How to make a product ad when the app is behind a login
Give Vizard Agent the public marketing site. It cannot sign into your product, so it works from what it can reach — the site's own preview images, its brand kit and its documented claims — and builds the product moments from those rather than generating an interface that does not exist.
What is the short version?
Most software simply cannot be filmed without an account, and the tempting fix is to have a plausible-looking interface generated instead. That produces an advertisement for a product nobody can actually buy, and anyone who signs up on the strength of it notices within a minute.
- Go to Vizard Agent and give it your public marketing site.
- Upload any real screenshots or a screen recording you can supply.
- Say which claims are supportable, and which are off limits.
What do you need before you start?
A public site with something real on it. Vizard Agent captures the site, its preview images and its brand kit, so the more of your actual interface that appears on the marketing pages, the more of the finished advertisement is genuinely your product.
- The public site. Reachable without an account.
- Any real screenshots. Even one preview image helps.
- The claim boundary. What you can support.
- The audience. Who this is aimed at.
- The call to action. Sign up, book a demo, create an account.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say plainly that the app is gated, and say what may be claimed about it. Vizard Agent will otherwise spend time trying to reach the product itself, and telling it the boundary up front is exactly what stops the resulting gap being filled with a generated interface.
Prompt
Variants worth knowing:
- "Do not fabricate an interface." Say it explicitly.
- "No invented metrics." Percentages are the usual trap.
- Give a real screenshot. It changes the whole result.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Here is the order Vizard Agent worked in on a real advertisement for a product sitting behind a login. Most of the first half of the session is doing one single thing: gathering up every genuine piece of the product that happens to exist anywhere in public.
- Reads the product website and checks what capture tools are available.
- Looks for real product imagery on the site.
- Reads the page text for the documented claims.
- Captures the site and its brand kit — logo, colours, fonts.
- Reviews the site's hero section at full size.
- Records a scroll-through of the site and samples frames from it.
- Reviews the scroll frames and inspects the dashboard panel on the page.
- Downloads the site's own product preview image.
- Reviews that preview — the only real interface available.
- Searches and downloads supporting stock footage for the pain and friction beats.
- Reviews the candidates and picks the best moments in each shot.
- Generates the voiceover, music, motion graphics and end card.
- Measures where each overlay sits in frame and checks the shots over time.
- Builds the product screen canvas from the real preview plus animated elements.
- Renders the segments, assembles the narration and times the captions to its words.
Step fourteen is the honest compromise. Vizard Agent builds the product moment around your real preview image with animated elements on top of it, rather than generating a convincing screen full of invented data.
What does the result look like?
The advertisement this page is written from was a thirty-second vertical film at 1080x1920, 30fps, structured as pain, friction, mechanism, review and call to action — using stock footage for the human beats and the company's own preview image for every product moment.
Every claim in the narration traces to a sentence on the public site. That constraint makes the script harder to write and the advertisement considerably safer to run.
When does this not work well?
An advertisement built from a marketing site inherits whatever that site happens to show, and just as importantly whatever it does not. Vizard Agent tells you when there is simply not enough public product to build a product advertisement, rather than quietly filling the gap itself.
- A site with no interface shown. Nothing real to use.
- Vague public claims. The script cannot be more specific than the site.
- Complex workflows. One preview image cannot demonstrate a process.
- Competitor comparisons. Not supportable from your own site.
- Regulated categories. The claim rules are yours to know.
How do you fix a result that came back wrong?
Supply the missing piece itself rather than describing what it should look like. Vizard Agent keeps the captured site, the extracted brand kit and the whole beat sheet, so a real screenshot you send it later simply replaces the stand-in without the advertisement needing to be rebuilt.
- "That is not what the screen looks like." Replaced with your screenshot.
- "We cannot claim that." Line rewritten from the site's own wording.
- "Show the review step." Rebuilt if the public material supports it.
How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?
By hand you either record the product properly, which is the right answer, or you commission a designer who mocks up something plausible. Vizard Agent takes the third path: build from what genuinely exists in public and tell you where the gaps are.
| By hand | Vizard Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| The interface | Mocked up plausibly | Your real preview image |
| Claims | Written to sound good | Traced to the public documentation |
| Metrics | Invented for punch | Omitted unless published |
| The gap | Papered over | Reported to you |
Common questions
Why can it not just log in? It has no account and should not have one. Vizard Agent works from what is public.
Can it generate an interface? It can, and here it should not. A fabricated screen is a promise your product has to keep.
What if my site shows no product? Then send a screenshot. Vizard Agent will say plainly that there is nothing real to build on.
Will it invent statistics? Not if you forbid it, and you should. Vizard Agent uses only what your documentation states.
Can I send a screen recording later? Yes. Vizard Agent swaps it in for the stand-in without rebuilding the advertisement.
Does it use my brand colours? Yes. Vizard Agent extracts the brand kit from the site itself.
What carries the human moments? Stock footage. Vizard Agent uses it for the pain and friction beats, not for the product.
Can it record my public site? Yes. Vizard Agent captures a scroll-through and uses frames from it.
Is a preview image enough? For a thirty-second advertisement, usually. Vizard Agent animates elements over it rather than faking depth.
What about a demo video I already have? Ideal. Vizard Agent will use your real footage in preference to anything else.
Why does a fabricated screen matter so much? Because the people it convinces are the ones who sign up, and they find out within a minute. An advertisement that oversells the interface costs you the trial, not just the click.
Can it do a longer version? Yes, though longer needs more real material. Vizard Agent will tell you when the public assets run out.
Does it check the result? Yes. Vizard Agent reviews the graphics, the overlay positions and the finished cut before delivering.