BeamKit

The $4,500 Lesson

Last year, I paid a UGC creator $4,500 for my skincare startup Dewy. Turnaround was three weeks. Communication was a handful of emails. The final video? Fine. Not great. Just fine.

But here's what killed me: I couldn't test it. I had a hypothesis about what hook would resonate with our audience, and I got exactly one shot to be right. When the video underperformed, my options were to pay another $500+ and wait another two weeks, or move on and hope the next campaign worked better.

This isn't marketing. It's gambling.

The scientific method requires iteration. Hypothesis, test, learn, repeat. But when each test costs $500-2,000 and takes weeks to produce, you're not optimizing—you're guessing and praying.

The Unlock

AI video generation just crossed the quality threshold. Six months ago, AI humans were uncanny valley disasters. Today, the output is indistinguishable from iPhone-shot creator content.

BeamKit puts this in the hands of performance marketers. Upload your product, describe your audience, generate authentic UGC-style video in minutes. Hate the hook? Regenerate. Want to test five angles before lunch? Done.

We're not replacing creators. We're giving marketers the iteration speed that the scientific method demands.

The $4,500 creator took three weeks to deliver one video I couldn't change. BeamKit generates unlimited variations for a few dollars each. That's not an incremental improvement—it's a different game entirely.

Built With

• 3.x
• fastapi
• ffmpeg
• flask
• framer-motion
• lateapi
• liquidmetal-raindrop
• neon
• next.js
• postgresql
• psycopg2
• pydantic
• pyjwt
• python
• radix-ui
• railway
• react.js
• recharts
• redis
• sendgrid
• stripe
• tailwind
• uvicorn
• vertexai
• vultr
• workos
• zustand