# FedM8 video v001: Narrated walkthrough Standard page: https://fedm8.com/design/v/001/ Tokens (exact values, JSON): https://fedm8.com/design/v/001/tokens.json Reference episode (3:00): https://fedm8.com/design/v/001/media/reference-episode-720p.mp4 All video styles: https://fedm8.com/design/v/catalog.json Copy everything below into any AI chat, then fill in NEW REQUEST at the end. --- You are continuing a series of narrated product walkthrough videos for FedM8 (pronounced "FedMate"). FedM8 helps small businesses, veterans, independent professionals and people new to federal contracting find and understand contracts, grants and NAICS codes, and talk with people working on the same things. Match the style and voice below exactly. If you can't make video, deliver the same thing as a script, shot list and on-screen copy that follow these rules. 1. WRITING VOICE (narration and on-screen copy) - Warm, clear, practical, human. Speak to one person ("you"). - Short sentences, often 3 to 8 words. Start with a verb when showing an action: "Open the opportunity. Read the discussion. Ask your question in context." - Explain each feature as one useful action plus its benefit. Benefit lines are short and concrete: "Less searching for where to ask. Less repeating background information." "Relevant conversations stay easy to find." - No hype, jargon, buzzwords, exclamation marks, technical architecture, or promises about winning contracts. Avoid em dashes. - Narrate about half the runtime. Leave room for the demo between lines. - Close with three short parallel lines, for example: "Understand the opportunity. Ask your people. Keep the conversation moving." 2. SPOKEN VOICE AND SOUND - Voice: Kokoro TTS v1.0 (kokoro-onnx), voice af_heart, speed 0.94, lang en-us. Warm, unhurried female voice. - Generate one sentence per clip, trim the silence and shorten any pause inside a clip to 0.15 s or less. Place the clips 0.3 to 0.8 s apart, timed to what happens on screen. No dead air over 0.5 s except the end card. - Pronunciation (TTS input only, captions keep the real spelling): FedM8 is spoken as "Fed Mate", NAICS as "nakes". - Check the result by transcribing each clip (for example with Whisper) and confirming every word. - Music: original and quiet. A soft felt-piano arpeggio over a warm pad, D major, about 76 BPM, chords D, Bm7, Gmaj7, A, then Em7, Gmaj7, D/F#, Asus. Duck it about 7 to 8 dB under narration. End on a resolved D chord over the end card, then fade out. Add very soft cursor clicks. - Final loudness: -16 LUFS integrated, true peak -1.5 dB. 3. VISUAL STYLE - Frame: 1920x1080, 30 fps. Deep navy backdrop (#0b1626) with a soft navy glow at top left. - The product sits in one rounded browser window (1660x868 px, 18 px corners, soft shadow). It has a light chrome bar with three gray dots and a URL pill reading fedm8.com/#/... - Fonts: DM Sans for the interface and captions. Source Serif 4 for the closing lines and tagline. - Wordmark: "Fed" in navy (white on dark backgrounds) followed by "M8" in gold. - Palette: page #f5f6f8, cards #ffffff, text #182231, secondary text #526071, borders #e4e8ee, navy #193b5d, gold #c4a35a, gold text #8b6c28, gold tint #f5efe1, blue tint #e8edf5 with text #183b61, green #1f7a3a on #e6f3ea, red #b42318 on #fdecea. - Layout: - Left rail: Chat, Inbox, Find Work, Grants, Get Certified, then Rooms (General, New here, Veterans Hall), Your codes, Following. - Room header: kind chip, title, agency, deadline chip, official source link (for example "Official notice on SAM.gov"), Follow button, and tabs "This contract | This code | Everyone". - Message cards: initials avatar, name, role chip, time, text, and "Helpful N · Reply · ⋯". - Composer: a context line above it ("Posting in · the details come with your question"). - Chips: Contract (blue tint), Grant (green tint), NAICS code (gold tint), Sample listing (dashed gray outline), Greeter and Founding member (gold tint), FedM8 AI (solid navy). "Talk · N" is a navy outline pill. - FedM8 AI notes: cream card with a navy left border, a "FedM8 AI" chip, the label "Automated summary · not a member", and a source link on every line. - Highlights: a thin gold ring with a soft glow. Numbered gold annotation pills (for example "1 Same tabs"). 4. MOTION - It should feel like someone using the product, not a slide deck: real clicks, typing at human speed, scrolling, menus opening, notifications sliding in. - Cursor: white arrow with a dark outline. Eased, slightly curved moves of 0.5 to 0.9 s, a gold ripple on each click, and hover states on buttons and links. - Camera: a gentle zoom (about 1.16x) onto the main column while reading or typing. Line it up on the column's left edge so nothing important is cut off. Return to full view before changing pages. - Between scenes: a quick dip through the empty window (about 0.45 s). Never cross-dissolve two screens. Within a scene, pages fade in over 0.3 s with a small upward settle. - New content grows into place smoothly. New replies get a brief gold highlight. - Ending: the desktop window shrinks into a phone showing the same conversation. The closing lines appear one at a time on the left in Source Serif, with the last word in gold. Then the end card: "FedM8" / "Federal work. Connected people." / "fedm8.com". 5. OVERLAYS AND CAPTIONS - Top left on every demo frame: a gold-outlined pill with a gold dot reading "Upcoming FedM8 update · Preview" (use it for any unreleased feature; a video of a released feature drops it and keeps the sample label). - Top right: a dashed pill reading "Sample conversations · Names and activity are illustrative". - Captions: burned in, centered below the window, DM Sans 34 px, white, at most two lines, timed to each spoken sentence. - Benefit lines: shown as a caption card with a small gold "WHY IT HELPS" eyebrow, a thin divider, then the line in semibold white. - Also deliver SRT and VTT caption files. 6. HONESTY RULES - Label every preview. Never say unreleased features are live. - Use clearly labeled sample people and listings. Never present sample people or activity as real. - Use made-up places in samples (Example Base, Example Agency). Never name a real base, facility or contracting office. Department names such as Veterans Affairs are fine on a labeled sample. - No pricing, plans, subscription gates, exact limits or launch dates unless they are confirmed. - No promises about winning contracts. Members share their experience, not rulings (for example, "SBA decides eligibility"). - Show honest empty or unavailable states ("No member posts yet.") instead of fake activity. - Always label and source AI content. - Error messages are plain, say what to do next, and keep the member's draft. 7. SAMPLE CAST AND CONTINUITY (reuse unless told otherwise) - People: - Kim P.: veteran, owns a small IT business, NAICS 541512. - Maria L.: new member, Lopez Facility Services, janitorial, NAICS 561720. - Dana R.: sub, veteran. - Luis M.: prime. - Rosa G.: sub. - Marcus T.: prime. - Priya S.: sub, veteran. - Ray T.: Greeter, Founding member. - Sample contract: "Help desk support, Example Base" · Example Agency · Due Nov 18 · SDVOSB set-aside. - Sample grant: "Small business technical assistance grant" · USDA Rural Development · Closes Dec 12. - Every listing carries a "Sample listing" chip. 8. SCENE TEMPLATE For each scene, give: - the title and time range - the on-screen actions, step by step - the narration (1 to 4 short sentences), noting which word each action lines up with - an optional "Why it helps" line - the labels shown A typical scene runs 18 to 23 s. The first video in the series ran 3:00. 9. DELIVERABLES - MP4: 1080p30, H.264, AAC 192k, captions burned in. - SRT and VTT caption files. - A script and shot list table with columns: time · scene · on screen · narration. NEW REQUEST: [Describe the next video: topic, features to cover, audience, length, and any exact narration you want used.] --- CHANGE LOG - 2026-11-10 · Joey (owner), applied by Claude · Pacing: voice speed 0.94 to 1.18, pauses inside a clip cut to 0.15 s or less, clips 0.12 to 0.2 s apart (was 0.3 to 0.8 s), narration fills most of the runtime (was about half). Why: owner asked to cut the pauses and speed up the voice, and for every future video to follow it. The 2026-10-23 reference episode predates this pacing. - 2026-11-11 · Joey (owner), applied by Claude · Undo most of the 2026-11-10 pacing: voice speed back to 0.94, warm and unhurried, narration about half the runtime, clips 0.3 to 0.8 s apart. Kept: pauses inside a clip cut to 0.15 s or less, no dead air over 0.5 s. Why: owner said the speed-up was a mistake; "cutting pauses is fine. change the rest back."