BLACK MASS

Composition before generation.
Make the frame deliberate.

⬡ MCP / Claude Skills Version → Use the tool ↓

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I. What This Is

A century of cinematography knowledge.
Applied to AI image generation.

Storyboard artists and cinematographers have always worked from a set of visual decisions made before anything is drawn or shot. Where the eye lands first. Where the light source is and what it does to every surface. What the camera angle says about power in the frame. What's left out, and why. These decisions are what make an image feel like it was directed rather than assembled.

AI image generation skips all of it by default. You describe a thing and hope the model interprets it the way you meant.

BLACK MASS puts the decisions back in front of you. Work through composition constraints drawn from feature animation storyboard doctrine — get a structured text block, paste it into Midjourney, Grok, Firefly, Runway, or render a free draft right here in the browser. STORYBOARD MODE extends the system to sequences: multiple shots held together by consistent screen direction, light logic, and scale rhythm. For any brief that needs to feel like it came from the same eye.

Brand Marketers Creative Directors Storyboard Artists Art Directors Motion Designers
⬡ API version in development

"BLACK MASS is now part of how we build visual assets across both brands. It's the difference between briefing an AI and directing one."

Jeff Bernard · CEO & Founder, PatchOps & Solved Systems

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II. The Evidence

Before, and after.

The only variable is whether the frame was decided before the model was asked to render it.

Exhibit i.
The Wrestler
Awe · Aftermath
Silhouette · Vertical
Low / 50mm · Layered
Before — slop
Before — wrestler
→
After — framed
After — wrestler
Exhibit ii.
The Roller Disco
Unease · Confrontation
Silhouette · Diagonal
Dutch / Wide · Midground
Before — slop
Before — roller disco
→
After — framed
After — roller disco
Exhibit iii.
The Train Station
Reverence · Anticipation
Rim-Lit · Triangle
High / Long · Background
Before — slop
Before — train station
→
After — framed
After — train station
III. The Apparatus

The system, live.

Decisions made in order. Each one constrains the next. Render free drafts in the browser, then take the prompt to your platform for finals.

Storyboard
Single Frame
Campaign Beta
Model Sheet 🔒 Gate
The Contract Continuity · Active
Aspect
Shot 01 Set the apparatus. Generate.
Specimen 01 · The Contract
Composition should be considered before the first pixel is rendered.
IV. The Series

One operating system for AI craft.

FRAMED is first. Two more translate a rare, expensive craft into an executable checklist.

i.
● Live · Beta
FRAMED
After Marcos Mateu-Mestre
Composition. Frame decisions fixed before the model interprets — now with Storyboard mode and in-browser draft rendering.
Live now · free
ii.
○ Q3 · MMXXVI
KENNEDY
After Eugene Schwartz
Persuasion. A decision tree that turns AI copy into a contract the reader can't refuse.
Forthcoming · join the gate
iii.
○ Q4 · MMXXVI
MAIER
After Vivian Maier
Form. Directing the AI's eye through real, ground-level human moments.
Forthcoming · join the gate
V. The Gate

Initiate before the
gate closes.