Keou Studio: your visual production line, free, and run at AI-API cost

The problem: visual production is slow and expensive

Every agency that produces visuals for product, e-commerce or social clients runs into the same wall. A single commercial visual — a clean product shot, a lifestyle scene, a variant for a marketplace listing — takes skilled work between shooting, retouching and adapting. Scale that to a real brief — every product, every variant, every format — and the hours add up fast, before a single video or voiceover is even discussed.

That cost structure does two things to an agency. It caps how many briefs it can take on, and it squeezes margins on the briefs it does take. The bottleneck isn't talent — it's the slow, manual production line behind the talent.

What Keou Studio does

Keou Studio collapses that production line. You upload a product photo and generate commercial-grade visuals, videos, voice-overs and format variants in minutes, at the cost of the underlying AI API — from US$0.05 to US$0.09 per image depending on the model.

This is AI product photography treated as infrastructure, not a toy — and the platform itself costs nothing. It is free because the compute is yours: you paste your own generation key, it never leaves your browser, and you pay your provider directly. Kanaky Tech takes no cut and adds no platform fee.

The end-to-end workflow

Keou Studio is a complete AI creative production platform, not a single generator. The workflow runs from a source image all the way to a client sign-off — and every creative feature below is in the free platform:

• Production studio. Batch product photography from a single source image — lifestyle scenes, studio packshots and seasonal campaigns, generated in parallel.
• Polish, remix & adapt. Retouch a render, re-imagine it in a new direction, or adapt it to any aspect ratio — without starting over.
• Cinematic video. Turn any render into motion — drift shots, product B-roll, social clips, with sound.
• Clients, campaigns & library. Organise work per client and campaign and browse your full generation history.
• 30-format delivery packs. One click exports a campaign-ready pack — stories, feeds, banners, covers — named, sized and zipped for hand-off.
• Voice & sound. Text-to-speech voice-overs and generated sound effects, plus 4K upscaling for stills and video.
• Client share links. Send a clean review page where your client approves, rejects or comments on each asset — with no account needed. Just a secure link.

The distinctive hook: the platform takes no cut

Most creative tools price per seat or per generation, so the tool gets more expensive exactly as you get more productive. Keou Studio inverts that: you pay your AI provider and nothing else. A typical product visual costs a few cents of provider credit, and the platform adds zero — forever, on every feature. There is no seat count to manage, no trial clock, and nothing to cancel.

What an image costs on Keou Studio

Measured on 3 September 2026, at the provider's price, per generated image:

Keou Studio — measured cost per image, 3 September 2026

Image model	Cost per image
Nano Banana Pro	US$0.09
Nano Banana 2	US$0.06
GPT Image 2	US$0.05
Platform fee	$0 — bring your own key

Run your visual production line at AI-API cost — and hand your client a clean review link. That is the whole pitch, and the free platform delivers each part of it.

Who it's for

Keou Studio is built for creative and digital agencies, e-commerce teams and independent producers across New Zealand, the Pacific and Kanaky (New Caledonia) — anyone who already produces product, e-commerce and social visuals and wants to do it faster and cheaper. Creators use the free platform exactly as it is. Agencies that need the production line to run under their own brand and on their own servers can self-host the open-source code or ask for a custom build, as described below; for teams thinking about this more broadly, it sits naturally alongside white-label AI for agencies as a productised front line.

Open source, self-hostable, custom builds on request

The free platform is complete on its own. Keou is open source under the MIT licence — github.com/kanakytech/keou — so teams that want it as their own private infrastructure can deploy it on their servers and their domain. Client briefs, product shots and renders then never leave your infrastructure. If you want it adapted to your team, brand or infrastructure, custom builds are available on request. It is the same philosophy behind the private AI systems Kanaky Tech builds for organisations that want capability without handing their work to the open web.

Keou Studio also fits a wider pattern of business process automation: take a slow, manual, repeated process — here, visual production — and turn it into a fast, governed pipeline that a small team can run at scale.

How to get started

Getting started is a click, not a deployment. Open studio.kanaky.xyz, hit Launch Keou, paste a generation key from your own provider and start producing — no sign-up form, no card. Creating without an account puts your visuals in the public community gallery; a free account keeps your work private. If you want the platform under your own brand and on your own servers, self-host the open-source code or ask for a custom build. More on the project on the Keou Studio about page, or try the free product photo generator first. And if you’d rather scope your whole production workflow first, the fastest route is a free AI opportunity audit.

The principle behind Keou Studio is the one behind everything Kanaky Tech builds: take a real, expensive bottleneck and rebuild it as infrastructure you own. For visual production, that bottleneck now runs at AI-API cost — and the platform itself costs nothing.