Qookin

Show it a reference. Watch it build the real thing.

Drop in a photo, a clip, a finished edit or a web page. Qookin rebuilds it from scratch in Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro or REAPER, the way an artist in that app would, and you watch it happen in the app’s own window. Text stays text, shapes stay vectors, models are real geometry.

This is Mise. It takes the shape of whatever app it’s working in. Try one:

It builds where you can see it

Every recreation happens in a window of the app itself, not behind a progress bar. Here Qookin models a sedan in Blender from one photo: the first plan appears within about five seconds, then it fits the shape to the photo, refines it pass by pass and checks the finished file.1

Blender, opened by Qookin: the first version of the sedan, a rough blue body on its wheels
The reference: a photo of a dark blue sedan in a car park
The reference (generated for testing)
Blender 5.2, in the window Qookin opened. Recorded on 20 October 2026.

Six apps. Each one built the way an expert would.

Qookin works out what your reference is made of and how a person would build it in that app, then builds it with the app’s own tools and checks the result by reading the project back.

Reference: a weathered wooden fishing boat moored in a harbour at sunset Qookin’s Blender model of the boat: planked hull, cabin with windows, mast, spar and mooring line, on water

Blender

Modelled the way a 3D artist works: lofted hulls and bodies, turned profiles, cut-out windows, node materials, real-world scale. Today it plans boats, turned objects, towers and vehicles; more kinds of object are coming. On four labelled test references the models match the subject’s outline 82% on average.2

Before: a flattened poster, the headline baked into the pixels
After: the clean background plate, with the headline rebuilt as live text

Photoshop

Live text in the right font, vector shape layers, smart objects with real masks, layer groups. Give it a flattened poster and it rebuilds the headline as live text over a clean plate, to within a third of a pixel of the original type size.3 Drag the line to compare.

Illustrator drawing of a fishing boat made from clean vector shapes

Illustrator

Drawn from scratch over your reference: clean bezier outlines with few anchor points, colours as global swatches and gradients, named layers. No auto-trace.

After Effects frame from an animated title: shape and text layers mid-animation

After Effects

Shape layers rigged and animated with editable expressions, effects rebuilt from a clip with native effects and keyframes, and web animations rebuilt from the page’s own keyframes and easing: one test page came out 99% like the original, frame for frame.4

Premiere Pro timeline built by Qookin: shots on V1, a live title on V2

Premiere Pro

A finished edit recut natively: shots on the timeline to the frame, Cross Dissolves, a Lumetri grade and Scale keyframes per shot, live titles. All 19 of 19 checks read back from Premiere as planned.5

The REAPER project Qookin built, as a piano roll: kick, snare, hats, bass, lead and pad lanes over 16.5 seconds

REAPER

Audio references rebuilt from scratch: tempo and key heard, drums programmed, bass and chords as MIDI on stock synths, a mastering chain, then render, compare and adjust. On a real recording the rhythm, harmony and loudness came close; tone is the honest limit, because stock synths can’t sound like a slap bass.6

Your workstation, a frontier model, or both

Qookin is local first: it runs its models on an AI workstation you own, an NVIDIA DGX Spark or a Dell Pro Max with GB10. Add your own key for Claude, OpenAI or Gemini and you can choose, step by step, what runs where.

Everything runs between your Mac and your workstation: reading references, concepts, review, images, voice. Generation still works with the network switched off.7

  • 4.2 s for a 1024 × 1024 image on a DGX Spark, once the model is loaded.8
  • 92% of hand-labelled parts read correctly by Qwen3.6 on the workstation, against 93% for Claude Opus 5.5 and 90% for Gemini 4 Argon.9
  • Asks first. Before a cloud model is used, Qookin shows what it would send and to whom, and it never switches to the cloud on its own.

Projects that know your brand

A project’s Files list in Qookin: a brand guide, a palette, a logo and a font, each understood and switched on for builds

Give each project its own fonts, palettes, logo and brand guide, plus its own rules, models, skills and integrations. Qookin reads the files on your Mac and uses what fits: the brand for new designs, never instead of a reference you asked it to recreate. Each run says which files it used and why.

In a live Photoshop build it set the headline in the brand’s font and colour, placed the logo because the guide asks for it, and passed all 34 file checks.10

Qookin asking before an MCP tool runs: use list_directory from Project files? Allow once, Always allow this tool in this project, or Deny

Plugs into your tools

Connect MCP servers, local or remote, to a project. When a frontier model is doing the thinking it can use their tools, and every call shows what it will do and where the result goes before it runs: allow it once, always in this project, or deny it.11

Reviewing a recorded Photoshop workflow, Soft duotone: its steps and the values Qookin can change

Teach it a workflow once

Record yourself doing something in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Blender or REAPER. Qookin turns it into a skill with the values it can change, and replays it on new work, one approved step at a time.12

A full window to plan in, a small panel while you work

Qookin’s full window: projects and conversations in the sidebar, a Blender build running step by step, Mise on the message box
Qookin’s compact panel after a Photoshop build: 34 of 34 file checks, with Mise beside the message box and follow-ups to animate it or build it in Blender

Press ⌥ Space anywhere for the compact panel, or open the full window from the Dock. They share every conversation, draft and running build. Ask “show me how” after any build and Qookin points at the real menus in your app as you go.

Get early access

Qookin is in private development. Join the list for the founding beta, the macOS download when it’s signed and ready, and launch pricing before anyone else.

Where the numbers come from

  1. Blender 5.2.3 on a MacBook Pro (M4 Max), 20 October 2026: the sedan recreated five times live, each passing 14 of 14 file checks at 93% likeness; the window showed the first plan after 4.5 to 5.3 s. The reference was generated for testing. Back
  2. Silhouette overlap (intersection over union) between Qookin’s Blender model and the subject, across four hand-labelled references (a boat, a lighthouse, a pickup truck, a mug; images generated for testing), measured 18 October 2026. Back
  3. Rebuilt from a flattened 1024 px render whose original layers were held back for scoring: text exact, 71.82 px against 72 px, position within 1.1 px. Back
  4. A test page with live text, a GSAP animation and a Lottie file, rebuilt in After Effects 26.5 and compared with the page paused at the same moments, 18 October 2026. Back
  5. Premiere Pro 26.5, 18 October 2026: every shot, dissolve, grade, scale keyframe and title read back as planned; the render’s cuts, dissolve and camera moves matched the reference. Back
  6. REAPER 7.82: four Apple Loops from one song, mixed (16.5 s), rebuilt live with six render, compare and adjust passes in 7.1 s. Against the recording: rhythm 78%, harmony 75%, loudness 98%, tone 44%. The piano roll shows the saved project. Back
  7. Generation in a container with no network interface except loopback, outbound connections refused. Back
  8. Median of 9 runs through Qookin’s local service (FLUX.2 [klein] 4B, 4 steps). The first image after start-up includes about 100 s of model loading. Back
  9. Qookin’s benchmark, October 2026: 31 references across the six apps with 135 hand-checked part labels. The same benchmark found workstation reviewers name the right fix far less often than frontier ones, which is why the Suggested mix reviews with a frontier model when you have a key. Back
  10. Photoshop 2026, 21 October 2026: a new poster for a project with a font, a palette, a brand guide and a logo; headline in the brand’s font and colour at 13.8:1 contrast, 34 of 34 file checks. Back
  11. Tested 20 October 2026 with a filesystem server limited to one folder and a stand-in for the cloud model: reads inside the folder worked, a read outside it was refused by the server, and each call showed the card first. Not yet tested with a live cloud model. Back
  12. Recorded and replayed on fresh files, 20 October 2026: REAPER 12 of 12 steps with the audio 0.999 alike, After Effects 13 of 13 with every frame within 8/255, Premiere Pro 6 of 6 with 150 of 150 frames identical, Illustrator 8 of 8. Back