# Email findings for Cultshot x Media City Qatar

Source account searched: `cultscale@gmail.com`.

## Relevant Media City Qatar threads

### 2026-04-26 / 2026-04-27 — `Cultshot x Media City Qatar`

Thread ID: `19dcb09a27bf9bdd`

Participants:

- Maroun Najm, `mnm@cultscale.com`
- Roza Rashed Al-Moosafri, `ralmoosafri@mediacity.qa`
- Aya Blouchi, `aya.blouchi@gmail.com`

Facts from Maroun’s 2026-04-26 email:

- Cultshot is being considered for incorporation in Qatar.
- Prior meeting with Roza happened in Nov 2024 about setting up under Media City Qatar.
- Cultshot description used: generative AI toolset built for narrative filmmaking.
- It helps productions create legally clear AI-assisted shots, VFX workflows, and new coverage from their own captured assets and rushes.
- It sits at the intersection of media, production technology, post-production, and AI.
- Planned launch: Marché du Film / Festival de Cannes next month.
- Customer references mentioned: Banijay and French VFX house IIW Studio.
- Founder info shared: Maroun is dual Mexican/Lebanese. Co-founder Aya Al Blouchi is a Qatari producer and DFI senior film programmer.
- Open questions sent to Roza:
  - MCQ eligibility for AI, production technology, VFX/post-production focus.
  - Which activity or activities to select.
  - Current fees, timeline, and documents.
  - Incentives or waivers for media technology or AI companies.
  - Current application process or first step.

Facts from Roza’s 2026-04-27 reply:

- Roza is happy to schedule an online meeting to learn more about Cultshot.
- She asked Maroun to share his time zone so she can coordinate a meeting invite.
- She requested a company profile reflecting the interest in establishing a presence in Qatar.
- She specifically wants answers to:
  - What you do: services offered/intended to be offered.
  - Who you serve: target market.
  - What sets you apart: competitive advantage.
  - How you make money: business model.
  - Core assets you control: ownership and rights, if applicable.
  - Financial outlook: projected revenues, financial forecast, and expected income streams.
  - What you need: capital investment and planned use of funds.
  - Who’s behind it: previous experience and team profiles.

### 2024-11-26 / 2024-12-01 — `Establishing Under Media City Qatar`

Thread ID: `19367a1f202d986e`

Participants:

- Roza Rashed Al-Moosafri, `ralmoosafri@mediacity.qa`
- Carol Mezher / Cinemoz, `cmezher@cinemoz.com`
- Maroun Najm, `mnajm@cinemoz.com`
- Karim Safieddine, `ksafieddine@cinemoz.com`

Facts from Roza’s 2024-11-26 email after the in-person meeting:

- To initiate registration, use Qatar Financial Centre setup portal: `https://eservices.qfc.qa/register/`.
- Step 2, company details: in the outline/description section, start with exactly: “establishing a company under Media City Qatar”, then provide a brief company description.
- Step 4, booking a meeting: select “instructions over email” from the drop-down menu.
- After submitting the initial form, an auto-generated email with a reference code will arrive.
- Share the reference code and company name with Roza to activate the application.
- Fees quoted at that time:
  - Application fees: USD 5,000.
  - Annual license fees: USD 5,000.
  - Activity fees: first activity free, corresponding activities USD 50 per activity.
- Roza repeated on 2024-12-01 that the company setup should not wait on her internal review of projects and that she would support the process.

### 2024-11-25 — `Establishing a company under MCQ`

Thread ID: `1936317a5ef0c941`

Relevant context:

- Roza first offered support to establish an LLC under Media City Qatar.
- Meeting options were online or in person.
- In-person meeting location: Tornado Tower, West Bay, Floor 18, Doha, Qatar.
- Planned meeting duration: not longer than 45 minutes.

## Relevant Cultshot commercial / operating threads

### 2026-04 / 2026-05 — `Totally Spies x Cultshot`

Thread ID: `19d4bbf87be5e35b`

Commercial facts:

- Initial roadmap for a Totally Spies marketing model development cycle included text/agent, image model, and video model deliverables.
- Revised cycle-one scope on 2026-04-13:
  - Text model and agent for brief interpretation, shot planning, storyboard prompts, naming rules, workflow orchestration.
  - Image model for key art, closeups, trio compositions, gadgets, locations, promo stills.
  - 15 days for setup/material validation/first pass, then 15 days for refinement/validation/delivery.
  - Fixed fee: USD 12,500.
  - Payment milestones: 30% upfront, 40% on receipt/materials package, 30% on final delivery.
- A formal SOW PDF was sent 2026-05-05 to Laurent Fumeron at IIW.

SOW attachment facts:

- File: `totally-spies-cultshot-iiw-generative-ai-model-development-sow.pdf`.
- Parties in SOW:
  - CULTSCALE LLC (“Cultshot”), represented by Maroun Najm.
  - IMAGE IN WORK (“IIW”), represented by Laurent Fumeron.
- Project: Totally Spies.
- Engagement type: image/keyframe model development.
- Included coverage: up to 6 characters, 5 gadgets/props/objects, and 3 locations, subject to material coverage.
- Fee: USD 12,500 fixed fee.
- Timeline: approximately 30 business days from materials acceptance.
- Output: 16:9 image/keyframe outputs at 720p for image-to-video handoff use.
- Deliverables include trained image/keyframe model weights, configuration files, handoff notes, and material/provenance notes.
- Security terms mention secured infrastructure in Europe, including Hetzner Germany colocation, for storage, training, and processing.

### 2026-04-24 onward — `Totally Spies x Cultshot / recap + specs`

Thread ID: `19dc0f019b5c6151`

Technical / operating facts:

- Cultshot is building a franchise-specific model based on Wan2.2 to output Totally Spies S7 keyframes from a text brief or storyboard.
- Objective is to feed outputs into the video model chosen by the production/VFX partner.
- Training process described as automated: bible → LLM → VLM → dataset → image model → reinforced bible cycle.
- Training records include character identities, visual attributes, gadget names, location, dialogue speaker attribution, shot metadata, captions, and confidence notes.
- Human inspection is part of the dataset quality workflow.
- Training hardware target: about 80 GB total VRAM, 128 GB ECC RAM, 4TB NVMe, Linux/Nix or NixOS, SSH access, 24/7 uptime.
- Inference/ongoing generation expected to need 40–48 GB VRAM.
- Cultshot stated it operates colocated private infrastructure from Hetzner in Europe/Germany and keeps material under direct custody and responsibility.
- IIW/The Project gave access to project material via remote workstation and approved a Syncthing mirror to Cultshot storage.
- By 2026-05-02, `Y:\TOTALLYSPIES` was mirrored to Cultshot storage, approximately 300GB.
- By 2026-05-05, sync and indexing were complete, with additional style guide/background materials expected.

### 2026-03-27 draft — `Cultshot x Totally Spies: AI Model Development and Production Projections (v35)`

Thread ID: `19d2fbda52c4c390`

Financial and business model facts from the draft:

- Cultshot develops and delivers trained models and pipeline tooling.
- Production handles pre-production, direction, music/effects, QC, delivery, and other non-Cultshot production responsibilities.
- Pilot Cultshot fixed-price deliverables in the projection:
  - Visual AI model: USD 20,000.
  - Voice AI model per character: USD 5,000.
  - Visual ingestion module: USD 5,000.
  - Voice pipeline module: USD 5,000.
  - Total Cultshot: USD 35,000.
- Season package projection for 26 episodes including pilot:
  - Total Cultshot: USD 78,000.
  - Season delta covers expanded character roster, about 20 concepts, location library, and video model capacity.
- Add-on pricing in projection: new characters/vehicles/locations at USD 1,500 to USD 3,000 per concept depending on complexity.
- What the client owns at delivery in that draft: usage rights, model weights, pipeline modules, and training artifacts.
- Compliance positioning: training set limited to rights-holder-owned assets, supporting provenance clarity and EU AI Act transparency/documentation alignment.
- Per-episode production projection outside Cultshot: about USD 58,000 per 22-minute episode, including pre-production, episode direction, compute, music/effects, QC/delivery, and contingency.
- Pilot total comparison in draft: Cultshot USD 35,000 + production USD 58,000 = USD 93,000, versus traditional estimate around USD 145,000.
- Season total comparison in draft: Cultshot USD 78,000 + production USD 1,508,000 = USD 1,586,000, versus traditional estimate around USD 3,770,000.
- Platform value claims: near-zero-marginal-cost localization, derivative content, compounding quality, and rapid prototyping.
- Source material needs: episodes, design assets, audio, story bible.
- Timeline indications:
  - Model development for pilot: 6–8 weeks from source materials to delivered validated model/pipeline.
  - Pilot production: 8–10 weeks from model delivery to finished episode.
  - Season model expansion: 3–4 weeks from pilot completion.
  - Season fabrication: 5–8 months for 26 episodes.

## Gaps / needs to confirm

- Whether Cultshot should be incorporated as a new Qatari LLC, branch/subsidiary of Cultscale LLC, or another structure.
- Current MCQ/QFC fees and whether the 2024 fee schedule still applies.
- Correct MCQ activity/activity codes for AI production tech, VFX, post-production, software/pipeline tooling, and media technology.
- Whether AI/media-tech incentives, waivers, or grants currently apply.
- Whether ownership by a Qatari co-founder changes requirements, benefits, or application flow.
- Whether the current SOW can be assigned to a Qatar entity or should remain with Cultscale LLC until incorporation.
- How much financial forecast detail Roza expects at the profile stage.