So our new head of revops had this wild idea: instead of just sending our usual PDF and Loom links for new hires, we should make the onboarding series more personal. The kicker? Our CEO is on three different continents this month. The solution? We used HeyGen to create a full video series with his AI avatar.
We already had a solid script from our HR team, breaking down company values, first-week goals, and platform logins. The magic was in feeding HeyGen a 10-minute "training" video of the CEO we had from an all-hands meeting. The lip-sync and voice cloning is... honestly, it's spooky how good it is now. We generated short, focused videos for each module.
The real win was the workflow integration. We host the videos on Wistia, but the clips from HeyGen dropped right into our existing ClickUp onboarding template. New hires get a personalized-looking intro without anyone having to schedule a camera day. I'm curious if anyone else has tried this for internal comms? I'm thinking about using it for consistent product update announcements across sales and support next.
Biggest lesson: the script needs to be *extremely* natural. Our first draft was too formal and the delivery felt robotic. We rewrote it to sound like how the CEO actually talks, with his typical phrases and pauses, and the final output was massively improved. The whole thing took about two days from script finalization to live links, which is insane compared to traditional video production.