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The house, with the lights on

Tools made for the people who make.

Film instruments that take the busywork and leave the craft. A school built on dialogue. Research that questions the foundations. One thread runs through all of it.

Title
A catalogue of the house
Plan
Ground floor, eight rooms
Exhibits
Eight instruments, six documents
Est.
2025
After hours

South​, Entrance

The foyer

Key plan

A​, The premise​, Under the armillary sphere

Walk to it

Tools change. Storytellers don't.

A brass armillary sphere on a wooden desk scattered with handwritten pages and a fountain pen, in a library at night.
Pl. 1The premise, under the armillary sphere.

MindMade builds instruments for people who make things: films, lessons, proofs. Every industry we work in tells the same story. Systems built to scale forgot the person at the centre of the work. The editor became an operator. The teacher became an administrator. The student became a submission.

We build the other way. One maker, one instrument, full attention. The house holds three practices: film tools that keep the maker in the frame, a school that returns education to dialogue, and a lab that questions the foundations underneath both. Each one is a different answer to the same conviction.

Software should sit beside the maker. Never in front.

Centre​, IRIS​, the fabric

The court

Every room opens onto this court. You cannot cross the house without passing her.

Key plan
Fig. 2IRIS, the thread, in the open court.
Scope
The fabric
Status
Live in the house
Where
The court, on the round plinth

No. 03Fabric

IRIS

A dot. A breath. A thread.

The tools make the work. The school teaches it. The lab questions it. IRIS remembers all of it, the memory that runs beneath every instrument in the house, so context survives the wrap.

A live voice. The microphone opens when you press Talk to her, and closes when you press End.

North-west​, Film​, 01 · 02

The picture room

The maker stays in the frame.

Two shipping instruments carry the film practice: one for the plan, one for the cut. Footage stays on the machine that made it. That is architecture, and it is the point.

Key plan
A black typewriter with a page of script in the roller and a bundle of tied pages beside it, inside a glass museum case lit by one warm lamp.
Pl. 2Lumen, the script, under glass.
Scope
Pre-production
Status
Shipping
Where
The picture room, case 01

No. 01Film

Lumen

Your script already contains a production plan.

  • The breakdown, read straight from the draft.
  • Strips, DOOD, call sheets, ready by the morning meeting.
  • Works beside a 1st AD. Never replaces one.
A hand-cranked film viewer and a loose coil of amber film on grey felt, inside a glass case under a single lamp.
Pl. 3CineLogic, the cut, under glass.
Scope
Post-production
Status
Shipping
Where
The picture room, case 02

No. 02Film

CineLogic

494 hours of upload time, or zero. Your call.

  • Footage stays on the machine that made it.
  • Selects pulled overnight, bookmarked by morning.
  • A paper edit you can argue with. ProRes, H.264, H.265, native.

North-east​, Education​, 04 · 05

The schoolroom

A meritocracy of curiosity.

The MindMade Institute carries the answer into the world twice over: a school for families, and Maya for universities. Recognition follows the work itself, and every student holds the means to do it.

Key plan
A child's wooden school desk with an open book and a lit oil lamp, inside a tall wooden display case.
Pl. 4The School, the desk, under glass.
Scope
Homeschooling
Status
In session
Where
The schoolroom, case 04

No. 04Education

The School

School, rebuilt around the child.

  • One teacher who knows them completely and is there at any hour.
  • The curriculum drawn as a world to explore.
  • Everything they master, proven with evidence.
A brass microscope standing over an open notebook of drawings, inside a glass case on a wooden plinth.
Pl. 5Maya, the notes, under glass.
Scope
Universities
Status
In session
Where
The schoolroom, case 05

No. 05Education

Maya

The tutor a university hands to its students.

  • Trained on the course material, not general knowledge.
  • Remembers every session, so learning compounds.
  • There at the moment of being stuck, not the hour the room is booked.

B​, Why education​, On the lectern

Walk to it

The system was broken before AI arrived. AI just made the breakage impossible to ignore.

Education began as a conversation. Socrates taught by dialogue. In 1984, Benjamin Bloom proved the conversation still wins: a student with a personal tutor performs two standard deviations better than one in a classroom. We have known for forty years what the best education looks like. We industrialised it away, lectures, timetables, essays, because conversation didn't scale. The wealthy never accepted that trade. They hired tutors. The two-sigma advantage never disappeared, it just became a luxury good.

Then AI arrived, and the industrial model's last defence collapsed. When any essay can be generated in thirty seconds, the essay stops proving anything. Universities across Europe are already reverting to oral examination, because a conversation is the one thing you can't outsource. So the question was never whether AI enters education. It's whether it enters as an unguided answer machine that hollows learning out, or as a tutor trained on the syllabus, accountable to faculty, that makes learning visible again.

We're not disrupting education. Education is returning to its oldest form, dialogue, and we built the only version of it that scales.

Three villains · never teachers, never universities

  1. 01

    The industrial lecture model

    One voice, two hundred students, opening hours from an era when knowledge lived in buildings.

  2. 02

    The unguided answer machine

    AI that hands over answers and hollows out understanding.

  3. 03

    The frozen curriculum

    Syllabuses drifting further from a job market that reinvents itself every five years.

Proof pillars · production data and public record

  1. 01

    The 3am fact.

    In the first nine weeks of a live university deployment, 44% of student questions arrived after 8pm, overnight or on weekends. Learning happens when the student is stuck, not when the room is booked.

  2. 02

    The oral exam revival is happening, not predicted.

    European institutions are adopting oral assessment now to counter AI-written work. Maya is conversational assessment infrastructure, built for exactly the format education is returning to.

  3. 03

    Teachers get their hours back.

    Repeat explanations and after-hours questions go to Maya. What only humans can do stays human. Measured in one university deployment: 87% of students wanted the mix of AI and human mentoring. Just 5% wanted AI alone.

  4. 04

    Verification, not surveillance.

    Transcripts, progression maps and live sessions make learning observable again. Universities regain the ability to verify that understanding exists, the very thing the essay can no longer prove.

What we'd never build · the credibility clause

Answer engines, AI graders, teacher replacements: we refused to build them all. Every one of those products makes the real problem worse. We built a completely new way to interact with the work itself.

East​, Research​, 06 · 07 · 08

The lab

Research the house runs on its own time.

Key plan
A palm-leaf manuscript bound between boards and tied with cord, on a grey plinth inside a glass case, with one loose leaf of script laid before it.
Pl. 6Pāṇini, the leaves, under glass.
Scope
Foundation model
Status
Open field
Where
The lab, case 06

No. 06Research

Pāṇini

Grammar before generation.

  • A compiler-first foundation model, trained on grammatical first principles.
  • It compiles meaning before it generates text. Runs on a laptop.
  • Named for the grammarian who described Sanskrit in about four thousand rules.
A star chart on a sloped lectern inside a glass case, pinned with brass pins and strung from star to star with red thread.
Pl. 7Constellation, the chart, strung with thread.
Scope
Social graph
Status
Open field
Where
The lab, case 07

No. 07Research

Constellation

Years, not sessions.

  • A privacy-first social graph.
  • A field study in how a practice holds its own knowledge over years.
  • Open field. Research the house runs on its own time.
A display case draped in a white sheet, lit from above in a dark gallery, its contents hidden.
Pl. 8Imprint, the case, under its sheet.
Scope
Likeness registry
Status
Concept
Where
The lab, case 08

No. 08Research

Imprint

Your face, your call.

  • A digital likeness registry.
  • Own your infinite selves. Give consent, and take it back.
  • Concept stage. Not built until it is right, so the case stays under its sheet.

West​, The record

The archive

Receipts attached.

Key plan

C​, The record​, In the card catalogue

Walk to it

The record

Students in session
8,000+
Across Australia and Europe.
The School and Maya, both in session today.
Minutes taught
191,085
One to one, and climbing while you read this.
The conversation Bloom measured, at a scale he could not.
Footage processed
20,000+hrs
Through CineLogic, on local hardware.
Logged, searched and cut without a single upload.
Hours uploaded
0
Not by policy. By architecture.
The files never leave the machine that made them.
Behind the instruments
40+yrs
Combined filmmaking experience among the founders.
The tools answer to people who have done the work.
Shipping
5
Lumen, CineLogic, IRIS, The School, Maya.
In the world, in use, today.
In the open field
2
Pāṇini and Constellation.
Research the house runs on its own time.
In concept
1
Imprint, a likeness registry.
Your face, your call. Not built until it is right.
Practices
3
Film, education, research.
One fabric runs beneath all three.
The studio
3
Three people, one advisor, and a fleet of agents.
Everything above was built by that.
Refused to build
3
Answer engines, AI graders, teacher replacements.
What a house declines to build belongs in its record.
Est.
2025
Independent.
The house answers to the work.

The charter

A wooden card catalogue inside a glass case, one drawer pulled open to show its index cards, under a warm lamp.
Pl. 9The record, in the card catalogue.
  1. iBeside, never in front of.
  2. iiShow the craft, not the tech.
  3. iiiPrivacy is the architecture.
  4. ivOne thread runs through all of it.
  5. vAccreditation is the floor, not the ceiling.
  6. viRead it aloud before it ships.
  7. viiWCAG 2.2 AA is the floor.

South-west​, The credits

The study

A studio of makers.

Key plan

D​, The credits​, Hung on the west wall

Walk to it

The credits

Stories shape culture.Technology amplifies intent.Purpose gives both direction.

  • Portrait of Sharath (Shank) Ravishankar

    direction

    Sharath (Shank) Ravishankar

    Founder · CEO & CPO

    Twenty years telling stories across five continents, thousands of hours in the edit suite. He builds the tools he wished he had as a filmmaker, the kind that take the busywork and leave the craft. He leads product so the maker always keeps the final call.

  • Portrait of Louis Hunter

    story

    Louis Hunter

    Founder · CMO

    Multi‑medium narrative expertise spanning theatre, film, video game animation, and motion capture. Ensures our instruments adapt to each storyteller's process. He shapes how the studio tells its story, on screen and off.

  • Portrait of Harold Mattner

    engineering

    Harold Mattner

    CTO

    Built and sold an intelligence platform before MindMade. He runs the engine room, the on‑device pipeline and the agent systems that let a small studio move like a large one. He works where the hard parts live: Rust, Metal, and the architecture most people never see.

  • advised by

    Niklas Eder

    Strategic Advisor

    Co‑Founder & COO of User Rights, the first EU‑certified body under the Digital Services Act. Tech governance and regulatory strategy.

  • with

    a fleet of agents

    Filmmaker · Storyteller · Engineer, directing a fleet of agents. The studio is the work.

South-east​, Correspondence

The post room

Write to the house.

Key plan

F​, Common questions​, In the pigeonholes

Walk to it

Asked, answered.

Q.01What is Hybrid Intelligence?
Software shaped around the practitioner. Computation handles the dull, repeatable work; the human stays in the frame, making the calls. A stance we hold across everything we ship.
Q.02Where does my footage live?
On your machine. CineLogic is local-first by default. IRIS keeps memory on-device unless you ask it to sync. Nothing leaves the room without an explicit choice.
Q.03Can I use Lumen or CineLogic without IRIS?
Yes. The instruments work on their own. IRIS is the layer beneath that lets context survive between projects, available when you want it.
Q.04Where can I get Lumen and CineLogic?
Both are shipping. CineLogic lives at cinelogic.app, Lumen at lumen.film. Start at either, or write to the house if you'd rather talk first.
Q.05Is the school open for enrolment?
The School is in session at mindmade.school, and Maya hosts universities at mindmade.university. Both begin with a conversation, not a form.
Q.06How are the tools priced?
Plainly, and on each tool's own site: Lumen at lumen.film, CineLogic at cinelogic.app. For anything else, conversations happen by email.
Q.07Is the studio hiring?
Always reading. We keep a small room and grow with intent. Send a note and a portfolio. We'll make time if there's a fit.
Q.08Something we have not answered?
Write to the house at hi@mindmade.co.

E​, The correspondence​, At the writing desk

Walk to it

Let's build something meaningful together.

For filmmakers, families, universities and partners who want to make with the house.

Get in touchhi@mindmade.co

A writing box, a brass seal, a fountain pen and a letter inside a glass case, with an envelope closed in vermilion wax at the front.
Pl. 10The correspondence, at the writing desk.

The house is closed for the night. We left a lamp on for you.The house is open until sundown. Take a lamp for the back rooms.

Walk the house. Open the eight cases. Leave with your thread.

Or turn the lights on and read