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Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform

Fall 2025Founded 20255 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation. https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha. Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099 We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views! We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.

Founders · 2

Gauri Agarwal
Gauri AgarwalFounder
MetaMITCarnegie Mellon

CTO, Koyal AI, Audio to Video GenAI MIT Media Lab '25 | Meta Instagram Video | CMU SCS '20

Mehul Agarwal
Mehul AgarwalFounder
Carnegie Mellon

CEO, Koyal, Agentic AI Filmmaking CMU CS & ML / part-time Standup comedian

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Oct 2025
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Turn your script or audio to short films, music videos & launches

Koyal provides an AI-powered platform that turns a voiceover or script into cinematic scenes with consistent characters and settings, allowing users to storyboard, reshoot, and edit to refine emotion and pacing. It targets filmmakers, musicians, and creators for producing launch, promo, or narrative videos without traditional shooting or complex prompts.

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