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Public teardowns answer: what can I learn before running my own analysis? The public teardown library is free to browse without a card. It is the fastest way to understand what a finished videngineer report looks like and to collect references before spending credits or running your own source.

What is public

Public teardowns show the report layers Mark has made available for research and discovery. You can read the format call, logline, script structure, cuts, blueprint, sound, cast/world, and recipe surfaces when they are part of that teardown. Live example: Coinbase - “Break The Cycle” teardown.

Search, tags, and category pages

Search matches every word you enter, in any order, and ignores punctuation and accent differences. Use format filters to broaden within a format set, then add tags to narrow to teardowns that carry every selected tag (AND). Tags are grouped into seven dimensions. Four of them — opening hook, job of the video, length, and where it ran — are exclusive: a teardown carries at most one tag from each, so picking a second one inside that group swaps the selection. Tags are descriptive study facets. They never change a teardown’s primary category or its link. Category pages continue to live at:
Use category permalinks when you want to share a research silo with a teammate or return to a set later. Filtered gallery states stay on the gallery URL (?tag=…&tag=…) and are not separate pages.

Storytelling approach · pick any

How the video makes its case.

Opening hook · pick one

The device the first seconds use to earn attention.

Production style · pick any

How it was made; what your team would need.

Techniques to study · pick any

Craft moves you can point your editor at.

Job of the video · pick one

What the video was built to do.

Length · pick one

Runtime band, read from the video itself. Read from the teardown itself at view time — nothing to tag.

Where it ran · pick one

Source platform, read from the public link. Read from the teardown itself at view time — nothing to tag.

Ask your assistant

The same library is available to your connected assistant through three read-only, free tools. Every result is a public permalink plus a bounded study summary — reference material to learn the mechanism from, never footage.

list_teardown_tags(dimension?, include_counts?)

Returns the vocabulary above — dimensions, tag keys, labels, one-line definitions, aliases — and how many public teardowns carry each tag. Pass keys (not labels) to find_teardowns.

find_teardowns(goal?, format?, tags?, hook_type?, quality?, limit?, offset?)

Ranked shortlist. Filters combine with AND: format (a facet slug), tags (any mix of dimensions — hook-cold-open, under-30s, youtube, …), hook_type (the opening-hook enum; identical to the matching hook-* tag), quality (viral, hot, new, 4k). limit up to 25: five or fewer return the full card; more than five return a compact list (slug, title, category, tags, views, duration, permalink) — open any of them with get_teardown. offset pages the same order.

get_teardown(slug)

One teardown’s study detail: the card (title, category, tags by dimension, metrics, permalink, public source link when available), a bounded study of the mechanism — opening hook, first beats, insights, pacing and shot stats, music switches, whether it runs without voiceover — and up to three related teardowns in the same format.
Every tool reads only published teardowns and the same public report layers the page shows. Unpublished or unknown slugs return a single “not found” answer.

Run this on your video

Public teardown pages can point you back into your own analysis flow. Use this when a public example shows the kind of report you want, but you need the same breakdown for your product, category, or client source.

Download and sign-in gates

Some actions, especially downloads, saving to Library, paid assets, and running your own teardown, require sign-in or a paid plan. Browsing public teardowns is free; production assets and private research live behind the relevant plan and credit gates.

Your first teardown

Start with public browsing or run your own source.

Library overview

Save public references and media into your own workspace.