Peña Media Group

We build the software that makes media, and run the media on it.

A video editor, a publishing system, an online store platform and an AI assistant — all built in-house by Willie Peña — plus the publication and radio station we use to prove they work before anyone else has to rely on them.

Est. 2009Los Angeles

Working with us

What Peña Media Group does for clients.


Willie Peña has been producing marketing and content since the early 2000s, for companies from Verizon, Adobe and Colgate down to one-person businesses. The software above is what that experience turned into. Engagements usually fall into one of these.

Video and content production

Scripts, editing, branding videos, photography, social and ad creative — produced on our own tools, which keeps it fast and keeps the cost down.

AI tools and training

Setting up AI properly inside a business, and teaching a team to use it. Not slideware — the same systems we run ourselves.

Marketing and distribution

Getting content in front of people across every channel that matters, scheduled and measured, so you can see what actually returned something.

Custom software

When the off-the-shelf thing does not fit. Everything on this page started as a problem somebody actually had.

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The machinery

Not mockups. The tools we actually work in.

Tiamat · EditA real sequence being cut. 118 seconds, ten clips, 41 captions and 257 assets — scrubbing live, with the monitor following the playhead.
Tiamat · ImageThe image editor. Layers, adjustment layers and non-destructive colour, in the same application as the timeline.
Cascade · CalendarA month of scheduled publishing. Every card is a post queued to go out across the platforms shown beneath it, at a set time, for a named brand.
Janus · TasksWork running on its own. The task inbox, with jobs marked Janus (autonomous) — started, prioritised and running without being asked each time.
Midas · Catalogue416 products, four brands. One catalogue behind several storefronts, each product carrying its own set of destinations.
Teens Wanna KnowThe audience side. The published result: interviews, shorts and a live station, cut in Tiamat and distributed by Cascade.
Cerine · DreamboundThe novel's front door. A launch page for Book One, with an interactive Dream Oracle attached to it.
Cerine · ShorelightAn interactive companion. One of the playable pieces built around the book — a puzzle told in the voice of the story.

Scroll sideways. Click any screen — or press Enter on the one in focus — to open it full size.

What we build

The projects, and what each one actually does.


Everything below was built in-house and is in use. Capability varies — some of it is finished and running daily, some is still being built — and each entry says which.

Tiamat

Video editor

Tiamat

A full non-linear editor built in-house — multitrack timeline, complete audio chain, colour grading, and editing that can be driven by an AI agent. Used to cut everything Peña Media produces.

Multitrack · −16 LUFS delivery · agent-driven editing

Named for the Babylonian sea goddess who was split in half to make the world — which is what an editor does to a timeline.

Janus

AI operations assistant

Janus

An AI assistant that actually does the work rather than just answering questions: it runs scheduled jobs, handles email and calendar, deploys its own updates, and asks permission before anything it cannot undo.

Durable memory · self-deploying · approval-gated

Named for the Roman god of doorways, who faces both ways at once.

Cascade

Content distribution

Cascade

Publishes one piece of content everywhere it should go, on schedule, then reports what it earned. Thirty-three platforms, with analytics, a CRM and revenue tracking attached.

33 platforms · scheduling · revenue attribution

Named for the way water finds every channel beneath it.

Midas

Online store software

Midas

Self-hosted commerce. One product can be sold through several channels at once — card checkout, marketplaces, affiliates — with sales traced back to the campaign that caused them.

Stripe · Square · PayPal · multi-store

Named for the king whose touch turned everything to gold, including what he loved.

Cerine

Original fiction

Cerine

The Enchanted Life of Cerine: Book One — Dreambound, a novel in progress, with interactive companion pieces built around it. The studio makes its own stories, not only the tools for telling them.

Novel · companion experiences

The one name here that is not borrowed from anywhere.

Teens Wanna Know

Publication and radio station

Teens Wanna Know

A live entertainment publication for teens, with a 24-hour music station and its own player. Everything above gets tested here first, in front of a real audience, before it is offered to anyone else.

24/7 station · 500+ tracks · live publication

No myth attached. This is the part that has to work in public.

Each of these is described at length in Work.