A Studio of One 

How to make video, podcasts, and infographics with a whole crew of AI agents

Description

You used to need a film crew, a designer, and a sound engineer to make good content. Now you need to know how to direct AI. In this hands-on evening you’ll set up your own one-person studio and make something real, on your own topic, in a single night, whether that’s a video, a podcast, an infographic, or a set of social posts.

We’ll get into two shifts that are quietly changing creative work. First, the AI agents now built inside creative platforms like Higgsfield, Runway, and Luma, where you describe what you want and the tool handles the production. Second, the orchestration layer that sits above them, something like Cowork (Claude’s desktop agent), which lets you run the whole stack from one place, the way a director calls the shots on a set.

Starting from one idea, you’ll generate the visuals, direct AI video, produce audio for narration or a podcast, and lay it all out into a finished piece you can publish. You pick the format. The point isn’t any single tool. It’s learning to direct them together, so you walk out with a system you can run again the next morning.

Tools we’ll use: Cowork (Claude’s desktop agent) as your director’s chair; Higgsfield, Runway, and Luma for AI video; ElevenLabs for narration, podcast audio, music, and sound; and AI design tools like Gemini, Nano Banana, Ideogram, and Canva for images, infographics, and layout. HeyGen and Descript make cameos.

What You’ll Be Able to Do

• Turn one idea into the format that fits: a video, a podcast, an infographic, or a batch of social
  posts
• Understand the two levels of AI at work: the agents inside creative tools, and the orchestration
  layer (Cowork) that runs them all
• Direct cinematic AI video across Higgsfield, Runway, and Luma, with control over motion,
  camera, and look
• Produce clean narration or podcast audio, plus music and sound, in ElevenLabs
• Design on-brand images and infographics from one simple prompt system
• Use Cowork to plan the work, call the right tools, and help assemble the pieces, so you’re
  directing instead of clicking through apps one at a time

   

  What Makes This Session Different

Most AI classes teach one tool. This one shows you how the tools fit together, which is the part that actually changes how much one person can make. And it’s built to be approachable: if you can describe what you want, you can do this.

• You leave with a real, finished piece in a format you choose, not a random demo clip
• You learn the orchestration layer, the human-in-charge idea at the heart of HOTA, not just
  another app
• You build something on your own topic and walk out with a system you can rerun
• Taught by a practitioner who ships this work for brands and has driven more than 10 million
  views
• Small format, hands-on, real time for real questions. No rushed demos, no death by slide deck

Who It’s For

Marketers, communicators, founders, educators, creators, and anyone who wants to make content but doesn’t have a team to do it. This is beginner-friendly. If you’ve used ChatGPT or Claude even once,
you’re ready. No design, video, or audio experience required. Curiosity and a topic you care about are all
you need.

Before You Arrive

A little setup ahead of time means more making and less waiting on the night. Required:

• A charged laptop (phones and tablets won’t work for this)
• A topic you genuinely want to make something about
• The Claude desktop app installed so you can follow the Cowork steps
• A Google account (for Gemini and NotebookLM)
• Free accounts created at Higgsfield, Runway, Luma, ElevenLabs, Canva, and HeyGen

Optional but helpful:

• Your brand basics (logo, colors) and a few links or notes on your topic

Instructor Bio

Steve Mudd is the CEO of Talentless AI, an AI-native creative studio based in Austin, and a 2026 AI Leadership Award winner from the Austin AI Alliance. He builds AI video and agent-driven content systems for brands and studios, and his AI content has generated more than 10 million views across TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube. He’s an AI Expert for B2B Marketing’s Propolis community and a resident AI expert and keynote speaker for Ragan Communications. Steve runs AI bootcamps, coaching sessions, and hands-on workshops that help marketers, communicators, and creators put AI to work in the jobs they actually do.