel bearing a white sail logo. He glances down and speaks in a locked-off medium close-up, with a large Chinese character caption held still in frame.
On-screen text: “八”
Camera: Static
31 · Outro · 1:04–1:05
Three people stand behind a black table in an office, a sticker-covered laptop in the foreground. A large wall screen behind them shows a white sail logo and the letter n. The man in the middle looks down while the woman on the right smiles, all holding still.
Camera: Static
32 · Outro · 1:05–1:12
A white logo lockup sits centered on a black background: a curved sail mark beside the lowercase word maritime. The frame is static and locked off for the full duration.
Camera: Static







