Built in the gaps between shoots,
for the gaps in your shoots.

The problem

Seven years making documentaries and I kept bumping into the same wall. We film extraordinary footage — scenes, interviews, observational moments — and then it vanishes onto a hard drive. Sometimes for weeks. Nobody sees it properly until the edit.

There's no live log. No running record of what was actually captured on any given day. By the time an editor sits down with the material, the people who were on the ground — who know what happened in the room, what the subject said before the camera rolled, what a look meant — have moved on to the next shoot. The context walks out with them.

I saw the same pain point at every level. Edit producers spending hours hunting for a line they half-remembered from three weeks ago. Directors discovering in the cut that they'd missed something they could have gone back for. Pickups — the wasted days, the budget, the creative compromise — that only happened because nobody had a proper record of what they had.

What I believe

I care about authentic storytelling. Human-interest stories. Real characters with real vulnerability. The kind of moments that only happen when someone trusts the person behind the camera.

The worry I hear most about AI in documentary is that it'll flatten that — make everything more efficient and less human. I understand it. But the goal isn't to replace the filmmaker. It's to take the administrative weight off them so they can be more fully present. More focused on the person in front of them. More able to follow the unexpected thread, sit with silence, let the story breathe.

StoryCoPilot creates a live log of your shoot. It runs quietly in the background — across interviews, scenes, whatever you're capturing — so nothing disappears into a drive unseen. It's for filmmakers who want to stay in the room. I'm Harry. I built this between shoots. If you've ever gone into an edit not quite sure what you had — this is for you.