Executive thought leadership video the executive records on a phone and never edits
Your CEO has the point of view. Marketing has the calendar. Neither has an editor. RealTake takes a phone recording from the back of a car and returns a finished video with cuts, captions, a title and graphics, which marketing reviews and schedules without the executive touching it again.
RealTake is the AI for short form video that marketing teams use to put an executive on LinkedIn every week from one phone recording, reviewed and scheduled by someone else.
- Exec records, marketing runs itA team member uploads, reviews in the Studio and schedules using the account.
- Review before anything postsTurn on review and every video waits for a yes. Download the file for any sign-off you need.
- Polished, every timeSmart cuts keep the best delivery of each line. Title, captions, graphics and sound in the brand kit.
Works in a phone browser. The executive never opens an editor.
Recorded between the board and the flight. Scheduled by the time she landed.
The person who has to make the exec show up
A head of marketing, comms or brand, or a chief of staff who has been asked to “get the CEO on LinkedIn” and knows the hard part is not the strategy.
Twelve posts, a funding announcement, a conference and a crisis you cannot predict. Each needs the executive's face and ninety seconds of their time, and nothing else from them.
A founder or CEO on camera outperforms the company page. Buyers, candidates and investors follow people. The executives who post weekly set the narrative; the ones who post quarterly respond to it.
What has been stopping you
In the words of the people who own this inside a company.
“She'll record once. If the first one looks amateur, that's the end of it.”
An executive's tolerance for a bad first video is zero. The edit has to be finished, not promising.
“He talks in loops and we can't ask for take six.”
The thinking is there; the delivery wanders. You get one go in the car and a wave goodbye.
“Legal and comms need to see it before it posts.”
Every video goes through two reviews, and by the time it clears, the moment it was about has passed.
“We don't have an editor, and we're not hiring one for twelve videos a quarter.”
The volume does not justify a hire. The quality bar does not allow a template.
Why RealTake is how executive video gets made now
Finished on the first try
The executive will judge the whole programme on video one.
A Director, not a template
RealTake plans the whole edit, then builds it: a title in the first second, word-level captions emphasising the words that carry each line, b-roll, motion graphics for every number, camera moves that keep the executive in frame, sound. In the brand kit, in a style built from what is working on social this week.
One take, the best of every line
You are not getting take six from a CEO.
Smart cuts keep the best delivery
Let them talk straight through and repeat lines when they wander. Smart cuts keep the best delivery of each line and drop the rest, with every cut labeled and reversible. Tight pacing closes the gaps.
Review, then post
Comms has to see it. Legal might. The moment still has to be caught.
The Studio waits for a yes
Turn on review and every video waits in the Studio until someone presses Continue. Changes before render cost nothing. Download the finished file for whatever sign-off your company requires, then post or schedule to LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from RealTake.
A programme without a hire
Twelve videos a quarter is too many to do well by hand and too few to hire for.
One account, one marketing hire, done
The executive records on a phone. A team member uploads, reviews and schedules using the account. Editor's notes come back with each video with one thing to improve, which is how the executive gets better on camera without being told to.
A hook made from the executive's own footage
RealTake can build an optional opener from the recording itself: their face, their voice, their strongest line, animated. Eight styles, always previewed, always removable.
- A title written from what they said, on screen in the first second
- Captions that read with the sound off, which is how LinkedIn is watched
- Motion graphics for every figure in the argument
What to make this quarter
Six videos that get watched because they are useful, not because they are yours.
The decision I'd make differently
A specific call from the last year, what it cost, what changed. The most shared kind of executive video there is.
What I tell every new hire in their first week
Values, stated as a story from someone who lived it.
The number I check first every Monday
One metric, why it matters, what it moved. The counter goes on screen.
Why we're not doing the thing everyone else is doing
A contrarian position with the reasoning shown. The comments write themselves.
A customer taught me this
No names, no logos. One conversation that changed a product decision.
What this quarter is about, in 60 seconds
Recorded after the board meeting. Scheduled for Monday morning.
A quarter of executive video
Twelve recordings from a phone. Twelve finished videos, reviewed, scheduled, on brand.
How it runs
Record
Whoever is on camera records one raw video on a phone or webcam. Talk straight through; say a line again if it comes out wrong.
Upload
In the browser, from the phone or a laptop. A team member can upload and review using the account, so the person on camera never opens an editor.
It comes back finished
Cuts, captions, b-roll, motion graphics, camera moves and sound in minutes, in the brand kit you set once. Turn on review and every video waits in the Studio for a yes.
Post or schedule
LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube from RealTake, now or on a schedule. Then see how each video did.
Record the first one today. It comes back finished.
Free plan: 5 watermarked videos a month. No credit card.
Which plan a team needs
Empire at $249 a month, or $149 a month billed yearly, is built for teams and agencies running volume: around 107 to 213 finished videos a month, 100 GB of footage library and the most AI-generated assets. Authority at $99 ($59 yearly) covers a company posting most working days. Every plan has every feature, including brand kits, projects per channel or client, posting and scheduling to four platforms, and the Studio. 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
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