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Talos (YC F26) Launch Video
Talos · Oct 2026 · 1:05 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026
00:00:00 / 01:05:23
Built as a documentary problem statement that flips into a product reveal: kinetic word-by-word captions over industrial B-roll, then 3D sensor renders and presenter shots in a bare warehouse. Pacing is quick at about 32 cuts per minute, with recurring graphic devices: window-grid framing, dashed arcs, corner brackets and scanline textures.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 official logo — reused across the film · 32 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 1 graphic passage — draw or supply · 1 3D passage — build or supply
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Talos (YC F26) Launch Video, scene by scene
· 37 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
A hand flips a wall light switch, then a lit bulb hangs from a cord in a dim room while white text reads KEEPING THE on the left.
On-screen text: “KEEPING”, “THE”
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
A grainy monochrome close-up of a lit fluorescent tube on a dark ceiling, locked-off. White all-caps words build left to right across the frame, spelling the phrase, with the bright tube washing out the word LIGHTS.
On-screen text: “KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:00–0:00
A dark locked-off frame holds a faint diagonal fluorescent light tube. White all-caps text reads KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON across the center, the word LIGHTS bracketed by four corner marks. Everything stays still.
On-screen text: “KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON”
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
A static wide shot of an outdoor electrical substation, metal lattice towers and dark insulators under a cloudy sky, overlaid with a fine scanline texture. White sans-serif text appears word by word at center-right.
On-screen text: “KEEPING”, “THE”, “IS”, “GETTING”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
05 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
Locked-off shot of an electrical substation, rows of dark ribbed insulators and overhead wires under a pale sky. White text sits in the right half: IS GETTING and a larger bold quoted HARDER, with THAN EVER fading in beneath.
On-screen text: “IS”, “GETTING”, “'HARDER'”, “THAN EVER”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:02–0:04
News-style headlines and body copy about US power use and AI data centers flash in sequence, key phrases boxed in dark highlight, then a red SU with a dollar sign and yellow blocks appear before a white wipe clears the frame.
On-screen text: “IS GETTING HARDER THAN EVER”, “SURGING”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Masking
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:04–0:05
On a white background, a mosaic of black and gold squares forms a downward arrow. Bold white SURGING sits over it, then BUT THE GRID and IS ALREADY scale in above and below while the squares pulse and shrink.
On-screen text: “SURGING”, “BUT”, “THE”, “GRID”, “IS ALREADY”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
08 · Problem · 0:05–0:07
A live-action shot of a smoking power plant and a cooling tower is seen through a sliding window grid. White all-caps text builds across the center as the panes shift, settling on STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP.
On-screen text: “BUT”, “THE”, “GRID”, “IS ALREADY”, “STRUGGLING”, “TO KEEP UP”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Masking
Camera: Pull out
09 · Problem · 0:07–0:09
A woman in a navy top stands center frame in a vast concrete warehouse with a blue floor, talking and gesturing. A white name chip sits at her right as a large translucent 75% fades in behind her and the words of, today's, power stack up on the right, with power scaling in.
On-screen text: “Himani Musku”, “COO, Talos”, “75%”, “of”, “today's”, “power”, “STRUGGLING”, “TO KEEP UP”
Camera: Push in
10 · Problem · 0:09–0:10
A high aerial shot of a coastal power plant with two red-and-white striped chimneys under a cloudy sky, overlaid with thin vertical scanlines. The white words “comes from machines” scale in across the frame.
On-screen text: “comes from machines”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
11 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
Locked-off top-down aerial of an industrial plant with four rust-colored cylindrical tanks, edges softened by a tilt-shift blur. The word operating holds on the left while past their intended lifespan builds line by line on the right.
On-screen text: “operating”, “past their”, “intended”, “lifespan”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
12 · Problem · 0:11–0:13
Aerial drone view of a power plant with cooling towers and stacks, framed by fields, roads and a river. White words 'We're' and 'asking' pop in on the left and right of the facility as the camera drifts slowly over the site.
On-screen text: “We're”, “asking”
Camera: Static
13 · Problem · 0:13–0:14
A concrete cooling tower billows steam against a grey sky while a white monospace caption materializes word by word, “We're asking an aging grid.” A dotted white arc traces along the tower's rim as the letters sharpen into place.
On-screen text: “We're”, “asking”, “an aging grid”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Problem · 0:14–0:14
A hazy substation with steel transmission towers and a mountain ridge fills the frame in a static shot. White text to power scales in at center, then the future, appears just below it.
On-screen text: “to power”, “the future,”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · Problem · 0:14–0:17
A woman with long dark hair in a navy top speaks to camera in a bright industrial room, framed locked off. White lowercase captions build word by word on the right, key words enlarged.
On-screen text: “to power”, “the future”, “while”, “maintaining”, “it like”, “we're still”, “living in the”, “past.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
16 · Problem · 0:17–0:20
A woman in a navy top talks in a concrete gym as white text builds word by word beside her; the shot cuts to an industrial plant framed by a window grid, with the sentence continuing in black type across the panes.
On-screen text: “we're still”, “living in the”, “past.”, “And when”, “something”, “goes”, “we”, “don't”, “see”, “it coming”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
17 · Problem · 0:20–0:21
A woman with long dark wavy hair speaks to camera in a bright, blurred interior, framed left. White monospaced caption text builds line by line on the right, finishing with “catastrophic.” in bold.
On-screen text: “we”, “don't”, “see”, “it”, “coming”, “until”, “the damage is”, “catastrophic.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
18 · Problem · 0:21–0:23
A locked-off long shot of an industrial fire: flames and a column of black smoke rise behind a line of trees, with a blue storage tank and a smokestack at the right. Lowercase captions read until the damage is catastrophic.
On-screen text: “until”, “the damage is”, “catastrophic.”
Camera: Static
19 · Product intro · 0:23–0:25
A man in a green shirt and glasses stands in a concrete gym with blue mats, gesturing with open hands. A lower-third nameplate sits at left while the line types in word by word and the TALOS logo fades in on the right.
On-screen text: “That's why we built”, “Kevin Hwang”, “CTO, Talos”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
20 · Product intro · 0:25–0:28
A beige sensor plate engraved TALOS KAIROS, fitted with a black probe, points right toward a large pale circle ringed with dashed lines on a white background. Caption lines reading an early warning system for critical power equipment appear in sequence. The frame stays locked off.
On-screen text: “an early”, “warning system”, “for critical”, “power equipment”
Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup
Camera: Static
21 · Feature reveal · 0:28–0:32
A presenter in a green shirt and glasses stands in a concrete warehouse, gesturing as he speaks. A gray 3D sensor box labeled TALOS floats at his right while white monospace lines, “Our non-invasive, retrofitable sensors” then “attach to existing equipment,” scale in word by word.
On-screen text: “Our”, “non-invasive,”, “retrofittable”, “sensors”, “attach to”, “existing”, “equipment”
Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
22 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:33
A man in a green shirt and glasses gestures in an empty industrial hall. To his right, a gray machine with a small white sensor sits under the caption attach to existing equipment; the white TALOS KAIROS sensor then scales up inside a rounded frame, with VIBRATION below.
On-screen text: “attach to”, “existing”, “equipment”, “· VIBRATION”
Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
23 · Feature reveal · 0:33–0:36
A man in a green shirt stands in an empty warehouse, gesturing as he speaks. To his right, a frosted card holds a 3D TALOS KAIROS sensor that explodes into its layers and reassembles; bullet captions list vibration, magnetic flux, temperature below.
On-screen text: “VIBRATION”, “MAGNETIC FLUX”, “TEMPERATURE”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
24 · Feature reveal · 0:36–0:38
A presenter in a pink polo stands in an empty concrete warehouse, gesturing with both hands. White dashed arcs curve in 3D around his body. The words TALOS analyzes and those signals fade in on either side, with a name tag reading Amitav Kohli, CEO, Talos at lower right.
On-screen text: “TALOS”, “analyzes”, “those”, “signals”, “Amitav Kohli”, “CEO, Talos”
Camera: Static
25 · Feature reveal · 0:38–0:40
A man in a mauve shirt speaks to camera in a blurred industrial space. White text builds word by word to his right: 24/7 in a gray pill, then to spot developing issues, framed by a thin white arc line.
On-screen text: “24/7”, “to”, “spot”, “developing”, “issues”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
26 · Feature reveal · 0:40–0:45
A man in a pink shirt stands in an industrial hall with blue floor mats, speaking and gesturing in a locked-off medium shot. White caption words stack in on the right, scaling in line by line as he talks, ending on a highlighted phrase.
On-screen text: “so that”, “energy”, “companies”, “can react”, “before a”, “small problem”, “becomes a”, “catastrophic failure”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
27 · Feature reveal · 0:45–0:46
Aerial view of an electrical substation with rows of switchgear, transformers and transmission towers. White words “Tested” and “across” sit over the footage, the second fading in as the shot holds.
On-screen text: “Tested”, “across”
Camera: Static
28 · Feature reveal · 0:46–0:47
A locked-off wide shot of an outdoor substation: two grey transformers with cooling fins and insulators sit on concrete pads, with houses and trees behind. The white caption reads Tested across TRANSFORMERS, held centered over the machinery.
On-screen text: “Tested”, “across”, “TRANSFORMERS”
Camera: Static
29 · Feature reveal · 0:47–0:48
Low-angle shot looking up at a wind turbine hub and rotating blades against a gray sky. A white caption framed by corner brackets switches from TRANSFORMERS to TURBINES, matching the voiceover.
On-screen text: “TRANSFORMERS”, “TURBINES”
Camera: Static
30 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:48
A yellow industrial pump with a gray motor and black hoses stands against a pale wall. The white word PUMPS, framed by thin corner brackets, holds center over the tank in a locked-off shot.
On-screen text: “PUMPS”
Camera: Static
31 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:49
A narrow industrial corridor of gray electrical cabinets with a dark panel at the far end, lit by cool overhead strips. The white caption GENERATORS sits centered with small corner brackets, held static in a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “GENERATORS”
Camera: Push in
32 · Other · 0:49–0:51
A woman in a navy top stands in a concrete industrial hall, gesturing as she speaks. To her left, white text fades in line by line: TALOS, helps keep, power flowing, the headline glowing. Locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “GENERATORS”, “TALOS”, “helps keep”, “power flowing”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
33 · Other · 0:51–0:53
A woman in a navy top addresses the camera in a bare concrete warehouse. On the left, a stat callout assembles: “at just” fades in over a large “20%” set in a rounded box with corner brackets, then “the cost” appears below.
On-screen text: “at just”, “20%”, “the cost”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
34 · Other · 0:53–0:56
A young man in a green shirt and glasses stands center frame in an empty concrete warehouse, gesturing as he speaks, while white words build the sentence on either side of him. The camera slowly pushes in from full body to medium shot as the final word glows.
On-screen text: “We're”, “moving”, “energy”, “from”, “maintenance”, “reactive”, “to”, “proactive”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
35 · Other · 0:56–0:58
Night exterior of an office building, workers silhouetted in lit windows, the camera pulls back to a city skyline. White text scales in on the left and slides in on the right.
On-screen text: “Because keeping the”, “lights on”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pan
36 · Other · 0:58–1:01
Static night view of a dense city skyline over a highway interchange, long-exposure traffic trails crossing the frame. White text on the left assembles line by line into the sentence: Because keeping the lights on cannot mean waiting for something to break.
On-screen text: “Because keeping the”, “lights on”, “cannot mean”, “waiting for”, “something”, “to break.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
37 · CTA · 1:01–1:05
The purple TALOS wordmark, with a pulse line inside the O, sits centered on a white field as the URL talos-us.com holds below it. Faint grey grid sheets drift slowly across the top-left and bottom-right corners while the lockup stays locked off.
On-screen text: “talos-us.com”
Camera: Static