I went the wholesome and grounded route because yeah lol. Series Title: Daisy on the Prairie Orig...I went the wholesome and grounded route because yeah lol. Series Title: Daisy on the Prairie Orig...
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Daisy is a Prairie Ground Squirrel who is out here to teach you about the Prairie and the native plants and animals on the land. She quite friendly, down to earth, and a protector of prairie lands.
The pilot is a quick intro how Daisy lives and her start to prep for a major seasons for the prairie: wildfire season.
I imagine a children's show like pacing where there is a new activity or adventure to learn from with each episode while weaving an overall narrative. The goal would be to show the importance of prairie land, and how the plants and animals being and presence positively impacts the prairie ecosystem. Characters introduced would be her parents, friends like bison, other ground squirrels, birds, and so much more. Then there would be focus on plants and other important dynamics of the ecosystem. Also challenges would focus on natural disasters or major shifts in ecosystems and how the animals and ecosystem react to these challenges.
Process note:
🌑 Echo is a black screen where every sound sends a wave of light through the scene in real depth.
🎞️ Starting footage: one licensed stock clip of a temple corridor from invideo's stock library. The sound is original, synthesised for this piece. The voiceover is my own.
💬 What I asked for: a black screen where each ping lights the scene by distance, built from a depth map, with controls for each wave, afterglow, wave thickness, contour lines, outlines, colour and a final reveal.
🛠️ What was built: a depth map (Depth Anything Video), two "Echo" custom effects on the depth map (a Multiply layer for light and an Add layer for glow), an "Echo colour" effect on the footage, and keyframes for six waves and the reveal. The first build was done by Claude, connected to invideo Editor through invideo's MCP server.
🎚️ Refinement: I asked invideo's own agent (Agent Two Lite) in the editor to raise Afterglow from 0.14 to 0.3 on both Echo effects. It made the change on the timeline, and that conversation is shown in the video. I also tried a longer afterglow and a gold colour, both shown.
✅ All building and the final cut were done in invideo Editor.
I built an end-to-end AI-powered booking and customer experience system for a barber shop using n8n, AI Voice Agents, Google Calendar, CRM, WhatsApp/SMS, and a real-time dashboard.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦
The business was losing opportunities through missed calls, manual scheduling, booking conflicts, slow follow-ups, and repetitive administrative work.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
The AI Voice Agent handles customer calls, understands booking requests, checks live barber availability, and schedules appointments automatically. n8n manages the complete workflow, updates CRM records, sends confirmations and reminders, and keeps customer data synchronized across systems.
𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞
The automation helps reduce missed booking opportunities, prevent double-bookings, lower administrative workload, improve response times, and create a smoother customer experience.
𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭
The owner gains real-time visibility into appointments, staff availability, customer activity, and revenue, while staff can focus more on serving customers instead of managing bookings manually.
Booking conflicts are the bit I'd test hardest. What does the voice agent do when two people ask for the same barber and slot within a minute of each other?
Built an n8n automation that recovers missed customer calls, starts an AI conversation, checks CRM context, routes urgent requests, and tracks callback SLAs until the customer is handled.