Hire Bret Kerr · AI Creative Producer
A decade directing video at Mimecast, a Netflix main-title credit, and explainer films now rendered end to end in Python with Claude.
Directed video for a public company through IPO and take-private: studio, field and executive communications.
A broadcast credit: Main Title Creative Director, Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats (Netflix, 2014).
AI-native production: coded explainers, synthetic narration, and a generated short film.
The checklist · typical requirements, each mapped to a live proof
Director, Video Production & Digital Creative Strategy at Mimecast, IPO through take-private. First studio in 2016 at Watertown HQ; a 4K modular news set in Lexington shot on a Canon C500 Mk II; field shoots at Black Hat.
Creative force behind the visuals for Chelsea Peretti’s 2014 Netflix special One of the Greats, plus the branding for the Call Chelsea Peretti podcast and Soundboard app.
Constitutional AI, in 90 Seconds (1:29) and The Universe in a Bottle (2:57): every frame drawn in PIL + numpy, an original score, captions from TTS timestamps, mixed to −14 LUFS.
AI-enabled editing and creation with Claude Opus 5.5 alongside traditional shooting, lighting and executive communications.
1h 41m of locally generated narration for a 727-source book, plus Audio Overviews and a podcast on this site.
A short film generated as part of the book’s own agentic production experiments, playable from the book page.
Three deep proofs
Coded explainer · 1:29
Narration written as data and sourced to the paper line by line; Kokoro-82M returns word-level timestamps; every frame drawn in PIL + numpy; original score; ffmpeg finish.
Proves · A complete explainer pipeline with no stock footage and no stock music, delivered with stems and a silent picture cut.
1:29 · burned-in captions · −14 LUFS
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Generated short film
A short film for The Anthropic Book, generated as part of the book’s own agentic production experiments.
Proves · Directing a generative pipeline to a finished, on-brand spot.
One book · one ad · one operator
Open it live →Broadcast · Netflix, 2014
Main-title visuals for Chelsea Peretti’s Netflix special, plus the branding for her podcast and Soundboard app.
Proves · Creative direction that has shipped on a national platform.
Main Title Creative Director
Open it live →How I work · Signal → Thesis → Test → Ship
Opposed deep-research briefs (Gemini as cartographer, GPT as adversary), then cite-checked and reconciled.
One claim per piece, anchored to primary sources and written in the house voice. Story Extraction and Content Architecture, from the manifesto.
Deterministic gates, not model consensus, decide what ships. Quotes are verified, numbers are recomputed, and goldens are locked.
One operator. Cloudflare Workers, a parity-gated deploy, and a public commit history.
The full methodology: Agentic Content Marketing →
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