Problem

Professional video-production teams lose substantial time and budget before editorial work even begins. They must back up and verify footage, interpret slates, sync audio, create proxies, organize media, and reconcile incomplete metadata across multiple tools. Cocreate describes this preparation as repetitive and error-prone, with media prep capable of consuming roughly 40% of a project's time and budget. The killer use case is a high-volume shoot or post house that needs to move footage from SD card to an editor quickly without risking lost, incorrectly organized, or unusable media.

Product / Service

Cocreate is AI-native software for professional post-production workflows, aimed at assistant editors, editors, DITs, post supervisors, and production teams. During ingest and backup, it checksum-verifies files, reads slates, synchronizes audio using timecode and waveform analysis, detects multicamera setups, transcribes audio, creates proxies, organizes footage, and builds stringouts. It then exports projects or bins in formats tailored to workflows such as Adobe Premiere and Avid, turning weeks of preparation into minutes while making footage searchable and preserving production safety.

The delivery model appears to combine downloadable software with demo-led onboarding. Its privacy policy describes a local-first architecture in which media can remain on customers' devices or infrastructure, while optional encrypted cloud copies support collaboration, backups, and access across devices. This approach is designed to provide the speed and automation of AI without requiring production teams to surrender control of sensitive media.

Market

Cocreate competes in professional video post-production workflow software, particularly media ingest, dailies, synchronization, proxy creation, and editorial preparation. The closest alternatives are adjacent ingest and backup tools such as Hedge/Offshoot, plus broader post-production suites such as DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere that can absorb parts of the workflow. Cocreate differentiates itself by automating the preparation layer before editing and by exporting into the editorial systems teams already use, rather than positioning itself primarily as a general-purpose video editor.

The company is an early-stage startup: Y Combinator lists it as founded in 2025, part of Summer 2025, active, and headquartered in San Francisco, with a team size of 10. It has publicly sought early users among post houses and production teams, and PitchBook reports $500,000 raised from investors including Y Combinator, Formosa Capital, Palm Drive Capital, TRAC VC, and Z5 Capital. The available evidence does not establish revenue, customer counts, or scaled deployment, so Cocreate is best characterized as an early commercial or early-user-stage company rather than a business with proven market traction.