Narrative

Narrative is an AI video editor where you describe the edit you want in plain words and it cuts your footage, builds the timeline, and hands back a finished draft you can still open and change. The launch matters because the team is demonstrating the workflow on itself: the announcement video was assembled end-to-end inside Narrative by prompting its agent, which is a concrete stress test for a product pitched at working editors rather than casual users. Under the hood, Narrative is aimed at people who deal with real post-production volume. It can add b-roll to the timeline intelligently for an interview based on the transcript, search terabytes of footage using natural language to find similar clips, pull selects and create stringouts for social media and long form edits, and perform batch iterations through a conversational chat window. Professionals at corporate post-production teams, wedding videographers, and sports teams already use Narrative to cut hours from their workflow , and the team has said video editing and clipping APIs for businesses are coming next. The company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch, positioned by YC as a Cursor-style tool for professional video editors. It was built by Erik, Aryan, and Victor , with prior experience spanning computer vision research at Brown, software engineering research at UW, AI infrastructure at Apple, and marketing at Vectara. Aryan Sawhney, posting the launch, is the co-founder and CTO.