Martin Cordsmeier - AI can write code, pass the bar exam and sound human. It still can’t

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:02

A green-on-black launch console fills the frame: a radar sweeps, a wireframe rocket sits in the right panel, and a glitching scanline face flickers in the center as the countdown ticks down. 'LAUNCH CONFIRMED' pulses in red while a typewriter line types 'I GOT THIS'.

On-screen text: “Everyone's worried about AI going rogue”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

02 · Hook · 0:02–0:05

A fuzzy green one-eyed creature with vine arms floats in front of a giant wall screen showing a world map with red alert zones, while silhouetted operators sit at monitor banks below. The creature's eye blinks and its arms shift as a caption box pops in on the right.

On-screen text: “and ultimately causing the downfall”, “DID I DO THAT?”, “of society.”

Camera: Static

03 · Problem · 0:05–0:09

A bearded man in a dark sweater sits before a wall of bookshelves and speaks to camera. A green one-eyed cartoon blob with thin legs floats at upper right, blinking and shifting its face. A lower-third names him while subtitles roll along the bottom.

On-screen text: “Martin Cordsmeier”, “Co-Founder & CEO, Millionways”, “But the problem we already live with”, “is much more real.”, “AI doesn't actually understand us.”

Camera: Static

04 · Problem · 0:09–0:12

A bearded man with curly dark hair sits in close-up, speaking and turning his head slightly left. The background is a soft-focus room with a bright curtained window and warm tan wall. White subtitles in a dark rounded box swap at the bottom of the frame.

On-screen text: “Al doesn't actually understand us.”, “Humans read each other with empathy”, “and intuition.”

Camera: Pan

05 · Problem · 0:12–0:19

A bearded man with curly dark hair sits centered before a warm wooden bookshelf, speaking to camera as white captions in a dark box appear at the bottom. The shot cuts to a tight profile close-up of his face as he finishes the line.

On-screen text: “and intuition.”, “It's how we catch sarcasm, hesitation,”, “subtle shifts in tone.”, “That's what AI has been missing”, “until now.”

Camera: Static

06 · Other · 0:19–0:23

A bearded man with curly dark hair sits in a sunlit room, turning his head from three-quarter to full profile as he speaks. A dark caption bar at the bottom displays his words in white sans-serif text, swapping line by line.

On-screen text: “until now.”, “Long before the ChatGPT moment,”, “I started interviewing people to”, “understand what makes them tick.”

Camera: Pan

07 · Other · 0:23–0:28

A bearded man in a dark sweater speaks to camera in front of a bookshelf wall. White stat lines stack in on the right while captions run along the bottom, then the shot cuts to the back of a woman's head facing a bright window.

On-screen text: “Together with 50 psychologists, we”, “50+ psychologists”, “interviewed more than 7,000 people from”, “7k+ people”, “all walks of life.”, “Ages 18-80”, “They opened up about their dreams,”

Camera: Static

08 · Other · 0:28–0:29

Over-the-shoulder shot of a woman with long auburn hair in a clip, seated in a patterned chair, facing a bright blurred office with plants. A white caption sits in a dark pill at the bottom while stat callouts slide and scale in over the frame.

On-screen text: “They opened up about their dreams,”, “50+ psychologists”, “7k+ people”, “Ages 18-80”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

09 · Other · 0:29–0:32

Two people sit facing each other in chairs, the shot held softly out of focus with a window and side table behind them. White captions on a dark bar swap line by line at the bottom, matching the voiceover.

On-screen text: “They opened up about their dreams,”, “their wishes, their most”, “personal experiences.”

Camera: Static

10 · Other · 0:32–0:36

A bearded man in a dark long-sleeve shirt sits centered before a wooden bookshelf, speaking to camera in a locked-off shot. White stat lines hold on the right while a caption pill at the bottom cycles his words as he gestures.

On-screen text: “50+ psychologists”, “7k+ people”, “Ages 18-80”, “4 years”, “We returned over four years to compare”, “what people said with how they behaved.”, “personal experiences.”

Camera: Static

11 · Other · 0:36–0:39

A curly-haired, bearded man is interviewed in a warm, sunlit room, first in close-up then in a wider shot before a bookshelf. He speaks off-camera while burned-in captions track his words at the bottom of the frame.

On-screen text: “Our unique origin story gave us”, “something no one else had:”, “Behavioral data comparing everyday”, “what people said with how they behaved.”, “50+psychologists”, “7k+people”, “Ages18-80”, “4 years”

Camera: Pan

12 · Other · 0:39–0:45

A bearded man in a dark sweater sits centered in a medium close-up before a wall of bookshelves, speaking to camera on a locked-off frame. White subtitles on a dark rounded bar cycle at the bottom of the frame.

On-screen text: “Behavioral data comparing everyday”, “people's words with their actions.”, “That's the foundation of Thorsten-4.”

Camera: Static

13 · Product intro · 0:45–0:48

On a pale lavender field with faint code along the edges, the bold title Thorsten-4 scales up at center as two purple pills fade out. Below it, the monospace line A Large Psychology Model types in word by word. A gray caption bar at the bottom carries the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Thorsten-4”, “That's the foundation of Thorsten-4.”, “A Large Psychology Model”, “Thorsten is a Large Psychology Model.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

14 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:54

A bearded man in amber glasses sits before a soft-focus wall of bookshelves, speaking to camera in a locked-off medium shot. A lavender and white lower third slides in at left with his name and title, while caption lines cycle along the bottom.

On-screen text: “Max Weidemann”, “Co-Founder & CTO, Millionways”, “Thorsten is a Large Psychology Model.”, “LLMs predict the next word,”, “Thorsten predicts the next move.”, “It does that by working”, “ence like a brain.”

Camera: Static

15 · Feature reveal · 0:54–0:55

A locked-off aerial shot of a busy city intersection with a bus and crossing crowds. A tilted translucent email card floats over the center, its white text typing out a sentence, while a lower-third caption sits at the bottom.

On-screen text: “Email: Happy to push this to next quarter if that's easier for everyone”, “Thorsten looks at word choice,”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

16 · Feature reveal · 0:55–0:58

Blurred footage of a person holding a phone carries two overlaid message bubbles, a dark email and a purple text, over a bottom caption bar. The email fades out as a second text bubble appears, then it cuts to a close-up of a face reading the phone.

On-screen text: “Email: Happy to push this to next quarter if that's easier for everyone”, “Text: all good, just slammed this week 😅”, “Thorsten looks at word choice,”, “hey, do you still have that recruiter's number?”, “sentence structure, and how those”, “patterns change, i'm applying them to”

Camera: Static

17 · Feature reveal · 0:58–0:58

Extreme close-up of a person's eye, softly out of focus, fills the frame. Translucent message bubbles, tilted at angles, float over it: a grey email and two purple texts. A second grey email bubble slides in from the left. A dark caption bar at the bottom carries the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Email:”, “Happy to push this to next quarter if that's easier for everyone”, “Text:”, “all good, just slammed this week”, “Text:”, “hey, do you still have that recruiter's number?”, “patterns change, mapping them to”, “Email:”, “Totally,”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

18 · Feature reveal · 0:58–0:59

Extreme close-up of a dark human eye. Gray email bubbles and purple text bubbles float around the iris, while a thin HUD with a center line and the numbers 27, 6, 18, 0 fades in over the pupil. A bottom caption reads patterns change, mapping them to.

On-screen text: “patterns change, mapping them to”

Camera: Static

19 · Feature reveal · 0:59–1:01

Extreme close-up of a human eye, dark and soft-focused. A four-quadrant oval chart overlays the iris, its numbers ticking upward (54 to 75, 22 to 42), while four tilted chat bubbles, two gray email and two purple text, frame the eye. A white caption pill sits at the bottom.

On-screen text: “underlying behavioral science.”

Camera: Static

20 · Feature reveal · 1:01–1:02

A four-quadrant oval diagram with scores 75, 75, 42 and 44 under labels Intention Memory, Extension Memory, Object Recognition, Intuitive Behavior holds center frame. Email and text message bubbles sit at the four corners over a dark bokeh backdrop and a person's hair at the right edge. A subtitle bar reads along the bottom.

On-screen text: “It connects signals that might seem”

Camera: Static

21 · Feature reveal · 1:02–1:04

A blurred live-action plate of a woman's hair and warm bokeh sits behind a 2x2 trait matrix (75, 75, 42, 44) that cuts to two rounded chat bubbles. The bubbles type out a question and a purple answer line, character by character, while a subtitle bar runs along the bottom.

On-screen text: “It connects signals that might seem”, “unrelated, much like an expert”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

22 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:08

A gray question bubble and a purple answer bubble sit centered over a dark, defocused bokeh of colored lights. The bubble text stays static while a small subtitle pill at the bottom updates with the narration.

On-screen text: “unrelated, much like an expert psychologist would.”, “And every connection is grounded in an”

Camera: Static

23 · Demo · 1:08–1:14

A bearded man in round amber glasses and a dark cardigan sits centered in a warm library, bookshelves and an orange lounge chair behind him. He speaks to camera while three subtitle lines swap at the bottom in sync with his words.

On-screen text: “established psychology framework, with”, “predictions checked against the words”, “and actions of thousands of real people.”

Camera: Static

24 · Demo · 1:14–1:25

A bearded man in a dark sweater sits centered before a wall of bookshelves, speaking to camera and gesturing with his hands. White subtitle captions cycle along the bottom edge. The orange chair and potted plant at the sides stay softly out of focus in a locked-off medium shot.

On-screen text: “and actions of thousands of real people.”, “AI is becoming part of every”, “conversation where important decisions”, “get made.”, “Earnings calls, interviews,”, “sales meetings.”, “Thorsten is one intelligence that can”, “power every one of them.”, “And our partners are already building”, “on it.”

Camera: Static

25 · Social proof · 1:25–1:26

A quote assembles word by word on a pale lavender gradient, the word “encouraged” boxed in light purple, while a gray pill at the bottom swaps its caption text. The frame stays locked off.

On-screen text: ““We're really encouraged by what we're seeing.””, “on it.”, “A hedge fund tested it on earnings”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

26 · Social proof · 1:26–1:27

A monospace quote, with 'encouraged' highlighted in lavender, sits on a pale gradient while an isometric white plane on the right stacks into layered slabs with a purple glow. A gray caption pill at the bottom swaps its line.

On-screen text: ““We're really encouraged by what we're seeing.””, “A hedge fund tested it on earnings”, “calls against sentiment tools and”

Camera: Static

27 · Social proof · 1:27–1:30

A quote card on a pale lavender field. A dark monospace quote slides left out and a new quote, “We see real upside ahead.”, slides in with “upside” set in a lavender highlight. A stack of white, navy and purple 3D planes sits at right, and a gray pill caption at the bottom updates with the voiceover.

On-screen text: “We're really”, “what we're seeing.”, “calls against sentiment tools and”, “We see real”, “upside”, “ahead.”, “frontier AI.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

28 · Social proof · 1:30–1:34

Two bracketed metric boxes on a pale lavender field count up to 35.8 and 64.2 as two monospace quotes type out above them, keywords highlighted in purple. A lavender banner then types the line “Recovery language runs ahead of the evidence.” while a gray caption pill carries the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Thorsten read the executives behind the numbers and the false confidence.”, ““We're really encouraged by what we're seeing.””, ““We see real upside ahead.””, “Recovery language runs ahead of the evidence.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Pull out

29 · Social proof · 1:34–1:35

A lavender infographic holds two highlighted quotes above paired sentiment scores, 35.8 and 64.2, flanked by code fragments. A purple bar carries the conclusion while a gray caption plays the narration line. The bar text fades and a small square pops in the center.

On-screen text: “Recovery language runs ahead of the evidence.”, “This year, the fund began trading a”

Camera: Static

30 · Social proof · 1:35–1:38

On a pale lavender card, a bold navy counter ticks from $7M to $50M above the line hedge fund portfolio. A lime pill labeled Powered by Thorsten and a two-line caption sit below, and a gray subtitle bar at the bottom follows the voiceover.

On-screen text: “$7M”, “hedge fund portfolio”, “Powered by Thorsten”, “This year, the fund began trading a”, “$50M”, “Outperformed sentiment tools at predicting actual stock outcomes.”, “$50 million portfolio on it.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

31 · Feature reveal · 1:38–1:42

Two testimonial cards sit on a pale lavender field, each pairing a diamond avatar with the quote and a name plus a short paragraph. A dark gray lower-third caption updates in two parts to track the voiceover.

On-screen text: “I do my best work under pressure”, “Top executive search firms have put”, “Thorsten's reads to the test.”

Camera: Static

32 · Feature reveal · 1:42–1:42

On a lavender field, a stylized assessment view reflows: the top diamond avatar rotates as Reliability joins Pressure beside Jordan, a pale rounded box drops into the center, the lower quote and progress bar shift, and a gray caption pill holds the line at the bottom.

On-screen text: “Thorsten's reads to the test.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

33 · Feature reveal · 1:42–1:45

Two candidate rows labeled Pressure Reliability sit on a lavender field, each with a diamond avatar and a slider. The top slider ticks from 4 to 7 as a purple callout box widens to reveal a sentence, while a gray caption bar at the bottom updates with the narration.

On-screen text: “Now we're building an assessment tool”, “with one of them to help their”, “clients avoid costly hiring mistakes.”

Camera: Push in

34 · Feature reveal · 1:45–1:50

A blurred, zoomed-in crop of a candidate profile UI cuts to a flat lavender card. A purple parallelogram banner reads “Leadership assessment tool.” A subline below fades in, “In development with a top-10 executive search firm,” then swaps to “A faster, more precise way to assess and predict candidate behavior.”

On-screen text: “clients avoid costly hiring mistakes.”, “Leadership assessment tool”, “In development with a top-10 executive search firm”, “A faster, more precise way to assess and predict candidate behavior”, “Imagine AI that understands the person”, “it's talking to.”

Techniques: UI zoom, Kinetic type

Camera: Static

35 · Other · 1:50–1:55

A bearded man in glasses sits in a library, speaking to the camera. A green one-eyed cartoon creature with thin arms floats and bobs beside him, ringed by a purple glow and white motion streaks. White subtitles caption his words along the bottom.

On-screen text: “it's talking to.”, “What they mean, how they feel, and”, “what they'll do next.”, “That's the type of intelligence people”

Camera: Static

36 · Other · 1:55–2:00

A bearded man in glasses sits before a wall of bookshelves, speaking to camera in a static medium shot. A green one-eyed cartoon creature with a purple outline floats at the right edge for the first second, then disappears. White subtitles appear on a dark bar at the bottom.

On-screen text: “That's the type of intelligence people”, “actually want.”, “And there's no amount of compute that”, “can buy it.”

Camera: Static

37 · Other · 2:00–2:05

A bearded man in a dark sweater sits centered before a wall of bookshelves, speaking to the camera in a locked-off medium shot. White subtitle lines on a dark rounded pill swap in at the bottom of the frame.

On-screen text: “can buy it.”, “AI knows how to talk to us.”, “Now it will know”, “who it's talking to.”

Camera: Static

38 · CTA · 2:05–2:09

On a pale lavender gradient, the black hexagon mark and the wordmark millionways fade in from faint gray to solid black. Below, a smaller gray line reads Learn more at millionways.ai, with the first word briefly tinted purple before settling to gray.

On-screen text: “Learn more at millionways.ai”

Camera: Static