The tools are black boxes.
They won't tell you what they're doing or why a shot came back wrong. So you operate by superstition — try again, change a word, hope. Every day you pay a quiet tax in guesswork.
AI video, with the story intact
The 8-second clip is solved.
The story isn't.
reelee is the workspace between an idea and a finished video — where characters stay consistent, every piece stays editable, and you never pay twice for the same shot.
One protagonist, one world — carried across the whole sequence, not hand-matched.
The wall
Everyone who runs a story through today's AI tools hits the same wall.
A week in, you have a folder of characters who don't quite match, a dozen clips half-rejected by guardrails, voice lines as loose audio, a bill across four subscriptions — and a creeping sense you'd have done better hiring a film-school student with After Effects.
Iteration costs money — every time.
Creative work is iteration, but the economics treat it as an exception. Want to fix one line of dialogue? You re-render the whole shot and pay full price for it.
They don't know what a story is.
They know about images and clips. They don't know about characters, scenes, performances, or shots. The tool has no memory of who your protagonist is from one prompt to the next.
You become the integration layer.
Voice from one app, image from another, video from a third, editing in a fourth — re-pasting the same character description into every prompt box. You're not making art; you're shuttling files.
The turn
A film isn't a pile of clips. It's a connected body of work.
reelee holds all of it in one place — not files in folders, but a living, connected workspace where every piece knows what it relates to. The screenplay knows its scenes. The scenes know their characters. The shots know which scene they're in. The takes know what line they're saying.
AI does the heavy lifting wherever you want it to. You keep the steering wheel everywhere it matters.
Character memory
Introduce your characters once.
Their description, reference images, voice and wardrobe live in one place. Every scene pulls from that record — so the same face, the same world, show up in every shot. You don't paste her description into eighteen prompts.
Prompting, handled
The system handles prompts; you handle the story.
You write “she enters the room and looks heartbroken.” reelee assembles the long, structured prompt the underlying model wants to see — from the scene, the character, the mood, the shot before it. The prompt-engineering tax is paid by the system, not by you.
Scoped change
Change one thing, change one thing.
Adjust a character's voice and only her takes regenerate. Tighten the second act and only the affected shots flag for review. reelee walks the graph from what you changed and marks just the downstream pieces stale. The cost of a small fix becomes the cost of a small fix.
Nothing lost
Nothing gets thrown away.
Old versions stay. You can compare, revert, and branch — what if we tried this scene noir? — and bring back the parts that worked. Every artifact carries its provenance: who made it, when, and from what. Human work and AI work each live in their own layer.
How it works
From a sentence to a finished cut.
Bring whatever you have — a single line, or a full script with storyboards and voice takes. reelee structures it, fills in what's missing, and keeps every step inspectable and re-runnable.
- 01IdeaA logline, a premise, or nothing yet.
- 02ScriptBring a Fountain script today; FDX, treatments and prose are next.
- 03Scenes & charactersreelee structures it; scenes know their characters.
- 04Beats & shotsEvery scene breaks into beats, every beat into shots.
- 05Storyboard panelsEach shot becomes an image, prompted from the whole project.
- 06Clips & voiceAnimate panels into clips; generate and lip-sync voice takes.
- 07Animatic & exportAssemble a timed cut — watch it, review it, export a print-ready PDF (editor round-trips on the way).
↑ Storyboard → animatic, assembled automatically
One workspace
Everything the work needs, in one place.
Not another generator bolted onto your process. The connective tissue that makes every generator work together on a real project.
A connected project graph
Your project is a network of editable pieces — treatment, scenes, characters, panels, takes, cuts — every one reachable, swappable, and reusable.
Consistent characters & worlds
Model sheets per recurring character plus continuity checks keep the same face, look and world across every shot. On by default; the cost is shown up front.
Project-aware prompting
Write the story beat; reelee assembles the long structured prompt from what it already knows — scene, character, mood, the shot before.
Scoped regeneration
Change one thing and only the affected pieces flag as stale. Regenerate a single panel, or everything downstream — never the whole video.
Honest cost, before you spend
Every generation is a pure-data plan with the price shown before it runs. reelee never silently spends on a video clip — the approval card is the firewall.
Never pay twice
Same prompt, same params, same model returns a cached result. No redundant re-rolls, no orphaned outputs, no paying full price to see the same shot again.
Provenance on everything
Every artifact records who made it — human or which AI — when, and from what inputs. “Why does this look different from Tuesday's cut?” is a query, not a forensic exercise.
An in-app AI assistant
It plans your next step and shows the cost before anything spends — and it's growing into a collaborator that can drive the tool for you. It opens with one question: “what are we making today?”
Task-shaped views
A picture-book for storyboards today — with a timeline, a status board, a character gallery and a dependency graph on the way, all over the same project graph.
Why reelee
The moat is the connective tissue, not the model.
reelee is built to sit on top of the best generators — Runway, Veo, ElevenLabs, fal.ai — and replace none of them. Today it runs on fal.ai; the semantic layer is the point. It's the one place where the work itself is structured, so the tools don't just generate — they generate with your project in mind. That's a different product, not a faster horse.
Bridge, don't replace.
Imports Fountain and exports a print-ready PDF today, with OpenTimelineIO, EDL and FCPXML round-trips on the way. A reelee project is built to move cleanly in and out of the editor you already use — connective tissue, not a walled garden.
The value compounds.
Characters become reusable, scenes become reference, style becomes brand, pipelines become templates. The opposite of single-shot generators, where every output is disposable.
Two first-class authors.
Humans and AI write into the same graph, each in its own layer. “Show me the cut as if I'd accepted nothing the AI suggested since Monday” is a query you can actually run.
Built to orchestrate — not replace
Runway
Veo
fal.ai
ElevenLabs
OpenTimelineIO
Fountain
Who it's for
One workspace, from one sentence to a full production bible.
The same tool scales from a one-line idea to a full production bible — it grows with you instead of boxing you in.
Solo creators
Start with a prompt. Keep going until it's finished.
A smarter generator that remembers your characters and your look — and never surprises you with a bill.
Small studios
A coherent home for the whole production.
Shared workspace, a visible trail, first-class review — project management that lives in the work, not in a spreadsheet that goes stale the moment anyone touches it.
Boutique animation
Keep your pipeline; orchestrate the AI around it.
Bring your structured tools. reelee tracks the production and coordinates the AI parts, importing and exporting the formats you already run on.
Marketing videos
Explainers & education
Podcast clips
Music videos
Animated shorts
Entertainment
Not a mockup
Built, tested, and in a working filmmaker's hands.
1,300+
automated tests across the stack
~20
generation models behind one honest plan
8
open-format adapters — your work stays portable
50+
keyboard-driven commands in the app
Live in private beta
The app is real and already in the hands of our first working filmmaker. reelee isn't a text-to-video model, a video editor, or a render farm — it's the connective tissue that makes those tools work together on a project you can actually finish.
Let's make something
worth finishing.
Tell us what you're trying to make. Bring a sentence or a whole script — we'll help you get from idea to a cut without losing the pieces along the way.
