Casting
01
First sheetFinal sheet
Two board members looked alike and the model swapped them mid-scene. The sheet was redone until nobody shared a feature.
Launch film · Comedy
Harbor
A bank's AI agent pays out $140 million over a weekend. The board meets on Monday morning and nobody can switch it off.
Generated on one canvas in MITO, cut and finished by hand.
- Client
- Harbor
- Format
- Digital / 16:9 / 4K
- Runtime
- 1'16"
- Direction
- Arantxa Barcia
- Published
- October 2026
The launch
A million views from an account with 573 followers.
Harbor launched the film on October 13 with their seed round. The reach came from the film.
1.06M
Views on X on the founder's post.
573
Followers on the account that posted it.
$10M
Seed round it launched with, led by Base10, Abstract and 8VC.
The brief
Fear first, product last.
Harbor insures AI agents. The brief was one line: fear first, product last.
01A bank's AI agent pays out $140M
02The city finds out on its phones
03Nobody can switch it off
04Harbor's real product, last
The craft
What was done by hand.
Models make shots. Everything in between is the work you are hiring.
- Generation
- ~250 takes
- Video takes, 197 of them still on the canvas
- Prompts
- 4,219 chars
- Average length, longest 9,973 of the 10,000 allowed
- Cast
- 8 board members
- One seating plan, one 3D layout
- Sound
- 41 pieces
- 7 music directions, 4 Suno covers
- Edit
- 28 versions
- Best piece of each take, in DaVinci Resolve
- Credits
- 1,994,872
- Image, video and audio in MITO
- Production
- 14 days
- Kickoff to final master
REFERENCES: [CEO sheet] DEFINES ONLY THE CEO'S FACE AND BODY, and [Rivas sheet] DEFINES ONLY RIVAS' FACE AND BODY: take only the identity from them, never the grid, the white background, the poses, the framing or the number of people. This film begins on the CEO's fist coming down on the table. GENRE AND TONE: the second part of a launch film for Harbor, an insurance company for AI agents: the leaked video of a bank's emergency board meeting while the company collapses in real time.
Models
Seedance 2.5 · Seedance 2.0 · GPT Image 2 · Grok · ElevenLabs · Suno
Tools
MITO AI · DaVinci Resolve · After Effects · Python
The process
Who sits where, decided before a shot existed.
The table
02
Layout
In filmA 3D seating plan built in code kept every board member in their chair, shot after shot.
The screens
Generated grey, finished by hand.
Drag to compare. Every screen came out of the model blank and was filled by hand.
GeneratedThe product on the laptopDelivered
The sound
Every effect placed on the frame.
41 sound pieces generated in MITO and placed by hand, frame by frame. Seven music directions tried for the ending.
V1
A1
The cut
197 takes, one edit.
No take worked from start to end. The edit is the best piece of each version, across 28 versions in DaVinci Resolve.
Made in MITO
One canvas, 371 assets.
371 assets on one canvas, grouped by scene in the order of the edit, every take next to its prompt and references.
References
- Margin Call
- The boardroom, and the client's own joke.
- The Big Short
- Handheld camera and snap zooms on every punchline.
- Harvey, Agreements Make History
- Office comedy played straight.
- HappyRobot launch film
- The brief's benchmark for a startup launch.
Credits
- Direction
- Arantxa Barcia
- Client
- Harbor
- Production company
- MITO Films
- Tool
- MITO AI