Introducing

Kintsugi
Studio

Stories, made whole.

For teams who look after people's life stories. One recording in, a month of clips, posts and reports out, with consent built into the code and a person in every loop.

Studio doesn't replace the people who make stories. It carries the weight around them: the clips, the posts, the checks. So the story gets to stay human.

Who it's for

Built for people who
hold other people's stories.

Studio is for organisations whose work depends on someone trusting them with their life story: recording it, shaping it, sharing it, and keeping their word about how it's treated.

Lived-experience and peer-led media

Podcasts, series and channels where people tell their own story of recovery, mental health, disability or hardship.

Community and support organisations

Services and charities that share client or member stories for awareness, advocacy and fundraising.

Disability and human services

Providers and peak bodies putting participant and consumer voices in front of the public.

Oral history, memoir and archives

Projects that gather and keep life stories, whether for a community, a family or a collection.

Advocacy and consumer-voice groups

Bodies that carry lived experience to government, funders and the media.

Not-for-profits with story-led campaigns

Teams whose appeals and reports lean on real people, and who can't afford to get it wrong.

You're probably who this is for if

  • Real people are named, voiced or pictured in what you publish.
  • Some of their stories involve trauma, health or hard times.
  • Someone on your team has to be able to say "yes, this is safe to share" and stand behind it.
  • You're a small team or a volunteer crew, not a newsroom.

Probably not for you if

  • You want content posted automatically with nobody reviewing it.
  • Stories are raw material for volume, not people to be looked after.
  • You need an off-the-shelf product today. Studio is set up and built with each team.
Care at every step

A story's whole journey,
handled with care.

InvitationConsent is on file before anything is made.
TellingThe person's meaning is kept. AI never invents or alters them.
ShapingSafety checks on every output, led by strengths, not the worst day.
ReviewSensitive themes always get a human, and a named person owns the call.
SharingNothing goes live without approval. Warnings and crisis details where they belong.
AfterThey can withdraw at any time. Publishing stops, and the trail is kept.
01 / RECORD

Record once.

A conversation goes in. Studio logs the episode and gets to work.

419

episodes tracked

02 / FIND

Find the lines that matter.

Every standout moment lands in a searchable library, ready for clips, captions and posts.

3,397

quotes in the library

03 / CUT

Cut the clips.

Short-form and long-form videos prepared and sent to YouTube from one place.

84 + 40

Shorts and YouTube uploads

04 / DRESS

Dress it for every channel.

Artwork and post plans for each platform, living in one calendar.

740 + 500

artworks and planned posts

05 / APPROVE

A person says yes.

Nothing goes live by itself. Every item waits for a named approval, then goes out scheduled.

33

podcast publishes through Studio

Safety is code

It can't publish
what it shouldn't.

Consent isn't a policy someone has to remember. Three checks have to pass before anything is scheduled. If a participant withdraws, publishing stops.

  • Signed consent on file
  • Human review approved
  • Governance check passed
Waiting for checks
Scheduled clipQueued
Scheduled postQueued

Illustrative demo. No participant data is shown anywhere on this page.

Built to last

Serious software,
built in 4.5 months.

0pull requests shipped
0database tables
0automatic jobs
0live domains

472 security policies.
Locked down by default.

Login-only access, permissions by section, database-level rules on every table that matters, and audit trails nobody can quietly edit.

Evidence over hunches

A demand engine that
checks its own homework.

Studio finds what people are searching for, matches it to the stories you tell, then tests every guess against real views, with control episodes left alone for comparison.

1Harvest858 search terms
2Clustergroup by topic
3Mission gateon-brand only
4Matchto your episodes
5Backtestvs real views
6Controlsuntouched episodes
7Verifykeep what works

Fed by 64,517 YouTube video snapshots and 16,167 daily reach records.

Doesn't break when others do

A service goes down.
Studio doesn't.

Dashboards read saved snapshots, not live calls to third parties. If a connection drops, you see the last good numbers, clearly labelled.

YouTubeLive
Podcast hostLive
Social platformsLive

Illustrative demo.

Studio dashboard
Videos tracked64,517
Episodes419
Uploads this system sent124
Everything running
No surprise bills

Every AI dollar,
on the record.

All 7,189 AI calls are logged with their cost, with a budget alert watching the total. Turning an episode into its full set of outputs costs a fraction of a dollar.

$0.36 – $0.55 per episode
$0$0.25$0.50$0.75$1.00
Foundations

Not invented here.
Built on what already works.

Studio's rules come from published frameworks that anyone in media, podcasting or community work can read and check. We didn't write a new ethics. We turned respected ones into code.

Care for the people in the story

Trauma-informed storytelling, from health, media and oral-history practice.

SAMHSA · USA

Trauma-informed approach: six principles

SafetyTrustworthiness & transparencyPeer supportCollaboration & mutualityEmpowerment, voice & choiceCultural, historical & gender issues
In StudioSafety checks on every output, consent before anything publishes, and a storyteller who can withdraw at any time.
SAMHSA, 2014
Everymind · Australia

Mindframe guidelines

National guidance for safe communication about suicide, mental ill-health, alcohol and other drugs, eating disorders and more, for media and creators.

In StudioContent warnings and crisis-line details on sensitive themes, with a mandatory human review.
mindframe.org.au
Voice of Witness · oral history

Trauma-informed storytelling practices

The narrator owns their story, keeps control of it, and is never sensationalised.

In StudioQuotes and clips keep the person's meaning. Withdrawal of consent stops publishing.
voiceofwitness.org
AIATSIS · Australia

Cultural sensitivity protocols

Care around the images, voices and names of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In StudioCultural-protocol rules sit in the content standard, so they are checked, not remembered.
aiatsis.gov.au
Stella Young · TED, 2014

"I'm not your inspiration"

The case against turning people's hardship into spectacle for an audience.

In StudioA strengths-first rule: lead with the person, never the worst thing that happened.
ted.com

Responsible AI

How AI is used, and who is accountable for it.

Australian Government · voluntary

Australia's AI Ethics Principles

Human, societal & environmental wellbeingHuman-centred valuesFairnessPrivacy protection & securityReliability & safetyTransparency & explainabilityContestabilityAccountability
In StudioAI assists and humans decide. Every AI use is logged, and a named person is accountable for each output.
industry.gov.au
Dakan & Feller · Anthropic Academy

The AI Fluency 4D Framework

DelegationAI gets the first draft. People keep the final decision.
DescriptionEvery generator is told the voice, the job and what safe looks like.
DiscernmentOutputs are checked by machine, then by a person.
DiligenceWhoever approves it owns it, as if they wrote it.
aifluencyframework.org
Six AI rules written into Studio

The rulebook the software enforces

  1. AI assists, humans decide
  2. Mandatory review for sensitive themes
  3. AI never invents or alters the person
  4. Prompts are part of the standard
  5. The reviewer owns the output
  6. Transparency by default
Training behind the build

Completed by Tony Bailey

Anthropic Academy courses on responsible AI work and on building with Claude.

AI Fluency: Framework & FoundationsAI Fluency for Nonprofits (with GivingTuesday)Claude Code 101Claude Platform 101Subagents
Course: AI Fluency for Nonprofits
Where this stands, plainly. Studio's two standards, a trauma-informed content standard and an AI governance standard, are working drafts adapted from the sources above and enforced in code. They have not had independent sign-off, and none of the organisations named here endorse Studio.
Proof, not promises

Running on real work.
Counted, not claimed.

Every number below comes from the live database of a volunteer-run not-for-profit podcast network. We're honest about what's in daily use and what's still early.

In daily use

419episodes3,397library quotes64,517video snapshots84Shorts uploaded40YouTube uploads33podcast publishes616studio assets740social artworks500planned posts137grant opportunities found4,414awareness matches449governance audits

Early use

Post-interview formsStory pagesWorkshop toolsBook briefs

Built and ready

BookingsGrant applicationsMarketing lanePromo video jobs

Designed and directed by one person, engineered with Claude Code, and built to be run by a team of volunteers.

The builder

Tony Bailey

Product owner and architect. I specify the rules, review every change and make the release calls. AI writes much of the code under that direction, and I'll say so plainly.

Melbourne, Australia · Bailey Code

Be part of it

Want a Studio
of your own?

Bailey Code sets up and builds systems like this for organisations that hold people's life stories, with the care rules in the code from day one.

tony@thebaileysupport.com
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