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DTC & Retail2024$10M–$50M revenue

AI Video Ad Production

Sits over Meta Ads + Drive + your creative team

Sits overMeta AdsGoogle DriveSlackDropbox

Headline outcome

13-state production pipeline; weekly ad output 5×

01Context

What the operation looked like before.

A DTC brand running multi-channel paid social with a small in-house creative team. Each new ad concept took 5–9 days from brief to publish. Competitor research was a manual sweep through Meta Ads Library. Scripts went through three rounds of doc revisions before a single frame was shot. Final assets lived in a tangle of Drive folders and Dropbox links.

The bottleneck

The team could not produce enough ad variants to keep CPAs healthy. Promising hooks died in the script stage because the round-trip on revisions burned a week per concept.

02Architecture

How the system is wired.

The system reads from Meta Ads Library, the brand's Drive, and a Slack-driven brief intake. A vision-LLM forensics pass extracts hooks and pacing from competitor ads. Claude generates scene-level scripts grounded in the brand knowledge base. Per-scene videos are generated through a routed pool of video models (chosen per shot type, not globally). ElevenLabs handles VO. Every artifact lands back in Drive in a deterministic structure, with Slack approvals on the critical path.

Architecture sketch for AI Video Ad Production: systems of record, AI layer, and human approval gate

Video Forensics

AI-powered competitor video analysis. Extracts hooks, pacing, visual patterns, and engagement signals from any ad using whichever vision model fits best.

Script Generation

AI generates production-ready scripts from forensics data, brand guidelines, and target audience profiles. Swap in any LLM.

Video Generation

Connect any video generation model, open-source or commercial. Automatic model routing based on style, duration, and quality.

AI Voiceover

Pluggable voiceover generation. Multiple voices, languages, and emotional tones matched to script intent. Use any TTS provider.

Deployment Pipeline

Automated deployment to ad platforms, cloud storage, and spreadsheets. Full lifecycle tracking from draft to published.

Slack Integration

Slack-integrated approvals, notifications, progress updates, and team collaboration throughout the pipeline.

03Human-in-the-loop

Where humans approve, review, decide.

Every consequential decision routes through a person on your team. Speed without abandoning judgement.

Sample approval surface

Subject

Approves the hook brief before scripts are generated

Flagged
  • Decision frequency: Per concept
  • Routes to the operator daily review queue
Approver

Creative lead

RoleDecisionFrequency
Creative leadApproves the hook brief before scripts are generatedPer concept
Brand ownerReviews script in-Slack, can request revisions or shoot-as-isPer script
Creative leadReviews the assembled cut before publish; final yes/noPer video
Performance marketerApproves Meta Ads launch (placement, audience, budget)Per launch
04Outcomes

What changed for the operation.

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Outcomes the operating team validated. Numbers below are anonymized to client policy.

Concept-to-publish

~24 hours

↓ 80%

Weekly ad output

+5×

Approval round-trips

1 average

down from 3+

Pipeline states under FSM

13

fully audited

We share the underlying breakdown in a discovery call under NDA.

05Stack

What runs underneath.

FastAPIReact 19PostgreSQLRedisCelery

Talk to us

Have an operation shaped like this one?

We'll start with a 2-week Discovery, fixed-fee, against your real systems and operating people. If we're not a fit we'll say so on the call.

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