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Wideframe
AI agent for video editors
Last verified August 17, 2026 · Updated daily
What Wideframe is building
Wideframe is an AI agent for video editors that handles the 75% of work that happens outside the actual editing timeline. Think: searching through thousands of clips, labeling footage, organising libraries, sequencing shots, and generating context-aware assets. It runs as a high-performance desktop app that lives on the machine, works across local filesystems and cloud storage, and supports native Adobe Premiere Pro (.prproj) roundtrip. Editors describe it as an assistant editor that never sleeps. The original pitch to YC was 'Claude Code for video editing.'
Why this matters
Video is now a core growth channel for every company that sells something. Agencies are producing hundreds of ads per week. Brands are churning out organic content at scale. But the tooling has not kept pace: editors have been stuck doing hours of manual prep work before they can touch the actual cut. Wideframe attacks exactly that gap. The moment generative AI made video creation cheaper, the bottleneck shifted upstream to footage management, and nobody had built an agent for that yet. The desktop-first approach is also a deliberate differentiator. Where most AI tools are browser-based SaaS, Wideframe runs on the machine itself, giving it access to local file systems, raw footage, and native app integrations that cloud tools cannot touch.
Open roles at Wideframe
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Two founders, $500K in the bank, 50+ clients onboarded in 75 days, and a product that went viral on Product Hunt in February. The bottleneck right now is engineering depth and customer-facing support, not demand. A hiring push is the only logical next move.
Working at Wideframe
Founded in , Wideframe is AI agent for video editors. They're now <50 people. For a B2B company this size, the reality is broad remit, direct access to founders, and equity that still means something if the company works out.
Most openings are based out of Unspecified.
How to actually get hired at Wideframe
Why applying the normal way doesn't work
At <50 people, Wideframe has no recruiting team. Your application lands with a founder who is also running sales, product and payroll. The obstacle isn't a queue or an ATS, it's being seen at all. Cold outreach outperforms the form here, consistently.
Who to contact at Wideframe
Founding team
Daniel is not a technologist who stumbled into video - he is a career operator who spent over a decade building one of the most respected video ad agencies in the growth marketing world. His company Bamboo managed over $1 billion in ad budgets across 175+ tech companies including Uber, DoorDash, Dropbox, and Adobe. That is not a boutique portfolio. That is the infrastructure layer of the performance marketing industry, and Daniel sat at the centre of it, overseeing creative production at enormous scale. What makes that background unusually relevant to Wideframe is what he saw from the inside. At Bamboo, his editors were producing thousands of video ads. The creative work - the cuts, the storytelling, the hooks - was fast. The prep work was not. Hours disappeared every week into searching through clip libraries, labelling footage, organising assets, and sequencing shots before anyone had touched the actual timeline. The pain was not theoretical. It was a cost centre Daniel lived with for years. Wideframe is his direct answer to it.
Zachary Kim has been an engineering leader for over 20 years, which puts his career start somewhere in the early-to-mid 2000s, well before most of his YC W26 peers were writing their first lines of code. He is a 2x YC founder, meaning he has been through the accelerator before, knows exactly what the Demo Day sprint looks like, and has already experienced the chaos of early product-market fit hitting before the team is ready for it. His technical background spans engineering leadership at scale. The Wideframe product is not a thin wrapper around an API - it is a high-performance desktop application with frame-accurate video understanding, agentic sequencing, and native Adobe Premiere Pro integration. The engineering surface area is serious, and Zack is carrying it alone right now. What is less obvious from his engineering credentials is that Zack is also a talented photographer with a deep interest in art history. A CTO who genuinely cares about visual storytelling is building different product intuitions than a pure infrastructure engineer would. He and Daniel have known each other for 15 years and were colleagues before becoming co-founders.
What to show them
Zack is carrying the entire technical stack alone. The product already handles frame-accurate video understanding, agentic search, multimodal generation, and Adobe Premiere Pro integration. That is a huge surface area for one person. With 50+ clients sending real production footage, edge cases are multiplying fast. The first engineering hire will be someone who can build alongside Zack without hand-holding, ideally someone with both systems-level desktop app experience and enough ML fluency to extend the agent's video reasoning capabilities. Core skills: Python, Rust or C++ (for desktop app performance), multimodal ML, video processing pipelines, LLM tool use, Adobe SDK or Premiere Pro API familiarity, filesystem-level engineering. For proof of work, build a small demo that takes a folder of video clips, uses a multimodal model to label each one by content (e.g. 'outdoor scene, daytime, speaking to camera'), and outputs a structured JSON that could feed into a sequencing workflow. Post it to GitHub with a README explaining your architecture choices. Email it to daniel@wideframe.com before they post a job listing.
A cold email that works at Wideframe
What Wideframe screens for
The signal here is simple and loud. Wideframe launched publicly in February 2026 and went viral. In 75 days they onboarded 50+ brands and agencies, many of which produce hundreds of videos per week. That is real enterprise-grade usage on a two-person team. The YC standard deal gives them $500K and a Demo Day audience, but the product-market fit they have demonstrated will attract follow-on capital fast.
Customize your CV for the Wideframe role. Matching the job description language helps clear ATS filters.
Don't make these mistakes
Do not pitch yourself as a 'video enthusiast' or someone who 'loves creative tools.' Daniel has spent his career in this industry and will see through surface-level enthusiasm immediately. Lead with something specific - a workflow problem you have solved, a real production context you have lived, or concrete work you have built. The product went viral because it is genuinely useful; approach it accordingly.
Mistakes that kill Wideframe applications
A recycled CV gets rejected fast at Wideframe (<50 people). They notice.
Skip 'I'm looking for...' — start with Video is now a core growth channel for every company that sells something and your specific angle on solving it.
Applying and waiting = silence. Follow up at day five — it roughly doubles your odds of a reply.
Applying to Wideframe? Get the contact, not the form.
The Wideframe interview process
3 stages · 7 days typical · take-home: no · modelled from similar companies
We don't yet have verified candidate reports for Wideframe. What follows is the typical process for a <50-person B2B company — treat it as a model, not confirmed detail.
Interview stages
Intro Call
Video call · 30 min
Culture fit and role expectations
Founder or hiring manager
Technical Deep Dive
Video call or in-person · 60 min
Past projects and problem-solving approach
Technical founder or lead
Final Round
In-person or video · 45 min
Team fit and offer discussion
Founding team
Wideframe interview timeline
Expect days total. Compared to similar B2B companies (10 days median), Wideframe is faster.
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How many jobs does Wideframe have open?
As of March 2025, Wideframe has 3 open positions.
Does Wideframe hire remotely?
No remote roles right now — all positions are in Unspecified.
What roles is Wideframe hiring for?
Wideframe is hiring across Engineering, Customer, Marketing. The most recent opening is Founding Engineer (Full-Stack / ML).
How do I apply for a job at Wideframe?
Use the apply links above, or check our guide to getting hired at Wideframe.
Does Wideframe respond to cold emails?
Response rate data for Wideframe not yet confirmed.
Who is the hiring manager at Wideframe?
At this size, hiring is usually run by a founder or department head.
How competitive is it to get hired at Wideframe?
Typical applicant count for B2B roles (<50 people): 50-100 in two weeks. Apply fast.
How many rounds is the Wideframe interview?
3 stages: Intro Call, Technical Deep Dive, Final Round.
Is the Wideframe interview hard?
Expect relevant experience and culture fit, not algorithm trivia. Candidates report Final Round as the toughest stage.
Does Wideframe give a take-home task?
No, Wideframe does not include a take-home stage.
How long does Wideframe take to get back to you?
Around 7 days across the full process.
What should I prepare for the Wideframe interview?
relevant experience and culture fit is the priority. Show you can work autonomously — that matters more than algorithms at <50 people.
Where is Wideframe based?
Wideframe is headquartered in Unspecified.
Get Wideframe roles before they're posted
A role stays uncontested for about four days. Here's the window — and where we put you in it.
From $9/month, cancel any time.
Watching Wideframe
0 applicantsRole spotted & verified
1You get the alert
1You've applied
~8Hits the job boards
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