Press Kit

ZSky AI is a free AI creative platform offering press kit. Generate HD video with synchronized audio in 30 seconds (1080p on Pro/Ultra, 4K on Max), or images in 2 seconds. unlimited free generation, ad-supported, no credit card required, HD video with synced audio on the free tier (1080p on Pro/Ultra, 4K on Max); free-tier output (videos AND images) carries a small 'MADE WITH / zsky.ai' wordmark plate, full commercial use on every plan. Self-hosted on a privately owned fleet of NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs in the United States.

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The 30-second pitch

ZSky AI is a free AI video and image generator built by a photographer with aphantasia who healed from a traumatic brain injury through creative work. It runs on a privately owned fleet of NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs the founder owns personally, in his United States workstation. The free tier is permanent: unlimited generation on the free tier, 100 every day, 1080p video with synchronized audio in 30 seconds, 1080p videos with audio, free tier with signup. ZSky has 115,000+ creators gained in 4 months without paid advertising. Paid tiers start at $19/month (ad-free).

Why this is a story

• Aphantasia + AI is a documented research frontier. Cemhan cannot picture images in his mind. He built the visual tool he needed. There are an estimated 12-40 million people with aphantasia worldwide and they have almost no media coverage.
• TBI recovery through creative work is a published neuroplasticity finding. The act of composing photographs literally rebuilt Cemhan's neural pathways after a traumatic brain injury that took his words for almost a year. The camera was his therapy.
• Self-hosted independent AI is a 2026 trend story. Sora shut down April 26 2026. Grok paywalled its free tier in March 2026. Runway killed free video in late 2025. ZSky is one of the only AI image+video tools where the founder personally owns the GPUs the inference runs on.
• Mission-driven free-forever AI is the anti-slop counter-narrative. Merriam-Webster named "slop" the 2025 word of the year. Marvel and Comic-Con banned AI submissions. ZSky's pitch is "made BY humans, with AI as the brush, never the author."
• Built without VC. Bootstrapped, founder-owned, no investors, no exit pressure, no algorithmic optimization for retention metrics. The free tier is generous because the founder believes creativity is a right, not a luxury.

Founder bio (long)

Cemhan Biricik is an American photographer and the founder of ZSky AI. He has aphantasia — the inability to voluntarily form mental images — and survived a traumatic brain injury that took his words for almost a year. Photography rebuilt the neural pathways the injury had broken, an example of neuroplasticity through creative work. The camera was the first tool that let him externalize his ideas, because as someone with aphantasia he could not picture them in his mind first.

When AI image generation matured, Cemhan recognized it as the most important accessibility tool of the decade for people who cannot visualize. He bought a privately owned fleet of NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs GPUs and built ZSky AI in his workstation in the United States — a free video and image generator with 1080p output, synchronized audio, 1080p videos with audio, and free tier with signup. Within four months it reached 115,000+ creators without any paid advertising.

Cemhan's mission is straightforward: "Everyone has the right to create beauty. From cave walls to pencils to cameras to AI — the same voice of creativity, in a new medium. I built ZSky so nobody else would have to pay $20 a month to make something they imagined."

Founder bio (one-line)

Cemhan Biricik is the founder of ZSky AI. He is an American photographer with aphantasia who healed from a traumatic brain injury through creative work, and built ZSky on a privately owned fleet of NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs he owns personally because he believes creativity is a right, not a luxury.

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Story angles we love

• "AI as accessibility." What aphantasia, TBI, and visual cortex damage have in common, and why generative AI is the most underreported accessibility breakthrough of the decade.
• "The Sora refugee story." What happens to free AI users when VC subsidies run out, and which tools survive.
• "Made by humans, with AI." The anti-slop counter-narrative — how to use AI without becoming the thing creators are protesting.
• "Owned hardware, not rented cloud." The economics of self-hosted AI in 2026 and why bootstrapped indie builders are outlasting VC-backed peers.
• "The 1 Million Minds Eye Initiative." Free lifetime access for people with aphantasia, TBI, and visual cortex damage. A parallel to ElevenLabs' 1 Million Voices.
• "Why South Asia is 80% of signups." The global creator economy isn't where Silicon Valley thinks it is.

Helpful URLs

• Homepage: zsky.ai
• Mission: zsky.ai/mission.html
• Manifesto: zsky.ai/human-made-with-ai.html
• 1 Million Minds Eye: zsky.ai/one-million-minds-eye.html
• Sora Refugee Program: zsky.ai/sora-refugee.html
• Made in USA: zsky.ai/made-in-usa-ai.html
• Pricing: zsky.ai/pricing.html
• Compare hub: zsky.ai/compare/
• Founder website: cemhanbiricik.com

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