AI Videos, Avatars, & Workflows 🌪️

Welcome back, Growth Hackers! Martech moved faster than a cold-email cadence this week—sales agents are scouting leads solo, video avatars got legs, and “rank in ChatGPT” just became a funded job title. Here’s the hit list.

THIS WEEK IN MARTECH & SALESTECH

1. Agents, assemble! YC-backed Orange Slice unleashed an AI sales agent that crawls millions of signals to auto-build hyper-targeted prospect lists—no spreadsheets, no SDR tears. Early users report 10× faster lead discovery and 35 % higher reply rates.

2. Meet your hologram spokesperson. Synthesia rolled out full-body AI avatars, letting brands shoot studio-quality videos without cameras, actors, or jet-lagged execs. Expect TikTok feeds to blur the line between influencer and inference.

3. SEO is dead, long live AEO. Scrunch AI snagged a $15 M Series A to help brands surface inside ChatGPT, Perplexity & friends—Generative Engine Optimization is officially a funding thesis.

FROM THE FRONTIER

The Viral-Video Workflow That’s Eating Your Content Calendar

Creators aren’t storyboarding—they’re chaining. A flurry of X threads broke down a one-click stack that spits out scroll-stopping vids:

• Cursor + “Clova”: rapid auto-editing for jump-cuts and captions. Check it out here.

• Runway ML’s newest competition: This is like Runway ML’s ‘Act 2’ update from last week except with Decart’s Mirage it happens in real time, even while live streaming. Take a look.

• Spwfeijen’s workflow recipes: prompt-to-post loops that iterate creative hourly. Get the guide here.

• Veo “object-drop” hack: drop a real prop into an AI scene for instant product shots.

Takeaway: When testing four creatives a quarter costs nothing, expect micro-niche ads tuned to every buyer persona before lunch.

THE AI ACADEMY

4-step AEO self-audit (from Sam Hogan)

1. Run an AI search check-up: Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity to describe your brand—note accuracy and citations.

2. Validate your on-page signals: Inspect the page source: title tags, meta descriptions, schema, canonical URLs.

3. Stress-test crawl health: Use Google Search Console or Semrush to surface indexing & crawl errors.

4. Pick the right stack early: Frameworks with server-side rendering (e.g., Next.js) give you full control over the metadata that AEO needs to rank well.

IN THE KNOW

• 🎬 AI Voice-Over, Meet Premiere: A YouTube short shows Adobe auto-syncing sound descriptions (via voice control) into its videos — watch here.

• 🧠 Claude Thinking Frames: Anthropic’s Lani Assaf shares seven conversation patterns—from “scene partner” to “pressure tester”—that turn Claude into a real co-strategist.

BONUS: 3 MORE VIRAL VIDEO WORKFLOWS

1. End-to-end trailer stack – Filmmaker Diesol breaks down his tool-chain (Veo → Runway → CapCut → Premiere) for spinning up 60-second trailers in under an hour.

2. Consistent character generator – AngryTom walks through a prompt that spits out fully automatically generate an entire film, from script and storyboard to consistent characters, video, voice, lip-sync, LoRA, and music.

3. Prompt vault drop – MayorKingAI is giving away a viral Veo prompt that makes footage feel like its straight out of a movie.

Steal the workflows, tweak the prompts, and let the algorithms do the heavy lifting—then tell your audience to comment for the goodies and watch engagement climb.

PROMPT STATION

“Viral Ad Alchemist” Prompt

You are a battle-hardened direct-response copywriter fused with a Hollywood trailer editor.

1. Ask for product, audience, and desired emotion.

2. Generate a 15-sec script that hits pattern interrupt → problem → promise → proof → punchline.

3. Return matching visual shots and on-screen text cues.

4. Suggest an optional CTA variant for A/B testing.

Copy-paste, profit.

Until next time — Shawn