Everything in your project — clips, audio, context.
Project Brain
Understanding you can check. In development
Project Brain is what helps Midways understand your project, and you can always check its answers. Ask it about your project and it answers using your own material. It shows you exactly where each answer came from, and tells you plainly when your project doesn’t have the answer.
Project Brain is still being built. Everything below shows how it’s designed to work, as concepts rather than screenshots of finished software.
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Ask in plain language
Talk about your project the way you think about it.
You describe the moment, and Project Brain understands what you mean. Here are examples of the kinds of things it’s designed to answer, shown as concepts while it’s still being built.
- Find the moment where the product benefit is explained.
- What footage do I already have for this scene?
- Where did this speaker discuss pricing?
- What could I reuse before generating something new?
Understanding, not just sorting
From project media to real help.
The moments, dialogue, scenes and context.
Locate the exact moment or material you mean.
Relate moments, media and intent across the project.
Reuse what fits, or prepare what's missing.
Grounded in your own material In development
An answer that points at itself.
Every answer comes with proof attached: the exact moment in a recording, the exact spot on a page, or the exact words in a document. That proof is part of the answer, not a footnote to it. It also narrows down to the precise moment, and it knows when the timing is exact enough to cut on.
The product benefit is explained here.
Three places in your material back this up.
- A moment in a recording0:12 – 0:18The stretch where it is actually said.
- A region on a pagePage 2, middle blockThe part of the page it is read from.
- A run of words in a documentParagraph 4
“…so the real benefit is you keep the original and still get the short version, which is the part people miss.”
The exact words, not a paraphrase.
Three kinds of understanding
Where things are, what a source says, what it’s about.
Not every kind of understanding is the same kind of claim, and we won’t pretend otherwise. One kind is measured. The other two are interpreted, and they always come with evidence.
Time ranges in a recording, regions and reading order on a page, exact runs of words in a document.
Measured directly from your material — nothing is inferred here.
A faithful account of a single source, kept to what that source actually contains.
Interpreted from your material, with the evidence attached.
The topics a source moves through, tied to the real places where each one happens.
Interpreted from your material, with the evidence attached.
We thought about adding a fourth kind, but dropped it. We couldn’t back it up with evidence we could actually point to.
When the answer isn’t there In development
A clear no is a real answer.
Project Brain would rather say it doesn’t know than give you something that sounds good but isn’t true. Saying no is a real, complete answer here, not a mistake. And it tells you exactly which kind of no you’re getting.
Your project doesn't contain material about this.
There is material, and none of it actually speaks to what you asked.
Your material supports more than one reading, and picking one would be a guess.
Two places in your project contradict each other, so there is no single answer to give.
The thing you asked about isn't a property of this material.
And if the reason it couldn’t answer is on our side, not something missing from your material, it says so instead of blaming your project.
How sure, without a score In development
No invented number. What it actually found.
We don’t show a confidence percentage here, and that’s on purpose, not an oversight. We tested it, and a single similarity number didn’t actually predict whether an answer was right. Sometimes a question with no real answer in the material scored higher than a genuine match. So instead of a number that looks precise but isn’t earned, you see what Project Brain actually found.
- How much supporting materialplentyWhether an answer rests on a lot of your material or a thin slice of it.
- How many separate placesplentyOne place agreeing with itself is not the same as several places agreeing.
- How many kinds of materialmixedA point supported by a recording and a document is on firmer ground than one supported by either alone.
- Whether they disagreein conflictWhen two places in your project conflict, that conflict is shown to you rather than averaged away.
There are four separate readings, on purpose. There’s no single score, no threshold, no percentage. A combined number would hide the disagreement you actually need to see.
Ask again tomorrow
The same question gets the same answer, until your material changes.
Ask the same thing again about material that hasn’t changed, and you’ll get the same answer back. It’s not a fresh roll of the dice. And when something an answer depended on gets replaced, we mark that answer out of date instead of leaving it quietly wrong.
Same answer, same places, no second guess.
Marked out of date, so you know to ask again — rather than reading last week's answer as today's truth.
Understanding and doing are two different jobs
It hands you something to act on. You decide.
An answer from Project Brain is a record you can read, keep, or ignore. Nothing about it touches your project until you decide to act on it. It doesn’t run anything for you, and it doesn’t start creating something on its own.
Produces answers and records you can read, keep or ignore.
You decide
Changes only when you apply something yourself.
- Doesn’t edit your timeline
- Doesn’t run anything for you
- Doesn’t start a generation
Underneath the five
Five experiences, one understanding.
Everything you actually click lives in one of five places. Project Brain is what they all draw on.
- CreateLaunching with V1
Image and qualified text-to-video creation launch with V1; reference creation is coming later.
- Smart ActionsIn development
One-click help that fits what you have selected.
- Ask MidwaysLaunching with V1
Ask questions about your project and review cited answers within the supported V1 scope.
- Inline FindingsComing soon
Advisory notes next to the moment they refer to.
- Project HealthComing soon
See what's ready and what still needs review.
Project Brain supports these five experiences. It is the understanding beneath them, not a sixth experience.
Founding Creator In development
Be there as this comes to life.
Project Brain and the workflows built on it are coming. Founding Creator access is how you’ll get in early — details are being finalized.