Aura · Artist Identity
Flux LoRA · artist_name
on-character
Press · Era I
1024 × 1365 · seed 7741
Variants24 generated
Subject
artist_name
Base model
Flux.1 dev
Steps
1,600
Trigger
xhtl_msk
We built this · macOS app
Aura
An operating system for an AI music artist
One macOS app that runs an entire AI artist - identity, songs and lyrics, AI music videos, beat-synced short-form channels, and the creator deals around them - all writing to a single local project.
5
Workspaces
8
AI models
4
Output types
10+
Tools in one
Aura · Songs
LyriaSuno
WOZA MALI
amapiano · log drum · A min
2:41
112 BPM
Lyrics · isiZulu → ENQA passed
"Sondela, woza la - imali iyangena"
"Come closer, come here - the money is coming in"
WOZA MALIInitiation
amapianolog drum112 BPM
rendered
UMA KUZOKWENZEKAInitiation
soulfulsaxtribal vox
rendering
Si Healer LanaAscension
3-stepdark log
queued
What it is
One app, five workspaces
Aura splits the work by job, not by tool. Each workspace owns one stage of the artist - and they all share the same songs, files, and local state, so a track never gets rebuilt to become a video, a short, or a creator brief.
Artist
Identity, LoRA, references, and generated media
Songs
Prompts, audio, lyrics, translations, eras, and playback
Music Video
Scripts, scenes, characters, lyric videos, and trailers
Promos
Discovery, sequences, captions, uploads, and channel lanes
Influencers
Creator discovery, scoring, outreach, rates, and contracts
Why it exists
The artist needed an operating system
Aura began as a way to assemble short-form videos, then grew into the tool that runs the whole Xhotali production pipeline. The hard part was never one export button - it was connecting music, lyrics, visuals, creator sourcing, and publishing without living in ten disconnected tools.
Prompt songs in one app, store audio in another, then lose the usable versions
Check African-language lyrics and translations by hand before any render can ship
Generate video scenes with no stable character identity or reusable project state
Track creators, rates, countries, outreach, and contracts across scattered notes
Build TikTok-ready posts while keeping sound attribution, captions, timing, and upload state intact
How it works
From identity to published, in one loop
1
Artist identity
Reference photos, LoRA setup, and generated press imagery
2
Songs
Style prompts, lyrics, translations, Lyria audio, imports, and eras
3
Music video
Scripts, characters, b-roll, scene clips, lyric videos, and trailers
4
Promos
Discovery, filtering, beat-synced sequences, captions, and TikTok scheduling
5
Influencers
Creator discovery, scoring, outreach stages, pricing, and contracts
Every workspace writes durable state back to the same local project folder, so a song can become a lyric video, a release trailer, a short-form sequence, and a creator brief without being rebuilt from scratch.
Workspace 01 · Artist
A consistent artist, on demand
Train a Flux LoRA on reference photos, then generate press and lifestyle imagery that stays on-character across every era. Identity, references, and finished renders all live in one workspace.
Aura · Artist Identity
Flux LoRA · artist_name
on-character
Press · Era I
1024 × 1365 · seed 7741
Variants24 generated
Subject
artist_name
Base model
Flux.1 dev
Steps
1,600
Trigger
xhtl_msk
Workspace 02 · Songs
Songs, lyrics, and language QA
Compose style prompts, render Lyria and Suno audio, and write lyrics with African-language translations that Claude and Gemini check before any render ships. Every version stays archived by era instead of overwriting the last.
Aura · Songs
LyriaSuno
WOZA MALI
amapiano · log drum · A min
2:41
112 BPM
Lyrics · isiZulu → ENQA passed
"Sondela, woza la - imali iyangena"
"Come closer, come here - the money is coming in"
WOZA MALIInitiation
amapianolog drum112 BPM
rendered
UMA KUZOKWENZEKAInitiation
soulfulsaxtribal vox
rendering
Si Healer LanaAscension
3-stepdark log
queued
Aura · Music Video Storyboard
UMA KUZOKWENZEKA · lyric video
9:16 · image-to-video · 5 scenes · 112 BPM
1
Sondela, woza la
2
Mali iyangena
3
Phakathi kwethu
4
Uma kuzokwenzeka
5
Sondela kimi
00:00SCENE TIMELINE02:38
Beat grid
Workspace 03 · Music Video
From a song to a finished video
Scripts, characters, image-to-video scene clips, lyric videos, and release trailers, assembled on a beat-accurate timeline with Replicate and Fal. One saved song becomes many cuts without being rebuilt from scratch.
Workspace 04 · Promos
Beat-synced short-form, scheduled
Discover clips, filter them through MediaPipe and CLIP quality gates, sync sequences to the beat, then publish to per-channel accounts with Playwright and ffmpeg. Posts go out on the right sound, with caption pools and upload state intact.
Aura · Promos ref · Si Healer Lana
Dance31Landscape14Cars9
7
posted
3
queued
PER-CHANNEL SCHEDULE3 accounts
account.dance
Dance · next 18:00
account.scenes
Landscape · next 21:30
account.drive
Cars · next tmrw 09:00
BEAT-SYNCED SEQUENCE112 BPM · cut on 1
Workspace 05 · Influencers
Creator deals, run as a roster
Discover creators, score them, and drive every outreach from first contact to signed deal in one place - contact routes, rates, discussion status, and contract PDFs tracked per creator, instead of scattered across notes and chats.
Aura · Influencers Dancers · South Africa
Outreach funnel
Roster82
Contacted54
In talks2
Active3
CreatorScoreRateStage
01
@creator.01
Dancer · ZA
92
R 4,200
Deal
02
@creator.02
Dancer · ZA
88
R 3,500
Contacted
03
@creator.03
Dancer · ZA
81
R 2,800
Contacted
04
@creator.04
Dancer · ZA
76
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New
What we learned
Internal software should feel like leverage
Aura is not an automation script with a UI bolted on. It is a custom operating system for one creative business - the exact files, checks, models, states, and publishing rules PixelVision needs to run an AI artist without rebuilding the workflow every week. That is the point of bespoke software: remove the repeated labor, keep the creative decisions visible, and let the team work at the level of the product instead of the plumbing.