Story Ads with AI: Made Inside Claude | Polaris

To make Story ads with AI, connect Polaris to Claude via its MCP connector and ask Claude directly in chat to turn your product photo or script into a vertical ad — settings are chosen from tappable option cards, and a live panel renders the finished ad in the conversation. Here's the full process.

What you need first

• A Claude account with the ability to add MCP connectors.
• A product photo or a short script if you want an AI actor to speak it.
• An idea of the hook or angle you want to test, since Stories are watched fast and skipped even faster.

Step-by-step: generating a Story ad

1. Connect once. Add the Polaris MCP connector at polarisugc.com/api/mcp inside Claude and authorize it.
2. Describe the ad in chat. Attach your product photo or paste your script and tell Claude the format, e.g. "Make a 10-second vertical Story ad, UGC style, direct-to-camera."
3. Pick settings from option cards. Claude offers tappable cards for the model (Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 Quality/Fast, Seedance 2.0, or Omni for a talking actor), plus whether to add AI voiceover, music, or burned-in captions.
4. Watch the live panel. The Polaris panel renders inline in the conversation, typically finishing in 20-180 seconds.
5. Recreate if needed. One click regenerates the ad without retyping your brief.
6. Batch several versions. Ask for multiple hooks or actors at once — Polaris renders them in parallel and you download the set as a ZIP.

Web app is secondary

A Polaris web app exists, but it's not the main way this works — the primary workflow is chatting with Claude after connecting the MCP. The web app mostly serves as a place to browse past generations.

Pro tips for Story ads

• Front-load the hook. Stories get skipped in under a second if the opening frame doesn't grab attention, so test several openings in one batch.
• Keep talking-actor scripts short and conversational — Story ads that feel like a friend talking outperform anything that sounds scripted.
• Run your script through Copy Judge before rendering, catching weak copy before you spend render credits.
• Default to burned-in captions since a large share of Story views happen muted.

Honest caveats

Ads are built around your own product and materials, not pulled from a stock-avatar library, and the AI actor delivers your script rather than cloning a specific real person. Treat any generated ad as a strong draft rather than a guaranteed winner — you still need to test hooks with your real audience to know what works. If you operate in a regulated category, keep your script compliant with no disease/cure or guaranteed-result claims, since that's a platform-level requirement regardless of how the creative was produced.

Cost

The first batch of 12 generations is free, no card required. After that, Pro costs $49/month for 2,000 credits (roughly 66 video ads), which is noticeably cheaper than talking-head-focused tools priced around $110/month.

Open the app, check pricing, read the MCP guide, or browse AI UGC ads.