Launch Videos

Tally just raised 15 million to build AI that runs customer-facing operations.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

57k views

Fewer views than 82% of the library · #495 of 598

Runtime
1:51
Posted
Jul 29, 2026
Pace
148 wpm
Y Combinator on X

Congrats to @tellicom on their $15M seed! They're building AI agents for B2C customer…

1:51 · Jul 29, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for Y CombinatorRuntime 1:51. First five seconds: Claim or number. Call to action at 1:48.0–5s hook · Claim or numberCall to action at 1:481:48 Call to action0:000:280:561:231:51
  • First five secondsClaim or number
  • Call to action1:48

Not detected: company named, product named, demo starts

Narration pace

148 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 148 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 0.2× the median funding announcement launch (303k, n=91)
  • 0.2× the median AI agent launch (377k, n=164)
  • 0.1× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Funding announcementn=91 · median 303k
  3. AI agentn=164 · median 377k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Funding announcement91302,61799,0731,218,57114,373,501
AI agent164376,795101,5391,583,684138,357,050

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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Videos belong to the companies that posted them and play through X’s official embed, which loads only after you click. Hook labels and “why it worked” notes are AI-assisted analysis and can be wrong. Curated from public launch posts on X. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Corrections and removal