Open, self-hostable creative studio

Design, edit, and automate content in one open studio.

One studio for a full design editor and a real video timeline, in a single project wrapped with AI generation and produce-to-publish automation. Pages, an infinite canvas, slides, boards, and video all live in one file. Bring your own AI key, run it locally, own your work.

Self-hostableBring your own AI keyNo lock-in
One canvas

Text, image, video, audio, shapes, effects, animation. Every tool for every format, in the same editor and the same project file.

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01 ·Open, self-hostable creative studio

Ideas don't pick a format.

Design, edit, and automate content in one open studio. A Canva-class editor and a CapCut-class video timeline in a single project, with AI generation and produce-to-publish automation. Bring your own key, run it locally, no lock-in.

Infinite canvas
Infinite canvas

Break an idea into scenes and lay them out on an unbounded canvas. Pages, frames, and full compositions sit side by side, not in separate documents.

Start from anything
Start from anything

Open a versioned template, apply your brand kit, and ship in minutes, or start from a blank canvas with smart guides doing the fiddly work.

A real editing suite
A real editing suite

Cut, trim, and color on a proper timeline: multi-cam sync, speed curves, power windows, and 3D-LUT grading, exported with hardware H.264 and no server transcode.

02 ·How it works

Simple on the surface. Deep underneath.

You will ship something in the first minute and keep finding depth for years. Every part of the studio is real, not a demo, and it is the same engine we build with every day.

AI generating a campaign on the canvas

AI that drives the canvas

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03 ·AI, built in

AI that drives your canvas.

The agent generates images and video, writes copy, and applies edits by calling the real canvas tools, not a chat window bolted on the side. Connect your own key for any major provider, and it is never billed by us.

  • Text to image and video in seconds, routed to the right model for the shot.
  • Drive the editor by chat: give a command, watch it run on the canvas.
  • Bulk Builder turns one CSV or one brief into hundreds of on-brand variations.
Explore the AI layer
Provider-agnostic

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Qwen, DeepSeek, fal, BytePlus, or your own endpoint. Your key always wins, and we never bill it.

Provider-agnostic
Image and video

Generate and edit visuals, then turn a prompt or a single frame into video with Veo, Seedance, Kling, and more.

Copy and scripts

Headlines, captions, and full scripts, written in your brand voice, right on the same canvas.

Bulk production

One brief becomes hundreds of on-brand variations, committed live with a progress bar you can cancel.

04 ·Stay organized

Nothing you make gets lost.

Ten projects today, ten thousand next year. Tags remember, statuses report, brands separate, so scale means speed, not chaos.

One project, every part

Design, video, slides, and boards live in one project file. Copies do not multiply and context never breaks.

Six-level tagging

Label at every granularity, from a whole design down to a single object or asset, with facets, search, and saved filters.

Status at a glance

Draft, in review, or published: a lifecycle runs across every page so the state of your work is never a mystery.

Edit and present

Video and slides run on the same engine. Cut, grade, and present without switching tools or exporting between them.

AI and automation

AI speeds up production and the automation engine takes over publishing. You are left with the one job that matters: approve.

Brand layers

School project, personal brand, or client work: each is scoped to its own brand kit and surfaced with a single filter.

05 ·Open and self-hostable

An open editor. A source-available platform. Yours to run anywhere, forever.

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06 ·Help

Frequently asked questions

The honest version. We are pre-launch, and we would rather tell you exactly where things stand.

Is CardCraft really free?

The editor is free to use and self-host. The platform is source-available and free for individuals and small companies. Managed AI and storage are optional paid conveniences, not a wall in front of the product.

Is it open source?

The editor is fully open. The wider platform is source-available: you can read it, run it, and self-host it. We are upfront that it is not OSI open source end to end.

What can one project hold?

Design pages, infinite-canvas scenes, slide decks, videos, and boards, hundreds of parts in a single working file. You switch between them without moving files or changing tools.

Do I have to use your AI?

No. Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Qwen, fal, and more, and your key is never billed by us. A managed tier exists only if you would rather not manage keys yourself.

Can it post to social media for me?

The automation engine and per-brand OAuth for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok are built and entering alpha. We are finishing each platform's app approval before we call it live.

Is it ready to use today?

We are pre-launch, opening to a public alpha in 2026. The core is real and we build with it every day, but this is the working product, not a finished release.

Have another question? Talk to us

Be first to build with it.

CardCraft opens to a public alpha in 2026. Leave your email and we will tell you the moment it is live, with early-access invites and build notes.

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What early access gets you
  • First invite when the public alpha opens
  • Build notes and product updates as we ship
  • A direct line to shape the roadmap