Sextant Get early access
Preview A creative agent for your desktop

Say it.
Sextant makes it,
in your apps.

Describe the shot, the spot or the sting. Sextant plans the job, drives Blender, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere and Resolve on your Mac, calls image, video and voice models when they help, and hands back project files you can open and keep editing.

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macOS · Apple silicon · bring your own keys

Scenario: a 15-second launch spot. Sextant reads the brief and brand kit, asks before spending $0.16 on four product stills, builds an After Effects comp with keyframed beats, renders a preview, and delivers the .aep project, the stills and an MP4.

Try a job:

Works with the tools on your machine, and the agents you already pay for.

Names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to say what Sextant works with. Sextant isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them.

01Why Sextant

Not another generator. A crew member who knows your software.

Prompt-to-video tools give you a file you can't open. Sextant does the work where professionals do it, so every result stays yours to tweak.

Real project files

A layered .psd, a keyframed .aep, a .blend with materials, a timeline with cuts. Open it, change one thing, ship.

Your apps, your machine

It drives the software you already own, on your computer. Projects are plain folders. Keys stay in your Keychain.

Any agent, any model

Run it on Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok or OpenRouter. Pick image, video and voice models per job, or let Sextant choose.

You hold the wheel

See the price before anything paid runs. Approve commands your way. Steer mid-task, or queue your next idea.

02How it works

Plot the course. Sextant sails it.

Every job runs the same four legs, and you can step in at any of them.

  1. 1

    Describe it

    Type what you're after in plain words. Drop in references, a brief, or point at a project folder.

    you · a 15s spot for our cold brew, brand colours
  2. 2

    It plans and asks

    Sextant reads the brief, proposes a plan and asks what it needs. You choose how long it waits for an answer.

    sextant · 3 beats or 4? recommended: 3
  3. 3

    It works your apps

    It scripts Blender, After Effects, Photoshop and friends, and runs generations in parallel with live progress.

    after effects · 4 layers, 9 keyframes
  4. 4

    You get the files

    Finished renders sit next to their editable sources, versioned, with the originals kept. Copy to a delivery folder if you like.

    delivered · launch_spot.aep + v1.mp4
03Features

Built for the messy middle of creative work.

The bits that turn a clever demo into something you'd hand a client.

Questions, your way

Decide how chatty it is.

Some days you want it to just go. Some days you want a say in every call. Pick per chat.

  • Autopilot takes the recommended answer straight away.
  • Balanced shows the question with a countdown, then carries on.
  • Ask always waits for you.
  • Anything touching a real person's likeness or someone else's character always waits.

Which ending for the spot?

Logo lock-up on brass recommended Product hero, logo small Tagline only
⚡ Took the recommended answer. Moving on. Continuing with the recommended answer in 60 s ✋ Waiting for you. No rush.
Spend controls

Every price, before it's spent.

Each generation shows an estimated cost first. Set the amount above which Sextant stops and asks. Drag the slider and watch what changes.

  • Ask-first amount per generation, default $5, or $0 to approve every paid one
  • Long local renders ask first too (default: over 10 minutes)
  • Parallel generations capped at the number you set
$5
  • Product still, 1 image$0.04Runs
  • Voice-over, 30 seconds$0.90Runs
  • Video clip, 8 seconds$3.20Runs
  • Video clip, 15 s, top model$7.50Asks

Example prices for illustration. Real estimates come from your provider's rates.

Widgets in chat

Approve a storyboard, not a wall of text.

When a choice is visual, Sextant shows it visually: pick one of several, compare two clips, tune settings with sliders, or approve a storyboard frame by frame.

  • Animate the frames you like, redo the ones you don't
  • "Change the overall direction" when none of it lands
  • Your answers persist across reloads
01✓
02✓
03Redo
04✓
Animate 3Redo 03Change the overall direction
Parallel work, in plain sight

Helpers work in parallel. You see all of it.

Sextant hands pieces to helper agents and runs generations side by side. The activity tray shows every generation, render, export and download across your chats, with live output when you want the details.

  • Steer mid-task, or queue your next message for when it's done
  • Queued messages survive a reload or a crash
  • System notifications when a chat finishes or needs you
Product still ×4
done
Comp build · After Effects
72%
Voice-over take 2
48%
Render · logo_sting
f 036
Skills

Teach it your house style once.

Skills are written know-how the agent loads when a job calls for it. Use the bundled ones, import your own folder, or let Sextant learn one from a chat, with your OK before it changes anything.

  • Call a skill with $name or the slash menu
  • Turn skills on per chat, per project or everywhere
  • Picks up skills you already keep for Claude Code and Codex
Models and keys

Bring your keys. Keep a backup plan.

Let Sextant pick a model for each step, or set a favourite per kind of work. Put providers in order; if one is out of credit or down, it falls through to the next and tells you who's being billed.

  • Keys for fal, ElevenLabs and Google today, stored in the macOS Keychain, never in chat
  • Naming a model in your message always wins
  • Fallback never routes around a content refusal
Plays well with other agents

Use Sextant from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.

Sextant ships a command-line tool and a local MCP server, so the agent you code with can render in Blender or cut a timeline. It's an MCP client too: plug in your own servers and choose, tool by tool, what each project may call.

  • Add MCP servers by URL or local command, with OAuth or token sign-in
  • Chats can hand work to each other on your computer, with your permission
Footage, no credits needed

The boring edit, done locally.

Trim, pull highlights, caption, reframe for every feed and grade log footage to Rec.709, all on your machine at no generation cost.

  • Captions as SRT or burned in
  • Reframe to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5
  • Shorts from a talking-head recording
00:42 → "ship it before it's perfect"
04Safety and approvals

An agent with a light touch on the controls.

Sextant can run commands and edit files on your computer. You decide how much rope it gets, and you can take it back mid-job.

  • Full access

    The default for flow: it works without stopping, and the chat shows everything it did.

  • Auto-accept edits

    File edits go through; commands still ask.

  • Ask if unusual

    Routine steps run; anything out of the ordinary waits for you.

  • Ask every step

    Nothing happens without a yes. Grants you give can be revoked per chat.

Price before paid work

Every generation shows its estimated cost first, and anything over your ask-first amount stops for a yes.

Likeness needs consent

Real people's faces and voices need their permission and an extra approval. Someone else's character always asks.

Keys stay in the Keychain

Provider keys go into the macOS Keychain through a secure field, never into chat history.

Local first

Projects are folders on your disk. Usage statistics and remote feature updates each have an off switch.

Originals are kept

Edits and regenerations make a new version. Deletes go to Trash with an Undo.

No sneaking around

Provider fallback never bypasses a refusal, and a denied step stays denied.

05Pricing

Pay your providers, not a markup.

During the preview, Sextant runs on your own keys. Credits and team plans come later, and we'll publish prices here before anything costs money.

Available in preview

Bring your own keys

Pay as you go · billed by your providers

Connect the agent and model accounts you already have. Generation costs go straight to your provider, and Sextant shows the estimate first.

  • Agent: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or OpenRouter key
  • Models: fal, ElevenLabs, Google
  • All app drivers, skills, widgets and approvals
  • Local footage tools at no generation cost
Coming

Sextant credits

Pricing TBA

One balance for hosted agents and image, video, voice and music models, for when you'd rather not juggle accounts.

  • A free monthly allowance is planned
  • Sign in with your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan
  • More models arriving without app updates
Coming

Teams

Pricing TBA

Shared workspaces for studios and in-house teams.

  • Shared credit pool and usage by member
  • Member and admin roles, invitations
  • A team default brand kit

You bring your own creative app licences. "Coming" means on the roadmap and not available yet.

On the chart

Coming next

  • Routinesscheduled prompts
  • Project memoryand private chats
  • Flows panelre-runnable node graphs
  • Model playground
  • Review linkscomment without an account
  • Voice inputon-device
  • Built-in Design & Video editors
  • Game enginesUnreal · Unity · Godot
  • Windows & Linux
  • Cloud GPUsper-second
06FAQ

Good questions.

Straight answers about what works today and what's still coming.

What is Sextant, in one breath?

A desktop app with an AI agent inside that does creative work in real creative software. You describe the result; it plans the steps, drives the apps on your computer, calls generation models when they help, and gives you the project files it made, not just a video or a PNG.

Does it replace Blender, After Effects or Premiere?

No. It uses them. Sextant works through each app's own scripting or interchange formats (Blender's Python, After Effects and Photoshop scripting, Premiere XML timelines, Resolve Studio's API), so the result opens in the app you know and you can keep editing by hand. You bring your own licences.

Which apps work today?

Blender, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro (new cuts as XML timelines), DaVinci Resolve Studio, Remotion, and built-in footage tools for trimming, captions, reframing and grading.

Unreal, Unity, Godot, Houdini, Final Cut Pro, Ableton Live and more are on the roadmap and marked as coming.

Do I need an AI subscription?

Today you connect an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or OpenRouter to power the agent, and keys from fal, ElevenLabs or Google for generation. Signing in with an existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan, and Sextant-hosted models billed in credits, are coming.

Can it spend my money without asking?

You set an ask-first amount for any single generation (default $5; set $0 to approve every paid generation). Every generation shows its estimated cost before it runs, and long local renders ask first too.

It's a preference, not a hard cap at your provider, so keep provider-side limits on as well.

Where do my files and keys live?

On your computer. Projects are ordinary folders, keys sit in the macOS Keychain, and you can switch off usage statistics and remote feature updates in Settings. Generation requests go to the providers you choose.

Can I use Sextant from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor?

Yes. Sextant runs a local MCP server and a command-line tool, so other agents can call its creative tools. It is also an MCP client: add your own servers by URL or command and pick which tools each project may use.

Mac only?

The first build targets macOS on Apple silicon and is in private preview. Windows 11 and Linux are coming.

Set a heading

Make something
you can still edit.

Sextant is in private preview on macOS. Windows and Linux follow.

macOS

Apple silicon

Private preview

Windows

Windows 11

Coming

Linux

AppImage

Coming

Public downloads open soon. Check back here.