Local-first AI for creative professionals

Shoot more.Edit less.

Darkgrade dials in your camera, captures the shot, and returns a finished first cut — on your own machine. You stay the director. Nothing leaves your computer unless you say so.

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Making videos is ten percent fun.

The rest is menus and an edit that never ends.

We’re deleting the rest.

Our thesis

01Our product, in three acts2026 —

Act I

Link

Open-source library

Here today: Control your camera from any app
Here today: Works with Sony / Nikon / Canon
On the way: More camera brands
On the way: Let local models control your camera with MCP

Act II

Studio

No-code desktop & mobile app

Here today: Set up your lights and camera in one tap
Here today: Works with the gear you already own
On the way: Voice control for your whole studio
On the way: A first cut ready when you stop recording

Act III

Matrix

Camera compatibility list

Here today: See what works with your camera
Here today: See why we know it works with your camera
On the way: Share what you know about your camera

of post-production per video, cut down to minutes.

cameras have spoken one shared language.

leave your machine by default.

of our code is licensed as fair core. Read the code on GitHub

The hills we’ll die on.

02Principles

/01

You’re never replaced

No AI slop, no fake people. We make your real footage move faster — and give you back your evenings.

/02

Local-first & private

Everything runs on your machine by default. We don’t train on your footage.

/03

Open & honest

A fair core that stays free, fair pricing for the app, no bait-and-switch.

/04

Fast as your ideas

Camera manufacturers move in decades. An open product moves at the speed of its community.

03The point of all this

Somewhere, two people have a podcast in their heads humanity will never hear.

The world is still waiting on what you haven’t made yet.

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