Raw footage goes in. This is everything that happens next.

The homepage says it in five steps — drop, brief, variations, mark and ask, post. This page is the same path at working depth: what you can drop, what the edit does between your brief and your cuts, and what stands on the record when it’s done.

Everything you shot, exactly as you shot it.

Talking takes, B-roll, phone and event footage — straight from the device, or fetched from a Google Drive, Dropbox or direct file link. Bad takes, retakes and dead air are not problems to clean up before you upload. They are the material the edit works from.

NO ORGANIZING · NO SELECTS · NO TIMELINE

Say what you want. Or say nothing.

A brief is one typed line — the platform, the tone, what must survive the cut. Paste a script or a reference link if you have one. With a brief, the edit aims closer to the video in your head. Without one, the footage decides: length, structure and pacing follow what you actually shot.

One loop, held until the cut stands.

Editing is not one action. It is a loop of judgement — watch, decide, arrange, re-watch — and the loop is the product: RCM 1 is in training to run all of it, the way a professional does.

PERCEIVE

It takes in every frame and every word — each take, each restart, the dead air, the tone of a delivery. The whole sitting is on the table before anything is decided.

JUDGE

Every stretch of footage gets a verdict — keep, cut, or partially keep — and a reason: which take carries, where a retake beats the original, what dies and why.

SEQUENCE

What survives is ordered into a cut: an opening that earns the next second, cuts placed to the frame, pauses kept only where they work.

SELF-REVIEW

It watches its own cut the way it watched your footage, and judges that too. A cut that doesn’t hold goes back — re-judged, re-sequenced, re-reviewed.

THE LOOP RUNS AGAIN UNTIL THE CUT HOLDS — THEN YOU SEE IT.

That is the design, and it is what RCM 1 is in training on. It does not serve customer cuts yet — the professional editors it learns from do, and their work is labeled HUMAN EDIT wherever it appears on this site. Versions and benchmarks land on the model page when they are real, with their methodology — including the runs we lose.

The model page →

See a build replayed on the homepage →

Several answers, not one verdict.

A good brief has more than one good answer, so every upload returns several cuts — different hooks, different structures, cut from the same footage. 3 variations per upload on Creator, 5 on Pro. Keep the one that lands, or take any of them into a refine pass.

Mark the moment. Type the change.

Refinement is pointing, in plain words: mark the second that feels wrong, say what you want — a tighter opening, a longer beat, a different hook — and the next cut answers it. The note re-enters the same loop: read, placed on the timeline, re-cut, re-reviewed.

Refinements are free on every plan — fair use is 20recuts per cut. Iterate until it’s the version you want to post.

Post-ready means finished.

The cut that comes back is finished work: captions in your style, framing per platform — vertical, square or wide — pacing tightened, color handled. Download it and post it. The finish is included, not an add-on.

Finished work, on the wall →

Every cut arrives with its reasons.

Real Cut is built on narrated editing: professional editors cutting real projects with a microphone on, saying why — why this take, why this frame, why the pause stays. Before, after, and because. That record is what RCM 1 trains on, and it is why a cut from this system can carry a reason for every decision instead of a template’s guess.

Your side of the ledger is protected the same way. Training on customer material is explicit, opt-in and never retroactive — paid tiers train nothing by default. No perpetual license over your content. And no fake demos: human work is labeled HUMAN EDIT, always.

TRAINED ON: NARRATED EDITS · OWNED + LICENSED FOOTAGE · 0 SCRAPED FRAMES · 0 GENERATED PIXELS

The provenance ledger →

The approach essay →

Where this stands.

RCM 1 · PRE-RELEASE · IN TRAINING

RCM 1 does not serve customer cuts yet — the professional editors it learns from do. The RCM 1 API is in early access — calls return 503 until the model clears our quality bar. When a training run ships a version, its note lands on the release ledger.

Release notes →

The benchmark methodology →

API documentation ↗