
WeDaVinci
WeDaVinci is a German multi-format AI content platform that turns a manuscript, topic or script into cinematic book trailers, sourced articles and podcast audio, keeping editors in control at every step. Its VisionaryTales trailer product is in pilot.
What is WeDaVinci?
WeDaVinci is a browser-based AI content platform built by WeDaVinci GmbH in Munich and organised around three modules: Write for text, Podcast for audio and VisionaryTales for video. The company describes the whole as a multi-format platform for creating and editing text, audio and video, and states that trailer generation is what it currently offers in particular — a useful indication of where the product actually stands today.
VisionaryTales is the flagship and the clearest part of the offer. It takes the text of a book and returns a structured storyboard for a cinematic trailer, announced in under twenty minutes for that first version; the final video is then iterative and fully editable. Consistency is the main technical argument: characters, settings and colour treatment are meant to hold from shot to shot rather than drift between generations. More than fifteen cinematic visual styles are offered, with genre-specific aesthetics, colour grading, a visual effects library and control over music and sound. Users can revise the synopsis, scenes, characters, locations, style, individual shots and pacing at every stage, and the company insists on this human-AI co-creation rather than one-click output.
The text module researches a topic automatically, embeds citations from sources and adapts to a brand voice; the audio module generates podcast scripts and voice files, including multi-speaker dialogue in interview, news or educational formats. Delivery covers web files, social formats and cinema-grade output, in horizontal and vertical framings.
The interface runs in seven languages — English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese — while generation is announced in English and German, with further languages on request and voice-over and overlays claimed in more than thirty. The stated audiences are newsrooms, broadcasters, publishing houses and authors, marketing teams, and film and game studios. The company also discloses its stack: AWS including Amazon Bedrock, T-Systems Open Telekom Cloud, OpenAI, Google Cloud Vertex AI, ElevenLabs, BytePlus, Supabase, Stripe, Sentry and a self-hosted SuperTokens instance. VisionaryTales was announced at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, won the Renew the Book award and belongs to the CONTENTshift programme. It remains a pilot reached through a waiting list.
What it does
- Turn a book manuscript into a cinematic trailer storyboard
- Generate articles with automatic research and embedded citations
- Produce podcast scripts and voice files, including multi-speaker dialogue
- Edit scenes, characters, locations, visual style, shots and pacing
- Derive several formats — article, podcast and video — from a single topic
- Produce multilingual and culturally adapted variants of the same content
- Export for web, social media and cinema delivery in 16:9 or 9:16
When to use WeDaVinci / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if WeDaVinci is the right fit.
When to use WeDaVinci
- Publishers and imprints promoting a title with cinematic video rather than a commissioned shoot
- Authors and rights holders pitching film or game adaptations to studios and producers
- Newsrooms that need drafts with automatic research and citations traceable to their sources
- Broadcasters turning scripts into narration, multi-speaker dialogue and promotional video
- European media teams whose procurement depends on EU hosting and a no-training commitment
When not to use WeDaVinci
- Buyers who need a published price list, since rates are only disclosed by email to the sales team
- Teams wanting self-serve sign-up, because account activation stays at the vendor's discretion
- Developers looking for an API: no documentation, endpoint or developer subdomain exists
- Anyone who needs a mobile application, as the product is delivered exclusively in the browser
- Under-18s, who are explicitly excluded from the service by the privacy policy
How to use WeDaVinci
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Join the VisionaryTales waiting list, or contact the company, to be considered for pilot access
- Create an account; activation is granted by WeDaVinci rather than automatically
- Upload the manuscript, which the system analyses to extract key narrative elements
- Alternatively supply only the story, character and location descriptions, scene extracts and dialogue lines
- Choose the target audience and a visual style, from cinematic genres or a custom aesthetic
- Review the structured storyboard returned as the first version
- Edit the synopsis, scenes, characters, locations, style, shots and pacing as needed
- Refine prompts with the site's cheatsheet, in JSON for precise control or in natural language
- Adjust music, sound and visual effects before final rendering
- Generate and export the video for web, social or cinema delivery, in 16:9 or 9:16
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Editorial control is designed in: every stage stays editable rather than one-click
- Text output carries citations and is checked against its sources
- An unconditional no-training commitment covers customer data and extends to the model vendors
- Sub-processors are published by name, with their purpose and data categories
- European hosting is preferred and the vendor is itself established in the EU
- No non-essential analytics, tracking or marketing cookies are used
- Backed by Creative Europe MEDIA funding and the Renew the Book award
Cons
- No price is published anywhere; rates come only from the sales address
- The flagship product is still a pilot behind a waiting list
- Account activation is discretionary and the vendor is not obliged to grant it
- No API, no documentation and no developer subdomain
- No mobile application and no social media presence of any kind
- Marketing pages carry unverifiable testimonials and unsourced impact figures
- One feature block still displays lorem ipsum placeholder text
Pricing & Plans
A free account exists and can be upgraded to a paid account, so a permanent free tier is available. No price is published: the terms of use state that the scope of services of the paid accounts and their pricing are obtained by contacting sales@wedavinci.ai. No entry-level amount or currency can therefore be quoted. Payment is handled through Stripe, and consumers resident in the European Union retain a fourteen-day right of withdrawal.
- Free account — named in the terms of use as the starting point for an upgrade
- no published limits
- Paid account — scope of services and pricing supplied on request by the sales team
- VisionaryTales pilot — access granted through a waiting list
- with no published rate
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how WeDaVinci handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is concrete rather than declaratory. WeDaVinci GmbH names itself as controller at its Munich address, gives privacy@wedavinci.ai as the contact point, and maps each purpose to a specific Article 6 basis: (b) for providing the platform, (f) for security and abuse prevention, (c) for legal obligations and (a) for newsletters and marketing. The full set of data subject rights is listed, including erasure, portability and withdrawal of consent, and the Bavarian supervisory authority BayLDA is named for complaints. Transfers outside the EEA rely on an adequacy decision, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or standard contractual clauses. Sub-processors are published by name with their purpose and data categories. The policy is dated August 2026. Notably, the site never applies the phrase "GDPR compliant" to itself.
Who owns the data?
The terms leave project content, prompts and uploaded media with the user, who must hold the rights to everything they upload and stays solely responsible for third-party rights. WeDaVinci states that it does not review generated output for infringement and owes no such review, so clearance before publication falls to the customer. On ownership of the result the FAQ is unusually direct: a user can obtain copyright in their trailer where they add sufficient creative contribution through their own prompts and direction, the underlying story already being theirs. Uploaded originals remain stored until the user deletes the file or the project concerned.
Reuse rights
Users can reuse what they generate without asking WeDaVinci for permission: nothing in the terms reserves a licence over customer output for the vendor's own purposes, and the copyright position set out in the FAQ assumes the customer exploits the result commercially. The practical limit is legal rather than contractual. WeDaVinci warns that generated material may resemble protected works, trademarks, designs, voices or the likeness of real people, and requires the user to obtain any consents, licences and clearances in advance. Compliance with labelling and transparency obligations for AI-generated content is placed on the user too, and the indemnity clause applies to any resulting infringement claim.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting is described by region rather than by country. WeDaVinci states that it selects European regions for cloud services wherever possible, and that waiting list and newsletter data is held in a European Supabase region. Storage, authentication infrastructure and some AI features run on Amazon Web Services, including Amazon Bedrock; T-Systems International's Open Telekom Cloud provides cloud infrastructure, API hosting and technical logs. Model calls may go to OpenAI, Google Cloud Vertex AI, ElevenLabs or BytePlus depending on the feature selected. Stripe handles payments, Sentry may process error data, and user management runs on a self-hosted SuperTokens instance on the company's AWS infrastructure. The policy acknowledges that some providers or their sub-processors may process data outside the European Economic Area, or access it from there, and covers those transfers with an adequacy decision, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or standard contractual clauses with additional safeguards where appropriate. No individual hosting country is named; the company says the regions and mechanisms actually used are reviewed through its internal vendor documentation. The controller is established in Munich, so German and EU law govern.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting WeDaVinci.
- Marketing claims run ahead of the product: testimonials name publishers and volumes that cannot be verified, impact percentages carry no method, and one feature block still shows lorem ipsum — read the shop window sceptically
- Investor pitch decks marked confidential are publicly reachable and contain their own placeholder text, so any figure taken from them would misrepresent the company
- The Write module ships demonstration articles, one of them announcing a fictional startup's fifty-million-dollar round — sample output that is easy to mistake for fact
- You remain solely liable for infringement: WeDaVinci does not check generated output against copyright, trademark, personality, image or voice rights, and clearance is yours to obtain
- Visualising characters fixes them; the company acknowledges the tension and offers mood-trailer and atmospheric approaches, but a trailer can still narrow how readers imagine a book
- Leaning on automatic research and citations can erode the habit of checking sources yourself — a citation that looks authoritative is not the same as one that has been read
- Prompts cannot be deleted individually and full self-service account deletion is not yet available, so leaving the platform means asking support
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low, with an administrative rather than technical barrier. There is nothing to install: WeDaVinci runs in the browser, and the company states that no filming or editing skills are needed. The effort sits in preparing source material and in prompting, for which the site publishes a cheatsheet covering both JSON prompts for precise control and natural language for looser direction. The real friction is access: an account has to be activated by WeDaVinci, which is not obliged to do so, and the VisionaryTales pilot is reached through a waiting list.
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Behind WeDaVinci
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Frequently asked questions
Does WeDaVinci train AI models on my texts?
Who owns the copyright in a trailer I generate?
Do I have to upload my complete manuscript?
How much does it cost?
How quickly do I get a result?
Which languages are covered?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Where is my data hosted?
Is there a minimum age?
Can I delete my content and my account?
Should you pick WeDaVinci?
WeDaVinci is easier to judge once you separate the company from its shop window. The substance is real: a Munich company incorporated in 2018, EU grant funding for VisionaryTales, an appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Renew the Book award, and a privacy policy that names every sub-processor, maps each purpose to an Article 6 basis and commits unconditionally to not training on customer data. For a European publisher or newsroom with procurement questions to answer, that governance is worth more than most of what competitors publish.
The product proposition is coherent too. Positioning against one-click generation, keeping the editor in the loop at every stage and grounding text output in citations addresses the objection media organisations actually raise about generative tools. The book-trailer angle is a genuine niche: rights holders pitching adaptations and publishers promoting a title have no cheap alternative to a commissioned shoot.
What holds it back is maturity and presentation. VisionaryTales is described as a pilot with a waiting list, no price appears anywhere on the site, and account activation is at the vendor's discretion — so a reader can neither self-serve nor budget. The shop window compounds this: testimonials attributed to entities that cannot be verified, impact percentages with no method behind them, a claim of thousands of creators that sits oddly against pilot status, and a feature block still showing lorem ipsum. Investor pitch decks marked confidential are publicly reachable and carry their own unfilled placeholders.
The honest reading is a credible European team with defensible technology and unusually clear data governance, whose public site runs ahead of the product. Worth contacting if you publish books or run a newsroom in Europe; worth asking hard questions about availability and price before planning around it.
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