Kaitoi Launches AI Platform for Ad Production
The San Francisco startup aims to streamline creative workflows by generating video, 3D, and audio assets from simple text prompts.
Updated on Oct. 27, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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San Francisco-based Kaitoi Labs has publicly launched its AI-driven advertising production platform. The service allows users to generate images, video, audio, and 3D assets through text prompts.
Why it matters
The platform seeks to streamline advertising creative production by automating complex workflows across streaming and retail media environments. It provides developers and agencies with modular tools to consolidate multimedia generation into a single workspace.
Kaitoi offers a workspace called Kaitoi Studio and an infrastructure layer known as Kaitoi Core, which features a public API for external integration. The platform operates on a pay-as-you-go billing model.
The players
Kaitoi Labs
A San Francisco startup building generative AI infrastructure specifically for the advertising and broadcast industries.
Guillermo Navarro
A co-founder of the AI production platform Kaitoi.
Jacobo Barreiro
A co-founder of the AI production platform Kaitoi.
Ismael Faro
A co-founder of the AI production platform Kaitoi.
Nando Sierra
A co-founder of the AI production platform Kaitoi.
The details
Users interact with an AI assistant named Penny, which processes text descriptions to identify required processing nodes. The platform then constructs automated workflows to generate media assets across formats. By mapping plain-language inputs to specific technical nodes, Kaitoi aims to reduce the manual overhead typically associated with professional advertising production.
Timeline
Early September 2026: The platform opened for public access.
October 27, 2026: Kaitoi Labs officially debuted as a company.
The Tech Race
Kaitoi follows the industry shift toward vertical-specific generative AI suites, competing with broader tools like Adobe Firefly. Its focus on infrastructure-level integration via Kaitoi Core differentiates its roadmap from general-purpose creative assistants.
Broadcasters and retail media networks can begin using the platform immediately via its free-to-start, pay-as-you-go model. Developers interested in integrating these generative capabilities into existing workflows can access the Kaitoi Core public API.
The takeaway
Kaitoi positions itself as a middleware solution for modern advertising production, bridging the gap between raw text prompts and finished media assets. Interested users should monitor the platform's API adoption rates and the depth of its 3D asset generation capabilities as a gauge of its production utility.
Further reading
For broader trends in enterprise generative models, explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence.
Source note: This article includes information reported by MediaPost.
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