Local-first AI for documentary and spoken-word editing
Drop in interview footage. Doza Assist finds the moments that carry the story, shapes them in the editing style you already cut in, and drops a rough cut into Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or DaVinci Resolve.
Free & Open Source · Built For Storytellers
Doza Assist is a free AI editor's assistant for documentary, podcast, testimonial, and any footage built from people talking. It transcribes locally, surfaces the story beats that carry a scene, builds narrative sequences in your editorial style, and exports straight to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or DaVinci Resolve. No cloud. No subscription. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Narrative Intelligence
AI Story Chat
Type a question. Get back an answer with the clips to back it up. "What's the emotional arc of this interview?" "What's the strongest opening hook?" "What are the moments where the subject surprises themselves?" "Give me three clips that would work as a teaser." The AI reads your full transcript, reasons about narrative structure, and responds with editorial judgment, not just search results. Every answer links back to playable clips with timecodes so you can verify what the AI heard and hear it yourself.
Story Builder
Type something like "build me a story for a pilot episode about this" or "create a 60-second social cut focused on the mission." Doza Assist proposes a sequence of clips in narrative order, each with a title, timecode, and a short editorial note explaining why it earned its place in the story. The Transformation Story. The Hook. Defining the Mission. Drag to rearrange. Delete what doesn't work. Hit rebuild to try a different angle. When the sequence feels right, export it straight to Final Cut Pro as a pre-built timeline.
Teach it your storytelling style.
Most AI tools treat every editor the same. Generic suggestions, generic story structures, the same flattened "good editing" applied to everyone. Doza Assist works differently. Drop in finished projects you've edited and the AI studies how you shape spoken stories. How you open. How you build tension. What moments you linger on. What you leave on the floor. Then it uses what it learned to calibrate every Story Builder sequence and every AI Chat response so the suggestions sound like you would have made them.
The more projects you feed it, the smarter it gets. After a few projects, the AI knows your voice. After a hundred, it edits like a colleague who's worked with you for years. Toggle it off anytime to compare what generic AI suggests versus what your trained AI suggests.
And because everything runs on your Mac, your finished work, your style profile, all of it stays on your machine. Nothing uploads. Nothing trains a shared model. Your voice is yours.
Why Doza Assist
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Most AI editing tools treat your footage like a database. You search, you get results, you cut. Doza Assist is different. It understands narrative, not just keywords. It reads the whole conversation, finds the arc, and helps you assemble the story.
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Finds emotional beats, narrative arcs, and editorial moments. Other tools find keywords. Doza Assist finds meaning.
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No subscription. No trial. No account. MIT licensed and built in the open. Your tools shouldn't be a recurring expense.
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Documentary, podcast, testimonial, deposition, speech, panel, news. If your footage has people talking, Doza Assist is built for you.
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Documentary films, corporate video, podcasts, news, speeches, panel discussions, legal depositions, customer testimonials, training content. If someone is talking on camera and you need to find what matters, Doza Assist does the heavy lifting.
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Transcription, AI analysis, everything runs locally. No audio or video is ever uploaded. No cloud processing. No data collection. The client sharing link is temporary and stops when you close the app.
PARTNERSHIPS & INQUIRIES
Doza Assist is free and open source, but the vision is bigger than a single app. If you run a recording platform, editing tool, media asset manager, cloud storage service, or production company and you think there's a natural fit, I'd love to talk. Same goes for media companies exploring AI workflows, streaming services curious about narrative intelligence, and anyone working on the future of documentary and spoken-word content.
What I'm open to discussing
Technical integrations and API partnerships
Co-marketing and featured placements
Enterprise licensing and white label
Consulting, advisory, and custom builds
Based in Boston. Available for calls worldwide. Contact
