Create with AI in Desktop: videos, designs and text from your material

Each Polimake Desktop project has its conversations with an AI that works with your material: it searches your photos and videos, edits a video in the editor, creates designs with your brand and writes the text for each piece. The AI is your own Claude (by Anthropic) or Codex (by OpenAI) account: Polimake connects it to the project's tools, and what you use counts against that account's subscription.

Connect Claude or Codex

1. Go to Settings › Models.
2. In AI accounts, find Claude or Codex and click Sign in.
3. Your browser opens: sign in with your account and come back. Meanwhile, Desktop says Continue in your browser.
4. When the account shows Available, you're ready to use it. If it shows Not signed in, sign in again.

You don't need to install anything: if Claude Code isn't on your computer, Polimake sets it up on its own (you'll see "Setting up Claude Code on this computer…"). The same screen shows each account's usage and when it renews.

Start a conversation

There are two ways:

• From the project page, in What should we create in…?: choose Video or Image, describe what you want and click Create. The conversation opens with your request already sent.
• From Conversations, with New conversation. When it starts, it offers Ideas to get started, such as Make a short video, Design a post, Script for a 30 s reel or Pick the best shots.

To switch AI, click Choose the model. In Effort and settings you decide how much it thinks before answering.

What the AI can do

The AI uses Polimake's tools to work inside the project. It can:

• Search your material: it finds shots and photos by what's in them, not by file name, and looks inside a video to pick the best moment.
• Edit videos: it prepares the video, places the shots, cuts to the beat of the music, adds subtitles without splitting words (all the audio is transcribed) and checks frames before calling it done. The video editor opens on its own.
• Design images: it creates posts, stories or covers with your brand. If you don't have a clear idea, it shows you 2 to 4 sketches to choose from. When you like one, it can save it as a project template.
• Write: the caption, hashtags and alt text for each piece, scripts or articles.
• Ask you for material: if it can't find what it needs, it leaves a card in the conversation that searches your other libraries and folders.
• Use your services: with the keys you save in Settings › Connections (for example, Unsplash, ElevenLabs or Buffer). Keys are stored encrypted on your computer and the AI never sees them: Polimake makes the call for it.

You don't have to set any of this up: Polimake registers its tools in each project's folder, for Claude and for Codex, as soon as you open a conversation.

Permissions, plans and questions

At the bottom, in Access, you choose how much the AI can do without checking with you:

• Asks for permission: asks before acting.
• Changes files: edits without asking.
• Automatic: almost never asks.
• Full access: never asks.

When it asks for permission, you answer with Allow, Allow in this conversation or Always allow. If it suggests a Proposed plan, click Do it or type below what to change; Save to the project saves it to the project's Planes folder. If it asks you something, you'll see it as A question for you, with Answer.

While it's working you can write another message with Add to the queue, or stop it with Stop. To attach photos or documents, use Attach images or files.

Undo what it did

Every reply with changes has Undo these changes. Click Undo and Polimake returns the designs and videos to how they were before that reply (and also removes later changes). To undo in a video, that video has to be open.

Organize conversations

Right-click a conversation to Rename, Pin to top, Snooze, Archive or Copy conversation. Archived ones are in Archived conversations.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Claude or ChatGPT subscription?

You need a Claude or Codex account to sign in with. What the AI uses counts against that account; you can see it in Settings › Models and in Subscription usage, inside the conversation.

Do I have to install Claude Code or Codex?

No. Polimake sets them up on your computer. You only need to sign in.

Can the AI change my original photos and videos?

It works in the project folder: it creates new videos and designs from your material. With Undo these changes you roll back what it did in a reply.

Can I use Polimake from Claude or ChatGPT outside Desktop?

Yes, to search your cloud library: follow Connect Polimake to ChatGPT and Claude.