Keou Studio: your visual production line, free, and run at roughly 1% of the 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 — costs on the order of $18 and about 25 minutes of skilled work between shooting, retouching and adapting. Scale that to a real brief and the maths gets ugly fast: a 50-visual product campaign is roughly 25 hours of work, 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 — on the order of $0.09 per image rather than $18.

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.

Traditional production vs Keou Studio

The gap is not marginal. Here is the same 50-visual campaign, run the old way and run on Keou Studio:

Visual production — traditional vs Keou Studio (illustrative)

What you measure	Traditional	Keou Studio
Cost per visual	~$18	~$0.09
Time for 50 visuals	~25 hours	~20 min
Platform cost	Per-seat licences	$0 — bring your own key
Client approval	Email back-and-forth	Share link, no login
Production cost vs traditional		~1%

Run your visual production line at roughly 1% of the 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 take the Pro licence below; for teams thinking about this more broadly, it sits naturally alongside white-label AI for agencies as a productised front line.

Keou Studio Pro: your own deployment

The free platform is complete on its own. Pro is for teams that want Keou as their own private infrastructure: a lifetime licence at US$1,499, one payment, deployed on your servers and your domain, fully white-label — with team accounts, roles and quotas, your own models and endpoints, and a direct line to the maker. Client briefs, product shots and renders never leave your infrastructure. 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. The complete source code is also sold separately on the Kanaky Tech marketplace.

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, the Pro lifetime licence is US$1,499. 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 just dropped to about 1% of its old cost — and the platform itself dropped to nothing.