How Creative Clock works

You describe a project and seat the makers it needs. Each seat is a model with one job, and every step is a request made from this browser tab.

1 · Once around the face, in stages.

Thinkers go first (the real need, what already exists, the people, play). Then the shapers: the steps, the data, the look, and then the interface, built from all of them. Makers and change-makers follow, and testers try what was made. Seats in a stage work at once; every later seat reads what the earlier ones made.

2 · Some seats make things you can use.

Interface builds a prototype you can click through and Data builds a page that shows the facts in their most meaningful form. Both run in a sealed frame that can't reach this page or your key. Look paints an image with a palette, and Sound composes a short theme.

3 · Then you steer.

Write to any seat by name, such as “Interface, make it one screen”, and it redoes its part with everything the room has made so far.

A run is one request per seated maker, billed to you by OpenRouter. The prototype and data pages use a stronger model and cost the most; a typical run is well under a dollar.

Where your data goes

Four claims, and what makes each one true rather than promised.

Your question goes straight to OpenRouter.

This site's server delivers this page and handles optional sign-in. A guest discussion never passes through it. Your browser sends the question, the answers and your key directly to openrouter.ai. The page's security policy only allows connections to OpenRouter and our sign-in service.

Files are read in your browser.

When you attach a document, this tab extracts its text. That text goes to OpenRouter with your question; the file itself is never uploaded to this site.

Your key stays with you.

It lives in this tab's memory, or in this browser's storage if you tick the box. It is attached only to requests to openrouter.ai. Downloads and reports are built here in the page and saved straight to your disk.

Requests require zero-data-retention routes.

Each request asks OpenRouter for providers that keep no copy of it. If a seated model is unavailable, OpenRouter may answer with GLM-5.3 Flash under the same rule, and the transcript names the model that actually answered. One exception in Creative Clock: the music model that writes Sound's theme has no such route, so it is sent only the project's description and your slant.

What OpenRouter and the model vendors do with a request is between you and them. It is an ordinary API call, and their policies apply.

Your OpenRouter key

One key reaches every model in the room. Get one at openrouter.ai/keys. This tab sends it only to openrouter.ai, in the Authorization header. This site's server never receives it, and OpenRouter bills you directly. Enter it here, not in .env.local.

Keep it in this browser so I don't have to paste it again

Without the box ticked, the key lives only in this tab's memory.

Sends each seated model a one-word test (a fraction of a cent).

New and experimental

What shall we make?

Tell the clock about your project, then seat the makers you need. The hand goes once around the face: thinkers first, then shapers, makers and testers, each building on the last, until it's something you can try.

Start from a kit:

The project

8 of 12 seats filled. Tap a seat on the clock to unseat it, or add one from the bench below.

The bench

The human slant

Every seat works to this.

Feel

Spirit

Made for

Thinkers · the need, what exists, the people, play
Shapers · steps, the data, the look, the interface
Makers · words, sound, film
Change-makers · money, reach, measures, harms
Testers · try it before it is built

AI models can make mistakes, please check anything important before you rely on it.

Please email if something isn't working, or you have an idea for a new feature – Petra Franklin of Tandem Works