About Kaviyan

The AI video editing company built by editors.

Kaviyan is a team of 34 building five AI agents that cut, grade, generate, mix and animate video inside the editor you already use.

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Velvet Horizon

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Creative teams at leading brands build with Kaviyan

  • Northfold

  • Maison Vire

  • Lumen Skin

  • Halden

  • Stride Lab

  • Fizz & Co

  • Rind Studio

  • Sole Theory

  • Dew Lab

  • Parcel & Co

  • Studio Halde

  • Fieldnote

Creative teams at leading brands build with Kaviyan

  • Northfold

  • Maison Vire

  • Lumen Skin

  • Halden

  • Stride Lab

  • Fizz & Co

  • Rind Studio

  • Sole Theory

  • Dew Lab

  • Parcel & Co

  • Studio Halde

  • Fieldnote

Creative teams at leading brands build with Kaviyan

  • Northfold

  • Maison Vire

  • Lumen Skin

  • Halden

  • Stride Lab

  • Fizz & Co

  • Rind Studio

  • Sole Theory

  • Dew Lab

  • Parcel & Co

  • Studio Halde

  • Fieldnote

Our values

The values behind our AI video editor.

Four principles we wrote down on day one. They still decide what ships and what doesn’t.

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.

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03

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

02

One timeline

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

Layered blue waves

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

How Kaviyan became an AI video editing company.

The launches, decisions and milestones that shaped Kaviyan, from a weekend experiment to the AI video editor it is today.

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

Pink and white soft swirl

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.

Sep 2026

Yellow and blue fuzzy spheres

Agents, connected

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

May 2026

Column of pastel bubbles

12 million exports

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

Jan 2026

Pink and white soft swirl

Nova and Flow

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

Oct 2025

Pastel torus twisted into a knot

Editor Sync

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

Apr 2025

Pastel stairs in teal and pink

Kaviyan Studio

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

Nov 2024

Sphere in soft rainbow colors

Hue and Echo

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

Mar 2024

Cute white ghost on a yellow background

Cut goes public

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

Jun 2023

Cluster of pastel shapes

Kaviyan becomes a company

A weekend experiment grows into a seven-person company.

Aug 2022

Small robot beside a warm orange sun

The weekend experiment

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

Magenta fluffy hills beside still water

Our differences

Why editors choose our AI agents for video editing.

001

Built by editors

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

002

Inside your own editor

003

Five agents, one brief

004

You keep final cut
Magenta fluffy hills beside still water

Our differences

Why editors choose our AI agents for video editing.

001

Built by editors

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

002

Inside your own editor

003

Five agents, one brief

004

You keep final cut

How we work

How we build each agent, from rough idea to shipped release.

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Step

01

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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Step

02

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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Step

03

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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Step

04

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.

01 / 07

Portrait of Lena Hartmann, founder and CEO of Kaviyan

Lisbon, Portugal

Portrait of Victor Lim, head of motion at Kaviyan

Singapore

Portrait of Ravi Menon, lead engineer at Kaviyan

Bengaluru, India

Portrait of Mia Tran, product designer at Kaviyan

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Portrait of Sofia Marin, motion designer at Kaviyan

Madrid, Spain

Portrait of Tariq Aziz, customer success at Kaviyan

Dubai, UAE

Portrait of Hana Sato, community lead at Kaviyan

Tokyo, Japan

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.

01 / 07

Portrait of Lena Hartmann, founder and CEO of Kaviyan

Lisbon, Portugal

Portrait of Victor Lim, head of motion at Kaviyan

Singapore

Portrait of Ravi Menon, lead engineer at Kaviyan

Bengaluru, India

Portrait of Mia Tran, product designer at Kaviyan

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Portrait of Sofia Marin, motion designer at Kaviyan

Madrid, Spain

Portrait of Tariq Aziz, customer success at Kaviyan

Dubai, UAE

Portrait of Hana Sato, community lead at Kaviyan

Tokyo, Japan

Recognition

Awards and recognition for Kaviyan’s AI agents.

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

Life at Kaviyan is about staying connected.

We’re 34 people in nine countries who care deeply about the work, and know when to step away from the timeline. Some of our best ideas arrive off-screen.

  • Three teammates laughing over dinner at a restaurant table
  • Four teammates hiking a grassy trail toward snowy peaks
  • Team taking a group selfie in a colorful studio office
  • Teammates smiling over a long outdoor lunch table
  • Marshmallows toasting over a fire pit at a team offsite
  • Two designers comparing color swatches and prints at a shared desk
  • Friends talking at a picnic table on a wooden porch
  • Three teammates walking a forest path beside the water
  • Three teammates laughing over dinner at a restaurant table
  • Four teammates hiking a grassy trail toward snowy peaks
  • Team taking a group selfie in a colorful studio office
  • Teammates smiling over a long outdoor lunch table
  • Marshmallows toasting over a fire pit at a team offsite
  • Two designers comparing color swatches and prints at a shared desk
  • Friends talking at a picnic table on a wooden porch
  • Three teammates walking a forest path beside the water

Careers

AI video editing careers. Come build with us.

We hire slowly and on purpose. Seven roles are open right now, most of them remote.

Team

34 people, 9 countries

Work

Remote-first, async

Time off

30 days plus holidays

Set-up

€2,000 equipment budget

All

All

Design

Design

Engineering

Engineering

Production

Production

Operations

Operations

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