Hire an AI visual story planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A story arc covering who it is about, the problem and the ending
• A frame-by-frame sequence with one message, one visual and one feeling per frame
• Notes on pace, with where the story slows and where it lands
• A version for each channel you name, with what changes in format and length
• Accessibility notes such as captions, alt text and colour contrast
• A list of what a designer or image tool still has to make

How it does the job well

• Start from the user's task and the content, then the layout. Decoration comes last.
• Design every state: empty, loading, error, long text and mobile.
• Keep one visual system. Reuse spacing, type and colour tokens instead of one-off values.
• Check text contrast (at least 4.5:1 for body text) and keyboard focus as you go.

Mistakes it avoids

• A pile of nice images with no arc.
• Promising engagement, reach or sales results.
• Calling a frame plan a finished visual.
• Designing only the happy path at desktop width.
• Copying a reference's logo, text or claims instead of learning from its structure.
• Handing over a picture without the sizes, tokens and behaviour a developer needs.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You have a message or some data and need it told as a short visual story.

• Story goal. The one message, the audience, the channel and the length.
• Story arc. The hero, the problem, the ending and the feeling at the end.
• Frame sequence. Numbered frames, each with one message, one visual, any words and a pace.
• Channel versions. How the plan changes for each channel you named.
• Accessibility notes. Captions, alt text, colour contrast and motion limits.
• Still to make. The images, footage or graphics a designer or tool must produce.

How the work is checked

• The story can be told in three lines.
• Every frame has one message.
• Every number and quote is the user's, with its source.
• Channel notes make no claim you could not support.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Milton Glaser and Otl Aicher would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Set the story goal. It confirms the one message, the audience, the channel and the length. Missing facts are asked once, then marked MISSING.
• Shape the arc. It names the hero, the problem and the ending, and maps the feeling from start to finish.
• Plan the frames. Each frame gets one message, one visual, any words or sound, and a pace.
• Adapt for channels. It reshapes the plan for each channel you name, such as vertical, wide or square.
• Check access and facts. It adds captions and alt text notes, and keeps any figure tied to a source you gave.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id design-visual-storyteller only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/design-visual-storyteller/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The message or goal of the story, in one or two sentences
• Who it is for and where it will be seen, such as Instagram Stories, YouTube or your website
• How long or how many frames you have (optional)
• Your brand notes, such as tone, colours and fonts (optional)
• Facts, data or customer notes the story should use (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• Your brand guide or tone notes.
• Customer quotes or case notes that show the problem.
• Examples of stories you like, with what you like about them.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini in a chat: Good for the arc and the frame plan. Attach brand images if the AI can read them.
• An image or video tool: The agent plans the frames. A separate tool or a designer must make them.

Functions and deliverables

• Visual story planner: Turn your message into a visual story plan, with the story arc, a frame-by-frame sequence of one message per frame and a version for each channel.
  • A story arc covering who it is about, the problem and the ending
  • A frame-by-frame sequence with one message, one visual and one feeling per frame
  • Notes on pace, with where the story slows and where it lands
  • A version for each channel you name, with what changes in format and length
  • Accessibility notes such as captions, alt text and colour contrast
  • A list of what a designer or image tool still has to make
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• Video opening frame designer: Pick opening frames for your ad from twelve visual patterns. Get a design brief for each first-frame test, with layout, light and text notes.
  • Three to five opening frame specs with layout and light notes
  • The sources used, missing inputs and assumptions
• Story ad visual style planner: Paste a story ad. Get the picture style that fits its key moment, a ready image prompt, a runner-up to test and a caption.
  • The key moment, quoted from your story
  • The picture style chosen and why, plus a runner-up from a different kind of evidence
  • The full brief with a ready-to-paste image prompt
  • The line under the picture, about 27 characters, with its count
  • A one-line test plan, and one line for each check the brief missed
• Visual system rules writer: Write visual system rules for your brand or event: the feeling first, then firm rules for colour, type and grid that keep every place consistent.
  • The feeling in a few lines
  • What it must not look like
  • Colours with a meaning and reason each, and ruled-out colours
  • Tools for type, page format and grid, plus play room and a named checker
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one
• Milton Glaser: Review a design message using Milton Glaser’s recorded approach. Name the audience, sketch one clear idea and check that every claim is true.
  • Your problem worked on the way Milton Glaser would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Milton Glaser's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Otl Aicher: Plan a visual system or wayfinding using Otl Aicher’s recorded approach. Set a clear purpose, shared design rules and checks with real users.
  • Your problem worked on the way Otl Aicher would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Otl Aicher's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You have a message or some data and need it told as a short visual story.
• You are planning a brand video, a carousel or a story series and need the order of the frames.
• One story must run on several channels, each in its own shape.
• You have a complex idea and want a plan for an infographic or explainer.

Limits to check before starting

• You already have a video ad script and want it turned into a storyboard. Use the Video avatar and storyboard planner.
• You want the written story first, such as one strong case to build on. Use the Case study story planner.
• You want a frame turned into an image prompt. Use the Image and video prompt director.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Add the pack to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, start a new chat and paste SKILL.md, then references/source-agent.md.
• Paste your goal, your audience and where it will be seen. Add any facts or data the story must use.
• Say how many frames or seconds you have. If you do not know, it proposes a length and marks it as proposed.
• Read the arc first. Can you tell the story in three lines? If not, fix the arc before you look at frames.
• Check each frame for one message only. Cut or merge frames that repeat.
• Give the frames to a designer. Or use the Image and video prompt director to turn each frame into an image prompt.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/design-visual-storyteller for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.