Async video updates that cross every timezone

Replace standups, handoffs, and wiki walls with on-brand video updates anyone watches on their own clock. A video tool for remote teams that turns Notion docs and Slack notes into polished updates without booking another sync.

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The current reality

You picked async for flexibility. But your tools keep pulling you back to live.

Standups that punish whichever timezone loses the coin flip.

You compromised on a 7am slot for Sydney and 9pm for London. Half the team joins on mute, the other half catches the recording nobody clicks. Important context lives in a 47-minute Zoom file with no transcript, and the two-line Slack summary cannot carry the nuance the conversation actually had.

Handoffs that evaporate between Berlin sunset and SF sunrise.

Your EU team wraps the day with a Notion doc, a Loom someone abandoned mid-recording, and a Slack thread tagged @-mention-everyone. The US team spends the first hour reconstructing what the EU team already explained. By the time context lands, the cross-region momentum is gone.

Onboarding stretched across six weeks of calendar Tetris.

The Jakarta new hire needs the codebase walkthrough, the brand intro, and the ops SOP. Booking those calls across Toronto, Berlin, and SF turns the first month into a scheduling puzzle. They give up, open the wiki, and figure out the team culture from a Slack channel nobody has cleaned in eighteen months.

Culture content that lives or dies on optional Zoom attendance.

Distributed teams need shared moments. The all-hands lands at a time that works for two regions. The optional virtual coffee gets three RSVPs. Slack channels fill with emoji noise. The team that picked remote for the work-life balance now spends the day staring at a fifth camera tile.

Distributed work needs distributed communication. The video tool for remote teams should respect the clock, not the calendar.

The ngram approach

A communication layer that runs on your team's clock.

Record once. Watch anywhere. Stay aligned everywhere.

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One place for every video

ngram gives remote teams a single place to capture standups, handoffs, onboarding, and culture moments as polished video anyone can watch from their own timezone.

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Start from what you already have

Project leads drop in meeting notes, sprint summaries, or a quick screen recording.

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Update once, regenerate everywhere

Ops leads upload the SOP. ngram builds the script, the scenes, and the captions before anything renders.

Trade meeting-overload for an async system that captures decisions, ships handoffs, and onboards new hires without scheduling around eight timezones.

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How it works

From product update to polished video in minutes

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Drop in the doc, thread, or recording

Paste a Notion standup summary, a sprint retro from Linear, a decision log from Slack canvas, or upload a quick screen recording from your desk. ngram works from whatever your team already uses to capture context across timezones.

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Tell us who needs to watch

Name the audience: the EU team picking up the handoff, the new hire onboarding next Monday, the company all-hands, or a single regional pod that missed the live call. ngram tunes tone, depth, and pacing so the right people get the right context.

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Review the script in chat

ngram returns a structured script and scene plan before rendering. Trim the section that ran long, swap a screenshot, or split into a 90-second team brief plus a longer archive cut — all in plain language inside the chat panel.

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Generate the polished video

Once approved, ngram produces the cut with cursor smoothing, click emphasis, captions, transitions, and your team brand kit applied. The raw take becomes a video your colleague in Berlin watches between meetings and a new hire watches in week one.

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Ship to the channels your team already uses

Drop the video into Slack, embed in Notion, attach to the Linear ticket, or post to the wiki. ngram exports for the surfaces your distributed team already lives in instead of asking them to learn a new viewer.

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Workflows

Videos for every Remote Teams workflow

The payoff

What changes when video is easy

Time back to every region equally

No more rotating which timezone gets the brutal slot. Context-sharing happens once, recorded, and the team consumes it whenever the workday actually starts in their city. The Sydney engineer reclaims 7am, the London designer reclaims 10pm.

Handoffs that carry signal across the sun

Video preserves the tone, the screen state, the cursor path, and the nuance that text strips out. The receiving region reads context in three minutes instead of reconstructing it from a half-finished Notion page and three Slack threads.

Onboarding that scales with hiring velocity

A new hire in week one watches the same brand intro the founder originally gave on day one. The team lead stops re-running the codebase tour every quarter. Onboarding moves from a six-week calendar puzzle into a self-serve module nobody has to schedule.

Culture that survives growth

Recorded team moments, async retros, and milestone highlights replace the optional Zoom coffee three people attend. The team that joined for flexibility keeps the flexibility — and still meets each other, on terms that work for every timezone.

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Features that power async communication

Every feature distributed teams need to ship video instead of meetings.

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Integrations

Wire ngram into the async stack your distributed team already runs.

Each integration ships with a working recipe tuned for cross-timezone workflows. Start from one, then customize against your Notion workspace, Linear board, or on-call rotation.

REST APIMCP serverWebhooksBuild your own integration in ~30 lines.
Start from source material

Your remote team already writes the inputs. Turn them into watchable updates.

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Questions from Remote Teams like you

How is this different from a Loom-style screen recorder for our remote team?

Loom captures the recording as-is and posts it. ngram takes that raw recording — or a Notion handoff doc, or a Slack canvas note — and turns it into a polished cut with cursor smoothing, dead-air trimming, captions, and your team's brand kit applied. For a video tool for remote teams that ships multiple clips a week across timezones, the difference is the gap between a raw take and a finished communication piece a new hire in Bengaluru watches on day one. Pair with the screencast feature at /features/screencast-understanding-editing for the editing pass.

Can we onboard new hires across timezones without scheduling a dozen calls?

Yes. Record the codebase tour, brand intro, ops SOP, and team-charter walkthrough once. Every new hire in Lisbon, Mexico City, or Tokyo gets the same quality first week regardless of when they start. The team lead stops re-running intro calls every quarter and the new hire stops feeling like the office is happening in a timezone they cannot join. See the onboarding workflow at /use-cases/hr-employee-onboarding.

Do videos work for teammates watching without sound?

Every video gets burned-in captions by default, styled to the team brand kit. Distributed teammates watching on a commute, in a noisy coworking space, or during a kid's nap time get the full message. Caption styling and language are configurable, so the Manila pod sees Tagalog captions and the Berlin pod sees German captions on the same source video.

How fast can we create an async update?

Faster than scheduling a meeting across four timezones. Paste your standup notes or record a quick screen share and ngram returns a structured script and storyboard before anything renders. Most remote-team updates go from raw input to published clip in under 15 minutes — versus the days it can take to find a time that works for engineering, design, and ops across SF, Berlin, and Sydney.

Does it fit into the async tools our distributed team already uses?

Yes. Export videos for Slack, Notion, Linear, Confluence, your team wiki, or a direct shareable link. The Chrome extension lets a team lead hit Make a video directly from a Linear ticket or Notion page. Zapier can automate creation when a sprint retro is finalized. The video lives where the remote team already goes for context. See /integrations/zapier and /integrations/chrome-extension for the recipes.

Async communication that actually crosses timezones

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