Martini
Product & Competitive Intelligence
Collaborative AI filmmaking platform orchestrating the best video generation models for directors.
Company Overview
Collaborative, browser-based AI-native filmmaking platform that orchestrates leading AI video and image generation models (Veo 3.1, Sora 2 Pro, Kling 3.0 Pro, etc.) with professional cinematic controls, real-time team collaboration, and timeline editing with XML export to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro.
Competitive Advantage & Moat
Product Roadmap & Public Announcements
Martini has publicly launched its browser-based collaborative filmmaking platform with model-agnostic AI video/image generation, cinematic camera and lens controls, real-time multi-user collaboration, and XML export to major NLEs. Over 200 films produced on the platform. Creative Partnership Program offering early access, priority support, and custom integrations for studios and agencies.
Signals & Private Analysis
Reddit and community feedback highlight requests for improved video extension controls and better UX discoverability, suggesting active iteration cycles. Investment in deeper NLE plugin development (native Premiere/Resolve plugins beyond XML), potential Frame.io or cloud review platform integration. Enterprise pipeline features (ShotGrid integration, permissions, governance) and expansion into AI-driven previsualization, virtual production blocking, and audio/sound design tooling likely.
Product Roadmap Priorities
Model-agnostic AI orchestration engine that routes each shot to the optimal generative video or image model based on creative intent, enabling filmmakers to direct AI-generated footage with professional cinematic controls (camera, lens, movement) across multiple foundation models in a unified workspace.
Instead of juggling five different AI video tools, filmmakers pick the best AI brain for each shot from one control room.
It's like having a universal remote that controls every streaming service, except instead of movies you're making them—and each button picks the best AI director for the scene.
Real-time collaborative AI filmmaking workspace enabling multiple team members to simultaneously prompt, generate, review, and iterate on AI-generated shots within a shared browser-based timeline editor, with XML export to industry-standard NLEs.
Multiple filmmakers work on the same AI-generated movie at the same time in one browser, like Google Docs but for making films.
It's like Google Docs met a Hollywood editing suite and they had a baby that also happens to conjure footage out of thin air.
AI-driven cinematic previsualization system that translates directorial intent—camera angles, lens choices, blocking, and movement—into structured generative parameters, enabling rapid visual prototyping of scenes before committing to full production or final AI rendering.
Directors can now storyboard entire scenes with AI-generated footage in hours instead of spending days and thousands of dollars on traditional previsualization.
It's like sketching your dream house in photorealistic detail in minutes instead of hiring an architect for weeks—except the house is a movie and the sketch actually moves.
Company Overview
Key Team Members
- Koh Terai, Co-Founder
- Long, Co-Founder
Founder Force Multiplier
Martini uniquely combines real filmmaking expertise (co-founder is a working cinematographer) with a model-agnostic orchestration layer, giving professional filmmakers directorial-grade control over the best AI models in a collaborative, browser-based environment, bridging the gap between AI generation and professional post-production workflows that no competitor currently spans end-to-end.
Funding History
- 2024 | Koh Terai and Long co-found Martini.
- 2025 | Public launch of browser-based collaborative AI filmmaking platform.
- 2025-2026 | Over 200 films produced on platform; Creative Partnership Program launched.
- 2026 | Accepted into Y Combinator W26 batch.
Competitors
- AI Video Generation Platforms: Runway (Gen-3/Gen-4), Pika Labs, Luma AI (Dream Machine), Kling (Kuaishou), Haiper.
- AI Filmmaking Tools: Wonder Dynamics (Wonder Studio), Cuebric (virtual production).
- Traditional Post-Production: Adobe Premiere Pro (with Firefly AI), DaVinci Resolve (with AI tools), Final Cut Pro.
- Collaborative Creative Platforms: Frame.io, Figma (design analogy).
