Principles

Prove it.

Six rules every Conform Labs product follows. They decide what we build, what we leave out and how we talk about it. If a feature can't meet them, it doesn't ship.

01

A professional tool.

No presets, templates, canned looks or gimmicks. Precision, control, insight, safety and pipeline integration.

The professional brings the taste. The operator brings speed and exactness, and stays out of the way.

02

Prove it.

Every feature that changes a project reports what changed. We prefer a measurement over a claim, and a check that didn't run is never reported as a pass.

Tests and benchmarks come before "done", on real installs of the host app.

03

The human decides.

The professional sets how much the AI may do: full access, ask before every change, or read-only. Approvals are answered in the host app, never by the AI.

Inside the lab the same rule holds: releases, signing and anything public go through a person.

04

Honest marketing.

We compare by facts only. We never attack a competitor or the companies whose software we work with.

Product names never contain a vendor's trademark. "Surehand MCP for Adobe® After Effects®" is right; a name built from "After Effects" is not.

05

Free and open.

Products are MIT licensed and non-commercial. No paid tiers, no credits, no account.

It is also a condition of the open-source code-signing certificate our installers are signed with.

06

Small, reversible steps.

One task, one branch, green checks, then review. In the product, the same idea: one undo step per request, checkpoints that never overwrite the original.

Your work

Your keyframes are not ours to guess at.

An operator works on material a professional made by hand. These are the lines it doesn't cross.

It always

  • Reports each change it made, with the numbers
  • Makes one undo step per request
  • Says when a check couldn't run, and why
  • Explains a refusal and gives the fix
  • Writes every call to a log you can read

It never

  • Replaces an existing file without being told to
  • Approves its own requests
  • Generates pixels and passes them off as your work
  • Reports "done" for a step that failed halfway
  • Calls home for an account or a licence

How we write

Like a careful finishing editor.

Plain, specific, checkable. The same rule as the software: say what happened, with the number.

Not this

Updated your animation.

This

Changed 3 keyframes on Title › Opacity.

Not this

Oops, something went wrong.

This

Refused: the file exists. Pass overwrite to replace it.

Not this

Seamless, effortless, magic.

This

Tested with After Effects 2025 and 2026, on macOS and Windows.

See it in practice

Every edit returns a list of exactly what changed.