About Kaviyan

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Velvet Horizon
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Our values

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Editors first

Every agent we ship has to save an editor an hour. If it doesn’t make the cut faster, it doesn’t make the release.

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Own the frame

Small teams, full ownership. Whoever picks up a problem carries it from the first sketch to the final render.

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Reviewed every year, never rewritten
Four principles, written in 2022
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One timeline

Five agents share one timeline and one brief. We remove handoffs instead of building bridges between tools.

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04

Ship the cut

A rough cut today beats a perfect one next quarter. We release early, watch real edits, and refine in public.

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01

Editors first

Every agent we ship has to save an editor an hour. If it doesn’t make the cut faster, it doesn’t make the release.

Cute lamp with a smiling face on pink
02

One timeline

Five agents share one timeline and one brief. We remove handoffs instead of building bridges between tools.

Layered blue waves
03

Own the frame

Small teams, full ownership. Whoever picks up a problem carries it from the first sketch to the final render.

Peach discs stacked on a soft background
04

Ship the cut

A rough cut today beats a perfect one next quarter. We release early, watch real edits, and refine in public.

Yellow blob character smiling on red
Our story

Sep 2026
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Agents, connected

All five agents start handing work to each other across one shared timeline.

May 2026
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12 million exports

Kaviyan passes 12M exported videos, made by 40,000 creative teams worldwide.

Jan 2026
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Nova and Flow

Generated shots and animated titles arrive, briefed in a single plain sentence.

Oct 2025
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Editor Sync

Kaviyan plugs into the editing software you already use, with no re-exports.

Apr 2025
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Kaviyan Studio

The services group opens, building motion systems, campaigns and templates.

Nov 2024
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Hue and Echo

Color and sound agents join the timeline, grading shots and cleaning dialogue.

Mar 2024
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Cut goes public

The editing agent opens to everyone and builds its first public rough cuts.

Jun 2023
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Kaviyan becomes a company

A weekend experiment grows into a seven-person company.

Aug 2022
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The weekend experiment

Lena automates the title card she keeps rebuilding, inside her own editor.

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Our differences

Half of our team has cut for broadcast or brand studios. We design around real deadlines, not feature checklists.

How we work

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Step01

Watch real edits

Every feature starts in someone’s timeline. We sit in on real projects, note where editors slow down, and write the problem down before the solution.

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Step02

Sketch in the open

We storyboard the idea like a short film, then share rough prototypes with a handful of teams long before anything is polished.

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Step03

Build it small

One small team owns it end to end. Design, engineering and motion share one channel and ship to beta teams every Friday.

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Step04

Refine in public

We release early, watch how it’s used and keep tuning. Changelogs, teardown streams and community feedback close the loop.

The team

Lena Hartmann

Founder & CEO

Lena cut trailers for a decade before she wrote a line of code. She started Kaviyan after one too many nights rebuilding the same title card, and still reviews every release from the timeline, not the roadmap.

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Portrait of Lena Hartmann, founder and CEO of Kaviyan
Lisbon, Portugal
Recognition

2026

Product of the Year, Creative Tools

Recognized by the Motion Makers Guild for putting five AI agents on a single shared timeline.

2025

Best Collaboration Experience

Awarded for agents that hand work to each other and keep a whole team inside one project.

2025

Editors’ Choice

Chosen by a jury of working editors for Cut, the editing agent, and its rough cuts.

2024

Breakout Startup in Video

Named one of the year’s breakout tools after Cut opened to the public.

2023

Design Excellence, Interface

Honored for a beta interface that needs no tooltips to get started.

Life at Kaviyan

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Careers

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Team

34 people, 9 countries

Work

Remote-first, async

Time off

30 days plus holidays

Set-up

€2,000 equipment budget

Hiring now · updated weekly

Rendering Engineer

Own the cloud render pipeline behind every 4K export and every shot Nova generates. Fully remote.

EngineeringRemote · WorldwideFull-time

€100k to €125k

Product Designer, Timeline

Design how five AI agents appear in the editor timeline. Based in London or fully remote.

DesignLondon or remoteFull-time

£60k to £75k

Customer Onboarding Lead

Take new customer teams from sign-up to their first shipped edit. Remote across the Americas.

OperationsRemote · AmericasFull-time

$80k to $95k

Senior Motion Designer

Design the motion systems Kaviyan Studio builds for brand teams, working remotely from Europe.

DesignRemote · EuropeFull-time

€72k to €88k

Creative Producer

Run campaign engagements for Kaviyan Studio in London, from the first brief to the final export.

ProductionLondonFull-time

£48k to £58k

Frontend Engineer, Editor

Build the agent panel that runs inside the editor our customers already use. Remote in Europe.

EngineeringRemote · EuropeFull-time

€85k to €105k

Freelance Editor Pool

Join the remote pool of freelance video editors we book first when a campaign needs forty cut-downs.

ProductionRemote · WorldwideContract

€320 to €420 / day

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