Stories & Characters
Story Intelligence for Escape.ai
Story Engine on Escape.ai’s film platform: video understanding, a typed story graph, search with time-coded citations, and character agents.
Story & World Intelligence
Film search, AI characters, and interactive stories.
A transcript misses much of what happens on screen. Search and character experiences also need to track who appears, what happens, and how scenes connect, with references back to the footage.
For platforms, studios, and IP holders building search, character experiences, or interactive stories from their films and worlds.
Worked example
Film search and characters for Escape.ai
On Escape.ai’s film platform, Story Engine watches each film once. The pipeline splits footage into shots and reads out time-coded captions, entities, events, dialogue, and narrative acts. Character grounding ties every appearance to one identity across the film.
Those facts land in a typed story graph of scenes, beats, arcs, conflicts, and themes, with provenance on every node, so an enhancement pass can be reverted without losing what came before it.
Search, character conversations, and interactive stories all read from the same graph. Answers include references to relevant footage, and agents can query and author the graph through a command-line tool and an MCP server.
How it works
- Story Engine
keeps a character to one identity across a film, records where every fact in the graph came from, and answers with time codes.
- DASP
is the open protocol designed to carry story decisions to engines and rooms as typed messages, so a scene can drive a screen, a headset, or a venue.
- Spatial OS
is designed to route a story’s cues to the devices in a room, so a projected character and a robot host follow the same scene.
What we can build
Video intelligence
Shots, captions, entities, events, and dialogue indexed from the footage itself, each tied to its moment.
Semantic search
Questions answered with time-coded citations into the film.
Story graphs
A typed graph of scenes, beats, arcs, conflicts, and themes, with provenance on every node.
Character intelligence
One identity per character across a film, with persona and voice for conversation.
World context
Knowledge graphs that span several works and keep a world’s facts consistent.
Narrative-driven agents
Retrieval agents, multi-character scenes, and interactive stories that read from the graph and stay grounded in it.
Projects
Projects in this area.
Experiences & Worlds
God’s Eye View at The Rectangle
A concept for exploring the Earth across a room through a voice-guided globe, public data, interactive projection, and a robot guide.
Where to start
Start with one film or series
We index one film or one series into a searchable story graph and put a question-answering agent over it, so your team can judge the answers against the footage.
- What you get
- A searchable story graph for one property, an agent that answers from it with references to the footage, and a short report on the results and gaps.
- What you bring
- The footage, with the right to process it
- The questions your team or audience asks about it
- One person to review the answers
Next step
Discuss a story intelligence projectGet in touch
Tell us what you have in mind.
Describe it in a few sentences. You get a draft brief to review before anything is sent.