CineGen
The AI-native video studio that takes you from a written idea to a finished, exported film — storyboard, characters, generation, and a real edit suite in one workspace.
Casey Shore — Founder & Lead Engineer · hello@aionapp.org · Confidential
Making video is still slow,
expensive, and fragmented.
AI made clips easy to generate. It did nothing to make a production easy to finish.
One studio,
storyboard to export.
CineGen unifies the entire pipeline in a single collaborative workspace — the AI generation and the professional edit suite around it.
Everyone else ships a prompt box. We ship the edit suite that turns prompts into finished films.
- AI Storyboarder — a prompt becomes sequenced shots, descriptions, and dialogue.
- Consistent characters & voices — define a character once, keep it across every scene.
- Veo video generation — batch-generate clips straight into your media bin.
- Real multi-track timeline — trim, keyframe, transition, and inspect like a pro NLE.
- Cloud render & export — presets for YouTube, TikTok, and ProRes.
- Team review & approvals — shareable links, comments, sign-off, render-on-approve.
The whole film, on one track.
No exporting between apps. Every step feeds the next inside CineGen.
Storyboard
Prompt the AI Storyboarder; shape scenes, shots, and dialogue into a plan.
→Characters
Define look, voice, and personality once for consistent, one-click voiceovers.
→Generate
Batch-generate video clips; they land in the project media bin automatically.
→Edit
Cut on a real multi-track timeline — trims, keyframes, transitions, inspector.
→Ship
Cloud-render to platform presets; share a review link and get sign-off.
Not a mockup. A deployed product.
Nine production modules are live on Firebase & Google Cloud today — built solo, capital-efficiently.
AI Storyboarder
Multi-scene storyboards with shot types, descriptions, and dialogue from a text prompt.
Character Creator
Consistent look, voice, and personality reused across every generated scene.
Video Generation
Veo-powered scene generation with batching and auto-add to the media bin.
Timeline Editor
Multi-track NLE: media bin, live preview, inspector, keyframes, transforms.
Render & Export
Background render queue with presets for YouTube, TikTok, and ProRes.
Collaboration
Timeboxed review links, no-account commenting, threaded feedback, approvals.
Teams
Seat-based workspaces with a shared, pooled AI token allowance.
Billing & Tokens
Live Stripe integration, metered token ledger, packs, and top-ups.
Trust & Security
Private projects, role-based access, SSO, and per-project audit logs.
The bottleneck just moved.
Generation quality crossed the usable threshold in 2025–26. The hard part is no longer making a clip — it's turning clips into a finished, on-brand production. That's exactly where CineGen sits.
- Models are ready. Veo 3.1 and its peers produce production-grade footage on demand.
- Costs are falling fast. Per-second generation keeps dropping — expanding our margin over time.
- Workflow is the gap. Creators have generators and editors, but nothing that connects them end-to-end.
- The next frontier is in build. A 3D scene creator — gaussian splats + AI keyframe interpolation — is already prototyped.
A large market,
an exploding wedge.
CineGen rides the fast-growing AI-video layer while serving the enormous existing market of creators, marketers, and small studios who make video every week.
Figures are founder estimates drawn from public market reports and a bottom-up model — to be validated with sourced data in diligence.
Subscription + usage, built for margin.
Recurring plans anchor revenue; a metered token economy scales with heavy users and protects margin on AI compute.
$9.99–14.99
Editor & Editor+ — full NLE and cloud processing, no AI tokens.
$19 /mo
1,000 AI tokens/mo for filmmakers shipping shorts.
$49 /mo
2,800 tokens/mo for creators producing every week.
$99 /mo
6,000 tokens/mo plus seat-based Teams with pooled tokens.
The only full production suite.
Generators are strong at clips; editors are strong at cutting. Nobody connects generation, continuity, a real timeline, and team review in one place.
| Tool | AI generation | Real timeline NLE | Character continuity | Team review & approvals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runway / Pika / Luma | Yes | Minimal | Limited | No |
| CapCut / DaVinci | No | Yes | No | Partial |
| Descript | Text/audio-led | Simplified | No | Yes |
| CineGen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Comparison reflects each product's primary positioning; feature sets evolve.
Built. Deployed.
Ready to launch.
The product risk is behind us. What remains is a go-to-market motion — precisely what this round funds.
A complete, live SaaS platform — designed, engineered, and shipped by a single founder.
From launch to a 3D-native studio.
Launch & grow
Public launch, real testimonials, first cohort of paying creators and teams, and the metrics for a Series A.
3D Scene Creator
Load gaussian-splat environments, place characters, set camera keyframes, and let AI interpolate the shot — already prototyped. Plus template workflows and deeper automation.
Platform
Scan-to-splat capture pipeline, an asset marketplace, and a public API to embed CineGen generation into other tools.
Raising $500K to launch.
A seed round to take a finished product to market and build the growth engine — roughly 18 months of runway to launch, traction, and Series A metrics.
- Public launch & first paying cohort
- Repeatable acquisition channel & early MRR
- 3D Scene Creator to general availability
Illustrative allocation — refined with lead investor.
Everyone has a film in them.
CineGen gets it made.
Casey Shore
Founder & Lead Engineer, AIon LLC. Full-stack engineer building the entire product — React frontend, Firebase/GCP backend, and the AI video, voice, and storyboarding pipelines.
Let's talk
- hello@aionapp.org
- github.com/BowArrow
- linkedin.com/in/casey-shore
Seed · Raising $500K · 2026 · Confidential