Claybird
Fall 2025The full-stack AI ad company
About Company
Claybird makes studio-quality video ads in under 72 hours for brands like Coca-Cola, Walmart, Eight Sleep, Delve, and Mercor. Claybird’s AI agents use single-image NeRFs, fine-tuned image editing models, and eval layers for picture-perfect, consistent results at scale.
Active Founders
ceo @ claybird. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Claybird, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.
cto @ claybird. prev. product at google ads and ml at google search. Previously at Google, shipped delightful product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.