Yes, the bot is instructed in frames-per-day vocabulary and quotes realistic phase timelines. It pushes back gently when a producer asks for an impossible timeline, with a concrete explanation of why a 30-second puppet spot can't be done in three weeks. Most producers appreciate the honesty because they were going to discover the truth a week into the engagement anyway.

No. The bot's instructions explicitly emphasise honesty about feasibility and quote conservative timelines with the conditions that could extend them. Overselling at the chat stage trades a short-term lead for a long-term retention loss, and the bot is configured against that pattern. If a brief is truly impossible at the requested budget, the bot says so cleanly and offers a scope adjustment.

Yes, if past puppets and armatures are catalogued in WordPress with rig condition and ownership notes. The bot can flag a likely reusable match and typical savings, then route ownership confirmation to the producer for the call. This is genuinely useful for repeat-client brands who want a series of spots with the same character.

Yes, music video pricing usually sits in a separate tier band because labels expect lower budgets. The bot can scope the conversation to the music video tier, quote the realistic range, and explain technique tradeoffs at that budget. Some studios run a separate bot on the music video page with display conditions, so the music video conversation never collides with commercial pricing.

It can flag standard rights structures from your engagement CPT (broadcast plus digital for 18 months, in-perpetuity buyouts at a premium) but routes specific negotiations to the producer. Exclusivity and buyout pricing have too much project-specific nuance for a bot to commit to. The bot's job is to qualify and route, not to negotiate buyouts in chat.

Yes. A class CPT with date, capacity, prerequisites, and Stripe-linked enrollment status becomes readable. The bot can answer about seats remaining, refund policy, and what to bring to a workshop. For series subscriptions, the bot can also surface upcoming sessions and link directly to enrollment via your existing payment system.

Pick the ACF fields the bot can see. For NDA work, exclude the client name and brand-specific stills, and the bot will reference the engagement as "a major beverage brand" with the technique, runtime, and shoot day count intact. You can also gate full reels behind a request-access flow that the bot triggers when a serious prospect asks for samples.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and OpenRouter are all supported. For stop motion scoping, Claude Sonnet and GPT-4 class models handle the frames-per-day reasoning more reliably than cheaper models, which tend to default to faster-medium timelines. Most studios run the higher-tier model and absorb the per-conversation cost since each engagement is five figures.