Runway Launches AI Agent for End-to-End Video

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Written by Umaima Shah

Fri May 15 2026

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Runway announced Runway Agent on May 13, 2026, a conversational AI system that produces complete, multi-shot videos from a written brief. Users describe what they want, the agent proposes a concept and story structure, generates the scenes, adds voiceover, dialogue, and music, and delivers a finished video ready to publish, all within a single conversation.

The launch marks Runway's most direct push into end-to-end video production automation. Previous Runway tools required users to generate individual clips and assemble them manually. Runway Agent handles the full pipeline from brief to timeline, reducing what previously took days of iteration to a single session.

From Brief to Timeline: How Runway Agent Works

The workflow is built around conversation rather than manual tool selection.

Users describe the video they want to create using conversational prompts rather than traditional editing tools
Reference images can be uploaded to guide visual style and shot direction
The system generates a proposed concept and story structure before producing the final video
Users can refine scenes, pacing, and creative direction through iterative prompts
A built-in timeline editor allows final adjustments after generation
According to Runway, the system can generate high-resolution, multi-shot videos in minutes instead of the multi-day review cycles common in traditional production workflows

Four Use Cases at Launch

Brand campaigns. Seasonal content, awareness spots, and campaign assets. Users develop a concept through conversation, lock the direction, and generate multiple variations without restarting the project.
Social and always-on content. For teams producing content at social media cadence, Runway Agent is positioned as a way to match publishing speed without traditional production timelines or costs.
Film and television. For independent filmmakers, the agent compresses the distance between the initial concept and the finished scene. For production teams, it serves as a fast lane for previs and concept development, getting a visual direction in front of collaborators before committing to a shoot.
Product content. Users describe a new product, upload reference images, and the agent builds a finished video around it.

The Roadmap Beyond Multi-Shot Video

Runway describes multi-shot video as an intentional starting point. The near-term roadmap includes more complex workflows and more of the production process, with the stated goal of expanding creative ambition across teams working at any scale.

The company frames the conversational approach as the foundation for a new kind of creative workflow: an agent that understands goals, builds toward them, and returns control to the user at each step, pulling from brand context and working across models.