Microsoft x Corvus Energy
The point was never the technology. It was the time it gave back.
Scaling clean shipping to 1,500 vessels, and using AI to free people for the work that actually counts.
Bergen, Norway
The problem:
Corvus Energy builds the batteries that let ships run without burning fuel.
Their mission is a clean future for shipping.
But success brought its own problem. As they grew from a couple of hundred vessels to more than 1,500, keeping every one running buried the team in manual, repetitive work.
They even used to fly out to every ship that called. For a company built on cutting emissions, that got uncomfortable.
How Corvus scales clean maritime energy across 1,500 vessels
—with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service.
What all of it is actually for.
The obvious film is a showcase of the platform. The truer story is what the platform is for.
With years of data brought together on Microsoft's infrastructure, Corvus can now predict a fault before it happens, spot an overheating battery room from the service room and fix it remotely, and hand the manual work to agents so people can do what matters.
The AI is never the hero. What it frees people up to do is.
Making it human.
The story was shaped on location, across Corvus's world in Norway, from the Bergen office to the factory and the fjord. People spoke where the work happens, not at a desk.
The job was to find the moments that made a technical subject concrete. The overheating battery room. The planes they no longer had to catch. A 2014 diesel engine, retrofitted to run fully electric.
Those small, human moments carry the film, so the technology lands as the answer to a problem you already understand.
Reach.
One shoot, many ways in. A full film and a short cut. And a set of standalone social clips, quotes lifted over footage, built as their own pieces rather than cut-downs, each designed to catch someone mid-scroll and pull them toward the full story.
Credits
Client: Microsoft
Featuring: Corvus Energy
Creative Director & Producer: George Chevalier Lewis
DP: Chris Baker
Editor: Matt Osborne
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