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Process
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Maya Chen
What We Use AI For, and What We Don’t
Clients ask about AI on almost every first call. Fair question. Here’s the honest answer: we use it for the boring parts and keep it away from the parts that make the work worth paying for.
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01 · Maya Chen
03 · 2 min read
Where it earns its place
We use it to transcribe interviews, draft alt text, rename four hundred files and resize a campaign into forty formats. It roughs out the dull first pass of a schedule so a producer can fix it. None of this shows up in the final frame. All of it gives us back hours we’d rather spend on the frame.
Where it doesn’t
We don’t generate the idea, the image or the line. Taste is the whole job. A model can give you a hundred options in a minute. Choosing the right one, and knowing why, is what clients hire us for. Averages make average work. We’d rather be specific.
What it changes about the process
It makes the early rounds faster, so we reach the real conversation sooner. It doesn’t make the later rounds shorter. The last ten percent of any project still takes as long as it takes: the timing of a cut, the weight of a headline, the light in a still.
What you can expect from us
If anything in your project is made with AI, we’ll tell you. If you’d rather we didn’t use it at all, say so in the brief and we won’t. Either way, a person on our team signs off on every frame that leaves the studio.

Fig. 01 · What We Use AI For, and What We Don’t
