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Writing: a fountain pen standing nib-down in an inkwell, two blank cards beside it
Animation: a clapperboard with its striped arm raised
Real products: an unmarked bottle and a small box on a round plinth
Publishing: a paper plane just launched, two motion lines behind it
Planning: a desk calendar page with a grid of empty day squares
Illustrations: an artist’s palette with four dabs of paint and a brush across it
Templates: a layout card, a bar across the top and three blocks beneath, with two cards fanned behind it
Real people: two head-and-shoulders figures, one in front of the other

Set a brand once.
Everything comes out in it.

AI that writes your posts and makes your pictures and films, in your colours, fonts, logo and voice.

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Free to start. 5,000 credits, about eight posts. No card.

Example brands shown. Every icon here was made in our Illustration Studio.

Writing

Posts that sound like you.
Facts from your knowledge base.

Give it a brief. Five AI writers turn it into a draft from your own facts.

See writing
  1. Your brief Why the churn number in the board deck is always three weeks out of date, and what a live account view changes.
  2. Knowledge base 11 pages · three cited below
  3. The writers Strategist·Writer
    Editor·Humaniser
    Condenser
  4. The draft A LinkedIn post, ready for you to review
LinkedIn · Cortex AnalyticsDraft 1

The churn slide goes up.1 The number looks precise. The room nods, and everyone moves on as if it’s live.

It isn’t.

That figure was usually assembled days before the meeting — someone pulled Stripe, cross-referenced CRM stage changes2, reconciled a few support tickets by hand, and stitched it into a deck. The moment that export ran, the picture froze.

The part that stings: the accounts most likely to churn are exactly the ones most likely to change status in that gap. A hypothetical account with usage sliding for two weeks can look perfectly stable in a snapshot taken before the drop accelerated, then get flagged as at-risk right after the meeting ends — when it’s too late for anyone to raise a hand.

Most debates about churn reporting argue methodology — logo churn vs. revenue churn, gross vs. net. Useful, but beside the point. The real fight is about time. That number was true once. Nobody checked if it was still true by the time it was read aloud.

This is the problem we built Cortex Analytics to close — not a faster spreadsheet, but an account-level view that updates continuously from billing, CRM and usage signals3, so the board reacts to the account instead of the export date.

Next time that slide goes up, don’t ask what your churn number was. Ask what’s happening in your accounts right now.

Written by Luminar Forge · from your brief and 11 pages1 / 1
The margin notes are ours: they show which of Cortex’s pages each fact came from.
  1. Persona: Tom Reyes Knowledge base · Audience & personas A board meeting in nine days and three systems that disagree about net revenue retention.
  2. Products & Services Knowledge base · Products & services Native connectors for Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce and Segment.
  3. Company Overview Knowledge base · Company & brand Joins billing, CRM and product-usage data into one account-level view.

Templates

Pick a design.
It’s already in your brand.

Every design wears your colours, fonts and logo, so the whole team stays on brand.

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A Nightbowl post in the black-and-white documentary design, over its ramen counter
An Alma Skin post in the pain-point scene design, its jar on linen
A Meridian Freight quote, cut out on a colour field over its yard at dawn
An Oda Knitwear post in the pain-point scene design, over a jumper on its table
An Alma Skin stat post in the light minimal design
A Nightbowl stat post in the light minimal design
A Luminar Works post in its Metaball design
A Kettle & Crane stat post in the light minimal design
A Hollis & Daughter founder post, Nell at her bench
A Nightbowl founder post in the cut-out poster design, over its ramen counter
A Sunstone Logistic Systems quote post in its Route Builder design, over its own product
A Foxglove Tutoring founder post in the cut-out poster design, over a laptop on a kitchen table

Real products

Your product, exactly as it is.
Your people, in the picture.

All it needs is one phone photo of your product, or two of a person who has agreed to appear.

See real people & products
A balm jar with a terracotta lid on a white counter, photographed on a phone
The photo they tookAlma Skin · reference
The same jar on sunlit linen beside a ceramic dish and eucalyptus
The picture it becameMade in Luminar Forge
The jar’s finished post: the picture, the headline, the Alma logo and a call to action
The post it went intoAlma Skin · Instagram

Illustrations

Eight styles.
All in your colours.

Describe it in a sentence. It comes back in your colours, cut out and ready to use.

See illustrations
  1. A coffee shop as a small realistic diorama: espresso machine, pastry case, a barista and a customer at the counter Isometric, realisticKettle & Crane
  2. A small knitwear studio: shelves of yarn, a cutting table with a jumper laid out, and a designer pinning a sleeve on a dress form Isometric, vectorOda Knitwear
  3. A zoetrope seen straight on, galloping horses painted inside its drum, on a turned wooden stand Head-on, realisticMeridian Freight
  4. An apothecary cabinet seen straight on, each glass-fronted drawer holding a different ingredient Head-on, vectorAlma Skin
  5. A crane standing on one leg beside a stovetop kettle, the kettle’s steam curling above it Flat spotKettle & Crane
  6. A wooden hand plane with a brass blade, a long curl of shaving spiralling out of it 3D iconHollis & Daughter
  7. A barista handing a coffee across a café counter to a customer, as a sticker with a white border StickerLuminar Works
  8. A red ramen bowl with chopsticks lifting noodles and a curl of steam, built from crisp glossy planes 3D icon, crispNightbowl

Animation Studio

Write the story.
Get the film.

From a few lines of story to a finished film, with every scene yours to change.

See the Animation Studio
  • CodeExact where it matters

    Your real screens, your numbers, your logo: drawn frame by frame, so nothing is invented.

  • VideoAlive where it counts

    People and places are made by the video model, picking up on the last frame the code drew.

  • The room

    Trim a scene, swap a take, add a pause or a card, ask for changes in words. Every take is kept.

  • Sound

    An effect on every moment, and music made for the film with its cuts on the beat.

Planning

Plan the month.
Every post gets a brief.

Pick the days you post. It fills the month with ideas, each with a title and a brief.

See planning
  1. Set the days Instagram Tue · Fri, Facebook Wed · Sat, LinkedIn Wed
  2. Read the cards A title and a brief for every post, dated
  3. Fill the gaps A series, a suggested idea, Quick Post
  4. Write, picture, schedule Idea · Drafting · Review · Approved · Scheduled
October 2026 Cold Snap · Nightbowl · 18 posts Idea Drafting Published
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
  1. 28
  2. 29
  3. 30
  4. 1
  5. 2 What Happens In The Twenty Hours Before Your Bowl
  6. 3 Inside One Service: From Six PM To The Last Bowl
  7. 4
  8. 5
  9. 6 You Don't Need A Long Menu For Great Ramen
  10. 7 The Four Things Nightbowl Will Never Add To The Menu
  11. 8
  12. 9 Still Scrolling For Somewhere Open After Nine?
  13. 10 Why The Line Outside Nightbowl Keeps Growing
  14. 11
  15. 12
  16. 13 How To Actually Get A Seat At Nightbowl
  17. 14 One Perfect Bowl vs A Menu Ten Pages Long
  18. 15
  19. 16 Twenty Hours. One Broth. Zero Shortcuts.
  20. 17 Maybe Bookings Are The Problem, Not The Queue
  21. 18
  22. 19
  23. 20 Six PM: The Broth Is Finally Ready
  24. 21 What It Takes To Make One Twenty-Hour Tonkotsu
  25. 22
  26. 23 What If Tonight's Special Is The Last One?
  27. 24 Reservations Or A Queue Under The Awning?
  28. 25
  29. 26
  30. 27 Fourteen Seats. No Bookings. Every Night.
  31. 28 Two New Specials Every Week, No Warning
  32. 29
  33. 30 Myth: Good Ramen Needs A Big Menu
  34. 31 What's Still Open When Everywhere Else Isn't?
  35. 1

Publishing

Approve it.
It goes out on time.

Connect LinkedIn once. Approved posts go out on time, and the likes and comments come back.

See publishing
  1. Connect A profile or a company page, once
  2. Approve It joins the schedule when approved
  3. It posts On time. Three tries, then it says why
  4. It reports back Likes, comments and shares come back
Meridian FreightLinkedIn company page · connected A sample week
  1. Mon08:30 Departure times, not delivery windows 41 reactions · 3 comments · 2 reposts Posted 08:30
  2. Tue09:00 The 5 a.m. call Post · approved Mon64 reactions · 9 comments · 5 reposts ScheduledPosted 09:00
  3. Wed12:00 Twelve departures a night, four hubs Post · approved Mon Scheduled
  4. Thu09:00 Dock appointments, in five slides Carousel, as a document post Scheduled
  5. Fri08:30 What a named dispatcher does all night Post · approved Tue Scheduled

Back on the card2,318 impressions1,406 reachedWed 06:00

Meridian Freight4,812 followersTue · 09:00 · Sample post

At 5 a.m. our dispatcher called a customer to say their trailer would be forty minutes late.

By the time the first shift arrived, the dock doors had been re-sequenced. Nobody had to explain a missed appointment. …more

A Meridian Freight truck at a loading dock at dawn, a dispatcher with a tablet beside it
649 comments · 5 reposts

Posts go out by themselves on LinkedIn. On Instagram, Facebook and X you copy the finished post in yourself.

Who it’s for

From one marketer
to the whole department.

Writing, pictures, films, planning and publishing on every plan. Choose by the size of your team.

See plans
  • Solo $19 a month

    You, and someone to help

    One brand, written, pictured, planned and posted.

    Seats2
    Brands1
    About 15 posts a month For one business
  • Studio $49 a month

    A marketing team

    A team that writes, approves and schedules together, for up to three brands.

    Seats10
    Brands3
    About 41 posts a month For marketing teams
  • Agency $199 a month

    Several brands, or clients

    A team running a group’s brands or an agency’s clients, each in its own workspace.

    Seats25
    Brands10
    About 167 posts a month For agencies

Bigger than that? Enterprise is $499 a month, with no limit on seats or brands, and uses your own AI keys.

A post here is the writing and one finished picture.

Customers

Already in use
at two real businesses.

  • Garden PlaceOwner
    The pictures are of us and our own work, which is the bit I could never get right before.
  • Family Legacy BridgeFounder
    I write one line about what we have been up to and it comes back as a post I am happy to put my name on.

First run

Learn your business once. Then everything knows it.

Point it at your website and files. It writes up your business, and you check it before anything is saved.

  1. 01Your website
  2. 02Your files
  3. 03Your socials
  4. 04You review it

A knowledge baseLuminar Works · 23 pages

  • Company & Brand5
  • Products & Services8
  • Audience & Personas4
  • Industry & Competitors1
  • Content Strategy1
  • Research & Notes4
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