Claybird: The full-stack AI ad company

The full-stack AI ad company

Claybird makes studio-quality video ads in under 72 hours for brands like Coca-Cola, Walmart, Eight Sleep, Delve, and Mercor. Claybird’s AI agents use single-image NeRFs, fine-tuned image editing models, and eval layers for picture-perfect, consistent results at scale.

Active Founders

Saad Jamal

Founder

ceo @ claybird. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Claybird, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.

Saad Jamal

Founder

ceo @ claybird. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Claybird, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.

Abdullah Nauman

Founder

cto @ claybird. prev. product at google ads and ml at google search. Previously at Google, shipped delightful product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.

Abdullah Nauman

Founder

cto @ claybird. prev. product at google ads and ml at google search. Previously at Google, shipped delightful product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.

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Claybird: The Full-Stack AI Ad Company

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Hey everyone, we’re Abdullah and Saad - cofounders of Claybird 👋

TL;DR

Claybird is an AI ad agency that delivers studio-quality creative in under 72 hours, at a fraction of the cost. Our AI agents generate reference images, modify the camera angle with single-image NeRFs and fine-tuned image-editing models, and animate them into polished, on-brand videos that actually perform.

In our first month, we’ve signed $67k from brands like Coca-Cola, Eight Sleep, Delve, and Mercor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBOwU3I27g

The Problem

Ad production hasn’t kept up with the pace of marketing.

Making a video ad still means coordinating actors, crews, agencies, revisions, delays, and bottlenecks. Creative gets filtered through layers of people, and by the time the ad ships, the opportunity window is already closed.

Worse: high production costs make it nearly impossible for marketers to create personalized creatives across multiple audience segments — even though those personalized ads consistently outperform generic ones.

Our Solution

Claybird is an AI-powered ad agency that makes personalization actually possible.

We jam with marketers on creative direction, generate each shot using Veo, Sora, and other top video models, and edit everything end-to-end with our agentic pipeline. But unlike typical AI content, Claybird’s agents understand quality — they know which camera angles, shot types, lighting, and model choices are needed to nail a scene with cinematic consistency.

And because we can deliver cost-effective creative in record time, marketers can dynamically adjust re-marketing campaigns. When consumer tastes and market conditions change, brands can use Claybird to roll out targeted creative in days instead of months.

The result:
Picture-perfect, coherent, high-performing ads — delivered in under 72 hours.

Traditional production limits marketers to 3–5 audience segments. Claybird customers like Delve can expand from 2 to 12+ targeted cohorts in their first week, unlocking truly personalized ads that outperform generic creative.

Our Ask

Connect us with marketing leaders at brands looking to start targeted campaigns.
Connect us with performance teams at mobile apps and e-commerce brands looking to scale on TikTok and Reels
Next time you see an AI ad that feels like slop, DM the creator: "claybird.com"

The Team

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Abdullah built ML infrastructure at Google powering core Search Ads systems that contributed to $1B+ in revenue.

Saad spent three years training video models at Tesla Autopilot and later built training infrastructure with Ashish Vaswani (author of Attention Is All You Need).

Together, we’ve also collected $200k+ in bug bounties from security research.

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