# Koyal

> Koyal is an agentic AI filmmaking platform (Y Combinator F25) that turns a script or an audio clip - a song, a podcast, a voiceover - into a finished, personalized video with consistent characters, settings and camera work. Founded by CMU/MIT/Meta alumni siblings Mehul and Gauri Agarwal, the company follows a Pixar-style 'audio first, visuals second' approach and has run paid pilots with Universal Music, T-Series and Bollywood studios, producing music videos for artists like A.R. Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Mehul Agarwal (Founder & CEO), Gauri Agarwal (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 5-13
- **Products:** Koyal Agentic Filmmaking Platform, Script / Audio to Video engine, Agentic lip-sync & multi-character consistency, CHARCHA (Character Captcha), Public Beta (beta.koyal.ai)
- **Notable:** Produced 5 music videos for Grammy/Oscar-winning artists A.R. Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan, each crossing 1.5M+ views, Ran paid pilots with Universal Music and T-Series, Used by 22 Y Combinator companies for launch videos

## Products & services

- **Koyal Agentic Filmmaking Platform** — Converts a script or audio clip into an end-to-end cinematic video with consistent characters, settings, moods and shifting camera angles. Users storyboard, direct and edit scenes through natural-language directions rather than technical prompting.
- **Script / Audio to Video engine** — Multilingual script-to-audio-to-video pipeline that captures the emotional tone of the input audio and turns it into matching cinematic scenes.
- **Agentic lip-sync & multi-character consistency** — State-of-the-art lip-sync with dynamic movement and consistent rendering of multiple characters across shots.
- **CHARCHA (Character Captcha)** — A consent-verification protocol that ensures a person has authorized the use of their likeness before an AI character can use it.
- **Public Beta (beta.koyal.ai)** — Publicly available beta of the platform for creators, launched via Product Hunt.

## Achievements

- Produced 5 music videos for Grammy/Oscar-winning artists A.R. Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan, each crossing 1.5M+ views
- Ran paid pilots with Universal Music and T-Series
- Used by 22 Y Combinator companies for launch videos
- Research published at NeurIPS 2024
- Reached #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (Nov 16, 2025)
- Selected into Y Combinator Fall 2025 batch

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Launched public beta at beta.koyal.ai and hit #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
- **2025-09** — Raised seed funding as part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch.
- **2025-09** — Concluded pilots with Universal Music and T-Series, launching 5 music videos for A.R. Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan.

## Links

- Website: https://koyal.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/koyal-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/KoyalAI
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/j5t8kEuZpSc

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Last updated: 2026-07-30