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Sentient OS YC Launch

Sentient OS · Oct 2026 · 1:07 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026

00:00:00 / 01:07:05

The video interleaves handheld live-action interviews in a sunny park and a hazy beach with frosted-glass UI panels that type and fill themselves, cutting at roughly nine cuts per minute. Signature moves are whip-pan transitions, lime-highlighted caption keywords, and UI cards that pop into and out of real-world scenes.

Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 capture group — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 21 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 1 3D passage — build or supply

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Sentient OS YC Launch, scene by scene

· 26 scenes as text
  1. 01 · Hook · 0:00–0:01

    A man in a green shirt winds up and throws an orange frisbee across a sunlit grassy hill dotted with palm trees. A second man in a white t-shirt sprints in to catch it while people lounge in the background.

    Camera: Push in

  2. 02 · Problem · 0:01–0:05

    A young man in a white t-shirt walks toward the camera in a sunny park, holding a mic, as bold white captions with yellow highlight boxes build line by line at the bottom. The camera pushes in to a close-up as he speaks.

    On-screen text: “IMAGINE BEING ABLE”, “TO TOUCH GRASS INSTEAD”, “OF REPLYING TO”, “15 EMAILS EVERY MORNING.”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pan

  3. 03 · Problem · 0:05–0:06

    A curly-haired man in a cream t-shirt holds a furry microphone and speaks to camera in a sunny palm-lined park. The camera then whips past him in a fast horizontal pan, blurring the frame, while the caption stays locked at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “15 EMAILS EVERY MORNING.”

    Camera: Pan

  4. 04 · Problem · 0:06–0:07

    A person in cream trousers and a white shirt walks across a sunlit lawn holding an orange frisbee, another pair of legs in white standing behind. The camera then whips down and away, dissolving into a motion-blurred sweep of green grass.

    Camera: Push in

  5. 05 · Feature reveal · 0:07–0:09

    A low camera angle from inside the grass reveals a small white square card marked MD in the foreground, with a sunlit park, trees, and people sitting on a hill in the background.

    Camera: Push in

  6. 06 · Feature reveal · 0:09–0:09

    A finger presses a small white button on a device resting in the grass, with a park and buildings in the background.

    On-screen text: “IT'S ALMOST MAGICAL”

    Camera: Static

  7. 07 · Feature reveal · 0:09–0:12

    A Gmail email window titled Pre-Interview Check floats over a sunlit park with sharp grass in the foreground. A reply field types a paragraph about a checkout redesign, ending on a blinking caret. Bottom captions cycle through three phrases.

    On-screen text: “IT'S ALMOST”, “FOR YOUR REPLIES”, “2 TAPS AWAY.”

    Camera: Static

  8. 08 · Feature reveal · 0:12–0:13

    An email thread with a drafted reply floats as a card over a sunlit park lawn. A hand sweeps in from the left, tilting the card and clearing it away to reveal the grass and campus behind.

    Techniques: Parallax

    Camera: Static

  9. 09 · Feature reveal · 0:13–0:14

    Low-angle shot of a grassy park with a hand holding a phone at the bottom. A dark chat panel with an orange border scales up from a small corner sliver to fill the frame, revealing a message from Ben over the grass.

    Techniques: 3D mockup

    Camera: Static

  10. 10 · Feature reveal · 0:14–0:17

    A dark chat card with a glowing gradient border floats over a park lawn where a white CMD key lies in the grass. Colored particles spin over the message field, then a reply types in and a green send button pops up, before the frame blurs into a horizontal whip.

    Techniques: Particles

    Camera: Push in

  11. 11 · Feature reveal · 0:17–0:20

    A young man in a white t-shirt stands on a hazy beach, the Golden Gate Bridge behind him, holding a small device and talking to camera. The shot opens soft and racks into focus. Bold white captions with yellow-highlighted words appear at the bottom, swapping from one line to the next.

    On-screen text: “SENTIENT'S ON-DEVICE LLM SPENDS”, “UNDERSTANDING YOUR LIFE.”

    Camera: Pull out

  12. 12 · Feature reveal · 0:20–0:25

    A curly-haired man in a white Nike tee holds a small furry microphone and speaks to an off-screen interviewer on a rocky shore, sea and hazy headland behind. Lower-third captions swap line by line, one keyword boxed in lime each time.

    On-screen text: “UNDERSTANDING YOUR LIFE.”, “THAT'S HOW DOUBLE TAP”, “AND THIS POWERS YOU.”, “OUR NEXT MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.”

    Camera: Push in

  13. 13 · Feature reveal · 0:25–0:26

    A hazy dawn beach with the Bay Bridge silhouetted in the distance; kitesurfers carry gear across the sand while the white serif line 'meet sidekick' completes at the top of the frame.

    On-screen text: “OUR NEXT MAGICAL”, “DOIT”, “EXPERIENCE.”, “meet sidekick”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  14. 14 · Feature reveal · 0:26–0:30

    A man in a white T-shirt stands on a beach holding a small gadget, gesturing. Captions enter at the bottom phrase by phrase with yellow highlights. A black assistant bar drops in at the top, typing 'finish this for me', and a translucent panel opens on the left.

    On-screen text: “JUST CLICK YOUR”, “NOTCH ANYTIME AND”, “SAY FINISH”, “THIS FOR ME.”, “meet sidekick”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pull out

  15. 15 · Feature reveal · 0:30–0:32

    A man in a white tee walks toward camera on a beach holding a mic, while a flat luma registration card with a cursor hovers left and a dark bar floats top; a bottom caption swaps lines, highlighting words in yellow.

    On-screen text: “SIDEKICK”, “WITH ITS OWN MOUSE, CURSOR.”

    Techniques: Cursor demo

    Camera: Static

  16. 16 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:35

    A young man in a white tee stands on a beach talking to camera as a frosted-glass “Your Info” form on the left fills in, a cursor tapping each field and a “Sidekick” tooltip popping up. Yellow-highlighted captions roll along the bottom.

    On-screen text: “WITH ITS MOUSE CURSOR.”, “KNOWS YOUR ENTIRE LIFE,”, “YOU CAN HAND OFF”

    Techniques: Cursor demo

    Camera: Push in

  17. 17 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:36

    A beach shot of a man in a white t-shirt holding a microphone. A frosted-glass form panel on the left disappears and a glass badge reading You're Registered! pops in, while a yellow-highlighted caption flashes at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “IN YOUR INBOX.”, “You're Registered!”

    Camera: Pull out

  18. 18 · Social proof · 0:36–0:43

    A man in glasses and an olive sweater holds a small round mesh device, talking in front of a blurred columned building. A row of Reddit-style comment cards scrolls across the top and a row of company logos scrolls across the lower third, while caption lines with yellow-highlighted keywords cycle at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “WE JUST LAUNCHED AND OVER”, “6,000 USERS ALREADY LOVE US,”, “COMPANIES SUCH AS NEBIUS,”, “AND BREVO.”, “You're Registered!”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  19. 19 · Social proof · 0:43–0:45

    A smiling man in glasses and a brown fleece jacket sits in a home office, a laptop behind him reading Make something people want. The rounded card fades and scales up over a blurred copy of itself, a caption locked at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “WE JUST HIT 10K”

    Camera: Push in

  20. 20 · Social proof · 0:45–0:46

    A bespectacled man in a brown jacket talks to the camera, a monitor behind him reading 'Make something people want.' The frame pushes in on his face as two caption lines appear at the bottom.

    On-screen text: “AND WE HAVE ADOBE”, “ON THE LIST NOW.”

    Camera: Push in

  21. 21 · Social proof · 0:46–0:53

    The camera pushes through a white wireframe funnel on black, passing floating glass cards bearing investor names, and lands on a pulsing rainbow dotted orb. A bottom caption line swaps phrases with a yellow highlight on the current word.

    On-screen text: “WE'RE BACKED BY YC,”, “PIONEER,”, “AND SCOUT,”, “SPEEDRUN SCOUT FUND,”, “ON THE FRONTIER”, “OF ON-DEVICE INFERENCE”, “EXPERIENCES”

    Techniques: Parallax, Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  22. 22 · Social proof · 0:53–0:55

    A young man in a white t-shirt stands before an ornate stone building, holding a small microphone and gesturing as he speaks. A lower-third caption reads MAGICAL NEW EXPERIENCES., the last word in black on a yellow highlight.

    On-screen text: “MAGICAL NEW EXPERIENCES.”

    Camera: Pull out

  23. 23 · CTA · 0:55–1:00

    A young man in glasses and an olive sweatshirt stands before a tan stone wall, holding a small round token to his chest and speaking to camera. Bold white captions with yellow highlight boxes cycle at the bottom, then a pill badge with the code WATCHED_FULL_VID pops in on the left.

    On-screen text: “MAGICAL NEW EXPERIENCES.”, “SINCE YOU STAYED SO LONG,”, “WE HAVE A”, “LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU.”, “ENTER THIS CODE IN”, “WATCHED_FULL_VID”, “GET SOMETHING SPECIAL,”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Push in

  24. 24 · Other · 1:00–1:02

    A man in a green shirt and sunglasses holds an orange frisbee in a sunlit park of palm trees. The camera whips right to a man in a white shirt who catches the disc on the grass.

    Camera: Push in

  25. 25 · Other · 1:02–1:04

    A smiling young man in a white t-shirt throws an orange frisbee on a sunny park lawn. The camera whips right across the grass, settling on a hillside where small groups sit in the distance.

    Camera: Pan

  26. 26 · Outro · 1:04–1:07

    On a black frame, a centered logo mark, a ringed circle with a white dot, fades in beside the white wordmark Sentient OS and holds still.

    On-screen text: “Sentient OS”

    Camera: Static