Realtime AI Creative Workflows

The output of one step is the input to the next

Most creative work is a sequence, not a single request: generate, clean up, restyle, animate, enlarge. Keeping those stages in one place means each one starts from the actual previous result rather than from a file you exported, renamed and uploaded somewhere else.

Image, video and 3D are the same pipeline

A product still can become a short video, and a still can become a 3D model that renders from any angle. Because these share one workspace and one credit balance, moving between modalities is a step in a chain rather than a decision to adopt a different tool.

Cheap steps first, expensive steps last

The practical discipline is ordering by cost. Iterate at the image stage, where a run is a few credits, and only commit to video or 3D once the frame is settled - those are the expensive stages, and re-running them because the source was wrong is the main way budgets get wasted.

Everything is priced per step

There is no workflow subscription or automation tier. A chain costs the sum of its generations, each shown before it runs, so a five-step chain you abandon after two steps costs two steps.

Frequently asked questions

What does chaining actually save?

Export and re-upload steps, and the quality loss that comes with them. Each stage takes the previous output directly, so a video generated from your image is working from the original rather than from a re-compressed download.

Is each step billed separately?

Yes. A chain is just several generations in sequence, and each one shows its credit cost before it runs. There is no bundle discount, but there is also nothing charged for steps you decide not to take.

Can I go back and change an earlier step?

You can re-run any stage and continue forward from the new result. Because the earlier outputs still exist, that costs only the steps you redo rather than the whole chain.

Which chain is most useful to start with?

Image, then background removal, then video. It covers the common commercial case - a product still becoming a short ad - and each step is cheap enough to experiment with before committing to longer chains.

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