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One project, carried from idea to the world

An approved decision made while writing is still an approved decision on set, in the cut, and at launch.

Auteur carries project identity, canon, evidence, and dependencies across every stage instead of asking each application or chat session to reconstruct the project from the beginning. Story to Prep to Film to Edit to Launch, with Game branching off the same world, and Learning, Build, and Conductor working alongside.

The website you are looking at was built by Auteur.

Designed to work with DaVinci ResolveClaude CodeCodexCursorGrokGoogle AntigravityComfyUIOpenRouterWavespeed

For the work that matters.

The agent can change. The project remains. Make any agent your auteur. You stay the creative authority: every agent works inside your project, under your approvals. Auteur Intelligence™ turns the AI models and tools you already use into one persistent, governed studio. It carries your approved decisions across story, production, film, software, games, and launch, while specialized agents do the work, check each other, and leave a receipt for every step.

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Bring your subscriptions, APIs, creative applications, and local compute.


Built to ride the curve, not fight it.

Frontier models will keep getting stronger. Inside Auteur, that does not erase the project or the workflow. It improves the seats available to them. A better model is a better hire in your studio, not a new studio.

Your canon, approvals, tools, evidence, and production history stay independent of any one model or interface. Models from more than one company work the same project and check each other's results, which is also why smaller, cheaper models can carry governed work that once needed a frontier seat. The agent can change. The project remains.

Seats do not only report to you; they report to each other. Every seat, from any company or your own hardware, reads and writes the same project inbox, so a note from one model lands in front of another and the whole exchange stays in project memory with a receipt. Direct seat-to-seat messaging across harnesses is being built now on the coordination layer the engine already uses for its own campaigns.

How the Algernon Engine works


Complex work deserves more than a transcript.

A chat session is a good place to start a thought and a bad place to keep one. It forgets. It cannot tell an approved decision from a passing suggestion. It has no record of what it spent or what it changed. Auteur replaces the disappearing transcript with three durable things.

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Persistent project intelligence

Approved canon, research, decisions, sources, and production history survive the session and the model change. Approved truth stays separate from suggestions.

02

Governed execution

Complex goals become durable workflows with scoped tools, budgets, permissions, approval gates, retries, and recovery. An estimate before, a receipt after.

03

Independent verification

Work is accepted because the evidence agrees, not because the agent said it was finished. The checker is never the builder.


Find your door.

However you make things, on the page, on set, in the cut, or in code, start at the door that fits.

All ten products, grouped, with current availability


Dashboard optional. Depth optional. Both yours.

Run the whole studio from Claude, Codex, or Grok in plain language and never open the dashboard, or open the Auteur interface and go lane by lane, knob by knob. Guided automation for less technical users, granular inspection and control for experts. Same engine, your altitude.


The engine is ours. The fuel is yours.

Auteur is an amplification and accountability layer, not a replacement for the stack you have chosen. Bring your own AI harness, model subscriptions, API keys, pay-as-you-go accounts, creative applications, or local open-source models on your own GPU. Auteur adds the persistent project, governed campaigns, verification, and receipts around them, and you can change AI interfaces without losing the project, the approvals, or the evidence.

We are model agnostic and we are not a model provider: no resold tokens, no meter. What you need depends on the posture you choose.

What you bring, what we provide · Designed for the agents you use


Outcomes you can audit.

The industry's own safety reports describe agents that misled their evaluators or slipped their boundaries. Auteur's answer is structural rather than hopeful: guardrails, spending limits, private workspaces, human gates, and review by an AI from a different company, so no model verifies its own work.

How trust works here


Built by people who deliver real work.

Auteur Intelligence™ was built by working filmmakers, writers, editors, and builders who needed AI to survive real projects, not just produce convincing demos. Its founder has spent more than 25 years in the film industry as a writer, director, and editor of award-winning features and documentaries. The gates, the lanes, the receipts, and the taste in every workflow come from real sets, real edit bays, and real deliveries.

Read the founder story

Our own engine. On purpose.

Auteur is not built on anyone's harness; those connect as seats. The Algernon Engine underneath is proprietary, designed from the ground up as the moat around your creative work: memory, eval, workshop, receipts, and authority are ours, so they answer to you and to no one's roadmap.


Bring your next real project.

Every auteur needs a studio. We are opening ours to the first 100 founding members: writers, filmmakers, producers, developers, and technical creators who want to shape the studio around demanding real-world work. Seats, when offered, are paid, and founding members keep their rate when prices rise. Every seat includes our course community on Skool, led by professionals who make films, write books, and build software for a living. The questionnaire takes about ten minutes.

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Product lines · one project moving between them

Ten doors into one studio.

Auteur Story

Develop and finish long-form stories in a project that keeps its own canon, structure, and editorial history instead of losing them to the chat window.

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Tour Auteur Story →

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Proof, not adjectives · measured 2026-08-29

This site was built by the thing it sells.

Failed work was stopped before it shipped. Every number below is an aggregate of the Algernon Engine's own work-order receipts from the campaigns that wrote, audited, and assembled the site you are reading. Nothing estimated, nothing hidden.

16failed attempts caught before publication
0failed attempts reached the site
88governed build jobs in the site campaign
329.6Mtokens coordinated, 94.7% served from cache
39¢metered API spend, against a $25 ceiling

Scope: the campaign that built this site only. Metered spend counts pay-as-you-go API seats; flat-rate subscription seats and owner-provided local compute are counted in tasks, not dollars, and are never presented as free. A separate seven-sweep audit of the copy surfaced 22 findings, all resolved before publication. Methodology and every worker.

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A real receipt from the campaign that built this site, read from the ledger on 2026-09-04. Every governed order leaves one.
  • Script to production intelligence. A screenplay becomes a source-linked first-pass breakdown that a producer or department head reviews and approves. Automated suggestions carry no authority of their own. Auteur Prep →
  • Phone-screen finishing in DaVinci Resolve. A reviewed, tracked screen replacement with protected foreground detail, finished inside the timeline. Case study publishing shortly.
  • Governed multi-agent build campaign. The campaign behind the numbers above: several AIs in private workspaces, reviewed by a different company's model, held for human approval, with a receipt for every attempt. The full ledger and methodology →
The full ledgerBest workers by receipts, and your harness alone versus with Auteur · open to compare

Best workers, by receipts

  1. Claude Opus 4.8 · high100%21 of 21
  2. Claude Sonnet 5 · high89%126 of 142
  3. Claude Sonnet 5 · xhigh87%54 of 62
  4. Claude Opus 5 · xhigh85%116 of 136
  5. Codex, GPT-5.6 Sol · max83%19 of 23

Share of tries that finished and passed their tests, workers with 20 or more tries. Paid seats in amber, subscription seats in blue. Every worker, with what it cost

Your harness, alone, and with Auteur attached

Anyone can hand an agent an MCP connection; that is commonplace now. What matters is what travels across it. Auteur bakes premade, engineered toolsets into the harness you already use, so the agent arrives with a roadmap instead of rooting around and burning tokens to rediscover your app every session, and software-engineered guardrails keep it from overreaching or taking a destructive action.

CapabilityA chat session aloneWith Algernon
Your harness, your models, your subscriptions
Durable project canon that survives the session
A receipt for every attempt · including the failures
Spending limits enforced before dispatch
Long-term retrievable memory · versioned and backed up
Eval that learns your preferences and gets smarter over time
Cross-model verification · the checker is never the builder
Human gates on anything that spends or publishes
One project moving across writing, picture, code, and release
Agent-era security scanning
Video generation, governed across providers
A media library for every provider's output, organized by your script

Receipts mean you always know how a seat performed, which model failed, why it failed, and what caught it · so performance is never a mystery.

Find your door · all ten products, grouped

Create. Grow. Power. Everything.

Ten products, one studio. The groups are for finding your way in; every product keeps its own identity, status, and availability, rendered from the registry.

Create

Story → Prep → Film → Edit, + Game

The production line, in the order a project actually moves.

Auteur Story

Develop and finish long-form stories in a project that keeps its own canon, structure, and editorial history instead of losing them to the chat window.

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Auteur Prep

Turn a script, treatment, or book into evidence-linked coverage, breakdowns, department packets, and production-ready project intelligence.

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Auteur Film

Carry an approved story through scenes, shots, generation, assembly, and professional finishing without inventing a second identity system for the media.

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Auteur Edit

Bring generated and traditional media into a governed DaVinci Resolve workflow with explicit staging, protected operations, and readback.

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Auteur Game

Turn a story world into a governed game-development plan and verified engine work without abandoning canon or project evidence.

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Grow

Learning → Launch

What happens after the work exists.

Auteur Learning

Learn while making: lessons, exercises, and feedback grounded in the actual project rather than separated into a generic course.

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Auteur Launch

Carry the same project intelligence into the website, edition, campaign, and release materials instead of rebuilding the story for marketing.

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Power

Build → Conductor

The pair that runs the others.

Auteur Build

Run the models and subscriptions you already have through a durable, evidence-first campaign system that verifies what actually changed.

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Auteur Conductor

Bring the AI harness you already use; Auteur adds persistent projects, governed campaigns, production tools, verification, and receipts.

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Everything

Studio

All ten. One project, one authority, one receipt trail.

Auteur Studio

The whole shelf: one project moving across writing, production, picture, sound, game, learning, and release under one authority and one evidence trail.

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View all products and current availability →

You already have a harness · here is what changes

Your agent, promoted to auteur.

Bring the agent you already use, and leave with more than it alone can do.

Grok

Already have Grok Bot? Keep it. Auteur is designed to be the studio around it: receipts under every action, reach into lanes Grok cannot drive alone (the Resolve bridge alone catalogs 120 tools), and order over multiple Grok agents running at once, in separate, sandboxed workspaces, under spending limits and your approval gates. Grok improvises; the project keeps it accountable, on track, and monitored. The mode chips below carry its current, measured status.

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The Grok page →