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Case study · Launch video

Alfi

A launch film for For You, Alfi’s new home screen: a group chat that goes quiet, and the morning it comes back to life.

Client
Alfi by text.ai (YC-backed)
Services
Script, storyboard, animation, sound
Length
70 seconds
Year
2026
Alfi launch film: “Wake up to your people” over a blue sky

The challenge

Group chats are great at memes and bad at deciding. Alfi needed a film that felt human first.

Alfi is a group messaging app with a built-in AI that helps friends make plans, find places to eat, set reminders and more, right inside the conversation. Its new feature, For You, turns the home screen into a feed of picks built from your chats, your city and what you care about. Not a scroll of strangers, but your next hour with your people.

The brief was clear: the story had to be human first, with the AI as the quiet magic in the background. Most people watch with the sound off, so we wrote it two ways, with a narrator and in on-screen text alone, to make sure every beat could land without sound.

The idea

The best plans don’t feel recommended. They feel remembered.

The film opens on a group chat everyone knows, the taco council 🌮, at its loudest. Then time speeds up: timestamps stretch, colours drain, and it ends where every group chat ends, with “idk what do you guys wanna do” and no reply. Late at night, an unsent “i miss you guys” blinks in the text box.

At 7:00 AM the screen wakes in Alfi blue. We scrub back through the chat as the friends’ own words light up (a craving for tacos, a free Friday, how long it’s been) and they come together as one For You pick. The chat floods back to life, a blurry flash photo proves the night happened, and the film closes on “Introducing For You”: every morning at 7, wake up to your people.

Storyboard(52 frames)

The full Alfi storyboard: 52 frames in eight acts, from the group chat going quiet to the 7 AM For You pick and the Introducing For You end card
  1. 01The chat10 frames
  2. 027:00 AM7 frames
  3. 03Remembered5 frames
  4. 04For You5 frames
  5. 05The pick4 frames
  6. 06Plans9 frames
  7. 07The night6 frames
  8. 08Introducing6 frames
BreakdownStoryboard to film
“Had the best experience with Jerry and the final product was beyond what I expected.”
Rushi ShahCo-Founder, text.ai