Articles & write-ups.
Notes on building an internal AI assistant for a working studio — the design decisions, the trade-offs, and what actually held up in production.
The studio already knows the answer. It just can’t find it.
Creative studios rarely lack information. What they lack is a way to connect the files, feedback, decisions and conversations that make up the real history of a project.
Read →Searching footage by meaning, not filenames
Filenames describe how material was stored. Editors remember what happened inside it. Meaning-based search connects those two ways of seeing the archive.
Read →Why studio AI should be local-first
For creative studios, privacy is not a setting added after deployment. It begins with where media is processed, what leaves the studio and who can reach the source.
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