Yesterday we introduced Studio and Share, the first subscription we've ever offered and the reason we offered it. Today I want to walk through the part of Share that I think changes how a cut gets reviewed, because it's the part nobody else has: your collaborator can bring their own AI to your transcript, and what it finds comes back to you as selects.
The review loop is broken
Here's how notes on an interview edit usually travel. The producer watches a scrub, types timecodes into an email. The client says "the bit where she talks about her father" and you go looking. A second editor keeps a spreadsheet. A review tool, if you use one, stops at comments pinned to a frame.
None of it lands in the timeline. Every note is a search you still have to run yourself, and the better the interview, the longer that search takes.
What a share link is
Share publishes one interview, or a whole collection, to a private link on share.doza.ai. Your collaborator opens it in a browser. No account, nothing to install. They get the transcript with speaker labels, word-level playback, and search. With the permissions you set, they can:
- Highlight any stretch of the transcript, in the same five colors you use in the app.
- Pull clips with in and out points on the word, plus a short note on why this moment.
- Comment on a line, a clip, or the whole interview.
- Use their own AI. When you switch it on for a link, they can connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that speaks MCP.
Whatever they make appears in your Doza Assist project as they make it. You review, keep what works, and send it to Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve like any other select.
The AI part, specifically
Most producers already have an AI assistant open all day. Until now it couldn't touch your footage, and it shouldn't have been able to. Share changes the terms without changing the principle.
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the same open standard that lets Claude Desktop or Cursor read a project on your Mac through the Doza Assist connector. A share link speaks it too. When you allow AI on a link, your collaborator connects their assistant once and can ask it things like:
- "Find every moment she talks about the merger."
- "Pull the three strongest lines about the second half."
- "Which passages contradict what he said in the first ten minutes?"
The assistant reads the shared transcript, makes labeled selects, and those selects come back to you exactly the way a hand-pulled clip does. Their AI, your transcript, your rules. Switch AI off for a link and none of that is possible. The transcript is just a page in a browser.
What's on the server, and what isn't
This is the question every editor with client footage asks first, so here's the whole answer. A share link contains a compressed audio track for playback, the transcript with speakers and timing, analysis clips, and documents, all behind the link token. The video never leaves your Mac. There is no bulk download on the collaborator side. Your other projects are never reachable from a link.
And the link is yours to run:
- Permissions per link. Comment only, highlight, make clips, use AI, or read only. Change any of it at any time.
- Passcode as a second factor for work under NDA.
- Pause a link read-only while you cut, then reopen it for the next round.
- Revoke and the hosted copy, the audio, and every collaborator note are deleted from the server. Not hidden. Deleted.
Why Share needed Studio
Hosting is the one thing a one-time price can't pay for. So Share ships with Studio, a subscription at $299 a year or $29 a month (owners of Doza Assist can email to upgrade; a $19 a month add-on is coming soon), which includes the full app, rolling updates, and unlimited share links for as long as you keep it. Teams get Enterprise, one key for the whole room and one seat per machine.
If you own the one-time license, nothing about it changes. You'll be able to add Share to it in a coming update. And if you want to see selects come back before paying anything, the free trial of Doza Assist Studio includes two share links with every Share feature, on the first two minutes of any file. Publish one, send it to a producer, and watch their picks arrive in your Clip Library.
Chris Cardoza is a documentary filmmaker and the creator of Doza Assist. See how Share works step by step at doza.ai/share, or try Studio free.
Common questions
Does my collaborator need a Doza Assist license to use a share link?
No. They need a link and a browser. The license is yours; the link is theirs to use for as long as you keep it open.
Can a collaborator's AI see my video?
No. The video is never uploaded. An assistant connected to a share link reads the transcript and can create selects; it has no access to media beyond the compressed audio the link already serves for playback.
Which AI assistants work with a share link?
Any assistant that supports MCP, including Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code based tools. You can also keep AI off for any link.
What happens to share links if my Studio subscription ends?
Existing links stay readable for your collaborators, but you can't publish new shares or change existing ones until the subscription is active again. Revoking always works.