Seed Round · 2026
H2H // OS for Storytelling
The Empathy Engine

Technology
to touch
your heart.

We are the foundational operating system for next-generation storytelling and enterprise client retention. Pixels mean nothing without a pulse.

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§ 02 Macro

We send data.
We stopped
sending feelings.

Digital communication has reached a breaking point. Infinite volume, zero empathy. For consumers, the digital world feels isolated. For enterprises, automated outreach — generic birthday emails, template CRM blasts — is instantly ignored. True personalization is too expensive to scale, leaving a gaping white space between two massive markets.

Market A · Legacy
$20B
Greeting Card Industry

High emotional intent. Physical, slow, non-scalable. Flatlining against a digital-native generation.

EQX Lab
The Missing Middle

Infrastructure that scales emotional bandwidth — cinematic empathy, at the speed of compute.

Market B · Emergent
$250B
Creator Economy

Infinite scale. Low emotional fidelity. Storytellers starved for cinematic tools that don't require a studio.

The world doesn't need another generic AI text generator.
The world needs a pulse.

§ 03 Solution

The Empathy
Engine.

EQX Lab builds the digital canvas for human-to-human (H2H) connection. We translate massive-scale AI compute into emotionally resonant, cinematic visual assets.

We operate a dual-engine model: empowering everyday creators with viral storytelling tools, and equipping global enterprise sales teams with automated, hyper-personalized client retention APIs that plug directly into their CRMs.

Dual Engine · Unified OS
01
Creator Layer
Viral storytelling tools. One-click cinematic output.
B2C
02
Enterprise Layer
Hyper-personalized retention APIs. Native CRM hooks.
B2B
Principle 01
Pulse, not pixels.

Every frame must serve a feeling. Beauty without emotion is noise.

Principle 02
Human-to-Human.

AI is the instrument. The sender and receiver are always human.

Principle 03
Scale empathy.

Industrial compute. Intimate output. One-to-a-billion, still personal.

§ 04 Product I
EQX Flow

EQX Flow The Cinematic
Engine.

The director's chair in your pocket.

EQX Flow · Sample Output

Powered by our proprietary NEXES Story Engine, It transforms raw imagination into Hollywood-quality short films — bypassing the fragmented, highly technical workflows of legacy AI tools. Empowering creators and brands to turn raw imagination into emotionally resonant short films in minutes.

01 ·
Proprietary NEXES Story Engine
Go from idea to production in one click. Instantly generate emotionally mapped premises, screenplays, storyboards, and optimized AI prompts.
02 ·
For Enterprise & AdTech
Programmatic, seamless product injection. Brands integrate physical assets into viral AI content.
03 ·
Viral Resonance Engine
Mathematically optimizes the first 3 seconds — the window where hearts are captured or lost.
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§ 06 Moat

Hardcore tech
for soft human
moments.

Standard foundational models fail at storytelling. Character amnesia. Erratic robotic acting. We built the proprietary orchestration layer to fix this. EQX Lab’s proprietary, multi-layered Google Vertex API orchestration pipeline. Across Koma’s sequential graphic generation and EQX Flow's cinematic motion, utilizing proprietary Nexus Story Engine paired with Face-Lock multimodal reference injection. Engineered viral retention with Multi-Agent Sandboxes for emergent plotting, Emotional Chain-of-Thought and Director's Lens algorithms. Utilizing emotional engineering, cross-format visual consistency creates Workflow-as-a-Service ecosystem.

Proprietary
LOCK · 0.994
f1.4 · 24mm
Face-Lock
Technology.

Strict multimodal injection guarantees absolute character and brand consistency, frame by frame.

Proprietary
GENESIS FORGE SCREENPLAY AUTO PROMPT
Nexes
Story Engine.
4 phase architectire and The Director's Lens

Algorithms that force the model to reason through realistic, human-like emotional transitions.

Distributed
1 TRIGGER → 10,000 RENDERS
Zero-Throttle
Infrastructure.

Distributed concurrent computing. A single CRM trigger renders thousands of personalized assets without a stutter.

§ 07 Team

The architects
of empathy.

Ideas are cheap. Execution at global scale is everything. We pair decades of Hollywood-grade pipeline design with deep academic AI research.

Benjamin Cheung — Founder & CEO of EQX Lab
FOUNDER
Read Founder's Letter →
Founder & CEO

20 years of North American cinematic tech (Lucasfilm, Disney, DreamWorks, Sony, Square USA). Scaled the world's first shared-economy film cloud at Rayvision to 60+ countries and a 30× revenue expansion — helping secure early Alibaba and Legend Capital investment, plus an NVIDIA partnership.

Jay Chern — Creative Advisor, EQX Lab
ADVISOR
Creative Advisor - Partner
Jay Chern

Award-winning writer, director, and cinematographer recognized by the Golden Horse, Golden Bell, and Tokyo Short Shorts Film Festivals.

Jake Zhang — Creative Advisor, EQX Lab
ADVISOR
Creative Advisor - Partner
Jake Zhang

Multi animation award winning director. Professor at HKUST, previously professor at SCAD Hong Kong — bridging rigorous academic research and cutting-edge cinematic vision.

Scott Ross — Executive Advisor, EQX Lab
EXECUTIVE ADVISOR
Executive Advisor
Scott Ross

Digital entertainment pioneer. Former VP of Lucasfilm. Co-founder & CEO of multi-Oscar-winning VFX giant Digital Domain, Author of UPSTART The Digital Film Revolution.

Laurent Witz — Creative Advisor, EQX Lab
ADVISOR
Advisor
Laurent Witz

Oscar-winning animation director, and cinematographer Founder and CEO Zeilt Studios.

Rob Colman — Creative Advisor, EQX Lab
ADVISOR
Advisor
Rob Colman

Creative Director ILM. Animation Director for Star Wars I II Phantom Manace, Men in Black, Petter Rabbit I II Happy I II.

§ 08 Next

Ready
to scale
empathy?

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Letter from the Founder
Dispatch No. 001

Why we must
rewire the world
for warmth.

Benjamin Cheung — Founder & CEO of EQX Lab
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— BEN / FOUNDER, CEO
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For over twenty years, I have contributed to many Hollywood's technical firsts and built the digital pipelines that brought some of Hollywood's biggest dreams to life — over 30+ films from Final Fantasy to Rango from Strange Magic to Beowulf. I spent the next decade translated Hollywood-level expertise to the world's first global film cloud service, handling massive enterprise infrastructure. But despite all the compute power we have unlocked, I noticed a profound emptiness in how we use it.

Technology was supposed to connect us. Instead, we are swimming in a sea of automated spam, robotic chatbots, and generic, soulless content. We send billions of data packets every day, but we've forgotten how to send a feeling.

I founded EQX Lab because pixels mean nothing without a pulse.

We are not building AI to replace artists, and we are not building it to generate more noise. We are building the foundational infrastructure to restore the human touch. By combining the rigorous, pipelines of Hollywood with massive, zero-throttle cloud computing, we are giving everyone — from a grandfather telling a bedtime story, to a global enterprise thanking a loyal client — the power to communicate with profound cinematic empathy.

Welcome to the Human-to-Human standard.
Welcome to EQX Lab.

— Ben
Founder & CEO
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About EQX Lab
Company Overview

The OS for
human-to-human
storytelling.

Mission

EQX Lab is an AI infrastructure company dedicated to building the foundational operating system for human-to-human (H2H) storytelling. In a digital era where billions of automated messages are sent daily with zero emotional resonance, our mission is to restore the human touch. We build technology to touch your heart.

Background & History

EQX Lab was born from the intersection of Hollywood cinematic pipelines and massive-scale cloud computing. After two decades of engineering visual and narrative technology for world-class studios — including Lucasfilm, Disney, and DreamWorks — and subsequently scaling one of the world's largest entertainment render clouds to a billion-dollar valuation, our founding team recognized a critical gap in the generative AI market: standard AI models suffer from character amnesia and lack psychological pacing.

To solve this, EQX Lab was established to abstract the complexity of a 40-hour Hollywood production pipeline into a single, scalable API. We spent our early stages developing our proprietary NEXUS Engine and Face-Lock technology, fundamentally shifting AI video from random clip generation to deterministic, emotionally mapped cinematic storytelling.

Structure & DNA

Operating across hubs in Taiwan and Los Angeles, bridging deep-tech research and high-end cinematic execution.

01
Enterprise Infrastructure

Veterans experienced in scaling global cloud architecture and Zero-Throttle compute environments — built to handle billions of concurrent renders without a stutter.

02
Academic AI Research

Leading professors and data scientists optimizing our proprietary MECoT (Mathematical Emotional Arc) logic and multi-agent story architecture.

03
Cinematic Direction

Award-winning writers, directors, and a council of VFX pioneers from Digital Domain, Google, and ILM who ensure our output meets the highest standards of human emotion.

We don't just build software — we engineer the digital canvas so that creators, brands, and enterprises can provide the soul.