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    Ch. 07 · What we deliberately didn't build

    The brand holds
    because of what
    it says no to

    Roadmaps tell you what a company will do later. No-lists tell you what it will refuse, in public, signed. This is ours. If we ever cross any of these lines, you can point at this page.

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    • No thumbnail image generation.

      Wrong category. Creators who care already have Photoshop / Canva.

    • No production tools. No NLE exports.

      We stop at the screenplay. Shot lists, scheduling, EDL / FCPXML / Premiere XML — those belong in the production tool the writer hands the script to, not the writing tool itself.

    • No one-click scene generation. Ever.

      The hardest line to hold. Crossing it would make us a replacement, not an amplifier. The words are the writer’s.

    • No auto-apply on AI suggestions.

      Every output is a proposal. The writer accepts, edits, or discards. Nothing lands in your draft without your hand on it.

    • No Arabic / mainland China through 2030.

      RTL + dialectal complexity is a 3–4 week tax per feature; mainland China is a parallel legal + infrastructure build. Both deferred deliberately.

    • No native CapCut project writer.

      Undocumented format, against ToS. Clipboard-friendly export instead.

    It's nothing without the writer. We mean it every time.

    The full reasoning lives in the manifesto. The four vows are here. The data commitments are at /trust.

    A tool that stays
    out of your way

    Get in line for launch. We'll email you when the doors open.

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    signed 2026-04-26 · arqo founders & acting CEOarqo