the craft is yours. the toil is ours.

◉ the mechanism · what actually happens

One request, walked end to end — every step on your infrastructure, against your own models, with a human on the gate.

1. 01
   ChatMode

   You describe what you’re making in plain language. ChatMode plans the project and dispatches its built-in agents — planning, data-query, synthesis — to handle the setup conversationally. You stay in the work and let it handle the around-the-work. No tooling to fight before you can start.

2. 02
   SmartModelRouter

   Each step routes to a model that fits it — a fast model to sort and tag files, a long-context model to read source material, a strong reasoner to check a rights or licensing question — across the providers you register. Bring your own models and run them on your own infrastructure; your unreleased work, your drafts, your client material stay inside your studio.

3. 03
   AgenticWorkflows · Code Execution

   The scaffolding becomes a flow of named agents — the file wrangling, the conversions, the versioning — and when a one-off transform is needed, Code Execution writes a throwaway tool, runs it sandboxed, and discards it. Repeatable, traceable, on rails. And there’s more behind sign-up: rights and compliance sweeps, multi-destination publishing pipelines, and research flows that gather the source before you begin.

4. 04
   AgenticWorkflows

   Before anything ships, a flow can sweep the work for the things that get a project pulled — unreleased material flagged, licenses verified, versions reconciled. The scaffolding that protects the work, done quietly, every time, so you don’t find out after it’s out.

5. 05
   HITL approval · Credential isolation

   Anything that publishes or ships your work stops at the human gate — you approve before it leaves your hands, real architecture, not a checkbox. Agents reach your assets and your publishing accounts through scoped, isolated credentials, never a shared token, so your work and your accounts stay yours alone.

6. 06
   Stay in the work · agents handle the rest

   The making stays yours and unbroken. The research, the formatting, the exports, the endless small admin around the work — the agents take that to the edges of the canvas while you hold the one thread that matters. No more snapping out of flow to wrangle a file or chase a reference; you keep your attention on the craft, and nothing ships without your say.

7. 07
   DLP · Audit trail

   DLP keeps your unreleased work and your credentials inside your network — scanned before anything is stored or sent. Every step is written to an append-only audit log, so you have a clean record of how the work came together, when you want to look back. The craft is yours; the paper trail is automatic.

The toil ran itself, the work shipped on your call, and the craft stayed entirely yours — and that’s the prep flow. The rights sweeps, the publishing pipelines, and the research flows are waiting behind sign-up.