AI production studio for episodic shows

Make a show worth coming back to.

The feeds are full of AI built to be fast and forgettable. Showspring is the opposite: a real show that holds together as it grows. Your characters, their voices, and your world stay consistent from the first episode to the fiftieth, on a channel that stays entirely yours. You direct every step, and the work stops eating your weekends.

Watch an episode come together → Tell us about your show

Currently in private use on The Doodle Cast. Opening to more shows soon.

Quality, not volume
Finished, on-brand episodes worth an audience's time, not one-off clips you still have to assemble.
Consistent across the series
One persistent show bible keeps your cast, voices, running jokes, and storyline coherent from episode 1 to episode 47.
Full creative control
Agents do the work, you stay the director. Approve, override, or regenerate at every step. Your channel, your IP.
Faster because smarter
All of it comes out faster, because a smarter workflow is what saves the time, not corner-cutting.
Yours, end to end Your show stays yours. Not a shared platform. Your channel, your subscribers, your IP. Showspring is the tool, not the platform, and it publishes straight to the feeds your audience already follows. Proven end-to-end on The Doodle Cast.
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How it works

You direct. The studio does the rest.

You make the calls; Showspring does the production. It generates every step and you approve, override, or send it back. Nothing publishes that you did not sign off on.

Agents propose
Every step, its strongest shot
Each part of the episode runs through whatever is best at that job, so your script, voices, and visuals are all the best you can get. You never have to pick a tool or learn its name.
You decide
Approve, override, regenerate
You pick the winning pitch, swap a take, rewrite a line, or send any step back. The tool never gets the last word.
The bible remembers
Every step reads it, every episode writes back
One show bible propagates your characters, voices, and format rules across every step, which is why episode 47 sounds like episode 1.
See everything Showspring does →
Try one

Watch an episode find its angle.

Pick a topic and watch competing pitches get written and scored in real time, the same way every episode starts in the app. The winner is where your story begins.

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Who it's for

Three kinds of operators.

Showspring shines the moment you need episode 2 to feel like it belongs next to episode 1.

Solo showrunners

A one-person studio with a weekly slot.

You've got an idea with characters and a format — a dog podcast, a news-desk parody, a procedural-drama lite. You don't have a writer's room, a voice actor, an animator, or an editor. Showspring is all four. A blank page one weekend, a published episode the next, not a season of evenings.

Podcasters → video

Graduate without the recording day.

You've been on audio. You want to be on YouTube. You don't want to block out four hours a week to record talking-head footage you'll have to edit. Write the outline; Showspring casts and shoots it.

Brands & agencies

Episodic content, not one-offs.

Most brand-AI video is a single shiny clip. Treat it as a show instead — recurring characters, ongoing storylines, weekly cadence. Agencies run each client as its own project in the header switcher.

Have a show in mind?

Tell us what you want to make. We are taking on a small number of shows to run through Showspring.

Tell us about your show →
Why it exists
The first AI video tool that knows what happened last week.

Every AI video tool makes clips. Brilliant ones, even. But the moment you tried to run a show — recurring characters, a consistent voice, segments that build over time, an audience that watches next Saturday expecting the same two dogs — the tools forgot everything they did yesterday. So you stitched five of them together, kept the bible in a Google Doc, and hoped the characters looked vaguely the same.

Showspring treats the show bible as a first-class object. Every generation step reads it. Every episode writes back to it. You don't author the bible upfront — you start with one character and a format, and the bible accumulates from what you actually make: voices that stuck, running jokes that landed, segment rules that emerged. Episode 47 is the benefit of everything the tool learned between episode 1 and now. The show is the unit of work, not the clip.

Why we built it

We wanted a show worth coming back to.

The AI video tools were miraculous at one-shot novelty and hopeless at a real show: recurring characters, a consistent voice, a storyline that holds across episodes. We wanted to make a show with dogs as hosts, good enough that an audience comes back for the next one. Three months later we had the production engine for it.

That engine became Showspring.

I just wanted to make a podcast with my dog as the host. Three months later I had a tool that turns an idea into a finished episode an audience actually comes back to. — Showspring, built for The Doodle Cast
What it is not

There are a lot of AI video tools. This is a different job.

Showspring sits in a gap none of the familiar names fill: episode-first, bible-driven, shipping to your channel. Here's the map.

Not ShowrunnerNot an AI Netflix
Fable's Showrunner keeps the show — characters, episodes, audience — on their platform. Viewers remix each other's episodes. Content lives there.
Showspring ships to your YouTube, your podcast feed, your brand. The audience is yours; the IP is yours; the subscribers compound for you.
Not RunwayNot a clip generator
Runway, Veo, Pika, Luma — brilliant at one-shot clips. Each generation starts from a blank prompt. There's no "what did we do last episode?" built in.
Showspring makes episode 47 that sounds like episode 1 because both pulled from the same show bible — characters, voice, running jokes, segment rules.
Not SynthesiaNot corporate training
Synthesia and HeyGen are the gold standard for talking-head avatars in training, onboarding, and sales enablement. Enterprise-grade, compliance-friendly.
Showspring is for creative, episodic, entertainment shows — recurring characters with actual personalities, segments that build over time, a weekly audience.
Not Opus ClipNot a video chopper
Opus, Choppity, quso — you record long-form first, they chop it into shorts. The assumption is: you already have footage, you just need distribution.
Showspring makes long-form from scratch. You don't have to record anything. Start with a concept and publish a finished episode in days, no footage required.
Not DescriptNot an audio editor
Descript turned video editing into a word processor — brilliant for cleaning recordings. But it still assumes you have a recording to edit.
Showspring generates the performances. Script, voices, visuals, audience reactions — all from the bible. No mic, no studio, no retakes.
When to skip us

Showspring is overkill if you want one clever clip — use Runway, Pika, or Veo directly. It's the wrong tool for corporate training — use Synthesia. And if you're already recording a podcast and just want to post shorts, use Descript and Opus. We're built for the moment you decide to run a show, not produce a video.

Inside the workstation

A quiet tool, mid-episode.

A peek at the app mid-way through building an episode. Project switcher, six-step pipeline, per-clip dialogue, character bible — rendered in the live Graphite theme.

Captured screens · today

The real thing, caught mid-shift.

Raw screenshots of the current build — same Graphite palette as the marketing site, because they share tokens. No mockups below.

Episode library — every episode and short for The Doodle Cast, with status, render progress, and published state.
Episode libraryevery episode, status, render pct
Character manager with cast portraits — Rusty, Oreo, Bogart and the rest of the pack, each with voice ID and bible notes.
Characterscast bible + voices
Media gallery — every generated still and video frame indexed and searchable.
Media galleryevery generated asset
Location manager — recurring sets and backdrops, each with reference imagery.
Locationsrecurring sets & backdrops
Shorts Creator — batch-generate vertical 9:16 shorts from the same show bible.
Shorts9:16 in batch
Podcast Creator — audio-first format with per-segment controls.
Podcastaudio-first format
Analytics — per-episode and per-short YouTube performance rolled up into a single view.
AnalyticsYouTube roll-up
Strategy advisor — three LLMs score current channel output and suggest next episode themes.
Strategythree-LLM advisor
The tour · six steps

Every step, one workspace.

The pipeline an episode moves through, from blank page to a file on your own channel. Watch the 10-minute walkthrough, or see the full step-by-step breakdown on the features page.

01 · Idea
Several models pitch the episode, a judging panel scores them, and you pick the winner.
02 · Script
Bible-aware dialogue that keeps every character in voice. Regenerate any single line.
03 · Voice
Per-character ElevenLabs voices, with a free browser readout to check pacing before you commit.
04 · Visuals
Scenes start as on-model stills, then animate into clips, kept consistent by the show bible.
05 · Edit
Assemble the cut, then export an OpenTimelineIO bundle to finish in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere.
06 · Publish
Publish to your own YouTube with native scheduling, and cross-post with per-platform metadata.
See the full pipeline, step by step →
What a creator said

The weekends back.

A composite customer testimonial. The performer, voice, and environment are AI-generated and labelled on-frame throughout. The product and workflow shown are the real thing.

"I used to spend weekends editing. Now I spend Saturdays with my kids. Showspring took the process that nearly killed my show and turned it into something I actually look forward to. My characters stay in voice across the whole series, the show still goes up every week, and my Saturdays are mine again. This is what production tooling is supposed to feel like."

Built with Showspring

Meet The Doodle Cast.

The flagship show — two recurring hosts, segment-based episodes, weekly cadence. Click any frame to open in the cinema viewer.

All three recent episodes were written, voiced, animated, edited, and published through Showspring. Roughly twenty-five recent shorts rode through the same pipeline. One person operating it, Saturday-morning time budget.

Ship log

What's running through it, right now.

The live output of The Doodle Cast. Each line here started as a blank workspace a few hours earlier.

Dogs Report IKEA Furniture Conspiracy & Glow-in-the-Dark Jellyfish News
Fire Hydrant Gazette · two-topic news desk · 5m06s
21 May 2026
Dogs Try to Reach the Moon for Legendary Kibble (EPIC QUEST)
Episode · quest format · 5m02s
10 May 2026
Dogs Launch CSI Investigation After Treats Go Missing
Episode · procedural-parody · 4m20s
28 Apr 2026

In parallel: POV: Squirrel's Acorn Mockery, Bogart's Unsolicited Life Advice, Kevin's Epic Chip Heist, Securing the Perimeter Against the Man in Blue, and ~20 other recent shorts — same bible, same characters, same pipeline, different format.

What's new

Your studio keeps getting sharper.

A new capability lands almost every week. Some headline a release; most quietly extend what your show can do. Below: every version that made it into the workspace, and what it added for the people running shows on it.

Just shipped
v0.29.0 · May 30 See how your show is doing. Page views and activity events now track across the app and your public share pages, with operator sessions never counted.
v0.28.0 · May 29 Bring trusted reviewers into the build. Director Copilot lets you invite someone to follow an episode come together live and comment, read-only, with an inbox to jump and resolve.
  1. v0.29.0 · May 30, 2026

    Product analytics across the app

    • See how your show is doing. Page views and activity events, episodes created, renders, publishes, plus the Shorts and Podcast flows, now track across the app and your public share pages.
    • Real numbers only. Operator sessions are never counted, so what you see reflects actual viewers, testers, and collaborators.
  2. v0.28.0 · May 29, 2026

    Director Copilot, demo accounts, and a Scenes/Video overhaul

    • Review with a trusted collaborator, live. Invite a reviewer to watch the build and comment on takes, images, and script, read-only, while you get an inbox to jump to a shot, resolve, and reply.
    • Cost-capped demo accounts so you can hand someone a sandbox to try on cheaper models, without touching your show or your spend.
    • A reworked Scenes and Video step with per-clip approval, plus a shorts scheduler that re-evaluates the week daily and posts at your channel’s best times.
  3. v0.27.0 · May 22, 2026

    Multiple shows, reliability, and direct publishing

    • Run multiple shows in one workspace, each kept to its own cast, bible, and channels.
    • Renders are never lost. Automatic Drive backup and an eviction guard close the gap that used to strand unbacked clips.
    • Publish straight to YouTube and X over their APIs, alongside a performance pass that cut editor latency across the hot paths.
  4. v0.26.0 · May 16, 2026

    Local AI routing and a brand manager

    • Run routine AI work on local hardware with one switch to keep cloud spend near zero, then promote to cloud for a production batch.
    • Manage multiple brands from one place, each with its own assets and accent.
  5. v0.23.0 · May 4, 2026

    Pitches and scripts built as stories

    • A real narrative arc, not a briefing. Ideas and scripts are held to a beginning, a turn, and a landing, so episodes hold together instead of listing beats.
  6. v0.21.5 · Apr 19, 2026

    Hand the timeline to DaVinci Resolve

    • Take the whole episode into Resolve when a beat needs a human nudge, with over-the-shoulder graphics and intros carried across intact.
    • A real audience track, laughs and applause placed in the gaps after a line, not on top of it.
  7. v0.19.0 · Apr 12, 2026

    Plug-in segment formats

    • New formats drop into your show as templates. A news desk, a quest, a procedural parody, each plugs in without re-plumbing the script writer.
  8. v0.17.0 · Apr 5, 2026

    An audio podcast on the same cast

    • Make a podcast with the same characters and bible, one world across video and audio, with a research-and-debate mode for fact-heavy episodes.
  9. v0.13.0 · Mar 28, 2026

    A vertical shorts pipeline

    • Batch 9:16 shorts alongside your episodes, same cast, same bible, ready for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels.
  10. v0.10.0 · Mar 22, 2026

    Video generation, end to end

    • Scenes animate into clips, with an episode preview and Drive-backed storage. The step that turned the pipeline into finished episodes.
  11. v0.3.0 · Mar 13, 2026

    Several models pitch every episode

    • Several AIs pitch the idea and a panel scores them, the competitive-pitch step at the front of the workflow.
  12. v0.1.0 · Mar 13, 2026

    Idea to publish, in one workspace

    • The first end-to-end pipeline: script, voice, visuals, and publish, held together by a single show bible from day one.

Curious how a release got built? The engineering deep-dive on overdigital.ai walks through what shipped, what broke first, and what the fix was — one version at a time.

Read the engineering build log →
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You never have to learn the tools.

Showspring runs a dozen specialised AI services under the hood and picks the best one for every step, swapping in better ones as they arrive. Your show keeps getting sharper, and you never touch any of it.

Best-in-class models for ideas, scripts, voices, and video One workspace from blank page to finished episode Straight to your channels YouTube, podcast feeds, and more

Some steps run on your own hardware, so production keeps going even when cloud credits run out, and your characters stay consistent across every episode. The full stack lives on the features page.

Why this exists

Built by someone making their own AI show.

Showspring grew out of a real problem: existing AI video tools are great for one-off clips and useless for episodic shows. So we built the tool we needed for The Doodle Cast — one that treats the show as the unit of work, not the clip. Every feature was forced into existence by an episode that needed shipping on Saturday.

If you're trying to do the same thing, read the build journey on overdigital.ai/showspring, or tell us what you're making and we'll take it from there.

Frequently asked

Common questions.

Is this publicly available today?

Not yet. It's coming soon. Meanwhile, we're running it live on The Doodle Cast and talking to a small group of operators who have something interesting they want to make — a new show, a weekly segment, a branded podcast. If that's you, drop us a note and we'll keep you in the loop.

Do I need to figure my show out before I start?

No. Most creators don't fully know what their show is until a few episodes in — that's normal, and Showspring is built for it. You start small: one character, one format. The show bible accumulates as you make episodes — voices that stuck, running jokes that landed, segment rules that emerged. By episode two the tool already knows your show. By episode twenty it knows it better than you remember. You're not authoring canon upfront; you're discovering it.

Who is it for?

Solo creators running an episodic podcast or YouTube show; brands producing ongoing content series; and small agencies managing multiple shows. If all you need is a single one-off clip, almost any AI video tool will do — Showspring shines when episode 2 has to feel like it belongs in the same world as episode 1.

How long until I have my first episode?

Days, not weeks. You don't author a bible first — you name a character, pick a format, and start. The bible fills in from what you actually make. Episode 1 takes as long as your first run through the six-step pipeline; everything after that is iteration.

Can I bring my own voices and characters?

Yes. Characters live in the show bible — name, personality, visual description, voice ID. ElevenLabs voice cloning works out of the box; for visuals you can upload reference images that get used at every generation step.

Self-host or SaaS?

SaaS to start. The architecture already mixes cloud APIs with local GPU work (RTX 5090), so a self-host edition for power users with their own hardware is on the roadmap.

Pricing?

Not yet set. Paid tiers will scale with the number of shows and minutes generated. Get in touch to help us shape it.

Get in touch

Tell us about your show.

Showspring is coming soon. If you have something interesting you want to make — a show, a podcast, a weekly segment — we'd love to hear about it. We read every note and reply within a day or two.

We typically reply in 1–2 business days.