The tools are arriving faster than the evidence.
CutToAi builds free instruments for filmmakers and film educators, tests them in real productions and real classrooms, and publishes what holds up — including the parts that don’t. Founded by a documentary filmmaker with thirty years in broadcast and eight teaching it.
Thirty years of broadcast, across
- Al Jazeera
- BBC
- ITV
- Sky
- NBC
- Discovery
- Disney
- Sheffield Doc/Fest
- Routledge
- MetFilm School at Ealing Studios
What CutToAi does
Four things, in one order
The tools and the writing are free and always will be. They are how the thinking gets tested in public. Training and advisory are how the work sustains itself.
Tools
Nine free instruments: a calibration tool for deciding what to delegate, a 42-tool market map, prompt architecture, learning design, and a practitioner resource for students entering post-production.
Open the tools → 02Insights
Writing on craft, authorship, and the limits of generative tools — from documented practice rather than speculation. Including a feature documentary taken apart stage by stage.
Read the writing → 03Training
Workshops, module design, and certified tool training for film educators and practitioners. Built on eight years of teaching at Levels 4 to 7 and certifications from Avid, Blackmagic, ARRI, and Adobe.
See training → 04Advisory
Curriculum review, quality assurance, and AI-adoption strategy for film schools, universities, and production companies. Programme leadership experience across three UK institutions.
See advisory →Start here
What AI cannot do in filmmaking
Eighteen documented limitations across six clusters, and a practice studio built on the 4Ds — Delegate, Describe, Discern, Diligence — for deciding what a tool should and should not touch.
It is the most useful thing on this site, and the most honest. It does not recommend products. It helps you work out where your judgment is still the thing doing the work.
Why it exists
Evidence, not opinion
Every tool on this site states what it cannot do. Every claim comes out of a real production or a real classroom. Nothing is sponsored, and no vendor pays to appear.
That is a slower way to work in a field moving this quickly. It is also the only version that is worth anything to a practitioner making an actual decision.
New tools and findings, when there is something worth sending
No schedule, no filler. You will hear from us when a tool ships, a claim gets tested, or something turns out to be wrong.
Or read the archive on Substack.