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LIGHTCONE · AI coverage organised as a matrix of capability × stage. Not sorted by tool, but by where you are right now.
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Why we lay our content out
as a matrix

Most AI content sites sort by tool: a column for images, one for video, one for writing. The problem with that split is that it assumes everyone working on the same axis needs the same thing.

In practice, someone just starting to try image generation and someone already managing asset libraries for three hundred SKUs have exactly one thing in common: both are making pictures.

So we added a second axis: how far along you are. Seven axes times four stages gives twenty-eight cells, and each cell is one concrete class of problem.

The four stages, defined
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How we run our benchmarks

One batch of tasks

Every comparison is based on the same sketch, the same voice-over script, the same repository. Scores from different tasks are not comparable.

Failures on the record

We record the moments where it made things worse, too. A benchmark that only reports good news is worth nothing.

Stage noted

Every conclusion states which stage it applies to. “Worth using” has a different answer at different stages.

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