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Roma (YC F26): The AI To-Do List That Does Itself
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A talking-head host shares the frame with a black side panel whose square-grid graphics morph to match each line of narration, then a solid orange logo card closes the piece. The split-screen layout, the transforming squares, and the orange accent are the signature moves, held at a steady conversational pace.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 official logo — reused across the film · 16 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace
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Roma (YC F26): The AI To-Do List That Does Itself, scene by scene
· 17 scenes as text
01 · Problem · 0:00–0:00
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a white desk with a dark laptop, speaking to the camera in a bright living room with plants and lamps. A caption sits at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “We're all juggling”
Camera: Static
02 · Problem · 0:00–0:07
Split screen: a man in an orange striped shirt talks at a laptop on the left while white squares swarm on black at right, gather into a grid, then snap into a vertical to-do list with lines. White caption pills swap below him.
On-screen text: “We're all juggling”, “tasks a day.”, “And we all need”, “some kind of system”, “to manage our work.”, “For most of us”, “that's a to-do list.”, “It's the original”, “productivity tool.”
Techniques: Split screen, Particles
Camera: Pull out
03 · Problem · 0:07–0:11
A man in an orange striped jacket sits at a white desk with a dark laptop, speaking to camera in a bright home office with a leafy plant and warm lamps. White pill-shaped subtitle boxes with black text appear at the bottom, swapping line by line.
On-screen text: “It's always made the same promise.”, “Write it down so you can”, “stop worrying about it.”
Camera: Static
04 · Problem · 0:11–0:15
Split screen: a man in an orange shirt sits at a desk with a laptop on the left, speaking to camera. On the right, a black panel shows a tidy list of gray squares that loses its lines and scatters into falling squares. White subtitle pills cycle at the bottom.
On-screen text: “But you always”, “have to come”, “back to do”, “the work yourself.”, “So the tasks”, “just pile up.”, “And when AI got”
Techniques: Split screen, Particles
Camera: Push in
05 · Problem · 0:15–0:26
Split screen: a man in an orange shirt talks at a laptop on the left, white caption pills at the bottom; the right shows gray squares that form a central node linked to satellites, then morph into stacked chat rows.
On-screen text: “And when AI got”, “good enough to do”, “the work we did”, “what a lot”, “of you guys did.”, “We cobbled together”, “our own agents.”, “It was just never”, “really good enough.”, “And everything ran', 'through a chat.', 'So the work', 'got buried', 'in thread after thread.”
Techniques: Split screen, Particles, Morph
Camera: Pan
06 · Problem · 0:26–0:29
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a white table with an open laptop, speaking to the camera in a bright room with a plant and lamps. White subtitles in black rounded boxes appear at the bottom center, changing with his speech. The frame stays locked off.
On-screen text: “in thread after thread.”, “And that's when we realized”, “that most of our work”, “doesn't start with a chat.”
Camera: Static
07 · Product intro · 0:29–0:34
A man in an orange striped shirt talks at a laptop on the left half. The right half is black with a grid of gray squares that turns orange from one center square outward, then zooms in. White caption pills cycle phrases at the bottom.
On-screen text: “doesn't start with a chat.”, “It starts and ends”, “with a task.”, “So instead of building”, “another assistant we're”, “rebuilding something”, “everyone already uses.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Pull out
08 · Product intro · 0:34–0:38
Split screen: a man in an orange shirt talks at a laptop on the left; a flat phone mockup on the right shows a dark TASKS list, its orange selection highlight fading out. Subtitles swap at the bottom, then the frame cuts to the man full screen.
On-screen text: “everyone already uses.”, “The to-do list.”, “Roma is the to-do”, “list that does itself.”, “And that sounds possible with AI.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Pull out
09 · Demo · 0:38–0:40
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a white table with an open laptop in a bright home office, talking to camera and gesturing with his hands. A black caption in a white pill at the bottom reads “And that sounds possible with AI.”
On-screen text: “And that sounds possible with AI.”
Camera: Static
10 · Demo · 0:40–0:41
A mustached man in an orange striped jacket sits at a desk with a dark laptop, speaking in a bright home office with a large plant and warm lamps. The locked-off medium shot holds steady while subtitle captions swap at the bottom.
On-screen text: “And that sounds possible with Al.”, “But it's really hard to get right.”
Camera: Static
11 · Demo · 0:41–0:47
A man at a desk talks on the left while a phone on the right shows a chat with Cody; a request is sent, the reply spawns two task cards, then the view switches to a TASKS list. White pill captions cycle below the man.
On-screen text: “But it's really hard to get right.”, “You need a system”, “that understands”, “what you have an”, “A system that can”, “work on multiple tasks”, “Something that sorts”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Push in
12 · Demo · 0:47–0:49
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a desk on the left, gesturing as he talks, while a phone mockup on the right shows a task list that swaps to a chat thread. White pill captions read along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Something that sorts”, “work into”, “the right place.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
13 · Demo · 0:49–0:50
Split screen, locked off. Left: a man in an orange striped shirt sits at a desk, gesturing toward a laptop. Right: a dark phone screen shows a task list with a chat card holding a map and a restaurant card. White pill captions sit at the bottom.
On-screen text: “And surfaces results”, “at the right time.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Static
14 · Other · 0:50–0:52
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a desk with a closed-lid laptop, gesturing with his hands as he speaks to camera in a bright home office with a plant and table lamps. A white caption bar at the bottom reads the launch line.
On-screen text: “Plan a group dinner”, “at the right time.”, “So today we're excited to launch Roma.”
Camera: Static
15 · Other · 0:52–0:58
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a white table with a dark laptop, speaking to camera in a bright home office with plants and lamps. The locked-off frame holds while white subtitle pills with black text swap at the bottom in sync with his speech.
On-screen text: “So today we're excited to launch Roma.”, “And we can't wait”, “to hear what you guys think.”, “And this is just the beginning.”, “We have a lot of plans”, “for where we're going to take this.”
Camera: Static
16 · Other · 0:58–0:58
A man in an orange striped shirt sits at a desk with a dark laptop, speaking in a home office with a plant and lamps behind him. A white rounded caption pill reading 'So stay tuned.' sits at the bottom center. The frame is static and locked-off.
On-screen text: “So stay tuned.”
Camera: Static
17 · CTA · 0:58–1:03
Locked-off orange field. A small black square in the center scales up and assembles into the Roma mark, then the wordmark types in letter by letter. A small caption fades in below: Sign up at roma.app.
On-screen text: “So stay tuned.”, “Roma”, “Sign up at roma.app”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static