Clueso raises $10M for AI agents that make corporate video

Clueso's $10 million Series A raise, led by Dharana Capital, will fund its AI agents that script, record and maintain corporate video, positioning the startup to compete directly with Synthesia’s $4 billion‑valued video‑generation platform. For website owners, Clueso’s entry means a surge of AI‑generated video content will appear across corporate sites, landing pages, and product tutorials. These videos are created on‑demand by bots that can ingest site copy, SEO keywords, and brand guidelines, then publish automatically. As a result, traffic from AI agents—both as content producers and as viewers—will increase, potentially skewing analytics with higher video engagement metrics that don’t reflect human user behavior. Moreover, the AI agents may crawl your site to harvest scripts, raising concerns about content duplication and licensing. **Actionable tips:** 1. **Update your llms.txt** to explicitly disallow Clueso’s agent user‑agents (e.g., `User‑Agent: CluesoBot` `Disallow: /`) and any generic AI video crawlers they may use. 2. **Implement bot‑traffic segmentation** in your analytics platform to flag spikes in video page views originating from known Clueso IP ranges or user‑agent strings, ensuring accurate human‑traffic reporting. 3. **Deploy a verification step** for newly uploaded video assets, using a checksum or watermark check, to confirm they were generated by authorized tools and not scraped by unauthorized AI agents.