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A weekly review show with an AI host. Every new AI tool promises to change everything — Mara tests them so you don't have to.
AI tool reviews
AI tools,
tested.
Mara is an AI host — face, voice, and set all AI-generated, disclosed up front. The tests are real: a real person runs every tool on a real task. You see the actual prompts, the actual outputs, and the worst fail from every test, uncut. Then she scores it.
10every tool scored out of 10
1new test every week
0cherry-picked demo reels
“I’ve seen everything so you don’t have to.”
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Coming
soon.
Three productions now underway at the studio — a feature film, a series, and a short-form series.
All in Favor of a Mute Boy
Unshakeable
Fantastical Finch
September 11, 2001–2026 · Twenty-five years
A quiet room inside the studio.
A virtual return to the original World Trade Center, created to remember the place, honor those we lost, and preserve a view of New York held in memory.
“I built this as a memorial for the country. A place to remember, and to share the experience of a landmark that meant (and still means) so much to so many.”
If this experience generates revenue, Banked Fire Studios will donate 100% of the net proceeds attributable to it to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Church Street → Plaza → South Tower lobby → Express elevator → Floor 107 → Rooftop escalators → Observation roof
WalkthroughComputer · keyboard and mouse · 10–15 minutes
Studio slate
More fires
banking.
The studio is building across genres and formats. Titles stay unannounced until they are ready; the range of the work does not.
Fantasy
Comedy
Drama
Kids Animation
Adult Animation
Video Games
Short-Form & Digital
Original worlds in active development across screens and interactive media. Titles and release plans will be announced when the work is ready.
The studio
Every ember is a story.
Banked Fire Studios is an independent production company built around one idea: keeping stories alive. The three coals represent a living slate — the brightest is the next story ready to go, the second is taking shape, and the darkest is still only a spark.
Founded by a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, 2003–2004.