Studio Zero Brandlab / Lagos, NG

Creative at the speed of culture.

Africa's best creative force, amplified by a production OS — from idea to audience in days, not quarters. Writers. Designers. Storytellers. Filmmakers. Directors. The continent's creative talent, made to scale by an intelligent production layer built for how the next era of culture moves.

Build your sprint →See the work
UGC · BAGSMART
Film · Addme
FMCG · Power Oil
Beauty · LUSH
01The challenge

Culture moves in hours. Most creative still moves in quarters.

Performance brands need volume, speed, cultural resonance, and cost discipline — all at once. The agency model can't deliver three of the four. Pure AI can't deliver any of them without losing the work's soul. There's a gap. We're built to close it.

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Volume.

Performance brands at scale need 10–20 fresh concepts a month. Most agencies ship four — in a quarter.

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Speed.

A cultural moment lives for 48 hours. Most teams need four weeks to respond. The moment is gone before the work ships.

/ 03

Resonance.

Global creative wasn't built for African audiences. Local creative wasn't built for global scale. Most brands pick one and lose the other.

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Cost.

Agency rates don't scale with volume. Pure AI scales, but rarely lands on-brand. The economics of fast, on-brand creative were broken — until now.

02The answer

The next era of creative. Humans + OS.

Think Superside, for the African market — on a more advanced abstraction layer. The continent's best creative force, amplified by an intelligent production system that turns one brilliant idea into thirty finished variants without losing what made it sing.

/ The Team

Africa's best creative force.

Writers. Designers. Storytellers. Creative directors. Filmmakers. Artists. Curated, contracted, building. The taste, the craft, the cultural intelligence — that's the team. They make the work brilliant.

/ The OS

An intelligent production layer.

Generative, cascading, multi-modal. Built on a more advanced abstraction layer than any agency stack today. It doesn't replace the team — it amplifies them. The OS makes the brilliance scale.

03Capabilities

What we make.

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AI UGC Ad Packs

Batch creator-style ad sets for DTC brands — scripted, generated, edited, delivered as a ready-to-run pack.

HooksVariantsEdit + caption
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Branded Vertical Series

Episodic short-form built like a show — vertical-native, world-first. Our own series, Tales by Moonlight, is in development. View the art direction →

Episodic9:16Owned IP
03CascaderOne master → OOH, social, broadcast
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Creative Cascades

One hero asset, every format. A single master cascades into the full OOH, social and broadcast family — no re-shoots.

Master → variantsOOHSocial
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Commercials & Brand Films

Long-form brand films and commercials with cinematic production values — AI-augmented direction, human-led storytelling, premium delivery.

CinematicStoryPremium
05In productionArtist-grade music film — visual to spec
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Music Videos

Music videos and music-driven brand content. Artist-grade visuals at studio speed — for label clients, brand partnerships, and culture-forward campaigns.

Artist-gradeCultureFast turn
06In productionIdentity system showreel — visual to spec
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Brand Worlds

Full identity systems built as a generator, not a static logo — wordmark, mark, palette, type, motion and an asset library that scales.

IdentityAsset systemGuidelines
07Spec · in productionSpirits pitch hero KV — visual to spec
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Pitch & Deck Suites

Agency-grade pitch packages — brand bibles, ideas decks, hero key visuals — production-ready for the room.

Brand bibleIdeas deckHero KV
08In productionOwned character & voice demo — to spec
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AI Characters & Voice

Owned, identity-consistent characters and West African voice — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa — licensable and on-brand.

Consistent identityVOLicensable
09You're looking at oneThis site is the proof
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Sites & Landing Pages

Conversion-built brand sites for DTC and SMBs — fast, mobile-first, on-identity and ready to take traffic.

Mobile-firstConversionFast
04How it works

We run briefs on an OS, not a freelancer shuffle.

Five stages, one pipeline. The same engine that produces our own IP runs your brief — which is why it's faster, more consistent, and cheaper than assembling it from scratch every time.

→ 01

Distill

Brief and strategy reduced to one sharp, defensible direction.

→ 02

World

Brand world & references locked before a single pixel moves.

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Generate

The engine produces hero assets at volume, on-identity.

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Cascade

The master cascades into every format you need.

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Ship

Human-reviewed, on-brand, market-ready delivery.

An owned production OS means your work gets the leverage of a system — the IP engine, the cascading, the voice and character layers — without paying to rebuild it each time. Behind Brandlab sits the full BrandMother stack: Cascader for adaptation, TwinFluencer for visual IP, Alter Ego for voice. You buy outcomes; the infrastructure is already paid for.

05The edge

Built in Lagos

Creative made by people fluent in the culture it's for — not localized from somewhere else.

AI-native speed

Production at machine scale, directed by humans. Days where agencies quote weeks.

Owned IP engine

Characters, voice and cascading are assets we own — leverage that lowers your cost.

Magic from chaos

A messy brief is the input we're designed for. Structure out of disorder is the whole method.

06Build your sprint

Scope it live.

Pick what you need. Get an indicative timeline and investment range, then send it straight to us as a starting brief.

UGC ad pack — 30 variants
Hook-testing set
Commercial / brand film
Brand world / identity
Pitch & deck suite
Music video
Site / landing page
Character & voice build
Your sprint
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Indicative investment & turnaround
  • Nothing selected yet.
Send this brief →

Indicative only — final scope and pricing confirmed on a 20-min call. Figures in USD; we also quote in ₦ and accept Paystack, transfer and card.

07Ways to work

Three ways in.

/ Sprint
One product
$1,800 / product

One product, 30 conversion-ready variants, delivered in 72 hours. Best for a launch, a test, a hero SKU.

  • 30 variants per product
  • 8+ hook angles
  • 72-hour turnaround
  • You own the output
Build a sprint
/ Growth Retainer · most popular
Monthly creative
$3,500 / mo

Ongoing creative volume — a rolling queue of sprints every month, with performance iteration baked in.

  • Multiple products / month
  • Priority turnaround
  • Performance iteration
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Talk to us
/ Brand Partner
Dedicated partner
$8,500 / mo

A dedicated creative partner for volume and strategy — with quarterly retail activation included.

  • Dedicated capacity
  • Custom production OS setup
  • Owned character & voice IP
  • Quarterly retail activation
Talk to us
08Selected work

Built, not pitched.

/ Live proof · Global · BAGSMART × Brandlab Sprint

30 variants from one product. In 72 hours.

We took a random Amazon listing and shipped 30 conversion-ready ad variants in a single Sprint — eight hook angles, every format, one brief. See all thirteen play live.

72hrsKickoff to inbox
30Variants / sprint
8+Hook angles
30×vs agency
View the global proof →
/ Live proof · Naija · Nigerian brands × Brandlab

Local brands. Global-grade creative.

The Brandlab engine pointed at Nigerian FMCG, beauty and food — LUSH Hair, Addme, Power Oil, Knorr. Spec demos showing the system tuned for how the Naija feed actually scrolls.

4Brands
5Formats
₦Naira pricing
View the Naija proof →
/ Art Direction · Visual development & treatments

Before the ad, the world.

Owned series in development — Tales by Moonlight — plus spirits visual treatments. Casting, light, palette, mood: the art-directed layer behind the work.

1Series in dev
7Treatments
View art direction →

Social & key visuals

Beyond film — scroll-stopping static creative and campaign key visuals. A spec social set for Magic Moments Vodka, built in the brand's world.

SPIRITSSPEC
Magic Moments Vodka social — card game
SPIRITSSPEC
Magic Moments Vodka social — sunset rooftop
SPIRITSSPEC
Magic Moments Vodka social — Magic Hour
SPIRITSSPEC
Magic Moments Vodka social — which flavor
09Questions

Before you ask.

Do I own what you make? +
Yes. You own the final delivered output in full. The underlying production system, and any character or voice IP we build and license to you, are governed by a simple, clear agreement up front — no surprises.
Is this "just AI"? +
It's human-directed, OS-produced. AI is the engine for speed and scale; strategy, taste, cultural judgment and the final review are human. The result is work that ships fast without looking generated.
How fast is fast? +
An ad pack can move in days; a brand world in a couple of weeks. The "Build your sprint" tool above gives you an indicative turnaround the moment you select deliverables.
How do payments work? +
Sprints run on a 50% deposit, balance on delivery. Studio is billed monthly. We accept Paystack, bank transfer and card, and quote in both USD and ₦.
What about revisions? +
Every scope includes a defined revision round. Because we lock the brand world before generating, most work lands close on the first pass — revisions refine, they don't rebuild.

Send the brief.
We'll make the magic.

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