An animated comedy short series about our new dependence on AI, seen through the chaotic friendship of Tony, a frustrated everyman, and Claude, a human-sized LLM chatbot who turns every basic task into an over-explained, morally complicated disaster.
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Vertically Challenged is a vertical-video studio and podcast making short-form animated comedy for mobile audiences. The ideas, scripts, direction, and editing come from our team. The visuals are AI generated, and an in-house pipeline handles delivery to each platform. The writing and the comedy judgment are human. The pictures are generated.
Life With Claude Publisher
Life With Claude Publisher is our internal content-preparation tool. After an episode is rendered, it places the finished file into our own social drafts for us to review and publish. It never posts publicly on its own.