Our story

We built the tool
we needed first.

Baz didn’t start as a video company.

We were building a different AI product and, like many startups, we thought the challenge would be building great software.

We were wrong.

The hardest part wasn’t building the product. It was getting people to discover it.

We wanted to grow organically, but creating content was painfully slow and didn’t scale. We’re software builders, not content creators.

So we built a tool for ourselves.

Our first software launch video — made with the tool we built for ourselves.

The first version of Baz had one job: take our app and turn it into a beautiful software launch video.

We built the workflow into our web app, and it quickly helped us grow to 10,000 users. But after launch, we faced the same challenge every startup faces: staying relevant requires creating content consistently.

So we started building more Skills, each designed around a specific type of content and a specific goal. Founder stories. Product explainers. Educational videos.

Founder stories
Product explainers
Educational videos

Today, a couple of hours of prompting can produce weeks of content. Skills can be reused, improved, and shared — turning content creation from a manual process into an AI storytelling super-intelligence that compounds over time.

That’s what Baz is really building.

The founders

Jack & Markus

Photo of Jack
Jack
Co-founder
Photo of Markus
Markus
Co-founder

Baz was founded by Jack and Markus, two builders who met on a tropical island in Vietnam on Christmas Day, 2023.

Jack and Markus on the podium at the Côn Đảo 73km Ultra Marathon in Vietnam
1st and 3rd at the Côn Đảo 73km Ultra Marathon, Vietnam.

Markus had hitchhiked from Norway. Jack was recovering from his previous startup, Modmo. What started as a conversation about ideas turned into months of traveling together, exploring different countries, and eventually building something together.

Over the following year, we traveled across Asia while experimenting with ideas and working on new products. Eventually, we bought a camper van in the Alps and spent a summer building software from the road. Our office was wherever we parked: mountains outside the window, laptops on the table, and a new place to explore every few days.

Jack and Markus on the roof of their camper van at sunset in the Alps
A summer building from the road — camper van, Alps.

We later joined the Network School in Malaysia, building alongside hundreds of other founders and startups from around the world. It reinforced something we strongly believe: the best way to build for a community is to be part of that community.

We think of Baz as a nomadic startup.

Not because we want to escape work, but because we genuinely love building. We’re not building towards a quick exit or chasing a traditional startup lifestyle. We simply enjoy the process of creating things every day and want to build in environments that inspire us.

Being close to our users is a core part of how we work. When we build tools for startups, we spend time surrounded by startups. When we create content workflows, we learn from the people using them. We believe the best products come from being close to the problems you’re solving.

Wherever we are, we’re building.

Built from 12 countries
Map of the 12 countries baz has been built from — Ireland, Norway, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Croatia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines