Cinematic creative-technology studio
Operating at the intersection of filmmaking craft, AI technology, and higher education.
CutToAi is where filmmaking craft meets artificial intelligence.
Nine tools: the calibration instrument, AI Creative Market Map, Assistant Editor Essentials, Blueprint Studio, The Learning Designer, FilmFlow, CineStack, FrameCraft, and Social Post Studio.
Three fields, one practice
Creators, Craft, Educators
CutToAi doesn’t treat filmmaking, film education, and critical AI practice as three separate businesses. They are one practice, worked from three sides at once.
01
Creators
Solutions for production
Nine tools built from real productions, not demos.
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02
Educators
Curriculum and training
Eight years teaching Levels 4 to 7, built into workshops.
See training →
03
Craft
Writing and research
Documented findings on craft, authorship, and limits of generative tools.
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Selected dossiers
Three case files
Not a portfolio of finished work — a running record of what has actually been built and tested.
Blueprint Studio
Prompt architecture built for filmmaking specifically, where ethical constraints differ and reality matters.
Open → 02 Case studyReimagining the Studio
A feature documentary taken apart stage by stage to find out where AI really helps.
Read the case study → 03 The platformCutToAi Experiments
Nine working instruments built from real production problems.
See the instruments →In the founder's words
Why this exists
“I started CutToAi because the industry's response to artificial intelligence is fracturing into blind enthusiasm and defensive panic. Neither serves the craft. Drawing on many years in UK higher education and active post-production workflows, I build solutions and frameworks that test these tools against reality. This is where I do that work in public and holding AI accountable to the discipline of filmmaking.”
Mostafa Nagy — thirty years in broadcast, eight teaching it
Read the full statementWork with the studio
Bring us a real problem
Programme review, AI-adoption strategy, workshops, or a production that needs a second pair of eyes on where AI actually belongs. We take on a small number of engagements at a time, and say no to the ones we cannot do properly.
New tools and findings, when there is something worth sending
No schedule, no filler. You will hear from us when a tool ships, a claim gets tested, or something turns out to be wrong.
Or read the archive on Substack.