About

The series

Life With Claude is an original animated comedy short series. It follows Tony, a regular guy, and Claude, his human-sized assistant who turns every basic task into an over-explained, over-eager disaster. Episodes are built for vertical, mobile-first viewing and run between 30 and 100 seconds.

The studio

Vertically Challenged is a vertical-video studio and podcast making short-form comedy for mobile audiences. The podcast, The Jay & Tony Show Show: Vertically Challenged, has been running for well over a hundred episodes. Life With Claude is our first animated series.

How it is made

Production is a human-driven creative process. Ideas, scripts, direction, and editing come from our team. Visuals are AI-generated, and an in-house pipeline handles delivery to each platform. We say this plainly rather than bury it: the writing and the comedy judgment are human, the pictures are generated.

The publisher tool

Life With Claude — Publisher is our internal content-preparation tool. After an episode is rendered it places the finished file into our own social drafts, for us to review and publish ourselves. It never posts publicly on its own. See the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.