The Founding Beta

Open the application questionnaire → Ten minutes. No uploads. Lands directly in our inbox.

Every auteur needs a studio.

Work alongside us on a real project while the products finish. This is an application to join.

What the beta actually is

• A hosted studio account, opening to founding members first. Your projects, memory, and approval gates live in your own hosted workspace. Story, Launch, Learning, Game Forge planning, and Model Dossiers run in your browser, and AI features use your own provider key (OpenRouter, OpenAI, or Anthropic). Film generation and Prep are coming to the hosted workspace; Build campaigns are not hosted. Auteur Edit's DaVinci Resolve lane runs on your own PC through Auteur Bridge (beta); Conductor actions follow.
• Hands-on onboarding. We onboard founding members by hand, on a real project, rather than dropping you into a self-serve signup. The cohorts are small on purpose.
• You bring your own providers. Auteur runs the models and subscriptions you already hold. Model-provider accounts and any local hardware a lane needs are prerequisites you supply. We don't mark up AI usage: bring your own keys and subscriptions, or buy credits at the provider's list price.
• Founding seats are paid and limited. Founders lock in today's prices for 12 months; prices may change after that. Founding seats are offered first come, first served. Current prices for every product and Studio plan are on the pricing page, and you subscribe through checkout once your seat is confirmed. Local and enterprise deployments are case by case: contact us.
• A founding seat includes the Skool. Every founding member receives a subscription to our Skool community: direct access to the program’s founder, an editor, writer, director, and producer of 25 years with theatrical narrative and documentary credits and real on-set production experience, plus courses on the product taught by the founder himself and the dedicated team bringing Auteur Intelligence™ into the world. Learn the latest AI and real-world hybrid production workflows from someone who ships both.
• Access is scoped to your work. The application asks what you intend to build. Some members get the full studio; others start with the lanes their project actually needs and grow from there. That decision is made with you at admission, not discovered afterward. The full picture of what we provide and what you bring, posture by posture, is on the requirements page.

Tracks

Access runs through a small hierarchy of tracks rather than a single self-serve signup. Which track currently applies to a given product, and the action that carries it, are shown on that product's own page. Studio is the bundle of the other products, which is why it enters differently from a single-product application.

What we ask on the application

The application is a questionnaire, and it does two jobs at once: it decides admission, and it gives onboarding what it needs to configure your studio. It never asks you to upload project files.

• Your name and a contact email; organization, if any.
• Which track and which products you are applying for, and what you intend to make. This is what scopes your access.
• A few lines on the project you would bring, and where it stands today.
• The AI harness and tools you already use, and how you prefer to work: OAuth sign-ins, API keys, browser-based workflows, or a mix.
• The model providers and subscriptions you already hold, and whether you want pay-as-you-go generation through accounts like OpenRouter and Wavespeed.
• Your hardware: what machine you run, GPU and memory if you know them, and any platform constraints a lane would need to respect.
• Whether your work carries privacy requirements that point toward local models or, for enterprise, a locally hosted system.

What happens after you apply

Admission is reviewed by hand. Then intake goes to work: a classifier reads your questionnaire, weighs your hardware, your providers, and your stated work, and drafts a recommended model stack and provider wiring for your studio, which we review with you before anything is connected. You see the recommendation, the reasoning, and the expected costs before you commit to any provider. Provider accounts are connected from that plan; nothing is wired blind.

Enterprise: the private track

Privacy-focused teams can contact us about a local or custom-hosted server setup, for organizations whose work cannot leave the building. That track is case by case and priced accordingly. Start from the enterprise page or write to us directly at hello@auteurintelligence.com.

Trial, billing, and refunds

When an offer includes a 7-day trial, we collect your payment method at signup but do not charge the subscription fee at signup. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the paid subscription begins when the 7-day trial ends and your payment method is charged automatically at the price disclosed at signup, plus applicable taxes. Cancelling during the trial prevents that first charge.

If you pay and change your mind, we refund your first-ever payment in full when you ask within 14 days; that refund is available once per customer. Charges from the AI and media providers you connect are billed by those providers and are not covered by it. The full rules are in the Terms of Service and the Refund and Cancellation Policy.

How the actions work

Founding access starts with a short application. Once your seat is confirmed, you subscribe through checkout at the prices on the pricing page.

Start your application

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What we provide, and what stays yours

We provide the harness, the scaffolding, and the software engineering. We will evaluate models with you and can help you set up local open-source LLMs on your own hardware. What stays yours is model access itself: this is not a service that bundles a monthly model subscription into the price. Run fully pay-as-you-go through accounts like OpenRouter and Wavespeed (text, image, and video) without a monthly stipend, or connect whatever legally held subscriptions and harnesses you already have, and aggregate everything in one place. We bring the scaffolding; you fill it with the providers you choose, at the rates you choose. If you would rather not manage provider accounts, credits are sold at the provider's list price: we don't mark up AI usage.

Onboarding starts with intake, not a blank page

Founding-beta onboarding is hands-on: you bring your work as it already exists, and the studio takes it in. Intake accepts manuscripts and scripts across common formats, PDF, Word, and Final Draft among them, with support varying by format, alongside research documents, audio, and video. Clips are transcribed and reviewed by the models you choose, local open-source or hosted ones such as Gemini, and what intake processes lands indexed in the project's memory and media library. Day one starts with your material, not an empty screen.

Proof

Status source: site_data/product_status_registry.yaml · CTA source: site_data/cta_map.yaml · Claims: STORY-001, PREP-001, FILM-001, LEARN-001, BUILD-001, COND-001 · Verified: 2026-08-28.