the record
behind
the
work.
four tools for photographers, artists and collectors, kept in one place. diary holds the why behind each series, lab follows every roll from the receipt to the scan, edition keeps your books and where each one came from, and gear keeps the equipment the work depends on. you can start with one and add the others whenever they're useful, since the record of a practice rarely lives in one place to begin with.
private beta
by invitation
you're already doing the work.
the list of books in an old program nobody updates. the gear in one file, the film in another. studio369.ai doesn't add to that work. it gives what you already keep one place to live, where the roll knows its camera and the print knows how it was made. if your books already live in a spreadsheet, edition can take the whole list at once as a csv file.
log it where it happens.
before you leave the store, or at the café with the new book open beside you. it's there wherever you can get online, so nothing waits for the drive home and the old file.
one place to see it all.
the roll and the camera it went through. the print and the paper it's on. the book and where it came from. four tools, one sign-in.
the slow parts come built in: the look-ups, the labels, the timing, the paperwork. what's left is the work.
diary.
the idea
the why behind a series rarely lives in one place: a note on your phone, a page in a notebook, a draft statement in an email to yourself. diary keeps them together, with the pages you wrote by hand beside the entries they belong to, so when a show or an open call asks what the work is about, you start from what you've already said.
- a photograph brings its camera details with it: the camera, the lens, the exposure and the date.
- with ari on, a page you wrote by hand is typed out beside it, for you to check.
lab.
the process
every roll starts as a line on a receipt and ends as a scan on a drive, and a lot happens in between. lab keeps the shelf, the run, the label and the file name linked as you go, so any scan can be traced back to the film it came from, years after the day it was shot.
- every roll gets a printed label with a qr code that opens its record.
- the develop timer adds time for chemistry you reuse, for the rolls already through it.
edition.
the archive
a photo book carries more than its pages: the shop in another city where you found it, the signature inside, the friend who has had it for a year. edition keeps that with each book, along with what shape it's in, so your shelf reads as a story rather than a pile.
- point your phone at a barcode and the book fills in on one screen, for you to check.
- bring the list you already keep, from a spreadsheet or from Goodreads, LibraryThing or Libib: the columns are matched and duplicates flagged before anything is added.
gear.
the tools
a body that's been on a dozen trips, a lens lent for a weekend, the kit that goes out on paid jobs. gear keeps each piece with its record and who has it when it's out, sorted into the groups you already think in, personal, work or rental, so the day before a shoot starts with a list instead of a search.
- remove the background from a photo of any piece, and the original is kept beside it.
- with ari on, a repair fills in from its paperwork, for you to check.
our promises
your records are yours.
what you keep here belongs to you. you choose what you share, and with whom.
we don't show you ads.
your attention stays on your work.
we don't sell your data.
here you're the member, not the product.
we don't use your content to train our ai models.
your ideas stay your own, from the first draft on.
come as you are.
an image doesn't need a camera anymore, and that's part of why people return to film: to get their hands in the chemistry and feel the work being made. what studio369.ai keeps is the record of that work, and the record is the value, with or without ai. ari is there when you want to bring it into your practice. ari is optional: you can switch it off in settings, and then you add everything yourself. and each app's home shows what you choose to see there, in the order you choose.
philosophy
most of what a practice needs isn't a new idea. it's the receipt that says which paper, the note that says why this frame and not the next one, the record of who has the lens this week. none of it is glamorous, and all of it is what lets the work keep going after the first good day.
now your data is actually working for you.
Harvey Castro, founder