As much as I loved carefully setting up Domino Rally tracks, giving a soft flick, and watching them all cascade down when I was a kid, I have to admit that I had some serious envy when my neighbor showed up with a Domino Dealer. It was a little motorized truck that you’d load up with tiles, set down, and let it rip. It’d putt along, dropping a tile every few centimeters, impossibly laying a flawless row on its own.
No more crawling on hands and knees to place 100 dominoes by hand, hoping you didn’t sneeze at the worst possible moment. That was a past life, a former you, an activity now reserved for the peons. Now, you could fire up the truck once and let the machine do the hard part.
Mux Robots Directives are here to act as the Domino Dealer for your video AI workflows. You arrange your workflows once, and from then on, the machine can lay the whole run for every new asset automatically.
Introducing: Directives
NEW Directives: zero-management AI workflows for uploaded assets.
Directives add an orchestration layer to Mux Robots. Instead of firing off one-off AI calls and wiring up your own webhooks, you can now bind a set of AI video workflows (like summarize, translate captions, or generate chapters) to an asset's lifecycle once.
Every new asset gets the whole run laid down and knocked over again, automatically.
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Argh, I’m gonna be real with you: I may have stretched this particular analogy too far. Mesmerizing domino chain reaction videos are a very specific kind of niche, but wow are they popular with the right crowd. Part of the fun, of course, is watching the dominoes topple, racing each other around the gymnasium floor, spilling into intricate patterns and designs. But it’s also kinda cool knowing that there were real people who put real thought, time, skill, and attention into how to tip over those little tiles for maximum enjoyment.
Production orchestration workflows are a different beast: I just want them to work, and I definitely don’t wanna be the one responsible for making a catastrophic mistake during setup that knocks the whole kit over. Noooo thank you. I’ll take the Domino truck, please. Wind ‘er up.
Mux Robots Directives take care of the mundane glue and wiring so you can get to scheming on what your next run will look like. That’s the part that’s the most fun, anyway.
