{"id":92924,"title":"Knowlify: The ElevenLabs for explainer videos","tagline":"Knowlify converts textual content, PDFs, etc. into explainer videos","body":"# Knowlify — The AI video company for business\n\n## 📙 TL;DR\n\nYour team writes great docs that nobody reads. Knowlify turns those docs and ideas into narrated, animated videos — make them yourself on our platform in minutes, or have our studio produce them for you. Backed by Y Combinator and already used by teams at Amazon, ByteDance, Flexport, Supabase, and Cerebras.\n\n👉 [knowlify.com](http://knowlify.com) · [Start free](https://create.knowlify.com) · [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/knowlify/meeting)\n\n## Who We Are\n\nWe're Ritam, Jon, Ritvik, and Arjun — four friends who met at the University of Florida. We started Knowlify because we were tired of dense material nobody actually absorbs. We began by helping learners turn confusing content into clear explainer videos, and something kept happening: it wasn't just students who needed this. Onboarding teams, training managers, marketers, and comms leads kept asking us to turn _their_ documents into video too.\n\nSo we followed the pull. Today Knowlify is the AI video company for business.\n\n## The Problem\n\nEvery company runs on documents — onboarding guides, SOPs, training manuals, product specs, safety procedures, internal updates. And almost nobody reads them.\n\n* People retain far more from a short video than from a wall of text, yet most company knowledge still lives in PDFs and slide decks.\n* Making real video is slow and expensive. A single explainer from an agency can cost thousands of dollars and take weeks.\n* Teams need _more_ video than they could ever have time or budget to make — so most of their content never becomes video at all.\n\nThe result is a constant gap between the volume of content teams produce and the volume of video they can actually create.\n\n## Our Solution\n\nKnowlify closes that gap two ways:\n\n**Knowlify Platform — you make the video.** Upload a doc, a blog post, or just an idea, and get a narrated, animated video in minutes. Editing is as simple as chatting with it. It's self-serve, fast, and built for teams that need to produce a lot of video on their own schedule. [Start free →](https://create.knowlify.com)\n\n**Knowlify Studio — we make it for you.** When the stakes are high, our production team writes, animates, and delivers the whole thing end to end — final video in as little as 72 hours. From hyperrealistic launch films to photoreal safety training, the studio handles it. [Book a call →](https://calendly.com/knowlify/meeting)\n\nOne platform for the everyday volume, one studio for the flagship pieces. Both turn the content you already have into video people actually watch.\n\n## Who's Using It\n\nWe work with teams across onboarding, internal comms, learning \u0026amp; development, training, marketing, and customer education — in industries from healthcare and finance to manufacturing, supply chain, and medtech. Teams at Amazon, ByteDance, Colliers, Flexport, Zuru, Cerebras, Supabase, Zoho, and IntSig already make video with Knowlify.\n\n\u003e \"We worked with Knowlify to convert our written, complicated patient instructions into a short video. It helped us address an important pain-point with customers who had trouble following instructions.\" — David Manka, PhD, COO, PS Fertility\n\n\u003e \"Your platform does exactly what I need — converting my papers to videos so they can be accessed and understood by more people.\" — Matthew Traum, PhD, University of Florida\n\n## The Ask\n\nIf your team produces more content than it has time to turn into video — onboarding, training, comms, product, marketing — we'd love to help.\n\n* Try it yourself: [create.knowlify.com](http://create.knowlify.com)\n* See what the studio can do: [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/knowlify/meeting)\n* Learn more: [knowlify.com](http://knowlify.com)","slug":"OAm-knowlify-the-elevenlabs-for-explainer-videos","created_at":"2025-08-12T21:17:57.709Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T10:28:11.021Z","total_vote_count":30,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAm-knowlify-the-elevenlabs-for-explainer-videos","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30721,"name":"Knowlify","slug":"knowlify","url":"https://www.knowlify.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f9c7327b2253f8bd8e5f5ae01e113ba12ee0e4bd.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Education","Generative AI","Video","Enterprise Software"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30721"}}