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Absurd

Absurd makes AI brand and performance ads at scale. Our last video for Kalshi ("Election Day") did 1M+ views, and our videos average 400K+ organic views. Companies like Hims, Kalshi, Replit, and Brex use Absurd to create production-quality videos in 72 hours. Try it at absurd.com

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #134

Absurd makes AI brand and performance ads at scale. Our last video for Kalshi ("Election Day") did 1M+ views, and our videos average 400K+ organic views. Companies like Hims, Kalshi, Replit, and Brex use Absurd to create production-quality videos in 72 hours. Try it at absurd.com

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Absurd is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Absurd
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Absurd

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Videopixie

match 44

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shared product terms: video, day, companie, production; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Bezel

match 44

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shared product terms: brand, video, create, production; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vidpresso

match 41

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shared product terms: brand, video, companie, create; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

MicroEval

match 33

MicroEval will help you create modern, helpful performance reviews. It’s the day of your annual performance review. You’re nervous, and rightfully so! After this meeting you’ll know whether or not you got that raise, if your work has been acceptable or if you should start looking for a new job. No one likes them. In fact, we didn’t even like them...that is until we decided that they didn’t have to be this way. Why shouldn’t performance reviews be helpful? Why shouldn’t they help you improve and

shared product terms: create, performance, day, like; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Chute

match 33

hute powers enterprise UGC for brands, agencies and publishers – from discovering consumer photos and videos, both with visual and text search, to the ideation, production, and amplification of compelling visual material. Chute works with some of the world’s biggest brands and publishers including Benefit Cosmetics, NBCUniversal, adidas, Brown-Forman, Condé Nast, NBA, United Nations, New York Times, and Ford. For more information, visit www.getchute.com. You can reach us anytime at hello@getchut

shared product terms: brand, video, production, com; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

rfrd

match 32

Self-service tools and studio quality production to create authentic customer videos that generate leads, win deals, and expand opportunities

shared product terms: quality, production, create, video