ContextLabFounder & Creative Director
Mar. 2025AI-assisted, context-aware video editing toolkit for Adobe Premiere Pro
I founded and creatively directed ContextLab, an AI-powered video editing tool designed to help professional editors work with meaning, narrative, and feedback — not just timelines.
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Key Contributions
🎯 Product Vision & Direction
🔹 Defined product vision and creative direction for an AI-assisted editing workflow focused on narrative understanding, feedback clarity, and iteration speed
🔹 Led branding, positioning, and go-to-market communication, including feature framing and product messaging
🎬 Motion Systems & Storytelling
🔹 Designed scalable motion systems and video workflows for product communication and in-app storytelling
🔹 Directed and produced motion-led product demos, explainers, and launch videos
🧩 UX & AI Workflows
🔹 Built editor-focused UX for complex creative tools, prioritizing speed, clarity, and real-world editing scenarios
🔹 Designed and shipped Feedback Flow — a system that parses raw client feedback, groups it by meaning, and automatically syncs it to timeline markers
🔹 Experimented with AI-driven automation for feedback processing, narrative analysis, and context-aware suggestions using LLM-based tools
🧠 Creative × Product Thinking
🔹 Bridged motion design, product thinking, and emerging AI tools into a cohesive creative product for professional editors
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Impact & Results
✅ First commercial release on aescripts.com/contextlab
✅ Early user adoption and first paying customers
✅ Validated demand for AI-assisted, context-driven video editing workflows
✅ Helped editors reduce manual work and improve storytelling clarity
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🚀 Why this matters
By combining creative direction, motion systems, product thinking, and AI, I explore how intelligent tools can augment professional video editing and storytelling — making complex workflows faster, clearer, and more human.