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Bryel (YC F26) – Training a billion models
Perceptual Labs · Oct 2026 · 0:58 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026
Founder-led interview intercut with black title cards and kinetic type, paced at a calm ~92 bpm with word-by-word builds, rolling counters, and blur in/out transitions. Signature moves include the split screen with a rounded video card, blue accent underlines and data marks, and a recurring rounded-square app icon.
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· 21 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
On a black background, the words “Our mission is to train” fade in one by one at center-left. A dark gray rounded square pops in just below the line, holds briefly, and fades out as the last words land.
On-screen text: “Our mission is to train”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
On a dark background tiled with faint rounded squares, the sentence “Our mission is to train” builds word by word in the center. A white rounded square below the text shrinks into a small dot as the grid tightens.
On-screen text: “Our mission is to train”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
A pale gray card holds the static gray line “Our mission is to train” above a large black number that rolls up from 826,957,394 to 1,000,000,000, with bold black “models.” set beneath. The frame stays locked off as the digits tick.
On-screen text: “Our mission is to train”, “1,000,000,000”, “models.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:02–0:04
A man in a gray polo shirt speaks to camera in front of a window with trees outside. To his right, small dark text reads “Trained not by us,” then a larger “but by you.” appears beneath it.
On-screen text: “Trained not by us,”, “but by you.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
05 · Product intro · 0:04–0:04
A man in a brown knit polo sits in a blue armchair, hands clasped, speaking to camera in a bright room with floor-to-ceiling windows. Two caption lines appear over him while he talks.
On-screen text: “Trained not by us,”, “but by you.”
Camera: Static
06 · Product intro · 0:04–0:09
A man in a brown polo sits in a blue armchair before floor-to-ceiling office windows, speaking to camera. A black name caption fades in at right, holding his title below it. The frame stays locked and static.
On-screen text: “Kevin”, “CEO, Bryel Labs”
Camera: Static
07 · Social proof · 0:09–0:13
Over a dark, blurred shot of a man seated in an office chair, white text and logos appear in sequence: “Backed by” with the Y Combinator mark, “Custom models for” above Apple, Point72 and Framer logos, then the bold headline “Used by billions of users.”
On-screen text: “Backed by”, “Y”, “Combinator”, “Custom models for”, “Point72”, “Framer”, “Used by billions of users.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
08 · Social proof · 0:13–0:13
A man in a brown polo shirt and light jeans sits in a blue armchair, speaking to camera. The shot then contracts into a rounded card centered on a black field.
On-screen text: “Point72”, “Framer”, “Used by billions of users.”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Pull out
09 · Demo · 0:13–0:23
Split screen: a man in a brown polo sits in a blue armchair inside a rounded frame on the right, speaking. On the left, white kinetic type and a cost-score graph build on black, finishing with three icons and the word Beyond.
On-screen text: “Classification models”, “20×”, “faster.”, “Agents”, “Beat the frontier.”, “At a fraction of the cost.”, “Models that”, “See”, “Hear”, “Read”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Split screen
Camera: Static
10 · Demo · 0:23–0:23
A man in a brown polo sits in a blue armchair by tall windows. On the left, 'Models that' sits above three icons labeled See, Hear, Read, with 'Beyond text.' below. The rounded video card then scales up to fill the frame as the text fades out.
On-screen text: “Models that”, “See”, “Hear”, “Read”, “Beyond text.”
Techniques: Split screen, Masking
Camera: Push in
11 · Problem · 0:23–0:32
A man in a gray knit polo sits in a bright office with floor-to-ceiling windows, talking to an off-screen interviewer. On the left, gray and black text lines appear word by word, with one-size-fits-all scaling in and a blue underline drawing beneath it.
On-screen text: “There's no”, “one-size-fits-all”, “model.”, “Sometimes you need something”, “Cheaper.”, “Faster.”, “Better.”, “At the things only you and your business understand.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
12 · Problem · 0:32–0:37
A blurred shot of a man in an office fills the frame while white text builds in the center. The lower line cycles through “your business.,” “your data.” and “your judgment.” The blur then resolves, revealing the man seated in a blue armchair by a window.
On-screen text: “Real intelligence”, “Real intelligence starts in”, “your business.”, “your data.”, “your judgment.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
13 · Product intro · 0:37–0:39
A man in a dark polo sits in a teal armchair in a bright room with floor-to-ceiling windows, a floral painting leaning at right. A white rounded caption card appears at the bottom, filling with “Your AI training team.” then “For hire.” in blue.
On-screen text: “Real intelligence starts in”, “yourjudgment.”, “Your AI training team.”, “For hire.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Product intro · 0:39–0:41
A man in a brown polo sits in a blue armchair in a bright office, speaking to camera as the white bryel logo overlays him. The shot fades to black, the logo extends to bryel foundry, and the tagline lines Your AI training team. For hire. appear.
On-screen text: “bryel foundry”, “Your AI training team.”, “For hire.”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:41–0:42
Locked-off black frame. A bold white headline fades in from left to right above a row of three line icons joined by a connector line. The database, loop, and bar-chart icons light up in sequence with blue borders, each with a small label beneath.
On-screen text: “Your own in-house AI lab.”, “Your data”, “Training”, “Evals”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Feature reveal · 0:42–0:43
On a black background, the headline types out to “A model you own.” while three blue outline cards labeled “Your data”, “Training” and “Evals” merge into a single white app icon reading “Your model v1”.
On-screen text: “A model you own.”, “Your data”, “Training”, “Evals”, “Your model”, “v1”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Morph
Camera: Static
17 · Feature reveal · 0:43–0:45
A white headline reads above a gray line that fades in. A blue curve draws itself across a faint grid from Day 1 to Today as a white rounded square glides along it, its label stepping from v1 to v42.
On-screen text: “A model you own.”, “That gets smarter every day.”, “Day 1”, “Today”, “v1”, “v38”, “v42”
Camera: Static
18 · Other · 0:45–0:51
A man in a gray sweater talks in a sunlit office. On the left, “No more” sits above a list where “Harnesses”, “Routing” and “Brute-forcing” pop in one by one, each crossed out by a drawn line as it appears, then the whole block fades.
On-screen text: “No more”, “Harnesses”, “Routing”, “Brute-forcing”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · CTA · 0:51–0:54
A man in a brown polo sits in a blue armchair before a floor-to-ceiling window, speaking to camera with hands clasped. The locked-off medium shot holds steady as he talks.
On-screen text: “No more”
Camera: Push in
20 · CTA · 0:54–0:55
On a black field, the bryel logo, a light gray lowercase wordmark beside a triangular node icon, appears at center and holds still.
On-screen text: “bryel”
Camera: Static
21 · CTA · 0:55–0:58
A white bryel wordmark with a node icon sits centered on a black background. A gray tagline reads below it, then a white URL fades in beneath. The whole lockup dims and fades to black.
On-screen text: “Models for every company.”, “bryel.ai”
Camera: Static







