Clayton Everett Design × Bizarre Bunny

Prepared for Raising Cane's

One Love.
One Dog.
One Show.

A digital avatar of Cane III, built for the microdrama and AI influencer era. Made for the fastest-growing chicken brand in America.

The Format

No fast food brand has claimed this format yet.

Microdramas and AI influencers are the same wave. One half is 60-90 second scripted series shot vertically for mobile. The other is fully generated mascots with audiences the size of Netflix originals. The US restaurant category is wide open.

$7B
China microdrama market in 2024. Larger than the domestic box office.
1.4B
Views pulled by KFC from a single 13-episode microdrama series.
35.7 min
Daily viewing per microdrama user. Beats Netflix.
30M+
Lu do Magalu followers. Lil Miquela 2.5M. Aitana Lopez $11k/mo in brand deals. All of them fully generated.

The first fast food brand to claim a named AI mascot owns the category. The second looks like a copy.

Why Now

The window is open for six months.

No US fast food chain has a named AI mascot with a voice and a story. Someone claims this by Q3. If it isn't Cane's, it's Popeyes or Chick-fil-A — and the second one in the category looks like a follower.

The Digital Twin

Modelled From The Real Cane III.

The real Cane III has 108K Instagram followers and a restaurant chain built around her. She's not going anywhere. This is her digital twin — a fully modelled AI character, rendered from reference photos, consistent in every frame, designed to show up where the real dog can't.

Cane III portrait
Cane III smile
Cane III full body

She can show up anywhere, anytime, in any costume. At Daytona. On the bobsled. Backstage at a country show. Inside every store, every week, every season.

The Differentiator

When Cane IV comes along,
the twin stays.

One character. One voice. One personality. Running in perpetuity across every dog, every campaign, every era. That's the difference between a stunt and infrastructure.

Six Doors To Knock On

Six Ways Cane III Shows Up.

Cane's already sponsors a NASCAR Cup car, a Truck Series ride, a US Olympic bobsled, and partners with Luke Bryan and Megan Moroney. The partnerships are live. The brand energy is there. Below are six specific concepts — character, costume, format, video. Six places her digital twin could show up next.

Idea 01

The Pit Lane Podcast

A recurring pit road podcast with Cane III at the mic. Every race weekend she "interviews" a driver, a crew chief, a Caniac contest winner. Treated completely seriously, slotted straight into the existing NASCAR content cycle.

Recurring podcast · NASCAR · 60–90s
Idea 02

NASCAR Race Day

A hero campaign for race weekend. Cane III on the front grid with the #43, in the pit lane, on the broadcast overlay. Turns a sponsorship into a story. Full anthem for CTV, 15-sec cuts for race week socials.

Hero campaign · Race weekend · 15s + 60s
Country tribute · Stage
Country tribute · Drive-thru
Idea 03

The Country Crossover

Cane's already runs deep with country music. The digital twin slides inside both existing partnerships: a stage tribute when a partner artist plays, a drive-thru takeover when they drop a record. Every collab gets its own episode.

Country music collab · Series · 30–60s
Idea 04

Team USA

Cane III inside the Team USA story. At the top of the bobsled run, at hockey training camp, in the locker room. Evergreen format that runs every Olympics, every season opener, every training cycle the existing partnerships already cover.

Athlete collabs · Team USA · Evergreen
Idea 05

The Caniac Chronicles

The proper microdrama. A scripted workplace comedy inside a Cane's, dog as honorary manager, new crisis every episode. 60–90 seconds, one a week. The New Crew Member. The Lemonade Incident. A Guest With Standards. The format that pulled 1.4B views for KFC.

Microdrama series · Weekly · 60–90s
Idea 06

The Cane III Collection

Cane III fronting the existing merch line. Editorial shoots in the real cap, hoodie, bandana and tumbler. Every season a new drop — Summer, Game Day, Olympics, Tour. The line writes itself: "Modelled by the boss."

Merch · Editorial · Direct-to-commerce
Clayton Everett Design × Bizarre Bunny

The Next Step

A 30-minute call with Keith.

Keith at Clayton Everett Design runs the Cane's relationship out of Dallas. He'll walk the team through the full plan: the production pipeline, the first three episodes we'd ship, and the timeline to go live.

Clayton Everett Design × Bizarre Bunny. 30 years building brands out of Dallas meets the AI video studio on the production side.

Email Keith to book the call