The Pixel Newsroom

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Social Autopilots · In-house media · AI tools coverage

DRAFT-FIRST

Deployed

2026 · programmatic video renderer

Output

30-second pixel-art explainers, captions word-synced

Human input

approve / tweak / reject

Short-form video about AI tools performs, but producing it daily is a full-time job: find the story, write a tight script, record voice-over, cut captions, render.

The Pixel Newsroom automates the chain. A radar agent scans AI news and ranks stories. A script agent writes a 30-second narrative. Text-to-speech reads it with a directed voice profile; word-level alignment drives karaoke captions; a programmatic renderer assembles the pixel-art scenes into a finished reel.

The system runs draft-first: every reel lands in a review queue instead of publishing itself. The human role shrinks from producer to editor — approve, tweak, or reject.

EXHIBIT A

News radar

Automated scan of AI-tool news, scored for relevance and virality before a single frame is rendered.

news-radar — hourly

▸ scanned 47 sources

▸ 12 stories ranked

★ top: "new video model beats…" 8.7

▸ script drafted (28.4s read)

▸ queued for render

stories ranked before rendering

EXHIBIT B

Programmatic render

Code-driven assembly: pixel scenes, tool branding, voice-over and word-synced captions composed without an editor.

story → script → voice → align → render

end-to-end draft in minutes

EXHIBIT C

Editor, not producer

Every reel lands in a review queue. Human time per video drops to a single decision.

Draft ready: "Claude Code ships subagents" — 31s, captions ok.

Approve. Swap thumbnail to frame 2.

Published to review channel ✓

the whole job, compressed to a reply

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