Building the tools
we wished existed.
Zittl is a small studio making AI-native products: a private life dashboard and a novel-to-video pipeline.
Two products. One philosophy.
Local-first where it matters, AI-native throughout, built to last rather than to scale fast.
Zittl Dashboard
Finance, taxes and life admin in one local-first dashboard, wired up for your own AI.
See the dashboard
Wuxigen
An AI pipeline that turns web novels into video episodes.
See the pipelineProduct images are illustrations and concept art made for this page, not screenshots or pipeline output.
Zittl Dashboard
One dashboard for your whole life: todos, finances and taxes, built on records you own instead of a service that owns you.
Every todo, in one board
Open tasks across every project and life area, pulled from the notes you already keep, grouped and sorted your way.
Local-first
Your records live on your own computer, not in a cloud account.
Finance, current
Deutsche Bank sync, CSV import, spending breakdowns, multi-currency investments and a plan-ahead view.
Taxes, untangled
A year-by-year German filing chain: what is assessed, what is claimable, what evidence is missing.
Open by default
Export to open formats, including an Obsidian-compatible vault.
Don’t dig for it. Just ask.
Your own AI client, such as Claude Desktop or ChatGPT, reads your records over MCP. Zittl runs no AI service of its own and sends your data nowhere.
What did I spend on groceries last month?
€412 across 18 transactions, about 9% under your monthly average.
Mark “Wuxigen: render episode 12” as done.
Done. It moved to Done on the Wuxigen project card.
Am I on track for this year’s tax filing?
2025 is assessed. 2026 is open, with two evidence documents still missing.
Example conversations with sample data.
Where it runs
No public download yet. This is where the dashboard stands today and where it is going.
- Today
- On the maker’s own computerIn daily private use for finances, taxes and todos.
- Next
- Desktop app for Windows, macOS and LinuxAn installer that needs no developer tools, with a trial among friends planned.
- Later
- Self-hosted version and more countriesA server option, and country packs beyond Germany, including India.
Wuxigen
An AI pipeline that takes a web novel and renders it as video episodes: consistent characters, directed scenes and automated quality review.
Private development. No public demo yet.
Source
Chapters broken into scene specs.
Generate
Diffusion render engines build each shot.
Voice and motion
Character voices and scene motion layered in.
Quality review
Automated checks before a shot ships.
Episode
A finished, watchable episode.
Novel to video
Turns a web novel’s chapters into structured scene specs, then into rendered video, with no manual storyboarding.
Consistent characters
Characters are held to reference sheets across shots instead of being regenerated from scratch each time.
Multi-GPU orchestration
An episode’s render jobs are queued and balanced across the available GPUs.
Automated quality review
Every generated shot is scored before it ships, catching visual glitches without a person watching every frame.
Your data stays yours.
Some of this is how Zittl already works. Some of it is where it is headed. Each item is labeled either way.
Today
Todos, finances and tax records live in your own files on your own computer, not in a third-party cloud.
Zittl does not sell or share what you track. There is nothing to sell it to.
It is typed in for each sync, held in memory for that sync only, and goes straight to the bank.
In development
One encrypted database that only your passphrase and a recovery code can open.
Read-only by default, with private and sealed tiers that an AI is never shown.
For the day you cannot open it yourself.
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Notes on agentic AI tools and AI-built software, with sources.
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