Question 1

What is The AI Film Company?

Accepted Answer

The AI Film Company is an AI-native movie and TV studio founded by Asa Bailey. We build the automation, data, and authorship infrastructure for the next era of filmed entertainment, combining machine intelligence with human authorship in an ethical, auditable framework.

Question 2

What does ".DAVE" do?

Accepted Answer

.DAVE (Data Acquisition & Validation Engine) is our proprietary format and protocol that records human + machine authorship, rights, and royalty routing. Every output is cryptographically signed and hashed, with a verifiable chain of provenance across the entire content lifecycle.

Question 3

How is creative IP structured for AI?

Accepted Answer

We model stories, characters, and assets as machine-readable data so AI systems can understand, generate, and attribute usage correctly. This enables fair compensation, legal traceability, and scalable reuse across platforms.

Question 4

What are your core business units?

Accepted Answer

1) Original IP Production: developing new stories and characters as structured data. 2) Catalog Structuring for AI Training: converting existing IP catalogs into standardized, traceable formats. 3) .DAVE Standard and Clearinghouse: maintaining the provenance protocol and metered royalty routing.

Question 5

How does your AI-native production pipeline work?

Accepted Answer

Our verified workflow is code → capture → compute → cut → log → distribute. Outputs are generated with .DAVE sidecars that log authorship, component metadata, performance data, and usage events for audit-ready provenance.

Question 6

Who leads The AI Film Company?

Accepted Answer

The studio is led by founder Asa Bailey, a filmmaker and technologist with 25+ years in media production and software architecture. His background includes studio virtual production leadership and data-driven pipeline design.

Question 7

Where do you operate and who are your partners?

Accepted Answer

We operate across the UK and Canada with distributed teams of artists, engineers, and producers. We collaborate with advanced AI content platforms such as Showrunner to distribute AI-native series built on our IP and verification stack.

Question 8

How do royalties and credits work with .DAVE?

Accepted Answer

.DAVE maps usage events to rights holders and routes royalty splits via the .DAVE Clearinghouse. Credits and consent rules are enforced through embedded, cryptographically verifiable metadata, enabling transparent reporting and payment.

Question 9

What services do you offer to studios and rights holders?

Accepted Answer

AI film and video production, AI studio services, IP catalog structuring for AI training, compliance and policy consulting, workflow and pipeline design, and integration of .DAVE SDK/API for provenance and royalty routing.

Question 10

Is .DAVE aligned with industry provenance standards?

Accepted Answer

Yes. .DAVE is designed to interoperate with content provenance frameworks and complements technical provenance with human authorship, licensing, and royalty routing—creating an end-to-end, audit-ready record.