Formative Intelligence Inc.
Formative Intelligence Inc. operates YouArt, an AI creative studio and creator platform that helps storytellers and creative teams generate images, videos, audio, and reusable workflows. Its broader mission is to help creators develop original AI films and series, fund them through early fans, and earn recurring revenue from their audiences.
At a Glance
- Independent AI storytellers, filmmakers, animators, and creators
- Creative agencies and production studios
- Founders and SaaS/product marketing teams
- Developer-relations teams
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AI Tools by Formative Intelligence Inc.
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YouArt AI Feature Launch Video Generator
AI Launch Video Generator
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Latest News
YouArt profiled as a YC Spring 2026 creator-economy company, reporting $0 to more than $120K in monthly revenue in about five months.
Y Combinator launch: YouArt presented as “Patreon for AI originals,” combining AI video creation, fan funding, and subscription revenue.
YouArt joined Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch and was listed as an active San Francisco company.
YouArt launched an MCP Server enabling AI-client control of media generation, workflows, projects, and the user's creative library.
Products & Services
An all-in-one platform for generating and editing images, videos, audio, and branded creative assets using multiple AI models from one account.
A visual, node-based canvas that chains models and creative steps into repeatable multi-step pipelines; agents can assemble workflows from natural-language instructions.
Generates video from text prompts, images, and visual references, with model selection, storyboard-oriented iteration, and connected editing.
Turns a product photo and a brief into creator-style advertising videos, including avatar/presenter, product, captions, dialogue, and multiple shot workflows.
Market Position
YouArt positions itself as a unified AI creative and creator-economy platform rather than only a generation model. It combines image/video/audio generation and workflow automation with creator-owned pages, fan crowdfunding, subscriptions, and exclusive-content monetization. Its generation competitors include Runway, Pika, Kling, and other AI video tools; its monetization alternatives include Patreon, Kickstarter, and Substack, but YouArt differentiates by combining those functions for AI originals in one product.
Leadership
Founders
Harry Zheng
Founder and CEO; previously worked at Google and TikTok, where he built TikTok Shop Ads from $0 to $100 million, and previously co-founded Speaking AI, a text-to-speech company.
Edward Ma
Co-founder and CTO; founding machine-learning engineer on the TikTok and DoorDash ads teams, where he helped scale products from $0 to more than $100 million in annual revenue; an AI researcher with 1,500+ citations.
Keith Zhang
Co-founder of YouArt; later identified publicly as the founder of Soulscape.
Executive Team
Harry Zheng
Founder and CEO
Ex-Google and ex-TikTok; built TikTok Shop Ads from $0 to $100 million and previously co-founded Speaking AI.
Edward Ma
Co-founder and CTO
Founding machine-learning engineer on TikTok and DoorDash ads teams; AI researcher with more than 1,500 citations.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The founders saw that generative AI had lowered the cost of making visual stories but had not solved how independent AI storytellers could finance production or monetize their intellectual property. They started YouArt as a combined creation, fan-funding, distribution, and subscription platform—described as “Patreon for AI Originals”—so creators could make a trailer, raise support from early fans, and then produce and sell the series directly.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Paid subscriptions and credit-based access to AI generation, with additional creator-economy revenue from fan crowdfunding, monthly subscriptions, and paid exclusive content; the company describes its creator platform as taking a share of creator transactions.
Pricing Tiers
1,000 credits; approximately 200 images/month or 332 seconds of video/month; advanced models, creative agent, video editor, templates, realistic face uploads, and no watermark.
3,300 credits; approximately 1,000 images/month or 1,100 seconds of video/month; includes the advanced-model and editor features.
18,000 credits; approximately 6,000 images/month or 6,000 seconds of video/month.
36,300 credits; approximately 12,000 images/month or 12,100 seconds of video/month; up to 10 members per team, up to 5 teams, shared canvases/workflows/assets, role management, credit caps, and per-member usage tracking.
500 credits; subscription required.
Enterprise solutions with customized models or pricing.
Target Markets
- Independent AI storytellers, filmmakers, animators, and creators
- Creative agencies and production studios
- Founders and SaaS/product marketing teams
- Developer-relations teams
- Ecommerce and consumer brands
- Fintech, healthtech, edtech, Web3, and other technology companies
- AI films, episodic series, and original intellectual property
- Product launch and feature announcement videos for SaaS companies
- UGC ads and social creative for ecommerce and consumer brands
- Product demos, explainers, and marketing videos
- Creative-agency moodboarding, storyboarding, and scalable campaign production
- Social content and creator series
- POD-miaouwai's YouArt Originals series Daiko and Goten's Great Adventure
- TechyTricksAI's Ashveil Meridian
- Studio Tora's Twisted Crown
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