Doza Assist
Open-source local AI that learns how you edit video
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Chris Cardoza

Doza Assist - Open-source local AI that learns how you edit video

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Documentary editors spend days hunting through interview footage for the moments that carry the story. Doza Assist does that pass in minutes. Drop in an interview. Get back transcription, story analysis, and a rough cut shaped by your own editing style, not generic AI. Exports to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and DaVinci Resolve. Runs 100% on your Mac. Nothing uploads to the cloud. Open source on GitHub under MIT license. Signed Mac app shipping soon. Join the waitlist.

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Chris Cardoza
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Chris, a documentary filmmaker and editor with 15+ years in the field. I built Doza Assist because I was tired of the worst part of every project: spending days or weeks scrubbing through interview footage hunting for the moments that actually carry the story. Every editor I know does this same grind. Watch everything. Take notes. Watch it again. Paste transcripts into an LLM. Try to remember where that one perfect soundbite was. It's the bottleneck of every interview-driven project. So I built the tool I wanted. Doza Assist transcribes your interviews locally on your Mac (no cloud uploads, ever), runs AI story analysis to surface the strongest moments, and exports a rough cut directly into Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or DaVinci Resolve. The feature I'm most proud of is My Style. You feed the app your finished work and it learns how YOU shape stories. Your pacing, your instincts, your editorial voice. Every suggestion after that is filtered through your style, not generic AI. You can build multiple profiles for different kinds of work. The whole thing is MIT open source on GitHub. You can clone it and run it today for free. A signed Mac app is shipping soon for editors who don't want to touch a terminal. I'd love feedback from editors, filmmakers, podcasters, or anyone who works with interview footage. What would make this more useful for your workflow? GitHub: https://github.com/DozaVisuals/d... Waitlist for the signed Mac app: https://www.dozavisuals.com/doza...
Zach Servideo

This is cool. Do you offer a "plus" version where we can clone Doza Assist and customize it for our needs AND hire you or someone from your team to give us some white glove service to build out a video production offering around the core Doza Assist tool?

Chris Cardoza
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@zachservideo Yes on both. The core is MIT licensed so you can fork the repo today and customize it for your workflow. The white glove side I handle through Doza Visuals, my documentary studio. 15 years of production work, so wiring the tool into a real video production offering is the kind of project we already take on. Drop me a note at chris@dozavisuals.com with what you're trying to build and I'll come back with a scope.

Zach Servideo

@dozavisuals excellent, thanks. We'd love to collaborate with you on a growth effort for our agency where we're looking to offer cost-effective video solutions and Doza Assist seems like an interesting tool to build around.

Albert Metz

Chris, the "My Style" feature is the kind of opinionated design call that separates a real editorial tool from another transcription wrapper - most teams would've shipped generic and called it a day. but a tool i'm building for this kind of read surfaced a segment you might be underweighting: in-house corporate video teams shooting exec interviews with no post budget and a comms deadline tomorrow. they don't care about craft; they care about not getting blamed. "runs locally" actually lands differently for them - legal loves it. that's a second buyer with a shorter sales cycle and way less price resistance than indie filmmakers.