Stages AI launches redesigned Production OS site ahead of its March 11 beta intake

The redesign is not just cosmetic. Dustin tied it to two adjacent properties, NAKID.io and NAKID Pictures, and framed this week as the handoff from open submissions to a curated beta cohort. His post says residency submissions close just before March 11, when approved artists receive beta details and onboarding info beta timing.

The official STAGES page now reads like a selective intake funnel rather than a waitlist. The residency page describes The 100 as a cross-discipline residency spanning filmmaking, AI art, 3D, animation, design, music, writing, and games, with portfolio review, project intent, collaboration terms, and IP compliance built into the application.

The clearest product description still comes from Dustin’s launch materials: STAGES is pitched as a “production OS” that plans, generates, orchestrates, and ships multimodal work in one environment. The slides in platform overview describe a system for routing jobs across image, video, audio, and language models while tracking assets, continuity, and cost.

The technical framing goes further in the white paper summary, which surfaces a large internal registry of model mappings, billable services, endpoints, backend handlers, and pricing variations. Another clue is the local workflow doc shown in Blender guide, which references STAGES Connect, a Blender bridge, and OpenClaw runtime support for desktop setup and sync.

Dustin’s March 22 masterclass is being run entirely inside STAGES, with three months of access and automatic inclusion in The 100 residency offered to attendees masterclass post. That makes the class part education product, part live demo of the workflows he wants artists to use for prompt design, consistency, and review.

The more forward-looking reveal is “STAGES: BLACK MAMBA.” Dustin describes it as a sleeker, fully agent-driven version of the OS where the filmmaker, designer, or artist stays at the curation layer and delegated agents execute underneath Black Mamba tease. If the current beta is about proving the production layer, Black Mamba looks like the attempt to abstract that layer into an art-director-first interface.