Creative writing workspace
Ameivu
By Retro Daddy Cinematics (RDC)The idea
Write first. Structure when needed.
A creative workspace for writers and storytellers: develop projects, write manuscripts and screenplays, organise the knowledge behind a story, and shape structured creative material with AI assistance.
In private development and internal testing.
Product evidence
The product is real and running. We are not showing screenshots yet, because the interface is still being refined and we would rather show it when it is worth showing.
Where it came from
Ameivu started as a tool for our own team. Retro Daddy Cinematics needed somewhere to develop stories properly, so we built one, and we used it on our own work.
It turned out to be worth more than an internal tool. We are now building it into a product for writers and storytellers outside the studio. It is still in private development and it is not open to the public yet.
Why it exists
A writer's work tends to scatter.
A writer's work tends to scatter. Project concepts in one place, loose ideas in another, manuscript text somewhere else again, screenplay and storyboard material apart from both, and the character, world and research notes wherever they happened to land. Ameivu is being built to hold all of that in one creative environment, so the work can move from an early idea to written material without changing tools every time it changes shape.
- Ideas kept apart from the writing they belong to
- Manuscript, screenplay and storyboard work split across tools
- Character, world and research notes with nowhere to live
- Structure demanded before there is anything to structure
How it works
Ideas behind it
- 01
Start writing, not organising
Create a project and you are taken straight into a writable manuscript. There is no gate asking you to name a chapter before you have written a word. Structure can be added as the work develops.
- 02
Writing is the centre
General writing sits at the middle of the product, with screenplay and storyboard kept as specialised representations. Screenplay formatting is not treated as the universal model that everything else has to fit into.
- 03
One project, several forms
The type of work you are doing routes you to the surface that suits it. A manuscript, a screenplay and a storyboard each get their own behaviour while staying part of the same project.
- 04
Books as objects
Projects are represented as books on a shelf, with a spine and a cover identity you compose. A body of work should feel like something, not like rows in a list.
- 05
The writer stays the author
AI is positioned as assistance around your material rather than a replacement for writing it. Human authorship stays central to how the product is built.
What it does today
What works today
Everything below is built and running in the product now.
Writing
- Open directly into a writable manuscript when a project is created
- Rich text: bold, italic, underline, highlight, headings, blockquote, lists, alignment, links, undo and redo
- Structured manuscript content saved with its formatting
- Several built-in writing typefaces, selectable per draft
Forms of the work
- A screenplay workspace with screenplay-specific elements
- Storyboard panels carrying frame, shot, action, dialogue and notes
- Work type routed to the workspace that suits it
- Differentiated Save and Submit behaviour for solo and collaborative work
Your creative world
- Projects, with a bookshelf, books and spines
- Cover identity and composition, saved with the project
- A Knowledge Base connected to Home and the workspace
- Progress-based unlocks for additional materials and covers
Keeping the work safe
- Reversible project archiving
- Trash, which removes a project from active views while keeping it recoverable
- Restore for archived and trashed projects
- Permanent deletion from Trash, behind an explicit title confirmation
Not built yet
Some things people reasonably expect from a writing tool are not built yet. We would rather name them than let the page imply otherwise.
- Dedicated research and planning workspaces
- Publishing and production delivery
- Buying materials, and any form of checkout
- Uploading your own fonts
- A public author profile, and a dedicated settings destination
Who it is for
Ameivu is being built for people developing narrative work.
- Novelists and prose writers
- Screenplay writers
- Storytellers developing narrative projects
- Creators working with structured story and world material
It is not an enterprise collaboration suite, a publishing platform or a marketplace, and it is not trying to become one right now.
AI that stays in its place
Ameivu is being built with story and context foundations underneath it: assembling the context around what you are working on, taking in the knowledge attached to a project, and making it retrievable while you write. The point of all of it is to help you work with your own story material.
It does not write books or screenplays for you, and it is not built to replace the writer. Some of the story memory and assistance capability is still early, so we are describing what it is for rather than promising what it will do.
Where it stands today
In private development and internal testing.
Ameivu is being built in a dedicated development environment and is currently in internal testing. The writing surface, the specialised workspaces and the project lifecycle all work. Several features are deliberately deferred. It is not open to the public yet.
Retro Daddy is the wider ecosystem. Ameivu is a dedicated product being developed inside it, with its own direction rather than as a feature of something else.
Want to know more about Ameivu?
There is no public signup or waitlist yet. If you write, and you want to know where this is going, write to us. We read everything and we will reply properly.