Not a chatbot. An AI director that runs your whole production.
DollyAI™ is layered into every app in the suite — script, shotlist, editor, draw, AI artist, animate, breakdown, budget, calendar, call sheet, cast, locations, props, vehicles, shoot, diary, and the producer desk. She reads your whole project as one object and gives context-aware answers, not generic responses.
Dolly writes beside you — and remembers the whole project.
Draft, punch up dialogue or generate coverage with an assistant that already knows your characters, scenes and tone — because it reads the same project file every app shares.
Open the script writer →
One click turns your script into a tagged breakdown.
Dolly reads the screenplay and pulls every prop, cast member, vehicle and location into a 12-category, colour-coded breakdown — then seeds your cast, props and schedule automatically.
See the breakdown →
Then Dolly draws the boards — in one locked style.
Generate style-locked storyboard frames that hold a consistent look and consistent characters across the whole sequence, ready to drop into the editor and the animatic.
Meet the AI Artist →
Agent mode
She acts. You stay in charge.
Agent mode is in every app. Ask anything and Dolly answers from your live project data — and when you ask her to DO something, the trust loop kicks in.
How Dolly Thinks
A co-pilot with your whole project in context.
Most AI tools are a chat window with a prompt box. Dolly is four engineered layers working in lockstep.
Post-alpha — she got a lot smarter
Now she remembers, reflects, and sees— and she isn’t working alone.
DollyAI™ used to read your project fresh on every question. Now she carries it with her — and she’s assembling a crew.
Production memory
She remembers your production across sessions — the decisions you’ve locked, the way you like to work, your creative bible, where the show stands today. No more re-explaining your film every morning.
Agent mode — live in every app
Open the Dolly Agent panel and ask anything: she queries your live project data (cast, schedule, breakdown, gear) and answers from facts. Ask her to add something and she proposes it as a card — nothing is written until you approve it.
She checks her own work
Flip on double-check and before she hands you an answer she scores it against your real project data and rewrites it if it falls short — fewer confident-but-wrong answers, more notes you can act on. Every checked reply carries its score.
She can see your boards
DollyAI™ looks at your actual storyboard frames and gives real director’s notes — composition, coverage gaps, continuity drift — instead of guessing from a text description. One click in the Agent panel.
A briefing on demand
She reads the day’s risks — the unsigned deal memo, the unconfirmed actor, the next shoot day — and writes you a short ‘here’s what needs you today’ before you’ve had coffee. ‘Brief me’ is one click.
Pick your specialist
The persona switcher in the Agent panel hands the conversation to Marlowe, Sable, Cass, Indra or Vee — the answer comes back in that department head’s voice, grounded in their lane’s live data.
The DollyAI™ family
Dolly leads a crew of named specialists.
Each one thinks like the head of their department — and you can meet them by name today: open the Dolly Agent panel in any app, pick a specialist, and the answer comes in their voice. Fully autonomous agents are what comes after.
Holds the whole film in her head and orchestrates the family.
Structure, dialogue, character arcs, coverage notes.
Budget, schedule, days, and what a creative choice costs.
Call sheets, shoot-day order, the realistic shape of a day.
Cast, deal memos, availability, chemistry.
Continuity across scenes — props, wardrobe, what changed.
Holds the signature look across every frame you generate.
One Dolly. Twenty surfaces.
Every app has a purpose-built Dolly panel.
The AppAIMode union in components/app/app-ai-panel.tsx pairs each module with its own action set, cursor contexts, and prompt catalogue — so Dolly in Cast is genuinely different from Dolly in Budget.
Script
Including 22 cursor-context modes, scene-beat rewriting, character + dialogue analysis, continuity checking, coverage reports, sides generation, beat sheets, table reads — and more.
Shotlist
Including shot suggestions, lens + angle grammar, bulk screenplay parse, alternate-take suggestions, per-scene credit accounting, coverage gap detection — and more.
AI Artist
Including style-locked frame generation, project-context style sync, automatic recalibration, mood prompts, negative-prompt suffixes, inpainting, send-to-editor — and more.
Cast
Including character continuity, casting coverage, availability-aware suggestions, deal-memo drafting, agent-letter drafting, audition rounds, self-tape directions — and more.
Characters
Including character → scene graph, costume continuity, reference image selection, arc summaries, voice profiles, AI-reference style lock — and more.
Locations
Including scene-to-location matching, permit checklists, travel-matrix tips, scout recommendations, risk-note enrichment, AI references for establishing shots — and more.
Props
Including hero-prop detection, continuity flagging, hire checklist generation, AI prop-lock references, period accuracy checks, design-brief drafting — and more.
Vehicles
Including picture-car extraction, insurance + plate + driver prompts, safety callouts, daily-rate rollups, rental alternatives, AI vehicle-lock references — and more.
Shoot
Including gear recommendations per day, crew gap detection, readiness flags, equipment suggestions by department, kit-suggestion bridges — and more.
Diary
Including DPR drafting, BTS organisation, scene-completion summarisation, incident notes, voice-note transcription, weather-risk briefs, BTS captions — and more.
Producer
Including DPR + Weekly Cost Report auto-assembly, budget variance the night before, OT-risk prediction per call sheet, EPK package generation, flake-risk drilldown — and more.
Calendar
Including day-order optimisation, stripboard balancing, cast-availability-aware scheduling, conflict resolution, weather swaps, daylight-aware day moves — and more.
Call Sheet
Including pickup + meal + weather fill, nearest-hospital lookup, crew call-time variance detection, predictive call times, SMS drafts, voice briefs — and more.
Breakdown
Including full-script batched breakdown, INT./EXT. scene split, 12-category colour coding, smart tags, missing-elements check, schedule hints, MMS handoff — and more.
Budget
Including variance watch, line-by-line cost-saving suggestions, template selection by production type, PO routing, hot-cost rollups, EFC advice — and more.
Draw
Including composition suggestions, blocking help, reference sketches, stick-figure quick blocks, on-canvas overpaint, brush-library curation — and more.
Animate
Including timing suggestions from script cadence, transition selection, shot-length variance, frame-brain awareness, continuity sweep, sound design hints — and more.
Dashboard
Including next-action briefs, anomaly detection, burndown synthesis, project-aware Cmd-K jumps, weekly digests, risk-band summarisation — and more.
Files & Assets
Including unified image graph across nine surfaces, send-to-Animate / send-to-Editor chips, tag-cloud filter, bulk ZIP, duplicate detection — and more.
Team Chat
Including channel + DM summarisation, action-item extraction, threaded catch-up briefs, mention-aware notifications, draft replies, tone checks — and more.
200+ structured actions
A taste of what Dolly can actually do.
Each pill is a typed action in ai-service.ts with its own prompt, credit cost, and output shape. This is a sample — the full catalogue keeps growing.
…AND 67+ MORE
Image engine
Style-locked frame generation.
Our image engine is not a generic text-to-image API with a nicer UI. It's a proprietary DollyAI™ system built around the concept of a project-wide style bible. Pick our Mitchell signature artist style default, or fill any of 4 custom artist slots with your own reference bible (up to 30 images per artist), and Dolly locks that look for every frame the rest of the project produces.
- artist_style_sync — a persisted style bible per project
- buildImagePrompt + buildNegativePromptSuffix
- selectRandomRefImages for controlled variance
- moodToPromptFragment for tonal control
- shouldRecalibrate + buildCalibrationContext
- Character continuity graph joined automatically
- Vision-QA scoring on every generation
- On-model every time — no drift between batches
Under the hood
The engineering that makes it feel effortless.
Character continuity graph
Every character, every scene — one unified graph.
lib/characters/get-characters-by-scene.ts performs a 4-way merge of characters, cast_members, breakdown cast tags, and character_costumes into one continuity graph — exposed at GET /api/characters/scenes. Dolly reads from this graph in every relevant prompt, so generated frames and script suggestions stay on-character.
characters
Character profiles, bible, photo library
cast_members
Casting status, actor details, deal memos
breakdown cast tags
Per-scene tagged character appearances
character_costumes
Costume continuity per scene
All four merged on the fly — no snapshotting, no duplication, no drift.
What that actually gets you
A change in one app ripples through the whole production.
Edit a scene heading
→ Breakdown re-tags, schedule rebalances, call sheet re-renders, storyboard re-orders
Rename a character
→ Cast, character bible, costume continuity, deal memos, generated-frame references all update
Swap a location
→ Schedule, permit checklist, travel matrix, call-sheet hospital fill all recompute
Lock a style bible
→ Every future frame — Draw, AI Artist, Animate, Storyboard Editor — renders on-model
Bulk-parse the script
→ Shotlist streams in scene-by-scene, each scene metered for credits and editable
Tag a new prop
→ Props app, continuity flag, scene refs, hire checklist all sync
Stop context-switching. Start directing.
Dolly is included on every tier. No upgrades, no "Pro AI" paywall. Every action metered transparently per credit, not bundled under a fake unlimited banner.