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Workflow Chat Bot

I hope this is cool to post here - A VFX Editor in the UK has been developing some free tools for assistants and he has created a WhatsApp Chat Bot called FrameShift to understand workflows, so that he can get a better idea of what tools to make. I've had a go and was pretty impressed.

I'm going to share the original post from LinkedIn below.

We're gonna need a bigger bot.

I've spent months building VFX editorial tools.

EDL comparison.

VFX ID assignment.

SubCaps to Markers.

Small tools that solve real problems.

But I kept hitting the same wall: I'm solving MY problems. I know my workflow inside out. I don't know yours. So I built something different.

It's called FRAME/SHIFT, a WhatsApp agent for anyone in post-production, editorial, or VFX.

Message it.

Tell it what you do.

Tell it what's broken.

Tell it what task eats your week alive.

It speaks the language, turnovers, EDLs, ShotGrid, FileMaker, count sheets, metadata that vanishes between departments. It's not a survey. It's a conversation with something that actually understands the pipeline.

I want to know:

Where does your workflow break?

What would you automate tomorrow if you could?

What tool do you wish existed?

Every answer helps me build better tools for this industry.

Not generic project management platforms.

Not another ShotGrid wrapper.

Real editorial-first tools, built by someone who's spent 17 years doing this work by hand.

VFX Editors. Assistants. Supervisors. Coordinators. Post Sups.

If you touch the pipeline, I want to hear from you.

Jump in. Ask it something. Break it if you can.

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