Videos
Five cuts. They are not five lengths of the same video — each one answers a different question, and the one you want depends on what you do not yet believe.
| video | length | answers |
|---|---|---|
| The explainer | 3:20 | What is this and why would I run it? |
| Your first session | 3:53 | I’m sold — what do I actually type? |
| One chat, one model | 1:01 | Why is my bill high and my output worse? |
| The board | 0:59 | What does delegation look like from outside? |
| It learns you | 1:22 | What does it do that a prompt pack cannot? |
Everything on screen is real: the board is a published journal, the spend is the actual rollup, and the run being narrated is Tyran building Tyran. The board in all of them is the one you can click yourself — no install.
The explainer
Section titled “The explainer”3:20 · 16:9 · the one to watch first.
Opens on the sentence most people recognise from their own last session: your most expensive model just renamed a variable, and in the same chat it judged an authentication boundary. From there it turns the manager on and pays every claim off on the live board — routing, the tier floor, a spoken aside hardening into ticket T-9, the bill broken out by role, the hooks that refuse, and the retrospective the team runs on itself.
How it differs: it is the only cut that carries the whole argument end to end. Every other video is one of its beats, expanded.
Use it for: the top of the README, the site, a conference Slack, a LinkedIn post, the first link you send to someone who has never heard of Tyran. If you have one slot, this is it.
Your first session
Section titled “Your first session”3:53 · 16:9 · the tutorial.
Install, /tyran:setup on a real repository, brief the manager, watch the team
go out, read the board, answer a question from the board, and see what the
retro changed. Eight chapters. Every command appears exactly as it is typed.
How it differs: the explainer argues; this one instructs. It assumes you have already decided to try it and wants you productive today. It is the only cut with commands you are meant to copy.
Use it for: the getting started page, onboarding a teammate, and the “how do I actually run this” reply. It is deliberately not the first thing a stranger sees — it answers a question they have not asked yet.
One chat, one model, every job
Section titled “One chat, one model, every job”1:01 · 9:16 · the diagnosis.
The mistake, named and fixed in sixty seconds. No good team puts a principal engineer on a grep — but that is what one chat and one model does to every task you hand it. Ends on the scout’s three-cent reconnaissance as the proof.
How it differs: the only cut aimed at someone who does not yet know they have a problem. It leads with the symptom — a high bill and worse work — and never explains the architecture.
Use it for: Shorts, TikTok, X. The cold-audience opener.
The board
Section titled “The board”0:59 · 9:16 · the flashy one.
Opens on a Kanban board that is already moving and never leaves it. Ten lanes, a blocker that says how long it has stood still, an aside that becomes ticket T-9 with a journal receipt, a card an agent crosses into DONE by itself, and a real question answered on the page.
How it differs: it shows rather than argues. No metaphor, no install instructions — just the artefact, moving. It is the most immediately legible of the five and the easiest to share without context.
Use it for: the most shareable Short. Also the right link when someone asks “so what do you actually get?” — pair it with the sandbox so they can click it themselves.
It learns you
Section titled “It learns you”1:22 · 9:16 · the differentiator.
The Stop gate refusing one turn, the retro reading the record, a shallow question edited out of the conductor’s own instructions, three repeated requests hardening into a skill, and a knowledge entry retired on its own counters. The knowledge panel opens at five entries, drops to four, climbs back to five, and lands exactly where it began.
How it differs: the only cut about the pillar competitors do not have, and the only one whose point is restraint — most retros correctly change nothing. It is the least flashy and the most convincing to a sceptic.
Use it for: the self-improvement page, and the reply to “isn’t this just a prompt pack?”
Where they come from
Section titled “Where they come from”Sources live in video/ — Hyperframes compositions, the voiceover pipeline,
the scripts and the storyboards, all tracked. The renders are not: they run to
roughly 430 MB, and this repository is what /plugin marketplace add clones,
so committing them would put marketing video into every install of the plugin.
video/README.md documents how to rebuild any cut from source.