Eight weeks of work,
delivered in ten days.
Short Waves is an AI-native, end-to-end advertising agency. Strategy, creative, production, delivery — built on a pipeline that compresses a traditional eight-week timeline down to days, without compromising craft.
Start a briefHow we work.
Agency-grade in strategy.
Every brief starts with the same foundation a fifty-person agency would deliver — insight, positioning, narrative, channel logic. We don't shortcut the thinking; we shortcut the timeline.
Software-grade in operations.
Our pipeline is engineered, not improvised. Reproducible, versioned, measurable. The same craft you'd expect from a product team — applied to advertising production from the first frame to the final cut.
AI-invisible to clients.
The work is what the client sees. The pipeline is ours. No prompts in the deliverable, no model names in the credits — only premium finished work that holds up against any traditional production.
End-to-end. Actually.
Brief to brief.
From the client's first ask, to the strategic frame, to the creative platform that holds every piece of work that follows. Insight, audience, positioning, message hierarchy.
- Brand strategy
- Audience research
- Creative platform
- Messaging architecture
Concept to script.
Big-idea concepts that travel across channels. Storyboards, scripts, mood boards, art direction, type, palette — every craft layer of a traditional creative department.
- Concept development
- Storyboarding
- Copy & script
- Art direction
Frame to final cut.
The AI pipeline kicks in here. Plate generation, character locks, animation, compositing, sound design — same craft, fraction of the time, none of the friction of a traditional shoot.
- Plate generation
- Character pipeline
- i2v animation
- Edit & sound
Cut to channel.
Cut down for every channel that matters — broadcast hero, social verticals, paid units, end-frame variants. Localized, sized, and ready to ship the moment the master is locked.
- Channel cut-downs
- Format mastering
- Versioning
- Asset delivery
The compression.
A traditional production pipeline assumes weeks of pre-production, shoot days, edit cycles, and revisions. Ours assumes none of that. Same craft. Different operating system.
What we've shipped.
National
Anthem
Three ways in.
- Single deliverable engagement
- Up to 30s broadcast hero or 6 social cuts
- Strategy, creative, production, delivery
- 10-day standard turnaround
- Full campaign — hero + cuts + variants
- Up to 4 deliverables per cycle
- Dedicated creative director on the brief
- Iteration cycles built in
- Embedded agency partner for the year
- Always-on production capacity
- Brand system + content calendar
- Priority pipeline access
Brief in. Watch it ship.
A client surface for live project visibility — from the moment a brief is filed through every cut, version, and approval. Real-time progress, inline comments, asset library, all in one place.
Send us
a brief.
Tell us about the work. We'll come back inside a business day with a read on whether we're the right fit and how fast we can move.