Blog
Notes from the studio.
What we're building, why, and what we learned making a lot of video.
What Lightning Cut actually does, in five shows we built this weekend
Point it at data that changes. It designs a short video about what changed, checks every number, voices it and posts it on a schedule. Here are five real examples and where their data came from.
We stopped filling templates. The model designs every video now.
Claude Opus 5.5 now writes each Lightning Cut video as code, from your data, and it is not allowed to make up a number.
Your data is the content you are paying to replace
Exchanges spend heavily to buy attention. The story that would earn it is already in their own data, and nobody films it.
A channel that runs itself is a schedule, not a miracle
How a Lightning Cut show watches a source, decides nothing happened, and makes an episode only when it did.
What a credit actually buys
Our pricing is a parts list, not a plan tier. Here is the parts list, and why we priced it the way we did.