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Octen · Nov 2026 · 2:00 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 2:00
- Scenes
- 31 · 3.9 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:26
- Features shown
- 3
- Call to action
- 1:55 · 96%
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 01:59:23
Octen’s 2:00 launch film runs 31 scenes, about 3.9 s each. The product shows up at 0:26 and 3 features are revealed, with social proof. The call to action lands at 1:55 (96% in), over a voiceover. The video interleaves locked-off founder testimony, light blue-gray desktop mockups, and black-screen data graphics, cutting on a steady pulse near 99 bpm. Its signature moves are white captions in dark rounded bars, a green pixel aesthetic, and big ticking counters that land on key numbers.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 5 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 11 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 7 graphic passages — draw or supply · 1 3D passage — build or supply
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· 31 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:04
A flat desktop shows a video file, a browser icon, and a trash can on a blue-gray background. A cursor drags the browser into the trash, then a search bar appears and vanishes. Bottom captions swap: Goodbye browser, goodbye search box, Your AI doesn't need either.
On-screen text: “Goodbye browser,”, “goodbye search box.”, “Your AI doesn't need either.”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
02 · Problem · 0:04–0:04
A light blue-gray macOS desktop shows a video file and a Trash icon; a cursor moves onto the file as a search panel slides in from the right and a notes panel from the left. A caption scales up at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “It needs search built for AI.”, “Your AI doesn't need either.”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Cursor demo
Camera: Static
03 · Problem · 0:04–0:10
A flat desktop stacks a video player, a Video Search panel and other app windows. A cursor types a query into the search field, a grid of video thumbnails fills the panel, and caption lines swap before the frame dims and a search bar labeled YOU fades in.
On-screen text: “It needs search built for AI.”, “An AI reads a thousand pages”, “in the time you read one.”, “It doesn't search once.”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
04 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
On a black screen, a search field types a query and a '1 search' tag pops in. The field slides up, revealing an AI block listing search calls while a big counter on the right fills with stripes and ticks from 1 to 2. A caption swaps at the bottom.
On-screen text: “It doesn't search once.”, “It searches in a loop,”
Camera: Static
05 · Problem · 0:11–0:14
A dark UI screen shows a search bar and a left column of green AI search queries that scroll upward. On the right a large number ticks from 12 to 100 above 'searches. 1 task.' A white bottom caption reads '50 or 100 times for every task.'
On-screen text: “It searches in a loop,”, “50 or 100 times for every task.”, “And the future of search is AI,”
Camera: Static
06 · Social proof · 0:14–0:17
A man with rimless glasses speaks to camera in front of a blurred window; his caption “not people.” scales in, then the scene cuts to a 3D desktop where the interview plays inside a video player window over pale blue waves.
On-screen text: “And the future of search is AI,”, “not people.”, “I built enterprise search at Baidu”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
07 · Social proof · 0:17–0:21
A locked-off desktop mockup shows a video player on the left where a man in a navy polo speaks, a green waveform pulsing below. On the right, a profile card and an experience list fade in. A dark caption bar at the bottom swaps between two white lines of text.
On-screen text: “I built enterprise search at Baidu”, “and led AI search at Alibaba Cloud.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:21–0:23
A desktop layout with a profile card and a video player window dissolves out, revealing a man in a navy polo and rimless glasses speaking to camera in a bright room with a tall window; white captions on a dark bar track his words at the bottom.
On-screen text: “The craziest day of the year”, “was always Black Friday.”
Camera: Push in
09 · Problem · 0:23–0:25
On a black background, a rounded search field types out 'best e' with a blinking caret as faint deal suggestion pills fade in around the frame edges. A white caption at the bottom reads 'For AI, every day is Black Friday.'
On-screen text: “For AI, every day is Black Friday.”, “was always Black Friday.”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
10 · Problem · 0:25–0:26
A close-up of a few green-highlighted search fields pulls back to reveal a dense grid of search queries covering the screen. A white caption at the bottom reads “For AI, every day is Black Friday,” then swaps to “Regular search was never designed for.”
On-screen text: “For AI, every day is Black Friday.”, “Regular search was never designed for”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
11 · Product intro · 0:26–0:29
A dark grid of green dashes fills the frame, with a horizontal data path carrying small orange, red and green squares. A white square pulses with a red glow at the center. A white caption line appears at the bottom, then switches to the second line.
On-screen text: “Regular search was never designed for”, “that kind of traffic, so we built Octen.”
Camera: Pull out
12 · Product intro · 0:29–0:33
The green Octen robot logo and wordmark sit centered on a black field of pixel columns that dissolve into a dot grid with drifting green sparks. The line “More than 1M searches every second” fades in below the logo while subtitles roll at the bottom.
On-screen text: “that kind of traffic, so we built Octen.”, “More than 1M searches every second”, “Today, it handles over a million searches”, “every second.”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
13 · Feature reveal · 0:33–0:39
On a black field, a green ring draws around a chip icon as a timer counts up to 0.3 sec, then the ring shrinks and a grid of 50 green dots fills row by row under the label 50 searches → 15 sec. The scene cuts to a man in a blue shirt speaking.
On-screen text: “Most search APIs take more than”, “0.3 sec”, “300 milliseconds a call.”, “50 searches”, “50 searches, 15 seconds.”, “15 sec”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Feature reveal · 0:39–0:44
A bearded man in rimless glasses and a navy shirt talks to camera, framed chest-up against a blurred bright window. A black subtitle box at the bottom updates in three lines as he speaks, the shot held steady.
On-screen text: “Octen Fast is already the”, “fastest search API in the world.”, “And today, we are going faster.”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:44–0:52
A black screen is packed with a dense grid of green monospaced URLs that drifts slowly, while thin green boxes jump from cell to cell. White caption lines cycle at the bottom center, one phrase at a time.
On-screen text: “And today, we are going faster.”, “Octen Pulse doesn't look anything up.”, “The model is the index.”, “It has memorized the 200 million most”, “important pages on the web.”
Camera: Pull out
16 · Feature reveal · 0:52–0:59
On a black dot-grid, a centered search pill types out the query 'List closest competitors_'. A glowing green chip icon fades in at the top right, and a monospace line '50 searches → 0.5 sec' assembles above the pill while captions run below.
On-screen text: “So one inference turns a question straight”, “into a real URL.”, “10 milliseconds, 50 searches, half a second.”, “50 searches → 0.5 sec”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
17 · Feature reveal · 0:59–1:03
On black, white dots assemble into an abstract shape, a central curved column flanked by two side lobes, rising from a horizontal dot band. The dots shimmer and the form shifts gently. Subtitles swap at bottom center, and the frame fills with a faint dot grid at the end.
On-screen text: “10 milliseconds, 50 searches, half a second.”, “And it's open source, so it”, “runs on your own devices.”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
18 · Feature reveal · 1:03–1:05
A dark, shallow-focus close-up of a hand holding a phone, the screen barely legible. White lower-third captions sit centered at the bottom in a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “runs on your own devices.”, “The phone in your pocket, the glasses on”
Camera: Static
19 · Feature reveal · 1:05–1:06
Extreme close-up of a brown eye, locked-off, with a transparent grid of code and interface panels reflected across the glass in front of it. A clear glass handle sits at the right edge. White subtitle captions read across the bottom.
On-screen text: “The phone in your pocket, the glasses on”, “your face, the robot in your warehouse.”
Camera: Static
20 · Feature reveal · 1:06–1:08
Top-down 3D render of a warehouse aisle: a small yellow robot carrying a cardboard box drives up the frame between blue storage racks while the camera tracks it from directly above. Subtitle captions appear in a dark rounded bar at the bottom.
On-screen text: “your face, the robot in your warehouse.”, “But right now,”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
21 · Problem · 1:08–1:10
A man with rimless glasses and a navy collared shirt speaks to a locked-off camera before a soft-focus window. White subtitles on a dark pill at the bottom read “But right now,” then “search for Al is a luxury.”
On-screen text: “your face, the robot in your warehouse.”, “But right now,”, “search for Al is a luxury.”
Camera: Static
22 · Problem · 1:10–1:13
A dark panel scrolls a list of green search() queries on the left while an API bill meter on the right fills from orange to red, its dollar signs growing from one to four. A white caption updates at the bottom.
On-screen text: “search for AI is a luxury.”, “Most search APIs charge per call,”
Camera: Static
23 · Problem · 1:13–1:17
A code line shows max_searches = 100 in green, then drops to 3 in red as three search calls appear and a red budget-reached line lands. It cuts to an answer card, Best espresso machine under $500, with grayed body lines and red warning tags.
On-screen text: “Most search APIs charge per call,”, “so teams cut corners.”, “Their agents search less,”, “and answers get worse.”
Camera: Static
24 · Pricing · 1:17–1:28
A man with rimless glasses in a navy shirt speaks to camera in a locked-off close-up, blurred window behind. White captions on dark bars cycle at the bottom, then a pricing card slides in from the right with $20 per month and UNLIMITED SEARCHES.
On-screen text: “and I always get to use”, “Search should be like electricity or water.”, “You don't count how many times”, “you flip the light switch.”, “So today, we are launching the”, “Octen subscription.”, “$20 a month, unlimited searches.”, “$20 per month”, “UNLIMITED SEARCHES”
Camera: Static
25 · Feature reveal · 1:28–1:29
A man in a navy polo stands center frame in a bright room, speaking and gesturing with both hands. A bottom subtitle changes from a pricing line to “One more thing,” while a white pricing card with a green price slides off the right edge with offset glitch blocks.
On-screen text: “$20 a month, unlimited searches.”, “$20 per month”, “UNLIMITED SEARCHES”, “One more thing,”
Camera: Static
26 · Feature reveal · 1:29–1:31
The camera tracks forward down a warehouse aisle of stacked cardboard boxes. Green HUD bounding boxes and labels with confidence scores pop up on cartons and a central pallet while a corner timer ticks. A bottom caption reads “One more thing,” then “the world is not made of text.”
On-screen text: “UNLIMITED SEARCHES”, “One more thing,”, “the world is not made of text.”
Camera: Push in
27 · Feature reveal · 1:31–1:34
A sunlit white kitchen is framed low as the camera tracks right, sliding past a stainless espresso machine to center a fruit bowl. Green AI-vision bounding boxes with labels lock onto each object, the last reading IMAGE SEARCH. A dark caption bar at the bottom carries the voiceover.
On-screen text: “Physical AI sees,”, “so it needs search that sees too.”
Techniques: Parallax
Camera: Push in
28 · Feature reveal · 1:34–1:38
The green pixel-art Octen logo holds center on a dark dot grid, haloed by a soft green glow. Four diagonal pixel lines radiate outward from the logo toward the corners, and a few small squares drift in the background. A white caption in a dark bar sits at the bottom and swaps to a second line.
On-screen text: “Octen Image Search is live today.”, “We are the only search that covers text,”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out
29 · Feature reveal · 1:38–1:41
A green pixel robot logo with the Octen wordmark glows at the center of a dark dotted grid. Four pixelated lines radiate to corner icons labeled Web Search, Video Search, Image Search and Deep Research, which drift slowly inward, while white caption lines appear at the bottom.
On-screen text: “We are the only search that covers text,”, “images, and eventually video in one API.”
Camera: Pull out
30 · Other · 1:41–1:55
A man in a blue shirt and rimless glasses speaks to camera in a medium close-up, the bright windowed room behind him blurred. The frame stays locked off while white caption lines swap at the bottom of the screen.
On-screen text: “Search is changing again, and this time,”, “the users are not people.”, “Agents don't need ads or links to click.”, “They need the truth.”, “Search for people ranks what people click.”, “We built Octen to rank what is true.”, “Humans search with Google.”
Camera: Static
31 · CTA · 1:55–2:00
A ring of green and white dots orbits the green Octen robot logo on black. The line get your API key at octen.ai types out beneath it while the caption AI searches with Octen. sits at the bottom, then fades.
On-screen text: “Humans search with Google.”, “AI searches with Octen.”, “get your API key at octen.ai”
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Pull out