Executive Summary

Video teams and creators—roughly 3M potential teams—spend hours turning reference clips and rough ideas into shot-by-shot storyboards, a manual bottleneck that slows high-velocity short-form production and adds cost and inconsistency for small agencies, in-house brand teams, and prosumer creators. This pre-production friction is especially painful as timelines compress and iteration frequency increases. Build a multimodal AI product that ingests reference videos, scripts, or notes and outputs editable shot-by-shot storyboards with camera directions, framing, durations, and suggested cut points, exportable to common editing tools and with presets for TikTok/Shorts/Reels. Include human-in-the-loop controls, collaboration features, and asset management so teams can review and refine outputs in minutes rather than hours. The market looks attractive now: TAM ≈ $9.0B (3M teams × $3K ACV), driven by short-form dominance, creator monetization, and improvements in vision+LLM models—market score 88/100 and revenue potential 80/100. Teams are primed to pay for tools that reduce time-to-publish and improve creative quality. You can differentiate by delivering accurate semantic shot mapping from video, tight integrations into existing editing workflows, and a UX that produces editable, production-ready outputs rather than opaque drafts; offering enterprise privacy and team controls will open higher-ACV customers. Major challenges are achieving reliable cross-genre accuracy, handling copyright/privacy of reference clips, and building defensible ML/data advantages, but the payoff in a medium-competition market with clear ROI makes this worth exploring.

Market Opportunity

Automatically convert reference videos and ideas into shot-by-shot storyboards targets a $9.0B = 3M video-producing teams × $3K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18% YoY growth — based on online video content creation and creator economy expansion (Grand View Research & industry reports on digital video market).

Key trends driving demand: Short-form video dominance — platforms like TikTok and Shorts push brands and creators to produce more high-velocity content, increasing demand for faster pre-production tooling.; Multimodal AI improvements — vision+LLM models now enable extracting semantic metadata from clips, creating an opportunity for automated storyboarding.; Creator economy monetization — more prosumer creators and small agencies are willing to pay for productivity tools that shorten time-to-publish and improve creative quality..

Key competitors include Runway, Pictory, ShotDeck / ShotStack (reference libraries & API).

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Automatically convert reference videos and ideas into shot-by-shot storyboards

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