AI that turns raw footage into a first cut
Local first. No video uploads to the cloud.
Phase One: Semantic search and XML export.
Phase Two: Prompt to first cut. The category-defining moment.
Talk to your archive...
The problem
Most of it never becomes a story. Not because the stories aren't there. Because finding them takes forever.
Editors spend 80% of their time searching.
Scrubbing. Waiting.
The tools haven't changed. Only the volume has.
The market
$100B+
Projected by 2030
Zero
No incumbent owns the local first AI video production category.
80%
Of edit time is search, not storytelling
Adobe
Patching AI onto legacy
Descript
Audio-first
CapCut
Consumer
Xappio
AI-native. Video-first. From day one.
It made them 10x more powerful. Replit didn't kill engineers. It opened coding to anyone with intent.
Same category moment. Same scale of opportunity. The AI-native production suite built for anyone with footage and a story to tell.
Phase One — Shipping in Summer 2026
“Find all the city B-roll at night that feels dangerous.”
Assemble selects instantly into a bin.
Export edit-ready XML to Premiere or Resolve.
No renaming folders. No manual scrubbing. Just ask.
No manual assembly.
Just intent and output.
Phase Two — The Vision
Tell Xappio what you need. It finds the moments.
Sequences the story. Delivers the cut.
No timeline scrubbing. No manual assembly.
Just intent and output.
This is the category-defining moment.
Why now
Local LLMs are finally production-ready.
Video understanding models have crossed the threshold.
The market has seen Cursor. They believe the thesis.
We are the only team building this
specifically for video production.
From day one.
What you've given me is a personal assistant editor. Someone who can watch a lot of footage quickly and then have a very intelligent conversation with you about the story direction and rough cuts.
Tim Hashko, Documentary Filmmaker and Editor
Xappio finds them.
PRE SEED ROUND OPEN. Limited allocation.