Capability Matrix LEDGER A
One preflight probes providers and runtimes and answers "can I ship today?" — Healthy / Degraded / Blocked, with honest per-capability badges.
AI film management, finally. No vendor lock-in. Local first. No subscription.
Genlock Studio runs on your own computer. Plug in any generator — Higgsfield, OpenArt, fal, or a local model — and swap the moment a better one ships. Story, shots, takes, and cut stay in open files on your disk. No cloud. No vendor owning your movie.
Talent on call · Spokesperson
Janet introduces Genlock Studio
Ninety seconds, no glossary required — Janet walks the whole production from script to cut.
FIG. 0 · JANET-01 · GENERATED IN GENLOCK, OBVIOUSLY
01 / Storage
Local first
02 / Generators
Any provider
03 / Exit
No lock-in
04 / Billing
No subscription
MEMO · TO EVERYONE
RENTING THEIR OWN MOVIE
RENTING THEIR OWN MOVIE
The generators change weekly. Your production layer should not.
FIG. 1 — THE PRODUCTION HUB APP CAPTURE
The Hub — active project, connected tools, and every workspace one click away.
FORM GL-002 · WORKSPACE MANIFEST 8 COCKPITS · 1 PRODUCTION
One production. A purpose-built cockpit for every stage.
01 Skeleton Turn an idea or screenplay into chapters, scenes, and shots without trapping it in an app. STORY STRUCTURE 02 Director Design repeatable shots, assemble prompts, review takes, keep every choice attached to the story. SHOT PRODUCTION 03 The Brain See which providers, local tools, agents, and BONEs are ready before a generation starts. MODELS & AGENTS 04 Showrunner Progress, gaps, decisions, costs, approvals, and export readiness without a status-meeting maze. PRODUCTION CONTROL 05 The Boneyard Install and author generator contracts, camera language, recipes, and reusable ingredients. PROMPT SYSTEMS 06 Studio Carry characters, Soul IDs, voices, locations, and series continuity into the next project. WORLD BIBLE 07 The Backlot Browse references, generations, audio, and finished media without losing where anything belongs. MEDIA & ASSETS 08 Safelight Grade full-resolution frames, lock the look into pixels, send finished references back into production. COLOR & DELIVERY
Structure that survives the next model.
Models change. Providers change. Your production does not. Three open formats hold the whole thing on your disk — readable by you, your git repo, and any LLM.
.SKEL
The complete production as open, relational story data — acts, scenes, shots, cast, continuity, media, decisions. The body layout.
.BONE
Portable prompt and provider contracts. Swap Higgsfield for tomorrow's model without rebuilding a shot. What attaches.
.MUSCLE
Reusable behavior manifests — validation, routing, house style, continuity, export. Safe, auditable. What makes it move.
One shot. Every stage. Nothing lost between.
01 START
Start
Open the complete sample production, write directly, or import a Fountain screenplay.
02 SHAPE
Shape
Turn the idea into chapters, scenes, shots, characters, camera language, and references — in open SKEL files.
03 GENERATE
Generate anywhere
Add a Higgsfield, OpenArt, or fal key, use a local route, or hand the production to the LLM app you prefer.
04 FINISH
Choose & finish
Approve the right takes, preserve the prompt and decisions behind them, move the work into the timeline.
Experiment freely. Keep what works. Build forward without starting over.
DAY ONE, NOT DAY ZERO · PRE-INSTALLED PRODUCTION
Ships with The Last Frequency — a complete 12-shot production.
You never start from a blank shell. Every install seeds a real, inspectable production — structure, prompts, BONEs, media maps, gap reports, agent instructions — before you write a word of your own. Open it, break it, learn it. It's yours.
- ✓2 acts · 4 scenes · 12 shots with cinematography fields and dialogue
- ✓Seeded Studio entities — cast, locations, a Signal Core environment
- ✓Working BONEs — first-party contracts plus Higgsfield image / video
- ✓Agent-ready docs — production menu, ingest sidecar, valid media maps
# installed on first run
projects/welcome-story/
├── story.skel ← 2 acts · 12 shots
├── video-map.json
├── audio-map.json
├── _inbox/ ← quick-ingest drop zone
├── renders/
└── assets/documents/
├── production-menu.md
└── sample-ingest-sidecar.json
# open it, break it, learn it — it's yours
No surprise bills. No mystery renders.
AI production fails quietly: a model silently swapped, a bill silently grown, a render nobody can explain. Genlock writes it all down — what ran, what it cost, why it was chosen — and lets you resume any run where it stopped.
Decision Log LEDGER B
An append-only audit of every consequential choice — provider, model, quality gate — with options considered, rationale, and approval.
Cost Ledger LEDGER C
Estimate → reserve → reconcile on every generation, with observe / warn / cap modes. No fabricated figures, no surprise bills.
BONE Readiness LEDGER D
Every contract declares what it requires — armed / needs-setup / unavailable — so you know which shots can generate before you press send.
Provider Scoring LEDGER E
Models rank across seven visible dimensions, rejected alternatives shown. Manual override always wins; fallbacks never degrade silently.
Production Runs LEDGER F
Resumable runs with stages, required-artifact gaps, approval gates, and spend tracking. An interrupted stage is never silently marked complete.
Everything lives as auditable files under projects/<slug>/.spore/ — strictly additive; existing
projects keep working.
You should not need a glossary before you care.
Pick the thing that sounds confusing. Get the plain-English answer first, then go as deep into the system as you want.
01 · STORY
Why should I want Skeleton?
Because version-controlled stories survive generator churn.
GET THE ANSWER →02 · GENERATORS
What the hell is a BONE?
A swappable adapter between your shot and whatever model is useful today.
GET THE ANSWER →03 · BEHAVIOR
Okay, then what is MUSCLE?
Reusable production behavior with guardrails — not a plugin loose inside your story.
GET THE ANSWER →04 · FREEDOM
Am I stuck with one AI vendor?
No. Providers are routes into the production, never the owner of it.
GET THE ANSWER →05 · WORKFLOW
How does a prompt become a cut?
Follow one idea through structure, generation, review, continuity, audio, and timeline.
GET THE ANSWER →06 · TRIAL
Can I try everything before I buy?
Yes. Every feature is included for seven days. Then buy once to keep using Genlock.
GET THE ANSWER →Three provider doors. One production underneath.
HIGGSFIELD Soul IDs, model discovery, image, video, marketing, and cloud renders. ADD KEY → READY
OPENART Models, projects, structured parameters, generation through your account. ADD KEY → READY
FAL Fast access to a broad model catalog without changing your production grammar. ADD KEY → READY
USE THE LLM APP YOU ALREADY PREFER: Claude Code OpenAI Codex Gemini Cursor Copilot Any MCP app
START WITH ZERO API KEYS — offline text-to-speech plus free stock media from Archive.org, Wikimedia, Pexels, and Pixabay are built in. Draft a full production before paying for a single key.
INVOICE GL-119 · FINAL · NO RECURRING LINE ITEMS
Own it forever. One-time purchase.
Try every feature for seven days. Then buy once and own the software — no Genlock subscription, no seat fee, no compute markup. Minor updates included; major upgrades always optional.
- ✓All features included throughout the 7-day trial
- ✓Local-first — Genlock never uploads your production
- ✓Higgsfield, OpenArt, fal built in — just add your keys
- ✓Keep the version you bought, indefinitely. Works air-gapped.
GENLOCK STUDIO · INVOICE№ GL-119
Genlock Studio · Universal license$119.00
Monthly subscription$0.00 · n/a
Compute markup$0.00 · never
Your files, held hostage$0.00 · never
TOTAL, EVER$119
Payment plans available at checkout · Windows + macOS
Start 7-day trial Paid in full
CERTIFICATE OF ARCHITECTURE · NOT A POLICY PROMISE
Private by architecture.
There is no Genlock server behind the app — nothing holding your script, characters, prompts, or renders. Ed25519-signed licenses verify locally on every boot. The full suite works air-gapped. The workspace folder is the product.
✓ FILES ON YOUR DISK ✓ OFFLINE LICENSING ✓ BYOK ✓ NO GENLOCK CLOUD
VERIFIEDLOCAL
ONLY
When the next model arrives, swap the BONE.
The production stays standing — story, prompts, renders, takes, and cut, in files you own.