About the show:
Automation for Agencies is the podcast where AppSumo founders meet agency owners. Host Drew Rattray scores every tool against the Agency Viability Score (AVS) rubric — white-label depth, multi-client management, reseller viability, integration flexibility, and roadmap confidence, so agency listeners know what's actually worth buying. Learn · Launch · Scale.
Guest bio:
Kushal Poddar is the founder of Poko Motion (poko.video), a desktop app that turns a website URL, PDF, deck, or asset folder into a finished motion-graphics video for $5–8, rendered locally. It's his second venture — his first, an AI companion platform he scaled last year, burned through demo videos faster than any editor could deliver, so he built the editor out of the loop. Poko launched June 2, 2026 and sits around 4.5 on Trustpilot.
Key quotes:
"It's a total desktop app, everything stays locally, you don't need to upload anything on cloud, no data risk, nothing, everything stays local."
Timestamps:
00:00 — Intro
00:48 — Why Kushal built Poko: editors charging thousands per video
02:35 — Fully local desktop app: no cloud, no tracking
04:02 — Live demo: website URL to video in one prompt
05:27 — Pricing: ~$5 a video, zero markup on AI usage
07:22 — BYOK and connecting a Claude subscription
08:19 — Local models: near-zero marginal cost on your own GPU
09:45 — MCP servers: publish to YouTube, Meta, and Google Ads
11:23 — Five parallel agents and the Agent Canvas
13:41 — The $8 two-minute demo, cloned voice included
15:19 — Client workspaces and brand kits: five to six days out
17:54 — Roadmap: animation maker, per-brand memory, UGC + motion
19:48 — Traction: 4.5 Trustpilot, 85% agency owners, 24-hour support
Resources:
Poko Motion Playbook
Poko Motion Lifetime Deal
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