Craig Li

Craig Li

AI Engineer · Technical Manager · Product Builder

10 years in software engineering, now focused on AI agent development. Currently leading engineering at starti.ai — a video agent that lets you edit video through natural language — while exploring how AI can improve ad creative workflows.

What I'm Working On

starti.ai — Video Agent

Edit video through natural language commands. No timeline scrubbing, no manual cuts — just describe what you want.

Ad Creative Analysis (exploring)

Combining ad creative data with campaign performance to understand what actually works, and surfacing actionable suggestions.

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When Creative Volume Breaks Your Quality Gate

Most teams don't have a creative problem. They have a checkpoint problem. Here's where the QA process breaks as creative volume scales — and what the best operators do about it.

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The Most Expensive Mistake in Paid Social Isn't the Ad. It's What Happens After.

Most teams have a strong process for making ads. Almost none have a process for the moment after production ends and before the campaign goes live. That gap is where campaigns quietly bleed out.

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Multimodal Video Understanding: The Distance from Possible to Reliable

When we tried to make AI actually understand ad creatives, we found the problem goes far beyond calling an API. Here are the lessons and the thinking behind our approach.

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