A Kerala-born creative studio pairing the old craft of storytelling with new tools — AI, motion, strategy — so brands sound a little more like themselves.
In Tamil and Malayalam, kathai means story. That's the whole brief.
We sit somewhere between a film set, a writers' room, and an AI lab — figuring out what your brand wants to say next, and then helping it say it well.
Nine chapters,
one voice.
One Orange
Fruit Co. · Print Campaign
Half Past Light
Coffee · Poster Series
Empty Chair
Furniture · Editorial Ad
Soft Spoken
Perfumery · Campaign
A Letter Home
Postal Service · Spot
Orange Hour
Travel · Print Poster
Folded Stories
Fashion · Zine
Quiet Type
Bookshop · Brand Ad
Two Apples
Grocery · OOH Series
A small studio
with big tools.
We build a small AI pipeline around each brand — image, motion, voice, code — so the work scales without losing what made it yours.
AI Imagery
Bespoke visual systems that look like your brand, not a prompt.
Film & Motion
Cinematic story sequences composed frame by frame.
Generative Campaigns
A hundred variants. One unmistakable voice.
Storyboarding
From idea to keyframe in an afternoon.
Brand Systems
Identity built to live across every surface — and tense.
Content Pipelines
AI-assisted production that doesn't lose the human touch.
- 001Creative StrategyBegin →
- 002Brand StorytellingBegin →
- 003AI AdvertisingBegin →
- 004Motion & FilmBegin →
- 005Social CreativesBegin →
- 006Automotive CampaignsBegin →
- 007Product VisualizationBegin →
- 008Performance CreativeBegin →
- 009Visual IdentityBegin →
- 010Editorial & PrintBegin →
Six movements,
one composition.
Listen
Every story starts with a quiet question.
Frame
Who's it for. Why now. What changes.
Imagine
A thousand directions, sketched fast.
Make
Where craft meets the machine.
Refine
Tuned by data. Decided by taste.
Release
From one frame to ten thousand surfaces.
They don't write ads. They write the moment a brand finally sounds like itself.
Kathai treats every project like a short film — even when it's a print ad.
Tell us the
story you want
people to remember.
A line, a brief, a half-formed idea — send it over. We answer within a day, anywhere on earth.
- Studio
- Kochi · Kerala · IN
- Hours
- Mon — Fri · 10 — 19 IST
- Press
- press@kathai.studio
- Careers
- join@kathai.studio