// solo founder · since 2026

Built by Mark.
Solo. Stubborn. Shipping.

Videngineer exists for one slow problem: understanding how video works at the frame level. Paste any video — a competitor ad, a reference, a brief — and get the full playbook: script, cuts, sound, and the numbers behind why it worked.

Why this exists

I spent months trying to figure out the structure of the videos I admired. Johnny Harris docs. MrBeast cold opens. The exact moment where a faceless niche channel pulls a viewer in. I'd rewatch a video ten times, take notes by hand, build a spreadsheet of timestamps, then forget half of it by the time I sat down to write.

The problem wasn't a lack of tools — it was that every tool wanted to generate something. I didn't want a viral script generator. I wanted to deconstruct a video I'd already chosen. Frame by frame. Scene by scene. Hook by hook.

So I built it.

"Stop watching viral videos. Start engineering them."

That's the one sentence. The product is the receipt. Paste a URL, get the playbook. Hand it to your agent (or your editor, or your own brain) and ship the next one.

What videngineer works with

Four tools that talk to each other. Same brand DNA. Different jobs.

→ you are here
videngineer
Reverse-engineer any video — B2B ads, creator hooks, long-form docs, short-form. Frame-level analysis, recreation prompts. The intake valve for the whole stack.
Sibling
vidgentic
Production pipeline. Takes videngineer's playbook and ships the actual MP4. Image-gen, voice clone, Kling/Seedance animation, FFmpeg assembly.
Sibling
jamlist.io
Directory of every live AI hackathon. $9.2M in prize money sitting on the table. Curated by humans, updated daily.
Sibling
distributoor
B2B ad video pipeline. The visual brand DNA of every tool above (paper bg + halftone + ink borders + pop shadows) lives here.

Where it fits.

Videngineer is the front door. You reverse-engineer a video that works — a competitor's ad, a creator's cold open, a long-form doc — and walk out with the blueprint: transcript, hook score, scene-by-scene techniques, and a recreation script.

That script is the exact input the rest of the stack runs on. Analyse here, produce next door.

// the flywheel
01 · analyse videngineer — read any video's blueprint
02 · produce vidgentic — ship the MP4 from that blueprint
03 · B2B ads distributoor — reverse-engineer + remake winning ads
the bridge a competitor's ad → blueprint → your version, shipped

Building on top? The API is documented, JSON in / JSON out, bearer auth — paste one URL into Claude, Cursor, or your own agent and it drives the whole pipeline. See the agent docs →

The contract with you.

Receipts, not promises. Every claim on this site is backed by a number. 666 frames sampled. 90 seconds per analysis. $890 estimated rebuild cost. The Johnny Harris doc the screenshots came from is public. Run it yourself.

No vendor lock-in. Cancel in two clicks. Export your data as JSON. 14-day refund on an unused charge. Build on the API; the schema is documented.

One-person ops. When you email [email protected], I read it. No support layer. No tickets. No retention dark patterns.

Built in public. Roadmap + receipts in the blog. Every shipped feature gets a teardown. Honest numbers, even when they're embarrassing.

Ready? Browse the teardowns free.

One email, one click. Go Pro to reverse-engineer your own — $19.99/mo, ~90 seconds.

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/// before production

Every winning video leaves a blueprint. Keep the playbook.

One analysis returns the whole study — scenes, script, voice, pacing, cuts, sound, and the recreation recipe your team can actually work from.

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