AI for TV production and broadcasters · Swiss Made

RECAP understands video.

Whether video or script: RECAP grasps a film or series the way a human would who has seen everything and forgets nothing — every scene, every character, every conflict and continuity thread — even across 4,500+ episodes of a telenovela spanning 25 seasons.

SeriesIn daily production use at leading German TV studios.
Episode 1 to 4,500+Series knowledge as a queryable memory
No image generatorWe understand content — we don't replace it

Only a system that understands story can solve production tasks where isolated tools reach their limits.

RECAP turns story into a shared operating system.

Fiction · Single Stories · Series

Along the entire production process.

RECAP works just as well for procedurals, weeklies and mini-series. But daily fiction, as a high-speed operation, is the real stress test: hundreds of episodes a year, rotating writer teams, short-notice absences, little time for research & onboarding. RECAP sits in every one of these steps.

Series knowledge nobody remembers anymore

New writers are productive in hours, not weeks. No flipping through story bibles, no asking colleagues who joined six years ago.
"Richard and Daniel are supposed to be friends. But at some point there was a huge falling-out. Why?"
RECAP answer: derivation of the conflict between Richard and Daniel, with episode 4318, timecode 48:23 and the scene in the video
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Talk with the character, not about them

Writers hold a conversation with a character who knows their entire history, voice and contradictions. Dialogue consistency becomes verifiable instead of a gut feeling.
"Would you really say it like that? And what do you think of this suggestion?"

Rescheduling under time pressure

An actor drops out, a location falls through, a shooting day shifts. RECAP shows within minutes which scenes are affected, which storylines depend on them, and which rewrites preserve continuity.
The role of Franka drops out of block 847: who can take over her function?
RECAP answer: suggestions for which scenes Franka can be written out of
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Building the shooting schedule

RECAP minimises conflicts according to your priorities and drafts a first shooting schedule.
"Which scenes will need an intimacy coordinator? Optimise the schedule accordingly."
Visualisation of a real optimisation run, time-lapsed.

Press copy and trailer proposals at the push of a button

From the finished cut come press releases, episode teasers and social media clip proposals with concrete timecodes — spoiler-free, in your tone of voice, down to an exportable EDL.
"Give me 2 teaser variants: one warm-hearted for 55+, one edgy for 19–30. 90 seconds"
RECAP answer: teaser variant for 55+ with clip list, timecodes, preview and EDL export
55+ · warm-hearted — ~98 s, with EDL
RECAP answer: teaser variant for ages 19 to 30
19–30 · edgy

Age-rating compliance and categorisation

Traceable age-rating reports with supporting evidence, plus consistent tagging and metadata for archiving, VoD delivery and licensing.
"Show me every point that could trigger a rating discussion — with timecode and reasoning."

Seamless connection to your workflow

Every work product — at every stage — can be exported, shared or handed off directly via API to downstream tools: editing suite, scheduling software, editorial system. RECAP fits into your workflow instead of demanding its own.
"Pass the result on as PDF, CSV, or straight via API — into the edit suite, into the scheduling software.API-first"

New Formats

Understanding is the precondition for monetising.

Whoever fully understands a series can translate its universe into formats nobody serves today — using material you already own and whose rights you already hold.

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Spin-offs

Audio drama and POV formats from the series universe: supporting characters with their own storylines, prequels, companion formats for the current season. Canonically correct, because the knowledge comes from the series itself.

02

Micro-dramas

High-frequency vertical short-form content — the fastest-growing video market worldwide. RECAP identifies the material, conflicts and cliffhangers that carry a short format.

03

Archive exploitation

Decades of programming nobody searches anymore. We make it queryable: by topic, character constellation, motif and reuse potential.

Non-Fiction · In Development

The same capability.
A different consequence.

A system that understands moving images at a content level also understands reportage, interviews and social video. It recognises what claim is being made, in what context — and whether it can be substantiated.

For editorial teams that means efficient fact-checking during production. For platforms it means checking at the scale content is actually uploaded.

Discuss a pilot project

Illustrative representation. Every check delivers a timecode, source and reasoning — the editorial decision stays with a human.

Data Sovereignty & IP Protection

Your content, under your control.

For production companies and broadcasters, content and production data are business-critical intellectual property. RECAP is built so that control over it always stays with you.

EU processing

Production data is processed and hosted exclusively on servers within the EU

No AI training

Your content is never used to train generative AI models

GDPR compliant

Administrative access by Decamerone from Switzerland complies with European data protection requirements

"As daily and long-running formats face increasing pressure to deliver efficiently without compromising quality, AI-driven tools like RECAP may fundamentally reshape production planning."

Seriencamp 2026 Plot Next · Case Study "The Rhythm of Production"

Clients & Partners

RECAP is in use — among others at:

SWR
Südwestrundfunk

Press & Talks

30+

"More than 30 users across all departments, over 5,000 queries answered."

RECAP in use at "Rote Rosen"

95

"Up to 95 script pages are produced on a single shooting day."

The production reality of a daily soap

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"AI is trained to resolve conflict quickly. Fiction needs it like oxygen."

From the panel discussion with Jan Diepers, Serienwerft

Who we are

Between plot and tech: storytelling craft and engineering are not opposites for us, but founder DNA.

Johannes Lackner

Johannes Lackner

CEO · 30 years of TV fiction — writer, dramaturg, showrunner

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Dr. Peter Duesing

Dr. Peter Duesing

COO · Physicist (Cambridge, Princeton, Cornell), 25 years in tech startups

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