What Is AI Studio

AI Studio is a company-level feature that turns still property photos into AI-generated media — either short-form videos optimized for social reels or long-form cinematic walkthroughs. The pipeline is built on three ComfyUI workflows running on a dedicated RunPod GPU worker: Cinematic Long Video (full-length walkthrough, best for hero shots and furnished interiors), Viral Short Video (punchy reel-length clip, good for social content), and HDR Image Enhancement (single photo in, enhanced photo out via the Gemini pipeline). Every submitted photo batch is called a project, and every project runs through one workflow at a time.

AI Studio is a per-organization opt-in, not available by default. An Owner or Admin must first enable the AI pipeline flag on your organization — look for this in Organization Settings under the Advanced or Pipeline section. Until that flag is on, the AI Studio menu item does not appear in the sidebar for anyone on your workspace, and the backend will reject all AI-related API calls with a not-found response to avoid leaking the feature's existence.

The AI Studio section of the webapp lives at /ai-studio. Any user with an AGENT, TECHNICIAN, EDITOR, OWNER, or ADMIN role in your organization can view projects and create new ones once the flag is enabled. Share and Revoke Link actions are restricted to OWNER, ADMIN, and PROJECT_MANAGER roles. The page carries a PRE-ALPHA badge, which means the pipeline is actively being finalized — some functionality may be limited or temporarily unavailable while the infrastructure is hardened.

Processing status is tracked through seven distinct states on a job badge: Queued (PENDING), Sending (image being dispatched to RunPod), Processing (GPU worker is running the workflow), Downloading (output being fetched back), Uploading (result being stored to CDN), Ready (COMPLETED — output available), and Failed (FAILED — can be retried by an Admin). The project list and the project detail page both poll for status automatically every three seconds when any job is still active.

AI Studio is separate from the delivery-page AI enhancement feature that agents see on their order delivery page. The delivery page version is a client-facing add-on controlled by the canAiEnhance flag on the delivery object. AI Studio is a standalone workspace for company staff to run photos through the pipeline independently of any specific order. Both surfaces share the same backend processing service and the same three workflows, but they are accessed through different routes and have different permission models.