Videos
Twenty-three short explainers across six series — about twenty-five minutes of cinematic context for the architecture. Voice: ElevenLabs George (voice-locked across the OpenIE family). Visuals: Replicate Kling and BFL Flux.
All videos are CC-BY-SA 4.0. Source production plan, narration scripts, and rendering pipeline live in shoal-video/.
S1 — Hero
A 90-second introduction. The whole project in eight beats: pollution everywhere, no one watching, a fish that swims it, the gut that eats it, the family of cartridges, the dock, the data, the brand.
S2 — Why
Three top-of-funnel explainers, ~85 seconds each. The morphological case, the philosophical case, the historical case.
Why fish
The morphology nobody picked is the one the problem was waiting for.
Why open
What looks like generosity is actually leverage.
Why now
The recipe was waiting on the cook.
S3 — The fish
Subsystem deep dives, ~60 seconds each. Technical, matter-of-fact.
1. The chassis
2. The gut
3. Sensors
4. Swimming
5. Cognition
6. Dock interaction
7. End of life
S4 — The cartridge family
Six shorts, ~50 seconds each. Each cartridge is a solution to a real-world pollution problem.
gut-hc-v1 — Hydrocarbons
gut-org-v1 — Organic load
gut-n-v1 — Nitrogen
gut-metal-v1 — Heavy metals
gut-plastic-v1 — Microplastics
gut-pfas-v1 — PFAS
S5 — The dock
Three shorts, ~60 seconds each.
Dock-A — Autonomous benthic
Dock-B — Shore-tethered
The biology reservoir
S6 — Deployment
Three shorts, ~85 seconds each. How the kit gets used in the world.