We're building a workspace that turns hours of interviews and research into searchable, source-linked material, so editors can find the story faster.
A documentary edit can mean dozens of hours of interviews spread across many timelines and topics. Finding the moment where someone says exactly what you need, checking what a claim is based on, and seeing how themes connect across characters is still mostly manual work.
Editors end up rewatching footage, keeping notes in separate documents, and holding the structure of the film in their heads.
Search interviews by theme, not just keywords, and pull together every moment where different people talk about the same idea.
Every research note stays tied to its source document or timecode, so facts can be checked while you cut, not after.
See themes, characters and topics laid out across your footage, and try different structures before committing to an edit.
Internal prototype. A first version for our own filmmaking team, focused on transcript analysis, source-linked research and story mapping on real projects.
Independent filmmakers. Opening the tool to independent filmmakers and small production teams who work with interview-heavy material.
Production coordination. Shot lists, call sheets and schedules alongside the research, so pre-production and the edit share the same information.
Ormaqai is being built by a filmmaker and documentary editor based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
It comes out of our own work on commercial and documentary projects with many interviews, characters and themes, where the hardest part was keeping track of what everyone said and how it fit together. We're building the tool we wanted on those projects, first for our own team and then for other teams who work the same way.
We'd like to hear from editors, researchers and producers about how you handle interviews and research today.