Monthly investor update video with an AI avatar: 60 s per job

A monthly update video from an avatar is possible, but one job tops out at 60 seconds, so a three-minute update is three jobs that you play in order. The docs state that scripts and multi-scene plans must estimate at 4 to 60 seconds inclusive, and that longer scripts should be shortened or split into multiple jobs. Sume does not stitch them for you on the avatar route.

Split by question, not by length

Investors skim for three things: how the numbers moved, what shipped or slipped, and what you need. Give each its own job so a reader can skip. The numbers themselves belong in the email or the deck. A spoken figure is easy to mis-hear and impossible to copy, so use the clip to explain the why behind the figure.

Use the same avatar handle for all three. Each final video resolves one avatar, so a consistent handle is what keeps the presenter the same across jobs. If the presenter is a likeness of a real founder, read the release checklist first and say in the email that the video is synthetic.

Price for twelve months

At the plus tier (the default) with no product image, the rate is 0.245 dollars per second. Three 40-second clips are 120 seconds of video. Sizes below use the same rate card, plus the one-time 0.95 dollars to create the presenter.

Aspect ratio for a deck or an inbox

The default aspect ratio is 9:16, which is right for phones and wrong for a slide-sized embed. The route also accepts 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 3:4. For a clip you will drop next to a slide deck or into a board portal, set 16:9 explicitly. Output resolution is 720p at this time, so do not promise a full-screen 1080p presentation.

A review step that is worth the money

Before you pay for the full render, use a first-frame preview to check the framing. The preview step creates stills only, so it is the cheap place to catch a bad background or a wrong crop. Edits to the script need a new preview; a quality change does not. The first-frame post walks through that loop.

A repeatable monthly routine

Keep a script template with three headed blocks and a fixed order. Each month you replace the facts, run three previews if the scene has changed (otherwise skip the preview and render directly), and submit three jobs with Idempotency-Keys that include the month, such as update-2026-11-metrics. A retried request with the same key then does not create a second job or a second charge.

Store the three job ids and the resulting avatar-video ids next to the month. If an investor asks which version they saw, you can answer from your own records. Keep the approved script text in the same row; the final transcript can be compared with it before you send the email.

What not to put in the video

Leave out forward-looking promises, valuation talk and anything your counsel would want to read twice. The avatar delivers the script with the same tone whatever it says, so the wording must carry the caution. Keep the three clips factual and link the written update for numbers. If you want the founder's own voice for the sensitive part, record that part yourself.