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CineArt AI · London Vol. I — No. 01 · MMXXVI
A London product studio for agentic AI

90% of companies are using AI.
5% are getting value from it.We build for the 5%.

CineArt AI is a build studio for agentic applications. We design and ship the AI systems your business actually needs: sized to your workflow, integrated into your stack, owned by your team. We've shipped a SaaS exit, run a £7m post-production agency, and built CineSmith, the agentic production platform now in private UK beta.

● Custom builds open · CineSmith beta · 50 UK seats London, UK
Built by people who've shipped at
BBCSkyDiscoveryChannel 4Nat GeoITVNetflix
The gap

Most businesses know they need AI.Almost none are getting value from it yet.

It's not because AI doesn't work. It's because most companies don't have the in-house skills, the technical vision, or the time to build the right thing. And the tools they buy off the shelf weren't built for how their business actually runs.

95%
of corporate generative-AI projects deliver no measurable P&L impact.MIT NANDA · State of AI in Business 2025
2×
vendor-built AI systems succeed twice as often as internal builds.MIT NANDA · 2025
50%
of businesses cite lack of skills as the biggest barrier to AI adoption.Statista · Global business survey 2025
43%
cite lack of vision among managers and leaders as the second-biggest blocker.Statista · 2025

We do both jobs. We bring the skills and the vision: we identify where AI actually fits in your operation, and we build the system that gets you into the 5%.

Case studyOur own productInvite-only UK beta50 Seats
cinesmith.io ↗

CineSmith: what we buildwhen we build for ourselves.

From idea to rough cut, in one platform. We built CineSmith to prove an agentic system can move with the work: script, storyboard, video, voice, schedule, budget, live on set. Built in London by filmmakers and AI specialists.

  • i.One platform, idea to rough cut. Script, storyboard, video, voice, schedule, budget, agents that move with the work, not against it.
  • ii.Story-aware. Multi-provider. Live on set. The system follows the work from first draft through to capture, not just pre-production.
  • iii.Your work stays yours. Single-tenant by default. We never train models on your scripts, storyboards or footage.

For feature films · drama · documentary · podcasts · commercials · branded content · factual TV · animation · music videos · short form.

Engagement model

From scope to shipped,
in weeks not quarters.

Enterprise buyers don't commission six-figure builds from "let's chat." Here's how we actually work.

Week 1–2 · Scope & prototype

We embed with your team, map the workflow, identify the highest-leverage agentic targets, and ship a working prototype of the most valuable one. You see something real, fast.

Output · Working prototype + scoped roadmap

Week 3–8 · Build & integrate

We build the production system, integrate with your existing SaaS / ERP / CMS environment, and harden for security and compliance. SSO, audit logs, single-tenant. Table stakes for us.

Output · Production-grade system in your stack

Week 8+ · Ship, iterate, hand over

You ship to your users. We iterate on real usage data. You take ownership of a system your team can run, or keep us on retainer if you'd rather we kept building.

Output · Owned system + iteration loop

Twenty years of SaaS, ERP, CMS and AI-infrastructure experience on tap. We've built and exited our own products. We know what production-grade software your IT team will actually sign off on.

Built by practitioners

A team that's shippedon both sides.

Most "AI consultancies" are one of two things: technologists who've never shipped a creative product, or creatives who've never written production code. We're neither.

Two decades across film, broadcast and SaaS, including a venture exit, a multi-million-pound post-production agency, and senior engineering roles in the AI infrastructure ecosystem well before the current cycle.

That mix (creative operations and enterprise engineering) is exactly what agentic systems need: someone who understands the workflow and can ship software your IT team will sign off on.

BBCSkyDiscoveryChannel 4Nat GeoITVNetflix
Meet the team →
Case study · 2025 · Brand film

Savannah Energy

Unleash your inner beast: a campaign film blending AI-augmented production with traditional brand-film craft.

Our position

Agentic AI isn't a feature.It's the next layer of creative & operational infrastructure.

We build the products that sit underneath the work: the agents, the pipelines, the systems that let people who make culture and run operations move faster without losing what makes their output theirs.

CineSmith · after private demos

Producers, after they've seen the product.

Unprompted, unedited reactions from working filmmakers who've sat through a 20-minute CineSmith demo. Quotes anonymised at their request. Named case studies available under NDA.

This is the tool we've been waiting for. The moment I get an invite I'm onboarding the entire dev slate.
ProducerUK feature production company · After a 20-min demo
I haven't been this excited about production software since Final Draft launched. Genuinely, when can we use it?
Writer-DirectorIndie feature in pre-production · London
Every documentary director I've shown this to has the same reaction. It's not "interesting", it's "how do I get on the list."
ProducerDocumentary feature in production · UK

These are reactions to CineSmith, our own product. For reactions to our agentic-build work for enterprise clients: those are under NDA. Ask us and we'll arrange a reference call.

Questions we get asked

The honest answers.

Are you training on our data?

No. Your data, your IP, your customers. Single-tenant by default, contractually guaranteed. The same applies to CineSmith and to anything we build for you.

Do you only build for the creative industries?

No. The creative work is what got us started, but our SaaS, ERP and CMS background means we build for any team where agentic automation has leverage: brand, comms, ops, internal tooling, customer-facing platforms.

What's a typical engagement?

Anything from a four-week prototype to a multi-quarter platform build. The first conversation tells us which shape fits. Fixed-scope, fixed-fee where possible.

What stack do you build on?

Whatever's right for the job. We're stack-agnostic and integrate with the SaaS / ERP / CMS environment you already run, rather than forcing migration.

Can we white-label what you build?

Yes. Several of our engagements are white-labelled by design. Your brand on the tin, our engineering underneath.

Is CineSmith free during beta?

Yes, for the 50-seat UK cohort. We work closely with each team in exchange for feedback. General-release pricing will be announced before beta ends.

§ 10 / 12 · Get in touch
The first conversation

Have a workflow worth turninginto a product?

One short message and we’ll be back within one working day, with a useful answer, whether or not the project is the right fit for us.

Studio 85 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7LT
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Brief us

    End frame Fin · Issue 01 · MMXXVI
    The two doors

    Two ways in.Less tooling. More making.

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