cocreate

TL;DR

Before editing even starts, professional video-production teams spend days just preparing footage — copying files, syncing audio, creating proxies, and organizing footage. For big shoots, this can eat nearly half the project’s time and budget.

CoCreate is an AI-native tool that does all of that in the background while you back up your footage, so by the time your card is copied, it’s already synced, proxied, organized, and ready to edit in Premiere, Avid, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.

If you work with large volumes of footage, we’d love to onboard you as an early user, connect with assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know, and get your feedback on our demo.

Problem

Media prep is the slowest part of post-production. Professional video teams juggle multiple tools to back up, sync, proxy, and organize — a process that’s repetitive, error-prone, and can consume 40% of a project’s time and budget. Existing tools fail at solving this core issue.

Solution

CoCreate is an AI-native video editing and media organization tool that gets professional video editors from SD card to edit as fast as possible. CoCreate works in parallel during backup: we checksum your files for safety, automatically sync audio with video, create proxies, and organize footage by scene, take, date, camera, and person. The result: weeks of prep work done in minutes, with everything searchable, and exportable in your preferred format.

Check out our demo: https://youtu.be/zL4gAKHMHyo

Who it’s for

We’re built for high quality video production teams — from massive YouTubers and indie shoots to large-scale post houses — who deal with large volumes of footage and need to move faster without sacrificing quality or safety.

Our backstory

Tamish and Sid first met during New Student Orientation at Stanford three years ago and quickly became close friends. A year later, Archish transferred to Stanford and was introduced to them through the university’s vibrant music scene. The three clicked instantly — not just as musicians playing campus shows together, but also as classmates grinding through late-night problem sets as CS majors.

All three had been creating music and video content for years before Stanford, and they kept that momentum going on campus — producing projects that have collectively garnered millions of views across platforms. That blend of long-standing creative experience and technical expertise made them deeply familiar with the pain points of media production, ultimately inspiring them to build cocreate to make high-volume post-production faster, simpler, and more collaborative.

Our ask to the YC community:

• Post houses / production teams — if you handle lots of footage, we’d love to onboard you as early users.
• Introductions to assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know.
• Feedback on our product demo — especially from those with experience in high-volume video workflows.

If you can help us with any of this, please reach out at founders@cocreate.so.

Thank you!

Team

Tamish Pulappadi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamish-pulappadi/

Sid Yu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-yu/

Archish Arun - https://www.linkedin.com/in/archisharun/

Matan Hamam - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9327125/