Yohei Nakajima · Launch Video Breakdown: Hook, Pacing & Motion Design

Scene-by-scene timeline & spoken transcript

1. 0:00 – 0:04

   The Hook

   Graph-Based Slide System Introduction

   “(No spoken dialogue — ambient visual presentation of a graph-based slide system.)”

   On screen

   Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail 13 / 13 edit whole graph

   Camera

   Wide shot of a complex graph, then a rapid zoom-in to a specific node.

   Motion

   Rapid camera zoom, node highlighting, and dynamic content reveal.

2. 0:04 – 0:16

   Problem Agitation

   The Power of Graphs and Order vs. Chaos

   “(No spoken dialogue — visual demonstration of graph concepts.)”

   On screen

   Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail Graphs are awesome because relationships are where the meaning lives :presented_by Yohei Nakajima GraphCon · Jul 25 2026 01 / 13 - 0/4 edit whole graph Invest :does Function calling Jun 2023 structured tool edges from the model build Order vs chaos the same seven nodes and seven edges — drawn, the structure is obvious; listed, it is invisible same data seven nodes - seven edges :drawn_as :stored_as Order drawn as a graph — the topology is visible Chaos stored as tables — the topology is hidden nodes edges a a-b b b-c c c-d d d-e e e-f f f-g g 02 / 13 edit whole graph Everything is a graph press next: ten real things, five domains, one interwoven graph Business people + orgs (founder_of, fund_of, fund_to, connected_to, class) Objects path, dependencies (owns, is_part_of, is_type_of, uses) Places locations, nodes (part_of, is_adjacent_to) Social people, trust, influence (follows, is_friend_of, is_class) Beliefs claims, evidence, revision (is_claim_of, based_on, is_false) Everything is a graph alice :follows bob :is_connected acme :a_fund 03 / 13 - 1/1 edit whole graph

   Camera

   Sequential panning and zooming to highlight different graph nodes and their connections, then a comparison view of 'Order vs Chaos'.

   Motion

   Node-based navigation, animated connections, and side-by-side comparison with dynamic text overlays.

3. 0:16 – 0:30

   Product Reveal

   Exploring Graph Applications and the Agent Loop

   “(No spoken dialogue — detailed exploration of graph applications.)”

   On screen

   Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail Agents got graph-shaped the talk track — thinking, then the world, then knowledge, then teams, then state trust; then tools and the traces they leave 05 / 13 edit whole graph The job, before and after press next: the old job becomes a new one — then meet the state it tends, and its five questions graph-first ontology the prerequisite classes, relations, constraints — designed before use :moves ontology the runtime contract hardened where correctness matters usage agent workflows day one proposals LLM extracts nodes + edges from traces validators humans + AIs approve or reject :then Ingestion & schema built before anyone benefits :then usage finally — if anyone still trusts it :dead_end trust decays no connection loop - stale facts 07 / 13 - 0/2 edit whole graph The job, before and after press next: the old job becomes a new one — then meet the state it tends, and its five questions the old job finish the ontology model every fact before anyone benefits :becomes the new job keep living state trustworthy harden what agents actually use Agent teams workers, roles, handoffs 07 / 13 - 2/2 edit whole graph ...and who is building it 27 companies, bootstrapped engines to $2.6B platforms — Zap you have already met! The graph market six segments - new stack KG construction documents — nodes + edges Agent memory temporal state for agents Graph databases store the world graph Semantic KG platforms the attention-slice lineage Entity resolution who is who, at scale Graph viz & investigation seeing the topology 09 / 13 edit whole graph Pick your graph six routes, one column each — the idea, then press next: what to build, then where to beat SOTA Pick your graph idea — build it — beat SOTA Reasoning / plans branches, search, dependencies :then World / UI agents map the interface :then Knowledge / memory temporal becomes durable context :then Agent teams workers, roles, handoffs Tools / skills code as dependency graphs Traces / evals logs that look like a graph :then :result LangSmith / Phoenix trace observability Zep / GraphRAG temporal memory graphs 10 / 13 - 0/2 edit whole graph Pick your graph six routes, one column each — the idea, then press next: what to build, then where to beat SOTA Reasoning / plans branches, search, dependencies :then World / UI agents map the interface :then Knowledge / memory temporal becomes durable context :then Agent teams workers, roles, handoffs Tools / skills code as dependency graphs Traces / evals logs that look like a graph :then :result LangSmith / Phoenix trace observability :build Zep / GraphRAG temporal memory graphs :build branch — score — select planner build this affordance graph of one site build this temporal KG of your inbox build this handoff graph for 3 agents build this typed registry + permissions build this replayable trace of one agent build this verifier-guided search build this 10 / 13 - 2/2 edit whole graph The loop above the loop agents improve by running, communities improve by sharing; you improve by shortening your own learning cycle observe agent loop act reason traces community loop standards patterns instrument developer loop share compare 11 / 13 edit whole graph

   Camera

   Continuous panning and zooming across a large, interconnected graph, highlighting different sections and their relationships.

   Motion

   Smooth camera movements, node expansion, and animated path tracing to illustrate complex workflows and loops.

4. 0:30 – 0:42

   Feature Teaser

   The Unified Graph View and Call to Action

   “(No spoken dialogue — final product overview and call to action.)”

   On screen

   Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail (you)-[:builds]->(graphs) thank you — go draw the edges you :builds graphs 12 / 13 edit whole graph One graph zoomed all the way out — the window replays every slide, and the nodes push in and out just like they did 13 / 13 edit whole graph Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail Order vs chaos the same seven nodes and seven edges — drawn, the structure is obvious; listed, it is invisible same data seven nodes - seven edges :drawn_as :stored_as Order drawn as a graph — the topology is visible Chaos stored as tables — the topology is hidden nodes edges a a-b b b-c c c-d d d-e e e-f f f-g g 13 / 13 edit whole graph Nodes and edges Business people + orgs (founder_of, fund_of, fund_to, connected_to, class) Objects path, dependencies (owns, is_part_of, is_type_of, uses) Places locations, nodes (part_of, is_adjacent_to) Social people, trust, influence (follows, is_friend_of, is_class) Beliefs claims, evidence, revision (is_claim_of, based_on, is_false) Pick your graph six routes, one column each — the idea, then press next: what to build, then where to beat SOTA Everything is a graph Everything is a graph press next: ten real things, five domains, one interwoven graph Graphs are awesome because relationships are where the meaning lives agent state agent loop observe act reason traces community loop standards patterns instrument developer loop share compare 13 / 13 edit whole graph Graphs are awesome GraphCon July 25, 2026 ideas the new way the old way things e edit o overview - navigate - drag pan - scroll zoom click dim node to travel - hover for detail Agents got graph-shaped in public the talk track — thinking, then the world, then knowledge, then teams, then state trust; then tools and the traces they leave Reasoning / plans branches, search, dependencies :then World / UI agents map the interface :then Knowledge / memory temporal becomes durable context :then Agent teams workers, roles, handoffs Tools / skills code as dependency graphs Traces / evals logs that look like a graph :then :result BabyAGI / AutoGPT / ToT Mar - May 2023 planning + reasoning trees AutoGen / Assistants API Sep - Nov 2023 agent + human / threads as class Microsoft GraphRAG Jul 2024 agent + human as entity linked via LangGraph Jan 2024 agent + index, edges, cycles, checkpoints Operator / Responses API Jan - Mar 2025 discover one agent as a component MCP Nov 2024 open standard — tools + agent as a dependency graph agent state 13 / 13 edit whole graph

   Camera

   A rapid zoom-out to reveal the entire graph, followed by a dynamic replay of previous node interactions within the zoomed-out view.

   Motion

   Reverse zoom, synchronized node pulsing, and animated path highlights to summarize the product's capabilities.