We built this on a production floor, not a lab.
Our mission.
We want the creator in the driver's seat while AI changes how films get made, so we are building the system we needed ourselves, from inside real productions.
We are producers first.
Seventeen years of unscripted and drama, made for networks and streamers around the world, and a virtual production studio with one of the largest LED volumes in Southeast Asia. We have run the slates and sat on both sides of the commissioning table.
Gengis did not start as a thesis about AI. It started because our own productions needed it.
Our engineers and scientists.
Half of Gengis is engineering and research. The AI scientists and engineers here build the models we fine-tune, the tests we judge them by, and the system that carries a production from one station to the next. They sit with producers and watch shoots, so the problems they work on come off the floor rather than out of a ticket queue.
Two languages in one room, film and code, both spoken properly. Most production tools only speak one, which is why they keep fixing the wrong half.
- Values
- HumanHuman creativity is not something AI can replace. AI has not lived a day. That part of the work stays with people.
- CreativityAI should take the friction out of the work, so creators get the time back for what they are here to do.
- LeadsEvery decision that matters on a production belongs to a person. We build AI that helps that person make good ones.
- InnovationCreators have always imagined bigger than the budget allows. We are building the tools that close some of that gap.
Our own slate is the testbed.
If it does not survive a real production, it does not ship. Written on a floor that smells faintly of gaffer tape.
— Karen Seah · Co-founder and CEO, Gengis
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