Founder-led video, without the founder doing the editing
You already explain the company five times a day. RealTake turns one of those explanations, recorded on your phone between meetings, into a finished video with cuts, captions, b-roll, graphics and sound, then posts it where your customers and investors are.
RealTake is the AI for short form video that founders use to post founder-led video every week without an editor, a timeline or an evening lost to it.
- Record between meetingsTalk straight through, stumbles and all. Smart cuts keep the best delivery of every line.
- Finished in minutesA Director plans the whole edit: hook, captions, b-roll, motion graphics for every number you say, sound.
- Posted where it mattersLinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from RealTake, now or on a schedule, with a look that matches what is working this week.
Works in your phone's browser. Nothing to install.
Recorded at 4:50. Posted before the 5 o'clock.
The founder who should be posting and isn't
A founder or co-founder with a product in market, raising, hiring or selling, and the only person who can explain the company the way it deserves.
Customer calls, candidates, investor updates, a product review, a board deck. Video is on the list every week and gets pushed every week, since the edit is the part that costs an evening.
Founder-led video is the cheapest pipeline you have. Buyers, hires and investors already watch founders explain things on their phones. The ones who post consistently get the DMs.
What has been stopping you
Four things founders tell us, in roughly this order.
“I recorded it three weeks ago. It's still in my camera roll.”
The shoot takes four minutes. Finishing it takes an evening you do not have, so the raw file sits there until it is out of date.
“It looks amateur next to the accounts I follow.”
Your competitors' founders have an editor, a format and a style that changes with the platform. A raw clip with auto-captions reads as an afterthought.
“LinkedIn wants polish, TikTok wants raw, Instagram wants both.”
One video has to work three ways. Re-cutting it per platform is the step nobody on your team has time for.
“I can't afford to be the bottleneck, and I can't hand it off.”
A freelancer means a Slack thread and a two-day wait. An editor on payroll is a hire you are not making this quarter.
One raw video in. The finished video out. Here is what happens in between.
Upload from the phone it was recorded on
The whole flow works in your phone's browser. Record, upload, approve and post from the same device, in the gap before your next call. Nothing to install.
Edits it while you are in the meeting
A Director plans the edit, then builds it: smart cuts take out the retakes, filler and dead air and keep the best delivery of each line, with every cut labeled and reversible. Rendering runs in the cloud, so your laptop is not the bottleneck.
Formats, not templates
The accounts you admire are not using a caption template. They are using whatever format is winning on social this month. RealTake ships fresh styles every week built from exactly that.
Numbers you say become numbers on screen
Founders talk in figures and three-part lists. 200+ motion graphics turn them into charts, counters and step trackers. Word-level captions emphasise the words that carry each sentence, with 29 presets and every word editable. Camera moves land on the key lines and always keep you in the frame.
One upload, every platform
Pick the platforms when the video is ready. RealTake posts to LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from one screen, now or on a schedule, and you see how each video did.
Approve it in the Studio, or don't
By default the video goes straight to finished. Turn on review and every video waits in the Studio: one screen, every lane, change anything, press Continue. Changes before render cost nothing. Every finished video comes with editor's notes: what was changed, time saved, a score for hook, content and pacing, and one thing to try next time.
Hand it off without hiring
Your EA, chief of staff or a marketing hire can upload and review in your account. You stay the face; someone else presses the buttons. Projects keep investor updates, product clips and hiring videos separate.
Your own footage, pulled in when you mention it
Upload product screen recordings, office b-roll and demo clips once. They are indexed by what is in them, so when you say “the new dashboard”, the dashboard appears. Licensed stock and AI-generated visuals fill the gaps, approved before they run.
Say “we went from 12 to 40 customers” and watch it land
Before assembling anything, RealTake plans the video: where the hook sits, the pacing, the style, where b-roll and camera moves go. The plan is built to hold attention.
- Counters, charts and step trackers for every figure and list you say
- A title written from what you said, on screen in the first second
- An AI hook built from your own footage, 8 opener styles, always optional
What to film this week
Six videos a founder can record in one sitting. Each one passes the only test that matters: would anyone who is not your mother watch it?
The mistake that cost us a quarter
What you did, what it cost, what you do now. Mistakes travel further than wins and teach more.
How we priced it, and the options we rejected
The reasoning is the content. Every founder in your space is deciding the same thing this month.
What we shipped this week, in 45 seconds
One change, who asked for it, what it does. Upload the screen recording once and it appears when you mention the feature.
The customer question I answer most
Answer it once on camera. Then send the link instead of typing it for the eleventh time.
The hire we got wrong, and the one we got right
Hiring content pulls candidates and investors at the same time. Keep names out, keep the lesson in.
The number nobody asks about but should
Pick a metric you track obsessively and explain why. Counters and a chart make it a visual, not a sentence.
A founder's week, edited
Cuts, captions, title, b-roll, graphics and sound on every one, in a style built from what is working on social right now.
How a founder uses it
Record
One raw video on your phone or webcam. Talk straight through; say a line again if it comes out wrong.
Upload
From the same phone, in the browser. Or have someone on your team do it in your account.
It comes back finished
Cuts, captions, b-roll, motion graphics, camera moves and sound, in minutes. Open the Studio to change anything, or let it go straight through.
Post or schedule
LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from RealTake. Then see how it did.
Record one on the way to your next meeting.
Free plan: 5 watermarked videos a month. No credit card.
Which plan a founder needs
Start on Starter, free, up to 5 watermarked videos a month, no card. Presence at $49 a month covers around 16 to 32 finished videos, which is a video every working day. Authority at $99 is the plan for a founder who also clips a podcast or runs a second channel. Billed yearly, those are $29 and $59 a month. Every plan has every feature; you see the cost of a video before it is made, failed renders are never charged, and you get an email before any renewal. Full details on the pricing page.
FAQs
What is the best AI tool for short form video for founders?
I hate how I look on camera. Does that matter?
Can my assistant or a marketing hire run it for me?
Can I use product screen recordings as b-roll?
Does it post to LinkedIn?
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