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Introducing Optiq Studio: a studio-quality video ad for less than $5

Godswill Iyke Dave

Introducing Optiq Studio: a studio-quality video ad for less than $5

In countries like America, small businesses get most of their customers online using video ads. Here in The Gambia and across West Africa, almost no small business can do that. It is not because our business owners lack good products or vision.

It is because a studio-quality video ad costs thousands of dollars. For a local bakery, a tailor, a mechanic or a new business, that price is simply out of reach — so they are locked out of the digital market that millions of their customers are already sitting in every day.

Optiq Studio is live now at optiq.studio, and it puts that number below five dollars.

Three steps

  • Describe your business or product. Plain language. No brief, no agency template.
  • Describe the video you want — or choose a template — then set your length.
  • Press generate.

In the background, Optiq Studio's multi-agent system takes over: storyboarding, cinematography, script reasoning, soundscape balancing and scene compilation, matched to the aesthetic of your brand. We wrote about how those agents divide the work.

What comes out

  • A finished, studio-quality commercial with voice, music and sound design.
  • Cut for the aspect ratio you need — vertical for social, wide for everything else.
  • Consistent characters and brand look across every scene, not a slideshow of unrelated shots.
Today, we give the power of storytelling back to every entrepreneur, every creator, and every business owner across our continent.
Godswill Iyke Dave, Keynote 2, DaveLabs Horizon Summer '26

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