AI look · Rain · not checkedCreative
Free generation: new looks, new light, life around the building. Nothing is checked. For a teaser, a mood, a post.
A Mac app for architects, developers and property marketers
Your renders, plans and brochures become films.
On screen: the four-weathers film BrickNote made from one render of a fictional sample building — at dawn, by day, in the rain, in the snow and at night.
Open your project folder. BrickNote makes the film — in every format and language you post, the AI disclosed in every file.Open your project folder; BrickNote makes the film.
Les Jardins de GerlandLyon 7e · exemple fictif
Pièce01Format16:9
- Open your project folderRenders, plans, brochures, massing captures — where they already are, on your Mac.
- Choose a recipeProject film, competition, social teaser, four weathers. The estimate shows before any paid click.
- Export and sendEvery format and language at once, the AI disclosed in every file and on its end card.
One shot, frame by frame
From a massing model to the render.
Massing model — aerial view
Maquette/capture_sketchup_vue-aerienne.jpg
SketchUp capture, no render
BrickNote brings it to life. From your massing model to your render: the camera locked, the building kept.
It starts on your file. It ends on your file. The AI made the frames in between — and the film says so.
One film, shot by shot
Every shot says what it was made from.
This competition film was made by BrickNote from a fictional sample project: one plan, one massing model, four renders. Pick a shot to see its source and what the AI did with it.
01· Your file, as it is
Your file, as it isAI, from your file
Your file, as it is
Ground-floor plan
The page as it is; only the camera moves.
Read for names: one found in the title block, cropped out of the frame.
Plans/Plans_niveaux_ind-A.pdf · p. 1Two modes per film
Creative when you want a mood. Faithful when it has to be right.
AI look · Rain · not checked
Flagged: a pedestrian crossing added in front of the entrance. Kept, with the reason written down.Faithful
The same generation, then checks. Each AI picture is compared with its source — levels, balconies and terraces, openings, roof, surroundings — and each line is held to your documents.
- Lines only from facts read in your PDFs, each citing its passage word for word.
- A person added on the lawn, a roofline changed, a name readable in a picture: flagged, never blocked. You keep it or redo it, and your decision is recorded.
- An optional control note (PDF) lists each shot’s source, the checks, the decisions and each file’s checksum, with the approval of a named person.
- Line
“Balconies with laminated glass railings.”
From your documents — “Garde-corps en verre feuilleté sur platines.” · Notice descriptive, p. 1
Checked ✓ (sources, numbers, wording)
- Shot 03
Added near the building: a pedestrian crossing in front of the entrance.
Kept by Marc Lefèvre — reason recorded
- Approval
Marc Lefèvre, architect · 8 November 2026, 05:53 (Paris time)
- File
K7M2Q_16x9_EN.mp4 · SHA-256 b67e61915e5d55d0…a4014429b9
The note describes; it certifies nothing.
How it works
From the folder you already have to the files you send.
Open your project folder
BrickNote reads the folder where it is, on your Mac — renders, plans, brochure, notice, massing captures, logo — and the facts in your PDFs, each with its page.
Les Jardins de Gerland
Perspectives/P01_Facade-rue_ind-C.jpgrender · rev. C
Perspectives/P02_Coeur-ilot_ind-B.jpgrender · rev. B
Perspectives/P03_Vue-aerienne_ind-A.jpgrender · rev. A
Perspectives/P04_Sejour-T3_ind-A.jpgrender · rev. A
Maquette/capture_sketchup_vue-aerienne.jpgmassing capture- Plans/Plans_niveaux_ind-A.pdfplans · 2 pages
- Commercialisation/Plaquette_Jardins-de-Gerland_v4.pdfbrochure · 4 pages
- Marque/logo-maison-riviere.pnglogo
Choose a recipe and your pictures
The recipe sets the length, the formats and the languages; you pick the pictures, a voice and the music. The estimate shows before anything is generated.
- Recipe
- Competition film
- Pictures
- Length
- 45 s
- Formats
- 16:91:19:16
- Languages
- English, French
- Mode
- Faithful
Make the filmDrawn after the app’s New film panel: the estimate appears on that button before anything is generated. Watch, refine, export
Click a shot to change its look, its framing or its line. Export every format and language at once, then send them with AirDrop, Mail or Messages.
EN
FR- K7M2Q_16x9_EN.mp4
- K7M2Q_16x9_EN.srt
- K7M2Q_16x9_FR.mp4
- K7M2Q_16x9_FR.srt
control-note_v1.pdf — control note · kept apart, not sent
Recipes
Start from a recipe, not from a blank timeline.
Each recipe knows its length, its formats, its tone and its mode. You choose the pictures; BrickNote plans the shots.
Competition film
For a jury: the plan, the massing model, then the renders, described by a calm voice. The end card and the files name no one, and each picture is read for a name.
Project film
The project in 30 to 60 seconds: its renders brought to life, new looks, its facts read by a voice.
Social teaser
Fifteen seconds for Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn: the best images, moving, on music, a few words on screen.
Four weathers
One image, four moods — dawn, rain, snow and night — each brought to life.
Day to night
One image, from the morning light to the lit windows of the evening.
Four weathers
One render. Dawn, rain, snow, night.
The same view in another light — and the same building. Drag across the picture to compare each AI look with the render it was made from.
Same levels, balconies, openings and roof. In Faithful mode, BrickNote checks each generated picture against its source on exactly these points.
Perspectives/P01_Facade-rue_ind-C.jpg
Formats and languages
Every format you post, in every language you work in.
16:9 for the website, the sales office screen and the jury; 9:16 for Reels and TikTok; 1:1 for LinkedIn. Subtitles are burned in, and an .srt file comes with each film.
- In 9:16 the subtitles sit above the zone Instagram and TikTok cover with their own caption and buttons.
- A voice per language — English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch — or your own recorded voice-over.
- Your logo, your colour and up to three contact lines on the end card.
Labelled, always
Every file says it is partly made by AI.
The disclosure is written into each file’s metadata, and there it cannot be turned off. By default the end card says “Images partly generated by AI”. Each AI shot can carry its own label too — “AI-animated” on your picture brought to life, “AI-generated” on a picture a model made: on by default in a Faithful film, one switch away in a Creative one.
BrickNote is a tool: you decide what you publish, and it gives no legal guarantee.
The metadata of the competition film’s English file, as BrickNote wrote it:
comment = AI-generated content: 5 of 10 shots were generated or transformed by AI models (BrickNote, faithful mode, entry "K7M2Q").
Your Mac, your accounts
Your files stay in your folder. The models run on your own accounts.
Local-first
The project folder stays where it is; BrickNote writes only the films and their notes into it, in a BrickNote folder. To generate and to check, it sends only the pictures and the text a step needs, straight to the providers you connect. No BrickNote account, no BrickNote cloud.
Your keys
Sealed on this Mac. OpenRouter alone runs text, images and video; ElevenLabs adds the voice; Runware or BytePlus are often cheaper for video. Each call goes straight to the provider, and you pay it directly.
Your limits
A spending limit per film and per month, and an estimate before any paid click. A call that would cross a limit is refused before it is sent.
What a film costs, in model calls
- A 5-second clip, 720p
- about $1.20
- A new look, as a still
- about $0.05
- A voice line
- under a cent
- Reading, planning, checking
- a few cents
Paid to the providers, on your accounts, at their published prices (read in autumn 2026).
BrickNote itself: pricing at launch.
Questions
Can I use BrickNote today?
BrickNote is a macOS app in early access. Request access and we will write to you.
Can I try it before I connect a model account?
Yes. A sample project with a finished film opens before any key: you can play it, change its music and export it.
What does it cost?
Pricing at launch. Making films costs model calls, on your own accounts: about $1.20 for a 5-second clip, about $0.05 for a still, under a cent for a voice line. BrickNote shows the estimate before any paid click.
Will the AI change my architecture?
In Creative mode, a model may change what it shows. In Faithful mode, BrickNote compares each AI picture with its source and flags what differs — a level, a roofline, a person added — so you decide before you publish. In a Faithful film a massing model stays a massing model, unless you ask for a render.
Can I use it for an anonymous competition?
Yes. The competition recipe puts no name on the end card, names the files after your entry’s reference, writes no name into their metadata, and reads each picture for a name a jury could see.
What language is the app in?
The interface is in English. Your films speak your languages: lines, subtitles and voices in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese or Dutch.
Windows?
Not today: BrickNote is a macOS app.
Make the first film of your next project.
BrickNote is in early access for architects, developers and property marketers. Tell us what you want to make.