The Digital Presenter · executive-led video

Your executives on screen, presenting the quarter — with no camera in the building.

A digital presenter is built once, from a single consented recording of your CEO, CFO or IRO. From then on they can front any video in the reporting calendar, over your own slides, in every language your register reads. Issuers use it two ways, and many end up using both.
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THE FORMAT

Your executives on camera, in the week they have no time.

Results week is when the market most wants to hear from your CEO and CFO. It is also the week neither of them can give you two hours in a studio. So the video gets rushed, or it gets pushed to a Tuesday when nobody is still looking.

One consented recording removes the trade-off. From then on your CEO opens the results video and your CFO takes the financial review, in any week of the calendar. Their face, their voice, their words, approved before anything renders.

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ONE FORMAT • TWO USES

One presenter. Two very different jobs.

These are not two lengths of the same video. One is short and supplemental, published to steer the reading before anyone speaks. The other is the prepared remarks in full, taking the place of management reading the deck out loud on the call.

Supplemental

Guidance ahead of the call

Five or six minutes published with the release, with a member of management on screen saying what the quarter turns on. It replaces nothing — the report stands, the deck stands, the call stands. What it decides is what gets read first, and it reaches the retail and international holders who were never going to dial in.

Substitute

The pre-recorded read-out

The prepared remarks in full, delivered by the presenter over the same slides and published with the release, so the live hour opens on questions rather than a twenty-minute reading. Same script, same sign-off, same delivery in every language — and no executive has to be word-perfect at seven in the morning.
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HOW IT WORKS

Three minutes in front of a lens, once. Then never again.

Your CEO reads a short passage to camera — three minutes, one take, no studio and no crew. That recording is the whole of what is asked of them. From it SurgeIR builds a presenter that can front the results video, the trading update, the AGM notice and the transaction announcement, in any week of the calendar.

It does not improvise. The presenter says what the approved script says, and the script is written from your own disclosures and checked against them. Where your material will not support a line, SurgeIR flags it rather than writing a plausible one.

Consent is written, scoped and dated. Use is limited to your own approved material, the video is labelled as AI-generated, and the presenter is retired the moment the executive asks — including after they leave.

The same recording carries every language your register reads. Not a subtitle track and not a different voice actor per market: the same executive, the same delivery, addressing a Dutch holder and a German one in their own language.

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USE CASE 01 — SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDANCE

Investors and analysts would rather watch six minutes than read sixty pages.

The release goes out at seven. The call is at eleven. In those four hours the market forms its first view out of a sixty-page pack, and management has no way to say which part of it the quarter actually turns on.

A supplemental video published with the release closes that gap. Six minutes, on the record, hitting home management's key points before the first analyst has framed a question.

A presenter changes what that six minutes is. A voice over slides is a summary; a named executive on screen is management going on the record about their own quarter. It is attributable, it carries a face the market already knows, and it looks like the company rather than like a document.

Supplemental is the operative word. Nothing is withdrawn and nothing is replaced. This is simply what people watch first, and what they watch first is what they read the rest through.

SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDANCE

NSI, H1 2026: five minutes forty-eight, chapter by chapter.

Long enough to carry the half, short enough that people reach the end. The presenter holds the frame where management is speaking for itself, and gives it up where a chart says it better. Chapters carrying required language are locked to the approved text and cannot be edited away by accident.

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In the market

NSI published its H1 2026 results with the CEO fronting the video.

The release, the deck and a six-minute presenter-led video went out together at seven. The same presenter delivered it in Dutch, English, German and French, from one script checked against the half-year report — with no camera booked and no executive taken out of results week.
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Use case 02 — the pre-recorded read-out

Reading the deck out loud is the least valuable thing a CFO does all quarter.

On most results calls the first twenty minutes are prepared remarks: two executives reading a script over slides everyone on the line already has open. It is the part nobody asks a question about, and the part that takes the diary time.

Pre-record it. Publish the prepared remarks with the release, delivered by the presenter over the same slides, and the live call starts where it should — at the questions. Management joins for the discussion rather than the recital.

Nothing about the format changes for the listener. There is still a CEO on screen opening the half and a CFO taking the financial review — the same faces, the same order, the same slides. What changes is that it was rendered at four in the afternoon two days before, from a script legal had already signed.

Nobody stumbles over a segment name on the record. Nobody has to be word-perfect at seven in the morning. And a correction the night before is a re-render of one chapter rather than a call to the whole leadership team.

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Consent and disclosure

The first question your general counsel will ask.

A synthetic presenter is a harder governance question than a voice over slides, and it should be. These are the answers we would want if we were the ones signing it off.

Consent is written and scoped

The executive signs what the presenter may be used for, by whom, and for how long. It covers your own approved material and nothing else. It is dated, it is on file, and it is theirs to withdraw at any point — including after they leave the company.

The video says what it is

Every video is labelled as AI-generated. We do not think a synthetic presenter should be passed off as a filmed one, and an issuer that discloses it plainly is in a far better position than one asked about it later by a journalist.

It can only say approved things

The presenter reads the script, and the script is written from your disclosures and checked against them line by line. Where the material will not support a sentence, it is flagged and left for a human. The presenter has no capacity to answer a question or go off-text.

Fewer people see the numbers

No crew, no studio, no editing house holding unpublished results overnight. The set of people who see the figures before release does not grow, and every version is logged and exportable — for your file, your auditor or your regulator.

QUESTIONS

What IR teams ask before the first one.

Is this a deepfake?

No. A deepfake is built without the subject's knowledge and used to make them say things they did not agree to. This is built from a recording your executive sat down and made, under written consent, and it can only read a script your own team approved. The video is labelled as AI-generated and the transcript records where each line came from.

How good does the recording have to be?

Better than a video call, worse than a studio. A quiet room, a window behind the camera rather than behind the executive, and a decent phone on a stand will do it. We send the passage to read and sit on the call while it is recorded, which takes about half an hour in total.

Will it look uncanny?

Judge it yourself before you commit to anything. We will build a presenter from a short test recording and put it in front of you, and if it is not good enough to publish under your name then it is not good enough. Most people find the voice convinces them before the face does.

What happens when the CFO leaves?

The presenter is retired and the successor records a new one. Consent does not transfer, and it does not survive the person — a presenter is not a company asset in the way a logo is.

Do we have to use a presenter at all?

No. Plenty of issuers publish slides and a voice and never put a face in the frame. The presenter is a separate decision, taken per video and even per chapter, and you can take it a quarter later on the same timeline.

How many executives can we build?

As many as have consented. Most teams start with the CEO and CFO, and add the IRO for trading updates and AGM notices. Each one is a separate recording and a separate consent record.