Spotify · Consumer · Jul 2024
Probe Launch Video (YC P26) | Unveil Studio
Probe · Oct 2026 · 1:13 · AI-annotated
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The video is built as a warm, conversational pitch that alternates dim live-action interviews (lounge, library, bar) with flat cream-colored UI mockups, each feature announced in a single spoken line and then demoed in one or two interface shots. Signature moves include large white words popping in word by word beside the speaker, orange and white connector lines linking floating app icons, phone-shaped cutouts, and pill-shaped labels, all cut at a relaxed ~103 bpm with a steady low-key score.
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· 22 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:03
A man in a gray cardigan leans over a pool table, holding a cue ball, in a warm dim room. White words scale in at scattered positions across the frame, then a full line slides up over the blurred balls in the foreground as focus racks to them.
On-screen text: “Agents”, “are”, “on”, “call,”, “Systems are broken”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
02 · Problem · 0:03–0:10
A curly-haired man in a lavender sweater sits on a tan sofa, talking to camera. Large white words pop in word by word on both sides of him, then fade out. App icons with labels pop in around him, linked by orange lines, as he gestures.
On-screen text: “Agents are solving incidents now.”, “As good as the context that they have.”, “And during on-call,”, “that context is scattered everywhere.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
03 · Problem · 0:10–0:12
A curly-haired man in a light ribbed sweater sits in a warm lounge, gesturing as he talks to camera. White bold text 'For them' and '& for you.' flank his head, then 'You're' pops over his chest as the frame pushes in closer.
On-screen text: “For them”, “& for you.”, “You're”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
04 · Problem · 0:12–0:17
A man in a lavender sweater sits inside a phone-shaped cutout on a plain background, talking and gesturing. Notification banners pop at the top of the screen as bold words swap across the frame from You're drowning in alerts to What depends on what, then a caption bar appears below.
On-screen text: “You're drowning in alerts”, “What depends on what”, “Even when it's resolved. It's still not done.”
Techniques: Masking, Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
05 · Problem · 0:17–0:17
A curly-haired man in a pale pink sweater speaks to camera inside a smartphone mockup, a GitHub pull-request banner at the top. The phone frame drops away and the footage expands to a full vertical frame.
On-screen text: “Even when it's resolved. It's still not done.”, “You have post-mortem to write,”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Masking
Camera: Push in
06 · Problem · 0:17–0:20
A man in a lavender sweater speaks to camera in a warm room while a white Postmortem document card scales in beside him. Bottom subtitles caption his line about post-mortems and runbooks.
On-screen text: “You have post-mortem to write,”, “runbooks to update,”, “all of it taking away from real engineering work.”
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:20–0:22
A man with curly dark hair in a light purple ribbed sweater sits in a warm, dimly lit lounge and speaks to camera, gesturing with both hands. A black subtitle bar holds the line centered at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “all of it taking away from real engineering work.”
Camera: Pan
08 · Product intro · 0:22–0:24
A man in a black polo shirt sits at a wooden table in front of warm bookshelves, speaking to camera. He gestures with both hands, then clasps them. White subtitles run along the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “all of it taking away from real engineering work.”, “That's why we built Probe.”
Camera: Static
09 · Feature reveal · 0:24–0:30
A man in a black polo gestures at a wooden table in a warm library. A white play button sits at center; six app icons pop in across the top and link to it with thin white lines that then fade. Lower-third captions swap with his speech.
On-screen text: “Connect your stack:”, “Century, Slack”, “even your coding agents -”, “and let Probe turn your tribal knowledge into memory.”
Camera: Push in
10 · Feature reveal · 0:30–0:34
The Ingestion screen of a product interface settles in: the heading and a Manual uploads card ease into place, then a table of sources (GitHub, Linear, Slack, Granola, Notion, Claude Code, Manual uploads) fades in row by row with gray placeholder bars. Subtitles sit at the bottom.
On-screen text: “and let Probe turn your tribal knowledge into memory.”, “So the next time you're paged,”, “an agent is already working from it.”, “It tells you what happened and why,”
Camera: Push in
11 · Feature reveal · 0:34–0:35
A light product screen: a list of integration rows sits above a faint message composer, then the rows fade out and a Probe message card with a failing query title appears at the top left. A dark caption pill holds the line at the bottom.
On-screen text: “It tells you what happened and why,”
Camera: Static
12 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:38
A flat product UI on a cream background shows a Probe card with a failing GraphQL query title and grayed-out fields, above a message composer. The thread scrolls up to reveal a second status update post as caption pills swap phrases at the bottom.
On-screen text: “It tells you what happened before,”, “who was in this code before,”, “where it broke the last time,”
Camera: Push in
13 · Feature reveal · 0:38–0:41
A man in a black polo sits at a wooden table in a book-lined room, speaking and gesturing, while a pill-shaped toggle floats over his chest, switching from an orange Wake label with a bell icon to a white Sleep label with a moon icon.
On-screen text: “and who to wake up, and who to let sleep.”
Techniques: Morph
Camera: Push in
14 · Feature reveal · 0:41–0:43
A white pill button labeled Approve sits centered on a cream field. A green checkmark icon pops in beside the label, then the whole button dissolves to clear. A dark caption box at the bottom holds the line.
On-screen text: “All you have to do is approve.”
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:43–0:49
A light browser-window card titled Postmortem scrolls upward through a form of gray placeholder bars, settling on a four-column action-item table. A dark caption pill at the bottom cycles through three lines of narration.
On-screen text: “Then probe does all the post resolution steps”, “and updates your knowledge base,”, “so the next incident starts from where this one ended.”
Camera: Push in
16 · Feature reveal · 0:49–0:50
A light-gray table with four column headers scrolls upward through a rounded card, rows of placeholder bars moving past the frame. A dark caption bar with white text holds at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “so the next incident starts from where this one ended.”
Camera: Pan
17 · Feature reveal · 0:50–0:56
A man in a Yankees cap sits at a bar counter and gestures as he speaks. White rounded label cards with icons pop in beside him: Agent and Engineer on either side, then Context, Evidence, Reasoning line up across the frame.
On-screen text: “You can even bring in another agent or engineer -”, “Agent”, “Engineer”, “with Probe”, “Context”, “Evidence”, “you have the same context, and the same evidence,”, “Reasoning”, “the same reasoning.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
18 · Feature reveal · 0:56–0:57
A young man in a baseball cap sits at a bar counter, speaking and pointing a finger. Three white pill labels with icons, Context, Evidence and Reasoning, float over the shot, then blur and slide away. Subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “you have the same context, and the same evidence,”, “Context”, “Evidence”, “Reasoning”, “the same reasoning.”, “That way you're not solving”
Camera: Static
19 · Feature reveal · 0:57–1:00
A man in a baseball cap sits at a bar counter, gesturing as he speaks. Two white notification cards titled Major incident with timestamps and gray placeholder lines slide in on either side of him, a small Debug button scaling in. The shot then fades to black.
On-screen text: “That way you're not solving”, “multiple versions of the same problem.”
Camera: Static
20 · Other · 1:00–1:03
A young man in a dark baseball cap and tan sweatshirt sits at a marble bar counter, hands clasped, talking to camera. Warm dim light, shelves of liquor bottles behind him, a glowing lamp at right. A white subtitle sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Every incident tool was built for humans.”
Camera: Push in
21 · Other · 1:03–1:05
A young man in a baseball cap sits at a marble bar counter, speaking to camera against a backlit shelf of bottles. White headline text builds word by word around him, starting top left and filling the right side.
On-screen text: “Probe”, “is”, “built for”, “agents.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
22 · CTA · 1:05–1:13
On a cream background, a black play-triangle icon with a gray echo trail slides in, and the word Probe types in letter by letter beside it. The tagline and URL fade in below, then an orange Y Combinator badge appears above. Locked-off frame, calm pace.
On-screen text: “Probe”, “Backed by Y Combinator”, “Agent-native incident management”, “useprobe.ai”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static




