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Y Combinator - Zolvo (@zolvo_ai) automates commercial lending back offices so firms
Zolvo · Apr 2026 · 1:20 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 1:20
- Scenes
- 26 · 3.1 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:23
- Call to action
- 1:07 · 84%
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 01:20:16
Zolvo’s 1:20 launch film runs 26 scenes, about 3.1 s each. The product shows up at 0:23, with social proof. The call to action lands at 1:07 (84% in), over a voiceover. The video alternates live-action founder interviews with flat maroon motion graphics, moving from a hook through an animated problem story, a UI tour, a customer proof and a gradient CTA card. Its signature moves are the pulsing teal-to-red gradient spheres, the dot grids and the quick black caption-bar line swaps, all held at a brisk 123 bpm pace.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 2 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 8 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 9 graphic passages — draw or supply · 2 3D passages — build or supply
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Y Combinator - Zolvo (@zolvo_ai) automates commercial lending back offices so firms, scene by scene
· 26 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:04
A woman in a black blazer stands in a white hallway lined with framed art, gesturing as she speaks. Red dollar-sign circles pop in around her and fade, and a maroon lower-third badge slides in with her name and title. The camera slowly pushes in.
On-screen text: “You want to run a billion dollar portfolio,”, “Isabela Rodriguez”, “CEO & Co-Founder”, “but your back office still runs”
Camera: Pull out
02 · Hook · 0:04–0:06
A curly-haired woman in glasses stands in a bright office hallway, speaking and gesturing. The shot opens with a pixel glitch, then she is framed inside a retro red-and-cream TV, then the frame drops away. Black caption bars swap lines at the bottom.
On-screen text: “but your back office still runs”, “as if they were in the 90s.”, “An asset based lender managing 15k invoices a month”
Camera: Pull out
03 · Problem · 0:06–0:07
A dark maroon background holds a central reddish document icon with a folded corner that scales in, showing the word Invoice and faint text lines. Two dimmer document shapes sit on either side. A black caption bar at the bottom reads the lender line.
On-screen text: “An asset based lender managing 15k invoices a month”, “Invoice”
Camera: Static
04 · Problem · 0:07–0:10
A single red invoice icon labeled Invoice sits on a dark maroon field as a large cream counter ticks from 14,032. The icon multiplies into a full grid of red and teal-orange document tiles while the counter reaches 15,000 and a month fades in below.
On-screen text: “An asset based lender managing 15k invoices a month”, “Invoice”, “15,000”, “a month”, “had 14 people struggling with reconciliation,”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
05 · Problem · 0:10–0:12
A cream serif headline reading 14 people holds at the top over a teal-to-red gradient avatar, its head and shoulders centered on a dark maroon field. Faint concentric rings pulse outward from the figure like sonar while a white sans caption runs along the bottom edge.
On-screen text: “15,000”, “a month”, “14 people”, “had 14 people struggling with reconciliation,”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
06 · Problem · 0:12–0:13
On a dark maroon field, a stylized figure forms from a teal-to-red gradient head circle and rows of fading red shoulder circles. A large “14 people” label in mixed sans and italic serif holds above, then dissolves as a muted “Mon 15” calendar tile fades in at the top.
On-screen text: “14 people”, “had 14 people struggling with reconciliation,”, “Mon 15”
Camera: Static
07 · Problem · 0:13–0:16
A row of date tiles, Mon 15 through Sun 21, slides in across the top of a dark maroon field. A gradient sphere pulses at center while concentric ripple rings expand outward, then the scene fades to black. A bottom caption stays fixed throughout.
On-screen text: “every single day, for a week.”
Camera: Static
08 · Problem · 0:16–0:17
On a dark maroon field, a rounded pill button with a down-arrow icon and the word Download scales up from the center, framed by a faint rounded outline. An orange cursor arrow hovers just below it. A black caption bar at the bottom holds the line.
On-screen text: “Downloading bank files, searching folders,”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
09 · Problem · 0:17–0:18
A flat illustration of stacked teal and light-blue folders with white paper edges fills the lower frame on a dark maroon background. A white caption on a black bar sits at the bottom. The frame stays locked and still throughout the short clip.
On-screen text: “Downloading bank files, searching folders,”
Camera: Static
10 · Problem · 0:18–0:20
On a grainy dark maroon field, two cream bars hold teal-to-red gradient circles. The top icon morphs from a line into a checkmark while the bottom turns a single dot into three, the bars drifting as they change. A white caption runs along the bottom.
On-screen text: “matching line by line, calling every debtor, one by one.”
Techniques: Morph
Camera: Static
11 · Problem · 0:20–0:21
Two cream bars sit diagonally on a dark maroon field, each carrying a teal-to-red gradient circle with a white checkmark. The checkmarks soften and shift a touch as the frame holds. A black caption bar reads the line at the bottom.
On-screen text: “matching line by line, calling every debtor, one by one.”
Camera: Static
12 · Problem · 0:21–0:23
A flat grid of maroon circles fills a dark brown frame. The dots brighten as small white-and-orange spheres with a teal crescent pop into several cells and hop to new positions. A white caption on a black bar runs along the bottom.
On-screen text: “matching line by line, calling every debtor, one by one.”
Camera: Static
13 · Product intro · 0:23–0:30
A woman in a black blazer and glasses sits in a chair beside a fiddle leaf fig, holding a folded newspaper. She closes the paper and rests it on her lap while speaking to camera, as white subtitles appear at the bottom. The frame slowly tightens on her.
On-screen text: “You've been searching”, “for a better way to run this process.”, “With artificial intelligence”, “we made it possible.”
Camera: Push in
14 · Product intro · 0:30–0:32
Two founders sit side by side in a bright office, the woman on the right gestures while holding a yellow pendant necklace. A large cream zolvo wordmark scales up and fades in at the center over them as captions run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “we made it possible.”, “This is Zolvo”, “zolvo”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
15 · Product intro · 0:32–0:36
Two co-founders sit in a bright office, the woman in a black blazer speaks and gestures while the man in a maroon sweater listens; maroon name pills with their titles scale in at the bottom, and white subtitles run along the lower edge.
On-screen text: “We built software”, “Tony Montes”, “Isabela Rodriguez”, “CTO & Co-founder”, “CEO & Co-Founder”, “that connects to your existing workflows,”, “so you don't have to worry”
Camera: Push in
16 · Product intro · 0:36–0:38
Two co-founders sit side by side in a bright office; the woman on the right talks and gestures while the man in a maroon sweater listens. Maroon rounded name pills scale in over each, then shrink out, while white subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Tony Montes”, “CTO & Co-founder”, “Isabela Rodriguez”, “CEO & Co-Founder”, “so you don't have to worry”, “about changing your current processes.”
Camera: Push in
17 · Demo · 0:38–0:39
A cream settings screen wipes in from the right over a dark maroon backdrop, revealing the Zolvo app: a maroon sidebar with the zolvo logo and menu, plus a Settings page with two tabs. A black caption bar at the bottom reads Zolvo centralizes the truth.
On-screen text: “about changing your current processes.”, “Zolvo centralizes the truth”
Techniques: Masking
Camera: Push in
18 · Demo · 0:39–0:45
A white Zolvo Settings screen on a dark maroon backdrop zooms in on the Connected Sources list, which scrolls past email, bank, cloud and loan-management integrations marked connected. It cuts to the Payment Matching dashboard with five stat cards.
On-screen text: “we connect to your bank account,”, “your inbox,”, “your cloud folders, and your management systems.”, “Zolvo matches everything across every source”, “Zolvo centralizes the truth”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Push in
19 · Demo · 0:45–0:48
A 3D-tilted Zolvo dashboard flattens toward the camera on a dark maroon background. Stat cards and three upload tiles slide in, then a payments table fills row by row. A caption bar sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Zolvo matches everything across every source”, “in real time.”
Techniques: 3D mockup, UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
20 · Demo · 0:48–0:52
A flat UI screen of the zolvo app zooms from the reconciliation list into a Payment Detail page, settling on three cards for Source Evidence, Matched Invoices, and Waterfall Breakdown. A black caption bar sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “More than 90% of payments are automatically matched.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Push in
21 · Demo · 0:52–0:55
A tilted dashboard slowly zooms in on a Debtors Network view where three company cards fade in with exposure and contact details, then cuts to an Invoice Queue showing pending and in-progress counts. A black caption bar runs along the bottom.
On-screen text: “Our system also handles more than 80% of debtor contact:”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
22 · Demo · 0:55–0:59
A dark maroon backdrop frames a white invoice-queue screen that slides in from the right, then zooms into one invoice's verification-steps list. A black caption bar at the bottom carries the spoken line.
On-screen text: “verifying invoices, sending payment reminders,”, “and collecting remittance advices.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Push in
23 · Demo · 0:59–1:02
A light zolvo dashboard showing an invoice queue, verification steps and a SOP checklist scales out from a close-up into a framed card on a dark maroon background, then fades to black while a caption swaps at the bottom.
On-screen text: “collecting remittance advices.”, “What used to take a whole day.”, “now takes less than 30 minutes.”
Techniques: UI zoom
Camera: Pull out
24 · Social proof · 1:02–1:07
A woman with curly hair in a black blazer sits in a mesh chair, speaking to camera in a bright office. A cream wordmark and italic tagline fade in left as a grid of cream dots fills the background, shifts to orange in a wave, then fades out.
On-screen text: “Abaco Capital is scaled their portfolio”, “ábaco”, “scaled their portfolio”, “without adding a single analyst.”
Camera: Push in
25 · CTA · 1:07–1:14
A woman in a black blazer stands in a bright room with a plant and white sofa, talking to camera and gesturing. Two dark-red pills with orange headset and bar-chart icons expand in from the left and right edges, reading “Built for operators” and “Scaling potential,” while white subtitles run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “We built Zovo”, “for operators who are serious about scaling.”, “Built for operators”, “Scaling potential”, “You've already built the hard part,”, “let us handle the rest.”, “without adding a single analyst.”
Camera: Push in
26 · CTA · 1:14–1:20
A soft red-to-teal gradient fills the frame while centered white text lines fade in and out in sequence, closing on the URL. The headline holds, then gives way to a smaller line and finally the domain, which settles with a slight tracking shift.
On-screen text: “let us handle the rest.”, “Get a free reconciliation audit”, “today at...”, “zolvo.com”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in