7 things to ask any AI influencer agency before you pay.
By Imran Rafi · Last updated 2026-10-20 · 4 min read
Seven questions, each of which an agency can answer in one sentence or dodge. We wrote them down because we would rather be checked than trusted — and because we had to answer every one of them ourselves first.
1. Who legally stands behind this?
Terms without a named operator are not terms. If nobody signs them, nobody is bound by them.
Our answer: Imran Rafi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is printed at the bottom of both our Privacy Policy and our Terms — no bracketed placeholder anywhere.
2. Show me moving pictures, not stills.
Any image can be generated in a minute. Video is where the pipeline actually gets tested: motion, hands, faces, lips.
Our answer: Three clips play right on the homepage — the Samples section, no download. Eleven more sit on our public YouTube channel, unlisted nowhere.
3. What format and length do you actually deliver?
A feed needs vertical video. "Up to 30 seconds" means something different to every agency, so ask it out loud.
Our answer: Portrait 9:16, up to 30 seconds per video — sized for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, not a reshoot of a TV ad.
4. Which models make the videos?
Agencies that will not name their stack are usually reselling one tool with a margin on top.
Our answer: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 for video; Claude and GPT write the scripts. The stack is re-selected per brief — nothing is locked to one vendor.
5. What does setup cost, and how long does it take?
A fee with no number and no timeline is a number you find out after you have committed.
Our answer: The setup fee is quoted in writing after a discovery call, priced to what your brand already has. Set-up takes about 2 weeks before your first video.
6. What can I check outside your website?
A site is a document you wrote about yourself. An account is a thing strangers can already see.
Our answer: youtube.com/@cephsync — eleven public videos, watched the way any stranger would watch them. No screenshots of views, no borrowed logos.
7. What happens before anything publishes?
The real risk is not bad taste, it is a post you never saw going out under your brand name.
Our answer: Nothing publishes without your yes. Every clip lands in an approval queue in your dashboard first, and the history stays logged.
Ask the same seven of us on a call — or of anyone else. Book a discovery call, or watch the samples on the homepage first.