What is ReelBolt

ReelBolt is a web app for making promotional videos with the help of AI agents. You put your material into a project, pick or build a workflow (a recipe of steps), press Run, and ReelBolt runs the steps one after another until a finished video comes out the other end.

You open ReelBolt in your browser. Everything described in this guide lives under the dashboard at /app (for example /app/projects).

What ReelBolt can make for you

ReelBolt covers two broad kinds of video work, and you can mix them.

Promo videos built from a codebase. Upload the source code of a web app or product. A chain of agents reads the code, works out what the product does and how it looks (its components, pages, colours and fonts), writes a script, plans the shots, and then builds and renders an animated video that shows the product off. The animation is written as code and rendered into a real video file, so the result looks like your actual product rather than a stock template. A review agent scores the result and can send it back for another pass if the score is too low.

Editing real footage. Upload raw video (for example a long screen recording or a talking-head take). ReelBolt can:

• Derush and cut it: find the pauses, the scene changes and what is being said, then decide which parts to keep and cut them together accurately.
• Add motion graphics: titles, lower-thirds and callouts placed at sensible moments and in empty parts of the frame.
• Place tracked screen inserts: if your footage shows a phone or laptop with a green (or other single-colour) screen, ReelBolt can follow that screen as it moves and put your own content inside it, keeping hands and bezels in front.
• Add background music and sound effects: pick a track from your uploads, keep it quieter under speech, and add whooshes or clicks on cuts.
• Colour-grade the edit: apply one consistent look (warm, cool, filmic, and so on) to the whole video.
• Generate b-roll: create short extra clips (cutaways, an opening shot, an end card) with a paid video-generation service, inside spending limits you set.
• Add a voiceover: turn script text into narration with a text-to-speech service.

Some of these features need a matching AI service to be set up by an administrator first (for example speech-to-text for transcripts, or a video-generation service for b-roll). See Inference providers.

Who ReelBolt is for

• Founders, marketers and product teams who want a launch or feature video without hiring an animator or editor for every version.
• Creators and developers who record demos or tutorials and want the dead air cut out and the edit tidied up quickly.
• Administrators who run a ReelBolt installation for a team: they create accounts and connect the AI services that the agents use.

You do not need to know how to code to use ReelBolt. Workflows can be built from ready-made templates, and the built-in assistant can explain, draft and change workflows for you in plain conversation.

The main building blocks

These are the pieces you will meet everywhere in ReelBolt. Each is explained in more depth in Concepts.

• Workspace: the container that owns your projects and the people you share them with. You get a personal one, and you can create team ones. See Workspaces and teams.
• Project: a folder for one video effort. It holds your files, your workflows and every video those workflows produce.
• Files: what you upload (code, footage, music, images, documents) plus what the agents create along the way and the finished renders.
• Workflow: an ordered list of steps that turns your files into a video. Every new project starts with one ready-made workflow called Promo video from your code v1.
• Step: one job in a workflow, such as "analyse the code", "decide which shots to keep" or "cut the final video".
• Agent: an AI worker with a specific role (scriptwriter, director, story editor, reviewer, and so on). ReelBolt ships many built-in agents, and you can create your own.
• Execution (also called a run): one go of a workflow from start to finish. You can watch it live, stop it and retry it.
• Render: a finished video produced by a run, which you can play, download and share from the project's Renders tab.
• Assistant: a chat helper available on every page that can answer questions and make changes for you after you approve them.

How this guide is organised

• Getting started: sign in, create a project, upload files, run your first workflow and find the video.
• Concepts: what workspaces, projects, files, workflows, steps, agents, runs, outputs, caching and costs mean in practice.
• Workspaces and teams: your personal workspace, team workspaces, the four member roles, invitations and switching.
• Your data, exports and closing your account: download everything ReelBolt holds about you, close your account, and what is kept afterwards.
• The assistant: what the built-in assistant can do, how approvals work, and how to ask it for things.
• Workflows: the built-in templates, the step types and the agents.
• Recipes: step-by-step guides such as a promo from your code, derushing and editing footage and a tracked screen insert.
• Administration: users, inference providers, semantic search and decision models.
• Desktop runner: pairing a computer you own to render ReelBolt videos on it, installing and running it, its settings, and what runs where and what data leaves the machine.
• Troubleshooting: common error messages and what to do about them.