Your stores' own clips, cut into reels.
Kai cuts each store's photos and clips into reels with captions, music and a strong first second, sized for every channel. An AI reel generator that works only from your own footage.
What this costs you today.
Every reel needs filming, an edit and a resize. Head office pays an editor for the brand account, and each store's clips stay on someone's phone.
What you pay for today
- A freelance video editorEdits what you send. Forty stores means forty sets of clips to chase.$200 to $600 a short social clip
- A design and video subscriptionOne or two pieces a day for the whole chain, video included.$699 to $1,199 a month
- Video editing app seatsThe software is cheap. Someone at the store still does the edit.About $23 a person a month
- Store managers' timeFilming on a phone, picking music, trimming and posting between customers.Their time
With Kai. Kai folds the edit and the resize into one job, using the clips your stores already shoot and the same knowledge as every other job.
Typical ranges from public price lists, October 2026. Sources
One system, not a tool for every job
Stop buying a tool for every job.
The biggest promise of AI is consolidation. The same kind of software that can drive a car can write the reply to your email. So buying one point solution per job, each with its own login, contract and agency, now wastes money.
Judge software the way you’d judge a hire: by the range of work it can take on. That’s what to look for now: one system you can point at many jobs. Ocally is that for your stores: Kai and two people across listings, reviews, local search, social, AI answers, pricing, inventory and store routines, at every store.
Not sure what you could consolidate? Bring your list of tools and what they cost to a free consultation, and we’ll go through it with you.
Tools, agencies and people
- Listings softwareMoz Local Lite, $199 a year per location, $425
- Review softwareReputation Rep Core, per location, $2,000
- AI answers trackerPeec AI Pro, 150 prompts, $245
- Local SEO agencychains of 20+ stores, "often $5,000+", $5,000
- Social media agencymid tier, $2,000 to $5,000, $2,000
- AI search agency to fix what the tracker findssmall business low end, $1,500 to $5,000, $1,500
- Staff time to run them1 hr per store a week$5,850
A month$17,020
$681 per store
Ocally
- Ocally, the work includedfrom $500 per store: Kai, a growth engineer and a growth specialist, across listings, reviews, local search, social and AI answers$12,500
- Your time approving Kai’s work0.25 hr per store a week$1,463
- Agenciesnot needed$0
A month$13,963
$559 per store
$3,058 a month less, $36,690 a year
Every default is the low end of a published price; type your own quotes over them. A staff hour is $54: the median pay of market research analysts and marketing specialists, $37.87 an hour (May 2025), plus benefits, which are 30% of what employers spend on pay (June 2026). The staff and approval hours are our estimates. Ocally’s price is customized, from $500 per location a month. Defaults from: Moz Local pricing; Reputation pricing; Peec AI pricing; RankAI: multi-location local SEO cost guide (June 2026); Cloud Campaign: social media management pricing guide (July 2025); WebFX: GEO pricing (May 2026); BLS: market research analysts and marketing specialists, pay (May 2025); BLS: employer costs for employee compensation (June 2026).
What Kai does.
Asks each store for the shots
Kai sends each store a short shot list: what to film, held vertical, and for how long. Staff film on a phone and upload to the Asset Store.
Cuts them into one reel
He picks the best moments, trims and orders the clips, opens on a hook, adds captions and lays your music under it.
Brings a still photo to life
From one product or store photo, he makes a short clip with a slow camera move, or a 15 to 30 second promo with your headline and price.
Sizes it, then waits for you
He cuts a version for each channel, from Reels to Shorts to stories. Each waits for your approval, then posts to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.
What it unlocks.
Every store gets its own reel
Elm Street's reel is made from the clips Elm Street shot: its window, its staff, its Saturday crowd.
Clips off phones and into posts
What staff film lands in the Asset Store, filed by store, and Kai turns it into that store's next reel.
Real stores, real footage
Each reel is cut from that store's own clips and photos. Raw AI-generated clips never go out as posts, so shoppers see the store they'll walk into.
Your part
You approve. Every reel before it's saved for reuse, and every post before it goes out, on any channel.
You give. Short clips from each store when Kai asks, music you have the rights to, and access to your social accounts.
Questions.
Can Kai turn photos into video?
Yes. From one product or store photo, Kai makes a short clip with a slow camera move, or a 15 to 30 second promo with your headline and price on it. It's your own photo in motion, sized for each channel, and it waits for your approval before it posts.
Do we still need someone for social media video editing?
For everyday reels, Kai does the edit: he picks the moments, trims and orders the clips, adds captions and music, and sizes each version. Your team films from his shot list. A brand film with a crew is still a job for an agency. Every reel waits for your approval.
Are the reels made from real footage?
Yes. Every reel is cut from the photos and clips your stores shoot, with music you have the rights to. Raw AI-generated clips never go out as posts. If a reel needs a shot that doesn't exist yet, Kai asks that store to film it and sends a short shot list.
Which channels can Kai post reels to?
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, each in the shape that channel wants, once you approve the exact post. Kai then checks that each post went live on the right account, and every approved reel is saved with its versions in your Asset Store.
What size should short form video be?
Vertical, at 9:16, which is 1080 by 1920 pixels. That's the shape Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts fill on a phone. Kai renders every reel at that size with captions inside the safe zone, and cuts other shapes for feeds that need them.
Bring the store with the most clips still on a phone.
A free 30-minute consultation: one of your stores, and where Kai would start.