AI Video Wins Planning Layer

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Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Higgsfield, on orchestrating AI video models

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Most of them already use Higgsfield for storyboarding, although there is still substantive resistance from putting AI-generated work in production.
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This shows that AI video is winning the planning layer before it wins the final asset layer. Agencies already trust Higgsfield to turn rough concepts into shot lists, reference frames, and multi shot ad concepts because that work speeds up internal reviews without exposing the brand to the legal, quality, and approval risk of publishing fully generated footage. That is a classic wedge, once a tool becomes where teams ideate and align, it gets pulled deeper into the production workflow.

  • Higgsfield is built for this exact handoff. It packages Sora, Veo, Kling and other models into presets and storyboard style workflows, then adds post training, auto prompting, and model selection so marketers do not have to test raw models one by one. That makes it useful in preproduction even when clients still want humans, cameras, and editors for the final cut.
  • The same pattern is showing up elsewhere in video. Runway positioned itself around filmmaker workflows, and Lionsgate partnered with it to use AI in preproduction tasks like drafting scenes and storyboarding, which is safer and easier to approve than replacing finished studio output end to end.
  • The resistance at production is concrete. Brands need footage that is on model, legally usable, easy to revise, and safe for big media buys. Adobe has leaned hard into commercially safe video and enterprise controls, which shows where incumbent demand is moving once teams want to cross from experimentation into published brand work.

The next step is not a sudden switch to fully AI made campaigns. The likely path is storyboard first, then partial production, then full production for lower risk formats like social ads and product videos. If Higgsfield keeps owning ideation, collaboration, and measurement, it can become the operating layer agencies use as AI work moves from pitch decks into live media spend.