CineGen

From a written idea to a finished film — in one AI-native workspace.

Pre-launch · product-complete AI-native video studio

Casey Shore · Founder & CEO · hello@aionapp.org

SC 02THE PROBLEM

Making video is still slow,
expensive, and fragmented.

AI made clips easy to generate. It did nothing to make a production easy to finish.

5+

tools stitched together for a single short — scripting, storyboarding, a generator, an editor, and a review thread that lives in email.

Prompt box

is all today's AI video tools give you. No timeline, no character continuity, no way for a team to review a cut.

Days lost

to re-exporting, chasing feedback, and fixing characters and voices that drift from scene to scene.

SC 03THE SOLUTION

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 once, keep them 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, and sign-off.

SC 04HOW IT WORKS

The whole film,
on one track.

No exporting between apps — every step feeds the next inside CineGen, from the first prompt to the final render.

The AI Storyboarder — where every production starts

01

Storyboard

→

02

Characters

→

03

Generate

→

04

Edit

→

05

Ship

SC 05WHAT'S ALREADY BUILT

Not a mockup. A deployed product.

Eleven production modules are live on Firebase & Google Cloud today — built solo, capital-efficiently.

3D Scene Creator · beta

Batch generation

Share & review

AI StoryboarderCharacter CreatorVideo Generation 3D Scene CreatorTimeline EditorAI Enhance & Upscale Render & ExportCollaborationTeams Billing & TokensTrust & Security

SC 06WHY NOW

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.
The next frontier is in build. A 3D scene creator with gaussian splats is already prototyped.

SC 07MARKET

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 from public market reports and a bottom-up model — to be validated with sourced data in diligence.

TAM · Video creation & editing software

~$45B

Global spend on tools that create and edit video.

SAM · AI-assisted video for creators & SMB

~$8B

The segment CineGen's product directly serves.

SOM · 3-year serviceable target

~$18M ARR

≈ 50,000 paying seats at a ~$30 blended monthly ARPU.

SC 08BUSINESS MODEL

Subscription + usage, built for margin.

Recurring plans anchor revenue; a metered token economy scales with heavy users and protects margin on AI compute.

SOLO / EDIT

$9.99–14.99

Full editor & cloud processing, no AI tokens.

CREATOR

$19 /mo

1,000 AI tokens/mo for shorts.

PRO · POPULAR

$49 /mo

2,800 tokens/mo for weekly creators.

STUDIO

$99 /mo

6,000 tokens/mo + seat-based Teams.

~20%

worst-case gross margin, even if every token is spent on video — the most expensive action. Margin widens as compute costs fall.

4

revenue lines: subscriptions, token packs, custom top-ups, and Team seats.

Live

Stripe billing, metered ledger, and idempotent webhooks — tested end-to-end today.

SC 09GO-TO-MARKET

A repeatable path to paying creators.

The motion

Content & SEO — tutorials, templates, and “made with CineGen” shorts that rank for high-intent AI-video searches.
Product-led growth — a free tier plus shareable exports; every published video markets the tool.
Community & creators — filmmaker communities and creator collaborations for credible, low-cost reach.
Land solo, expand to teams — free and Creator plans convert to Pro, then seat-based Teams as studios standardize.
Paid, once proven — layer in performance marketing only after CAC and payback are validated.

Target unit economics

$28 /mo

blended ARPU across Creator, Pro & Studio.

~$80

target blended CAC, organic-led.

~$450

estimated LTV — ~24-month life at ~70% contribution margin.

~6 : 1

LTV : CAC, with payback under 4 months.

Targets from a bottom-up model — to be validated and tuned after launch.

SC 10COMPETITIVE POSITIONING

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

SC 11STATUS & TRACTION

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, shipped by a single founder.

11 modules

shipped & deployed — storyboard, characters, generation, 3D scene creator, editor, AI enhance, render, collaboration, teams, billing, security.

Live billing

Stripe + metered token ledger verified end-to-end, ready for real revenue on day one.

Serverless

Firebase Functions, Cloud Run render workers, and a job queue — scales without a fixed ops burden.

SC 12ROADMAP

From launch to a 3D-native studio.

NOW — H2 2026

Launch & grow

Public launch, real testimonials, first cohort of paying creators and teams, and the metrics for a Series A.

IN BETA NOW

3D Scene Creator

Load gaussian-splat environments, place characters, and set camera keyframes for AI to interpolate — already live in beta, with scan-to-splat capture next.

2027

Platform

Scan-to-splat capture, an asset marketplace, and a public API to embed CineGen generation into other tools.

SC 13THE ASK

Raising $500K to launch.

A seed round to take a finished product to market and build the growth engine — roughly 18 months of runway.

Public launch & first paying cohort
Repeatable acquisition channel & early MRR
3D Scene Creator to general availability

Engineering & product development$200K · 40%

Growth & user acquisition$125K · 25%

AI & compute — Veo, splat GPU$100K · 20%

Operations, legal & runway$75K · 15%

Illustrative allocation — refined with lead investor.

SC 14THE TEAM & THE VISION

Everyone has a film in them.
CineGen gets it made.

Casey Shore

Founder & CEO, AIon LLC

Full-stack founder who designed, built, and deployed the entire CineGen platform — the React frontend, the Firebase & Google Cloud backend, and the AI video, voice, and storyboarding pipelines.

hello@aionapp.org github.com/BowArrow California, USA

CINEGENGET IN TOUCH

Let's get your film made.

See the live product and where a $500K seed takes it — I'd love to walk you through it.

Casey Shore · Founder & CEO

hello@aionapp.org

github.com/BowArrow · linkedin.com/in/casey-shore · Confidential