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About

An AI-native studio, run like a film studio.

We started in 2023 with one question: can this technology hold a story for forty minutes? Everything we have built since has been in service of answering yes.

2023FoundedBuilt as an AI-native studio from day one.
40+Models trainedCharacter, product and style models in production.
600+Shots per monthSustained delivery across active projects.
12DisciplinesStory, direction, training, audio, VFX and delivery.

The studio

Story first. The machine second.

Most AI video is a demo — a striking shot that cannot be extended into a scene, let alone a season. We built the studio around the unglamorous parts that fix this: canon documentation, identity systems, evaluation harnesses, and a finishing department.

The people here come from film, television, advertising and machine learning in roughly equal measure. That mix is the point. A director who cannot brief a model, or an engineer who cannot read a cut, will each produce something that almost works.

Inside 9AM Studio

What we hold to

Four things we do not trade away.

  • Story before technology

    The model is a tool in the building, not the reason for it. If the story does not work on paper, no amount of compute rescues it.

  • Craft at the finish

    Generated footage becomes finished footage in the same way it always has — compositing, grade, mix, and someone with taste making the last call.

  • Systems over heroics

    Consistency comes from infrastructure. Anything that depends on one person remembering something will eventually break on episode nine.

  • Consent and provenance

    Licensed or client-owned training data, contracted voice work, and a provenance record attached to every delivered asset.

The team

Six disciplines in one building.

  • Story & Development

    Screenwriters, story editors and narrative architects.

  • Direction

    Directors and cinematographers from film and commercial backgrounds.

  • Machine Learning

    Training engineers, dataset curators and evaluation specialists.

  • Audio

    Composers, sound designers, dialogue editors and mixers.

  • VFX & Finishing

    Compositors, simulation artists and colourists.

  • Production

    Producers and delivery managers who keep the schedule honest.

Timeline

How we got here.

  1. 2023

    Studio founded

    Three directors and two ML engineers, one question: can this hold a story for forty minutes?

  2. 2024

    Character systems

    Identity locking shipped, making serialized production viable for the first time.

  3. 2025

    Pipeline handover

    Enterprise clients begin operating our pipeline in-house under governance.

  4. 2026

    Long-form at scale

    Weekly long-form channels sustained by two-person creative teams.

Start at 9am

Tell us what you want to make.

Send a brief, a script, a reference board or a sentence. We will come back with an approach, a schedule and a number.