AI Video Editor for Journalists & Creators

Kuleshov

From raw footage to first cut in minutes with prompts.

The problem.

Film an interview
Days
Edit with outdated tools
Up to nine days
Publish it
If there's time left

Less output. Less income. Burnout.

For a freelance journalist or a one-person newsroom, this is the difference between publishing and not.

Who this is for.

  • Small newsrooms and online media without an editor on staff.
  • Freelance journalists and podcasters.
  • Creators making scripted video for YouTube and similar platforms.

The solution.

Kuleshov does the assistant editor work automatically.

1

Ingest

  • Upload your footage and optional script
  • Kuleshov auto-organizes by shot type: portraits, wide shots, car rides, etc.
2

Edit

  • With a script: AI generates a first cut automatically
  • Without a script: write prompts in your own words
  • Refine with more prompts
Shorten this shot by 2s.
Use Take 3 in the kitchen.
Remove the wind noise.
3

Polish

  • Finish in Kuleshov: color grading, sound mastering
  • Or export to Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut
No editing skills needed.
Specialized AI agents, built for this, not a generic chatbot.

All footage stays yours. Nothing leaves the platform.

Why now.

  1. 01AI can now watch your footage like a human editor.
  2. 02Editing software hasn't really changed since the 1990s.
  3. 03More people are making video than ever, with no team to help.
  4. 04Built in Vienna, for the DACH media landscape.

Product.

kuleshov.app / project · the-last-summer
Assistant
First cut ready. 4 scenes, 6:42 total.
Trim the pauses in scene 4
Removed 14 silent gaps. New runtime 6:18.
Use Take 02 for the wide driving shot.
Swapped to Take 02. Re-cut to match the wider framing.
Give the highway scenes a warm, golden-hour look.
Applied golden-hour grade to 6 clips. Warmer mids, deeper shadows.
Ask Kuleshov…
SCENE 04 · TAKE 02
01:42 / 06:18
TIMELINE00:00 — 06:18

Talk to your edit.

Status: a working prototype today. Cutting and early visual adjustments are live.

Market.

$214B+
Creator economy market (2026)
$8.6B
Independent film industry (2025)
$632M+
Creator tools market, growing 10.5% per year

How we make money.

Free
€0
Try Kuleshov, no commitment
  • 1 hour of footage per month
  • 1 seat
  • 1080p export with watermark
  • Core features
Creator
€29 / month
€290 / year (2 months free)
For individual creators
  • 20 hours of footage per month
  • 1 seat
  • FHD 1080p export
  • All core features
  • 7-day free trial
Filmmaker
€45 / month
€450 / year (2 months free)
For emerging filmmakers
  • 50 hours of footage per month
  • 2 seats
  • 4K export
  • Color grading tools
  • Everything in Creator
  • 7-day free trial
Studio
€199 / month
€169 / month when billed annually
For small studios and production teams
  • 100 hours of footage per month
  • 5 seats
  • Up to 6K export
  • Priority processing
  • Team collaboration
  • Everything in Filmmaker

Overage: €2 per additional hour of footage on any paid tier.

Where we sit.

Works with Premiere, Resolve & Final Cut
Replaces Premiere, Resolve & Final Cut
Wideframe
Premiere
Novacut
Descript
ChatCut
Kuleshov
1

AI that understands cinematic intent.

2

Raw footage to finished video in one place.

3

Built by a filmmaker and a cinephile engineer.

Team — Vienna-based.

Alion Çaçi
Alion Çaçi
CEO · Media Builder & Filmmaker
Worked in TV and film for over 8 years. Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The International.
Film school alumni (Uni Vienna) — Tech & AI enthusiast.
Renado Zaçe
Renado Zaçe
CTO · Platform Engineer
Senior SRE at Cloudflight. Certified Kubernetes Administrator running Azure clusters, Elasticsearch and Kafka at scale.
Reliable, scalable infrastructure — Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps pipelines built to ship. Movie enthusiast (ex-cinema projectionist).

Why the Media Innovation Lab.

9 months
Fellowship funding to build Kuleshov to market-ready, tested with real newsrooms.
Months 1-3
MVP built and tested with real newsrooms
Months 4-6
Pricing validated with real users
Months 7-9
Ready to found the company and raise funding
Every small newsroom in Austria that can't afford an editor, kept able to publish video.
alioncaci@gmail.com · Alion Çaçi · Renado Zaçe
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