01
Fashion ecom
Haute Labs ↗
A production system that replaces the photoshoot. Every hero image, model pose, and PDP visual a brand needs. Weeks and tens of thousands in spend become days.
Automata Labs is an AI-native studio that makes cinematic film, video, and image systems.
Creative. Technical. Commercial. Excellence in all three. Always.
01 · Range
Battle-tested results across 4 industries
02
Cybersecurity
Rio Router ↗
Something dry and serious made captivating. Short-form that builds awareness, earns trust, and converts. Paid and organic.
03
Real estate
Marquee ↗
Listing photos become cinematic property videos, delivered next day. We change weather, stage furniture, build the transformation shot.
04
Enterprise media
Cleared ↗
Top three of thirty teams at the Twelve Labs video AI hackathon, judged by Warner Bros, Fox Entertainment, Lionsgate, and Sony Pictures
An AI tool that scans video for compliance violations and flags them with exact timestamps, then suggests fixes in the app. An eight hour review process becomes twelve minutes.
02 · Situations
Start with the one that sounds like you
Direction
Where AI fits, what to build, what to ignore, what it costs. We train your team from the field guide we rewrite weekly.
Proof of concept
Written material becomes footage you can put in front of a financier or a studio.
One piece
One finished piece with a delivery date. Music video, commercial, short film, brand film.
Short form vertical
Short-form on a publishing calendar. We build the format and we run it.
Your own system
We build the system on your assets, train your team, and hand you the keys.
Images at volume
Campaign and catalogue imagery as a system, not a shoot. Every angle and crop the channel needs.
03 · Research and development
We shape our tools, and our tools shape us
Client work pays for the research and the research improves the client work.
These are built and maintained in house, not licensed.
We built our own node‑based, generative canvas
The hosted tools capped what we could control, so we built our own.
- Eight model APIs behind one abstraction
- Self-hosted ComfyUI inference on rented GPUs
- Every generation versioned and searchable
- Built after a thousand hours inside the tools it replaces
TypeScriptComfyUI HTTP APIRented GPUs
We built an automated production pipeline
A brief goes in. A finished short comes out, with voice and sound.
- Model routing per production stage
- Built for first-try accuracy, not volume
- Continuity held across a sequence
- Autonomous mode, capped to a budget
TypeScriptMulti-provider routingBudget-capped agents
We built a compliance detector for video
It watches the video, finds the violations, and cites the rule.
- Eight hour review becomes twelve minutes
- Marengo and Pegasus on AWS Bedrock
- Picture, audio, and on-screen text together
- Findings cite the rule that fired
PythonAWS BedrockNext.js
What we work with
Tools
- Flora
- Krea
- OpenArt
- Reve
- ComfyUI
- Midjourney
- Runway
- Luma
- Higgsfield
- Suno
- ElevenLabs
Model families
- FLUX
- Sora
- GPT Image
- Veo
- Nano Banana
- Seedream
- Seedance
- Kling
- Hailuo
- Gen-4
- Dream Machine
- Grok Imagine
Post
- DaVinci Resolve
- CapCut
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Topaz
04 · Direction and storytelling
Short films we wrote, directed, and finished
Don't Blame the Computer
Craft, lineage, and the machine as instrument. Written, directed, and produced solo in roughly 24 hours. Finalist at GenBattleLA.
Have You Eaten?
밥 먹었어? A short on the things a family says instead of saying them.
The Man Comes Around
A Johnny Cash music video built frame by frame in one night. Later emulated by one of the largest AI studios for a Balenciaga campaign.
05 · Imagery
Stills, made as series
Candid history24
Moments photographed as though someone had been standing there with a camera. The discipline is consistency: one era, one lens, one grade, held across every frame.
The surreal and the documentary22
The other series works the seam where an ordinary photograph turns strange, and tries to keep it credible while it does.
Scripture23
A square-format series working through the old stories as photographs. One continuous world, held together by light rather than by style.
06 · Self-directed
Made to find out if we could
Tesla · spec
The Carrot Cup
No brief, no client, no budget.
Written, boarded, generated, scored, and voiced here.
Hybrid · test
Live performance, generated world
A real performance, placed inside a world that does not exist.
The test was whether the seam holds across a whole scene.
07 · Giving it back
Get our Gen AI mastery guide and weekly research reports, free
The field changes every month. This is rewritten every week.
Image, Video, Audio, and the New Filmmaking
Generative AI: The 2026 Field Guide
Everyone working in this field learned it from someone who bothered to write it down. So we write ours down. Fleets of orchestrated agents research the frontier every week, and every claim is verified against primary sources and shipped with an inline citation.
topics covered
sources cited
research agents
re-researched
no paywall
How every major image, video, and audio model actually works, and the craft of making real work with them. Free, no signup, no email wall, and nothing to buy at the end. Take it, use it, argue with it.
Read the field guide ↗Or just the weekly, free
The Field Report
Every week our agents sweep the frontier: the model releases, the funding, the law, and the research papers. Around twenty stories and papers, each one checked against a primary source before a word of it ships. Free, no hype, and nothing held back for a paid tier.
08 · Who you work with
Alex Park
generations to date
Image, video, and audio. Client work, research, and original films.
Founder, creative director, agentic engineer
Rooted in Hollywood, music, and media, starting with video production in high school and a YouTube channel that passed a million views in the platform's early days. Co-founded Mothership, a four and a half acre creative compound in Los Angeles, with a collective that includes a platinum selling recording artist and a former head of TriStar Pictures. Wrote, directed, and produced Don't Blame the Computer alone. It was a finalist at GenBattleLA.
The other half of the practice is engineering. Learned to code by hand, the slow way, years before a model could write any of it. That is what turns the agentic era into an advantage rather than a shortcut: anyone can direct agents, but knowing when the output is wrong takes having written it yourself first. It is also why the systems above exist rather than remaining wishes. When the available software stopped giving the work the control it needed, building the instrument was simply an option.
None of it was learned in theory. The years before this were spent inside VC-backed startups, including a music platform that reached a million users and an audio company acquired by Bose, alongside business-school training. What that means for a client is simple: the creative question, the technical question, and the commercial question all get answered in the same room, by the same person, without translation loss between them.
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