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Brand films for deep tech.

Hard tech is physical — the product lives in factories, fields, fabs, and test stands. We make the field-grade film, the investor-deck cut, and the founder narrative hardware buyers actually believe, built around Cosmic Robotics' robotic solar construction.

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Client
Cosmic Robotics
Site
Southern Texas · utility-scale solar
WERZ role
Field cinematography · Stills · FAA Part 107 aerial
Delivered
00:28 hero cut / 05 clips / 175 stills
Built for Cosmic RoboticsFAA Part 107 site-scale droneClient-led access planningField-tested hardware storytellingInvestor-deck quality

Ways to work together

A launch, or the work that comes after.

Production across the US, with experience in Germany. We scope locations, crew, and post-production around the project.

Launch film + supporting assets

For a product debut, research demo, funding announcement, or first customer deployment. Start with the audience and one clear product story.

The scope
A main film with agreed cutdowns, captioned versions, press b-roll, stills, and presentation loops. Deliverables and revision rounds are written into the proposal.
The schedule
We work backward from your launch date through script approval, access, filming, editing, and final review. Location access and technical review set the critical dates.
The budget
Shoot days, locations, crew, talent, product capture, motion design, and version count determine the quote. Existing footage can reduce new capture.
See the Cosmic-1 launch film

Ongoing technical content

For teams with footage to use and progress to share. Turn demonstrations, founder interviews, and field work into a consistent stream of finished content.

Start with your library
Send sample footage, transcripts if available, brand assets and examples of the edits you need. We check image and sound quality, product accuracy, usage permissions and gaps before recommending edits or a new shoot.
Agree on a cadence
Agree a monthly or campaign-based batch: number and length of edits, captions, aspect ratios, review rounds and delivery dates. A named reviewer consolidates feedback. Filming and substantial new animation are quoted separately.
Keep it current
A named client reviewer confirms technical claims before release. New deployments can add footage for future launch, sales, recruiting, and website uses.
See the ongoing Cosmic productions
Send a launch briefDiscuss ongoing contentWe respond within one business day. No call required.
03
Deployments documented — Arvin, Patterson, Southern Texas
02
States shot in — California and Texas
1.7M
Y Combinator LinkedIn audience the launch film was published to
175
Stills in the Southern Texas photography library
Updated 5 min read

Complex hardware becomes easier to understand when buyers can see it operating. A useful film connects the founder's explanation to a specific product capability, an actual environment, and the reason it matters to the audience.

For Cosmic Robotics, our published work brings together field footage, founder context, and site-scale aerial across California. The Cosmic-1 launch film shows that approach in a finished, 67-second piece.

The useful output is often a content system, not one isolated film. We can scope a technical launch film together with 10–40 second social cutdowns, product UI or capability demonstrations, press b-roll, deck loops, stills, and recruiting edits. When the source footage is strong enough, that system can begin with material the company already owns instead of requiring a new shoot for every deliverable.

For access-controlled work, the client identifies the disclosure, legal, export-control, safety, and site requirements. WERZ then evaluates the requested crew, capture, storage, review, and delivery process before accepting the scope. WERZ does not determine a project's export-control or regulatory status.

Contact sheet

Southern Texas, on the ground.

Selected frames from the 2026 deployment: two Cosmic-1 units, a live crew, and Texas weather. Click any frame.

Cosmic Robotics / Southern Texas / 175 stills / 3:2 / full-frame

All 175 stills

Clip bank

Latest footage, Southern Texas.

One title-card-free hero cut for the website and deck, plus supporting landscape clips with matching poster frames — the reusable bank a hardware team actually needs.

TX-0028s hero cut
TX-01Trailer unload
TX-02Arm + panel, sky
TX-03Gripper over rack
TX-041A-0003 KIPP
TX-051A-0001 TARS

00:28 hero cut / 05 clips / 16:9 / autoplay in view, muted

Project page

Three deployments

Same client, 2024 to 2026.

Climate hardware doesn't launch once. We've documented Cosmic Robotics from prototype trials to a multi-state rollout — the footage compounds.

  1. Cosmic Robotics prototype on site in Arvin, California, 20242024
    Act I / Arvin, CA

    Prototype, proving itself

    Early trials with a live EPC crew in the Central Valley. Field documentation and a 41-clip social library from one of the company's first real deployments.

    Field docs / 41 clips / stills
  2. Wide view of the Patterson, California solar field with Cosmic Robotics mid-installation, 20252025
    Act II / Patterson, CA

    Brand film + investor assets

    Golden-hour ground and FAA Part 107 aerial across a production deployment. The website, deck, and press imagery the company still runs on.

    Brand film / aerial / photography
  3. Two Cosmic-1 robots on a Southern Texas solar site, 20262026
    Act III / Southern Texas

    Launch film + Texas deployment

    The Cosmic-1 launch film, then a Southern Texas field package: a 28-second hero cut, five supporting clips, and a 175-frame stills library.

    Launch film / 00:28 hero cut / 175 stills
Full case study

Sub-verticals

Deep tech video, across the stack.

Robotics & autonomy
i.

Robotics & autonomy

Manipulation arms, mobile platforms, agricultural robots, warehouse autonomy, construction robotics. Factory floors, deployment sites, manipulation demos, founder-led narrative. Built for Cosmic Robotics.

Defense tech production
ii.

Defense tech & dual-use

Potential capability, recruiting, and public-facing films for dual-use hardware and autonomous systems. The client and its counsel define what may be filmed or published; WERZ accepts only scopes it can support.

Semiconductors & advanced manufacturing
iii.

Semiconductors & advanced manufacturing

Potential founder profiles, packaging stories, and approved facility capture. Fab or cleanroom work requires a client-provided site protocol and a separate feasibility review before booking.

Aerospace and space tech production
iv.

Aerospace & space tech

Launch vehicles, satellites, propulsion, eVTOL, and orbital infrastructure. Test stand documentation, integration site shoots, founder narrative, and FAA Part 107 aerial for non-launch facility work.

Energy tech & climate hardware
v.

Energy tech & climate hardware

Grid, fusion, nuclear, storage, EV charging, solar at scale, geothermal. Field documentation for the install side, lab and factory production for the engineering side. Our climate tech page covers the sustainability-led version of this work.

Biotech hardware production
vi.

Biotech hardware & life sciences

Potential founder, product, and facility stories for physical life-science tools. Lab, patient, or regulated work is accepted only after client-led access and compliance requirements are reviewed.

Client voice

What hard tech teams say.

“From pre-production logistics to on-site shoots, editing, and delivery — he's consistently organized, prepared, and ready to execute. Reliable, talented, and low-drama. A combination that's hard to find and extremely valuable.”
James Emerick
Founder & CEO, Cosmic Robotics

Process

Built for technical buyers.

  1. 01

    Technical discovery first

    Before any production date is locked, we spend a session on what the technology actually does, what is shippable today, what is on the roadmap, and what the buyer or investor needs to understand. Hard tech briefs that skip this produce generic content that founders cannot use.

  2. 02

    Access and disclosure review

    The client identifies confidentiality, export-control, safety, site-access, and footage-review requirements. WERZ confirms whether the requested workflow is supportable before a production date is booked.

  3. 03

    Field, fab, and lab production

    Multi-day shoots across factories, labs, deployment sites, test stands, and founder interviews. Ground plus aerial paired where it adds, scoped to install schedules, lab access timing, and weather windows.

  4. 04

    Investor-deck-ready delivery

    Hero film, social cutdowns, deck-embed loops, customer-story versions, and recruiting cuts — all from the same shoot package. Scoped before production so the day produces a year of usable assets.

Use cases

Where hard tech video earns its budget.

Series A/B/C deep tech fundraising

60-90 second cinematic founder + product brand films that anchor the investor pitch. Replaces the slide that says 'demo video here' with something that actually moves the meeting room.

DoD, prime, and enterprise sales

Capability films, customer-deployment narratives, and partner stories that move long enterprise hardware sales cycles. Recruiting-grade quality without revealing constrained capability.

Recruiting senior engineers

Founder and team films can show the mission, technical work, and operating environment to PhDs, engineers, and operators evaluating a hard-tech company.

Test-site, fab, and field documentation

The visual evidence buyers and investors need to believe the company can actually ship physical product — factories, deployment sites, test stands, fabrication floors, install crews.

Launch-day and ongoing short-form

A core launch film plus 10–40 second social cuts, product demonstrations, press b-roll, deck loops, and trade-show edits. Existing footage can be audited and reused when it is technically accurate and visually strong enough.

Customer + partner stories

Potential customer and partner narratives for approved public deployments. Regulated, defense, utility, or foundry stories require the relevant client's access and release approval before they are scoped.

Quick answer

What does a deep tech video agency do that a generic agency cannot?

Deep tech films need an accurate explanation of the product, its physical environment, and its buyer. WERZ's public reference is Cosmic Robotics: founder context, field documentation, and FAA Part 107 aerial for robotic solar construction. Other regulated or access-controlled environments are evaluated project by project with the client.

FAQ

Common questions.

What does 'deep tech' mean for a video production agency?

Deep tech (also called hard tech, frontier tech, or tough tech) describes scientifically or engineering-intensive products such as robotics, semiconductors, aerospace hardware, energy infrastructure, and advanced materials. Production often requires technical review and client-defined access rules. WERZ's named public reference is Cosmic Robotics; other environments are scoped individually.

Is 'deep tech' the same as 'hard tech'?

Functionally yes, with different audiences using different terms. 'Hard tech' is the US/VC vernacular (Founders Fund, a16z, Lux Capital). 'Deep tech' is the more established global term (BCG, Hello Tomorrow, the EU's Innovation Council). 'Frontier tech' and 'tough tech' (MIT's The Engine) describe the same companies. We use 'deep tech' on this page because it covers both audiences; we cover hard tech, frontier tech, and tough tech under the same approach.

Can you support confidential or export-controlled shoot requirements?

Potentially, after review. The client and its counsel must identify the legal, export-control, access, storage, and approval requirements. WERZ does not determine ITAR or other regulatory status and does not represent a workflow as compliant until the exact scope and required controls have been reviewed and accepted in writing.

What does deep tech video production cost?

WERZ prices deep-tech work after the team confirms locations, access and safety requirements, shoot days, crew, aerial needs, confidentiality and review constraints, and deliverables. A focused field film and a multi-site launch campaign are different scopes; this page does not present an unsupported market average.

Do you work with pre-Series A deep tech startups?

Yes, when scope and budget align. An early-stage hard-tech team may need one founder profile or a focused product film rather than a full campaign. WERZ recommends the smallest scope that supports the team's stated launch, sales, recruiting, or fundraising use case.

Can WERZ turn existing technical footage into short-form content?

Yes, when the footage accurately shows the product and is strong enough for the intended channels. WERZ can audit existing interviews, product footage, screen captures, and field material, then scope 10–40 second LinkedIn or X cuts, product demonstrations, press b-roll, deck loops, and recruiting edits. If a critical claim is not visible, we will identify the smallest new capture needed rather than defaulting to a full reshoot.

What deep tech sub-verticals do you cover?

Robotics and autonomy, defense tech and dual-use hardware, semiconductors and advanced manufacturing, aerospace and space tech, energy tech (grid, fusion, nuclear, storage, EV charging, geothermal), climate hardware, and biotech hardware. We do not specialize in pure-software AI or SaaS (those are SaaS shoots) — for those, see our SaaS industry page.

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