The central hub for AI creative work.

Keep your creative projects together. Work in the AI and creative tools you already use, or generate directly in Hold State. Your files, prompts, iterations, decisions, Canon and Deliverables stay connected to the same project.

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Cove
CoveProduct campaign
Fashion Shoot
Fashion ShootEditorial
TradecraftYear of Shorts · 155 saved AI images and video
Velar GTS
Velar GTSCG car film
Skater
SkaterBrand film

Save the work. Hold State retains the prompt, tool and timestamp.

Choose the folders Hold State watches. Save an image or video the way you normally do, and it comes back into the project with the prompt, source tool and timestamp attached.

Figma Weave · Tradecraft
Tradecraft SH010, take 2
Image 1 is the base; preserve everything exactly: camera, Danny's head and shoulders in the foreground, the building, streetlight, bodega. Add the old woman from Image 2, identity only, walking up the stoop.
Save imageCopy prompt
SH010_v2.pngTRADECRAFT › STORYBOARD
PROMPTImage 1 is the base; preserve everything exactly… Add the old woman from Image 2, identity only…
TOOLNano Banana
SAVEDTuesday 9:41 PM · ~/Hold State/Tradecraft
1Copy the prompt
2Save the image
3It's in the project

Generate in Hold State or bring work in from anywhere.

Generate images and video inside the project through Higgsfield, or keep using the AI and creative tools you already prefer.

Either way, the work joins the same project.

← VideoJune · bathroom 3 takesHistoryWork
Viewing Take 2Start from thisMarkup
ClearDone
Viewing Take 3♥ Cover
June, take 2: too big for the room
Take 1HMP
Take 2HMP
Generating with Seedance
♥ Cover
Take 3HMP
Prompt
Scale June down to accurately fit the environment. Keep the camera, the bathroom and the lighting exactly as they are.
ReferenceSuggest
Take 2 · markup
Next take
ImageVideoHiggsfield API Seedance 2.0
Video to editTake 2
Generate here
Copy prompt

Hold State stays at the center while the tools around it change.

The tools change. Your project stays.

Use different tools for different parts of the job. Hold State keeps the work and project history connected as you move between them.

Figma WeaveNANO BANANA · SEEDANCE
HiggsfieldNANO BANANA · SEEDANCE
MagnificNANO BANANA
RunwayNANO BANANA · SEEDANCE
Midjourney
After Effects
ElevenLabs
.WAV
Photoshop
ComfyUI
Tradecraft project card
Tradecraft
YEAR OF SHORTS · 5 BOARDS155 SAVED
Cove, Direction 1HOLD
Cove, Direction 2HOLD
Cove, Direction 1HOLD
Cove, Direction 2MAYBE
Cove, Direction 1HOLD
Cove, Direction 2PASS
Cove, Direction 1HOLD
Cove, Direction 2MAYBE
Cove, Direction 1MAYBE
Cove, Direction 2HOLD
Cove, Direction 1HOLD
Cove favorite, Direction 1HOLD
Cove favorite, Direction 2HOLD
Prompts, in a chat thread
~/Downloads/final-v3 (2).png
why did we drop the outdoor one?

AI projects get messy fast.

Prompts live in chats. Files land in Downloads. References sit somewhere else. Versions multiply.

Hold State brings those pieces back into the project they belong to.

Stack coverCOVER · HOLD
STACK · DIRECTION 01FOLDING SHUT
Stack coverCOVER · HOLD
STACK · DIRECTION 02FOLDING SHUT
PROMPT · NANO BANANA 2

Ultra close-up product photography. Glossy white rounded tec…

Group every iteration into a Stack.

A Stack keeps related Takes, prompts, references and notes together.

Open it to see the full exploration. Collapse it when you want the Board clean.

CovePRODUCT CAMPAIGN VISUALIZATION · BOARD
STACKS
Direction 01 coverCOVER · HOLD
HOLD
HOLD
MAYBE
Direction 01STUDIO · BLACK AND WHITE
Direction 02 coverCOVER · HOLD
HOLD
MAYBE
PASS
Direction 02PASTEL · SET DESIGN

Cove’s Board after that Tuesday. Each direction is a Stack now, and any of them reopens to the Take you left on.

Tradecraft SH010, take 2

See the full history behind each Take.

Review what came before, which prompt made each version, what changed and which direction moved forward.

Hold, Maybe and Pass keep the exploration easy to read.

SH010 · TAKE 2 · PROMPT · NANO BANANA

Image 1 is the base; preserve everything exactly: camera, Danny's head and shoulders in the foreground, the building, streetlight, bodega. Add the old woman from Image 2, identity only, walking up the stoop.

SH010 · wide, old lady arrivesHoldMaybePass
TAKE 1
TAKE 2 · COVER
PROMPT · NANO BANANA · TAKE 2

Image 1 is the base; preserve everything exactly: camera, Danny's head and shoulders in the foreground, the building, streetlight, bodega. Add the old woman from Image 2, identity only, walking up the stoop.

Build the project Canon as you make decisions.

Exploring · Gift of the AI › Characters
Early Dale test
Early Dale test
Early Dale test
June
The Owner, exploration
CanonGIFT OF THE AI · PRODUCTION BIBLE
CHARACTERS
DALE
LOCKED TRAITS
  • No chin, no jaw: face slopes straight into a long, thick neck
  • Thin silver rectangular wire-rim glasses
  • Navy quarter-zip fleece over a white t-shirt
  • Expression default: patient neutral…
JUNE · NEXT
THE OWNER
Dale, approved portrait

Build the project Canon as you make decisions.

Add approved characters, environments, style decisions and other key choices to Canon.

Canon becomes the project reference everyone can work from, and every entry stays linked to the Take it came from.

CanonGIFT OF THE AI · PRODUCTION BIBLE
CHARACTERS
DALE character sheetDALE
JUNE character sheetJUNE
THE OWNER character sheetTHE OWNER
ENVIRONMENTS
Living roomLiving room
Pawn shopPawn shop
Strip mallStrip mall
Pier yardPier yard
STYLE FRAMES · LIGHTING AND PALETTE
Style frame
Style frame

Claude can read the project through Hold State.

How did Danny’s look change from the first sheet to the final film?

Two changes stuck. On the character sheet you took out every bit of hair under the beanie, so with it off he’s completely bald, and that’s locked in Canon. Then in the storyboard you made him thinner: the SH100 prompt asks for narrow shoulders and skinny arms and legs to match the sheet.

Everything else held from the first sheet to the last frame: head-to-toe black, the tight beanie, the gloves.

Connect Claude to Hold State through MCP.

Connect Claude through MCP and let it inspect the project structure, including Boards, Stacks, Takes, prompts and Canon.

Ask about the project without rebuilding the context every time.

Tradecraft
Tradecraft
5 BOARDS · 155 SAVED
BoardsStacksCanon · Uncle DannyPrompts
CLAUDE · CONNECTED TO HOLD STATE
How did Danny’s look change from the first sheet to the final film?
CANON · DANNY
SH010 · TAKE 1
SH150 · FINAL

Two changes stuck. On the character sheet you took out every bit of hair under the beanie, so with it off he’s completely bald, and that’s locked in Canon. Then in the storyboard you made him thinner: the SH100 prompt asks for narrow shoulders and skinny arms and legs to match the sheet.

Everything else held from the first sheet to the last frame: head-to-toe black, the tight beanie, the gloves.

Connect Claude to Hold State through MCP.

Your library lives on your Mac.

Hold State is the local hub between your files, generation tools and AI assistant.

Keep working in external tools, generate inside Hold State when useful, and choose what gets shared.

Higgsfield API · Generate here Figma Weave Midjourney Runway · Magnific Claude · MCP
HOLD STATE · GIFT OF THE AI
YOUR MAC · YOUR LIBRARY

Use the AI subscriptions you actually want.

Keep the tools that are useful. Drop the ones that are not. Change models whenever something better comes along.

The work still comes back to Hold State.

Figma Weave Midjourney
Runway
A subscription you dropped
New model
Next month’s model. Its work lands here too.
Higgsfield API Claude · MCP
HOLD STATE · TRADECRAFT · UNCHANGED

Keep the final Deliverable connected to the work that made it.

DELIVERABLETradecraft · Final filmVideo · 1920×1080 · 1:01From the Final Film board
EXPLORATION STACKS SELECTED TAKES CANON
Tradecraft final film
DELIVERABLE
Tradecraft · Final film

Record what shipped and keep the selected Takes, Canon, Stacks and project history behind it.

The final output stays connected to the process.

Share the project with the context intact.

REGift of the AI · shared with your editor
Dale character sheetDale
June character sheetJune
The Owner character sheetThe Owner
Living roomLiving room
Pawn shopPawn shop
Strip mallStrip mall
Pier yardPier yard
RRyanon The Owner

Going with the hair slicked back, mafioso/used car salesman style character.

Share the work together with the decisions, versions and project history behind it.

Everyone sees the same project instead of another folder of loose files.

Tradecraft, the last scene

Keep your next project together.

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