Vorelios (YC F26) Launch Video

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:03

Two men sit on a beige couch in a plant-filled lounge, holding lavalier mics and talking to camera. Large white serif lines cut in at the top left, '400,000 people.' then 'One decade.', while small sans captions at the bottom track the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Getting to the Moon took”, “400,000 people.”, “400,000 people in a decade,”, “One decade.”, “and anything that hard still does.”

Camera: Static

02 · Hook · 0:03–0:06

A wide locked-off shot of a huge tan rocket stage lying horizontally on blue lift platforms inside a bright factory hall. Workers move around scaffolding and a green cherry picker while ceiling trusses and lights fill the frame.

On-screen text: “and anything that hard still does.”

Camera: Static

03 · Hook · 0:06–0:07

A dark close-up of a rocket engine fires with sparks drifting left, then cuts to a full orange and white rocket standing on a night launch pad between two striped towers. White captions read at the bottom.

On-screen text: “That's why we only get”, “a few moonshots in a lifetime.”

Techniques: Particles

Camera: Pull out

04 · Hook · 0:07–0:09

A white and orange Saturn V rocket climbs from the launch pad between two service towers, exhaust plume below, in a hazy gray sky. The camera stays locked off as the rocket rises.

On-screen text: “a few moonshots in a lifetime.”

Camera: Static

05 · Problem · 0:09–0:10

Close-up of an aged cream book page filled with French text and fluid-dynamics equations, framed by a dark vignette. The page drifts slowly as a white caption holds at the bottom.

On-screen text: “And it's not the physics holding us back.”

Camera: Push in

06 · Problem · 0:10–0:12

Extreme close-up of a yellowed book page printed with a French heat-propagation equation. The view jumps to a second page of magnetic-force equations while white subtitles caption the line at the bottom.

On-screen text: “And it's not the physics holding us back.”, “We already know the physics.”

Camera: Push in

07 · Problem · 0:12–0:12

A close-up of a scanned textbook page with physics equations under the headings 'Equations of Magnetic Force' and 'Equations of Currents' pans slowly downward. A white caption at the bottom reads and then fades out.

On-screen text: “We already know the physics.”

Camera: Push in

08 · Problem · 0:12–0:16

A single gold paper airplane rests in a grid of dark gray paper airplanes on black. The camera pulls back, revealing an endless field of them to the horizon while white captions appear line by line at the bottom.

On-screen text: “The problem is that there's more ways”, “to build something”, “than any team could ever try.”, “人”, “44”

Techniques: Parallax

Camera: Pull out

09 · Problem · 0:16–0:17

A metallic aircraft model sits in a dark wind tunnel, shot from behind. A dark card on the right fades in and ticks from Day 1 to Day 2, filling one cell of a progress grid while the checklist stays static.

On-screen text: “Checking one design”, “Day 1”, “Build the model”, “Done”, “Mount it in the tunnel”, “Run the test”, “Running”, “Review the results”, “Queued”, “Even with the best tools we have, , Day 2”

Camera: Static

10 · Problem · 0:17–0:18

A silver aircraft model sits in a dark wind tunnel, shot from behind the intake. A dark checklist card overlays the right side, its day counter ticking from 3 to 5 while task rows show Done, Running and Queued. A white subtitle runs along the bottom.

On-screen text: “Even with the best tools we have,”, “checking a single idea”

Camera: Static

11 · Problem · 0:18–0:20

A silver delta-wing aircraft model sits on a strut in a dark wind tunnel, shot from behind looking down the duct. A dark overlay card on the right shows a checklist and a rolling day counter, while a subtitle line runs along the bottom.

On-screen text: “Checking one design”, “Day 82”, “checking a single idea”, “can still take weeks.”

Camera: Static

12 · Problem · 0:20–0:24

Two men hold lavalier mics and talk to camera in a tented set with plants. A dark 'Designs tried' panel on the left fills row by row, each design cycling from 'Testing' to a red 'Didn't work' pill, then the panel collapses away.

On-screen text: “So we try a few”, “over many years”, “and just hope that one works.”

Techniques: Masking

Camera: Static

13 · Problem · 0:24–0:26

Two hosts sit on a beige couch in a plant-filled loft; the left one speaks while a large cream serif headline fades in top-left and a white sans caption repeats the line at the bottom. Locked-off medium shot, calm pace.

On-screen text: “We think engineering can be solved.”, “Engineering”, “can be solved.”

Camera: Static

14 · Product intro · 0:26–0:30

On a black background, the Vorelios hexagon mark and wordmark fade in, brightening from dim gray to white. A caption reads “At Vorelios,” then “we're building AI that can engineer anything.” The caption drops, leaving the white logo centered.

On-screen text: “At Vorelios,”, “we're building AI that can engineer anything.”

Camera: Static

15 · Demo · 0:30–0:30

A near-black grid background holds a dim product interface fading in at the top, with a white caption centered at the bottom. The frame stays locked-off.

On-screen text: “You describe what you need,”

Camera: Static

16 · Demo · 0:30–0:37

A dark VORELIOS panel fills the frame. A prompt types itself into the input field, then its values parse into a table with the keywords highlighted in tan. The Spec, Design, Simulate, Verified steps tick off in turn as bottom captions swap phrase by phrase.

On-screen text: “You describe what you need,”, “and it does the engineering.”, “From the first idea all the way”, “to a design that works”, “in a matter of minutes.”

Camera: Static

17 · Demo · 0:37–0:41

A thin white wireframe traces the outline of a delta-wing jet on black, then fills into a dark solid model. The camera orbits the rotating jet, and a light glint crosses the wings. Two white captions sit centered at the bottom.

On-screen text: “Here it is engineering a supersonic jet”, “on its own from start to finish.”

Techniques: Morph, 3D mockup, Light sweep

Camera: Pan

18 · Demo · 0:41–0:42

A dark angular 3D shape, top-lit with a bright highlight on its upper facet, holds still in a black void. The caption “We gave it one goal,” scales in at the bottom of the locked-off frame.

On-screen text: “We gave it one goal,”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Static

19 · Demo · 0:42–0:48

A dark stealth jet mockup rotates slowly in place on black, rim-lit, while a Goal spec card sits top-left and an Efficiency card fades in top-right, tethered by a thin line to the wing. Bottom captions change with the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Goal”, “Speed Mach 1.7”, “Objective Least fuel”, “Altitude 60,000 ft”, “Weight 148,000 lb”, “We gave it one goal,”, “fly at Mach 1.7”, “on as little fuel as possible.”, “Efficiency +0 %”, “It makes a change,, Try 1, Changing”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Static

20 · Demo · 0:48–0:53

A translucent wireframe supersonic jet holds a side view on black while its planform subtly reshapes; the right panel's Try count and Efficiency percentage climb, the status flips through Simulating, Reverting, Kept, Rejected, and a small line graph traces the gain.

On-screen text: “makes a change,”, “simulates the whole jet,”, “if it burns less fuel”, “over and over”, “until it can't find anything better.”

Techniques: 3D mockup, Morph

Camera: Static

21 · Other · 0:53–0:54

A white wireframe of an angular aircraft on black fills into a solid dark 3D model, framed by Goal and Efficiency data panels in the corners. The shape then dissolves into a live shot of a rocket engine on a test stand.

On-screen text: “Goal”, “Speed”, “Mach 17”, “Objective”, “Least fuel”, “Altitude”, “60,000 ft”, “Weight”, “148,000 lb”, “Efficiency Verified +20.6 % Fuel burn -17.1 % until it can't find anything better.”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Static

22 · Other · 0:54–0:54

A rocket engine bell is shown in close-up against a dark launch tower grid, venting a brown exhaust plume that billows to the right. The frame stays locked-off while the plume pulses, and a white caption rests at the bottom center.

On-screen text: “And every problem it solves”

Camera: Static

23 · Other · 0:54–0:55

A wide static aerial shot holds on a rocket on a launch barge as a bright fireball and white smoke billow around it. A white subtitle line at the bottom swaps from one phrase to the next.

On-screen text: “And every problem it solves”, “makes it better at the next one”

Camera: Static

24 · Other · 0:55–0:56

A golden hexagonal mirror array fills the right of frame in dark space, a black instrument module hanging on struts in front of it. The locked-off 3D render holds still while a white caption sits at the bottom.

On-screen text: “makes it better at the next one”

Camera: Static

25 · Other · 0:56–0:56

A wide interior shot of a large circular detector, golden panels radiating around a blue central disc with a yellow plate, metal scaffolding and a blue door on the right. A white caption is locked at the bottom.

On-screen text: “makes it better at the next one”

Camera: Static

26 · Other · 0:56–0:57

A dark, glowing shape gives way to a night observatory, its open shutter firing a yellow laser beam into a starry sky. White captions run along the bottom.

On-screen text: “makes it better at the next one”, “until there's nothing”

Camera: Static

27 · Other · 0:57–0:59

A 3D render of Earth's curved limb, its atmosphere glowing green and orange, seen from a space station. A solar panel array and a dish sit in the foreground as the camera slowly arcs, and white captions appear at the bottom.

On-screen text: “until there's nothing”, “that it can't engineer.”

Techniques: Parallax

Camera: Push in

28 · Other · 0:59–1:04

Two young men sit on a beige leather couch in a warm, plant-filled living room, each holding a small dark device and speaking. Large serif words assemble in the upper left in time with the voiceover, and white subtitles track the line at the bottom.

On-screen text: “Most of what we call impossible”, “Impossible.”, “was never impossible.”, “It was just too hard to engineer.”, “Just too hard”, “to engineer.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

29 · Other · 1:04–1:08

A 3D night view of Earth shows city lights scattered across the dark surface as the sun climbs over the horizon and flares bright. White subtitle text sits centered at the bottom.

On-screen text: “We want to see a lot more”, “than a few moonshots in our lifetime.”, “Once engineering is solved,”

Camera: Push in

30 · Other · 1:08–1:10

A fiery orange plasma surface, like the sun, fills the frame while dark hexagonal panels drift across it in 3D. White captions appear at the bottom center, the second line replacing the first. The camera holds still.

On-screen text: “Once engineering is solved,”, “the only limits left are”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Push in

31 · Other · 1:10–1:12

A fiery solar surface with erupting plasma loops fills the frame in 3D, while dark hexagonal prisms drift through the foreground at varying depths. White captions sit at the bottom, then the scene fades to black.

On-screen text: “the only limits left are”, “the laws of physics themselves.”

Techniques: Parallax

Camera: Static

32 · CTA · 1:12–1:18

A black end card centers the white Vorelios hexagon mark and wordmark. The tagline and URL fade in below, then hold on a locked frame.

On-screen text: “Solving engineering.”, “vorelios.com”

Camera: Static