Claybird: Claybird plans, creates, and edits your AI video ad.

Claybird plans, creates, and edits your AI video ad.

Claybird is an agent that plans, generates, and edits your AI video ad. Marketers often rely on agencies to produce video ads - a slow, expensive process involving endless revisions, actors, and shoots. Claybird is like Lovable for AI ads: it collaborates with marketers on creative direction, generates shots using Veo, Sora, and other top models, and intelligently edits them into a studio-quality video. When most people try making AI content, it looks like “slop”. But Claybird Agent, like an expert director, understands quality: it knows which camera angle, shot type, and lighting is necessary for each scene. Get started at claybird.com

Active Founders

Saad Jamal

Founder

cto @ claybird. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Claybird, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.

Saad Jamal

Founder

cto @ claybird. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Claybird, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.

Abdullah Nauman

Founder

ceo @ claybird. prev. product at google ads and ml at google search. Previously at Google, shipped delightful product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.

Abdullah Nauman

Founder

ceo @ claybird. prev. product at google ads and ml at google search. Previously at Google, shipped delightful product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.

Company Launches

Claybird: An Agent That Produces Your AI Video Ad

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Hey everyone, we’re Abdullah and Saad - cofounders of Claybird 👋

TL;DR

Claybird is like Lovable for AI ads: it collaborates with marketers on creative direction, generates shots using Veo, Sora, and other top models, and intelligently edits them into a studio-quality ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBOwU3I27g

The Problem

For years, making an ad has meant managing actors, agencies, and endless back-and-forth.

Marketers have to translate their vision through layers of people - and by the time the ad goes live, the moment has passed.

Our Solution

Introducing Claybird: a product that lets anyone create high quality ads using AI

Claybird jams on script ideas with you, generates each shot, and edits the video together, end to end.

Most AI content looks like slop. But Claybird Agent, like an expert director, understands quality: it knows which camera angle, shot type, and lighting is necessary for each scene. And it knows what image and video model to use to best get there.

This means the marketer can focus on one thing: articulating the story they want to tell. After all, that's their area of expertise - no production team understands the customer and audience the way they do.

Our Ask

Connect us with marketers at companies that partner with agencies for their ads
Connect us with mobile apps and e-commerce brands looking to scale on TikTok and Reels
Next time you see an AI ad that feels like slop, DM the creator: "claybird.com"

The Team

Previously, Abdullah shipped new product features on Google Ads and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring clicks and conversions on Google Search.

Saad trained reasoning models for Ashish Vaswani (co-author of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper) at Essential AI, and developed evals for video models at Tesla Autopilot. He recently dropped out of UChicago Law after one year.

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