Explainer video — Lesson 1: Meet your new coworker

Status: produced — rendered as content/videos/business1.mp4 (piper voiceover en_US-ryan-high + the Video plugin's Remotion template) and embedded at the top of Lesson 1.

Target: ~1:30 · 16:9 · 1080p+ · captions ON. Palette: deep emerald #022c22 → #047857, mint accent #34d399, gold #fbbf24, off-white type #ecfdf5. Voice: confident, warm, ~140 wpm — a good manager explaining, not a keynote. Music: understated, modern, ducked −20 dB under voice.

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How to use this script

Same pipeline as the other course videos: one scene = one slide (HeyGen/Synthesia), or one ~8 s clip per GEN PROMPT (Veo/Sora) with narration generated separately (ElevenLabs) and layered — never model speech.

Scene 1 — The new coworker · 0:00–0:20

VOICEOVER: Imagine a new coworker. They've read every business book ever written. They type faster than you think. They never sleep. And they know absolutely nothing about your business — not your prices, not your clients, not that you're closed on Mondays.

ON SCREEN: A bright, tidy studio office. A desk lamp switches on over an empty second desk. Papers, a phone, a small "Rosehill Catering" sign.

OVERLAY: Brilliant. And blank.

GEN PROMPT: 'Warm flat-illustration animation, a small catering studio office at dawn, a desk lamp lighting an empty second desk beside a busy owner's desk, deep emerald palette with gold accents, modern storybook style, no text.'

Scene 2 — That coworker is an agent · 0:20–0:40

VOICEOVER: That coworker is an A-I agent. Not a chatbot that answers questions — a colleague that does the work: reads your documents, drafts your quotes, turns your messy notes into clean tables. Working with one isn't a technical skill. It's a management skill. You already have it.

ON SCREEN: Split: left, a speech bubble answering a question; right, hands producing a finished quote document, a tidy table sliding into place. The right side glows.

OVERLAY: Answers → Work.

GEN PROMPT: 'Warm flat-illustration animation, split screen, left a chat bubble with an answer fading, right invisible hands assembling a clean quote document and a tidy table that glows, emerald and gold palette, modern storybook style, no text.'

Scene 3 — The five words · 0:40–1:10

VOICEOVER: Five words, and you speak the language. The model — the brain you hire, junior or senior, per task. The agent — the coworker: brain, job description, tools. The skill — the recipe card you trigger with a slash. The harness — the workbench it works at. And the knowledge base — your handbook: the only thing the agent knows about YOUR business.

ON SCREEN: Five icons appear in a row, each lighting up as named: a brain, a person with a briefcase, a recipe card, a workbench, a bound handbook. The handbook lights up gold and stays lit.

OVERLAY: Model · Agent · Skill · Harness · Knowledge base

GEN PROMPT: 'Warm flat-illustration animation, five glowing icons appearing in sequence on deep emerald — a brain, a briefcase person, a recipe card, a workbench, a golden handbook that stays lit brightest, modern storybook style, no text.'

Scene 4 — The golden rule · 1:10–1:30

VOICEOVER: Here's the rule that changes how you work: the agent knows nothing about your business except what's written in the knowledge base. That's not a limitation. That's the steering wheel — write the fact, and your agent just got smarter. Lesson one starts now.

ON SCREEN: A hand writes one line into the glowing handbook; the writing ripples outward and the agent figure at the desk lights up. Push-in on the handbook.

OVERLAY: Write it — and it knows it.

GEN PROMPT: 'Warm flat-illustration animation, a hand writing a single glowing line into a golden handbook, light rippling from the page to a figure at a desk who brightens, deep emerald background, modern storybook style, no text.'