What is Kosmik?
Kosmik is a visual research workspace where you collect images, links, notes, and videos onto an infinite canvas. The app auto-tags imports, recognizes objects and colors, and surfaces related references from the web so research stops scattering across folders and bookmarks. It is built for designers, art directors, and curious researchers who think in moodboards rather than nested files.
Why Kosmik works
Most reference workflows split between Pinterest tabs, Notion pages, screenshot folders, and Slack messages, which makes the same image impossible to find a week later. Kosmik centralizes the capture and adds semantic tagging on top, so a search for what something looks like returns the actual asset instead of a file name nobody remembers. That removes the manual filing step that quietly eats hours during any creative project.
Kosmik features
- Infinite visual canvas. Drag images, web clips, and notes onto one zoomable surface so the spatial layout becomes part of how the project is organized.
- Auto-tagging on import. Kosmik recognizes objects, subjects, and colors in saved assets so you can find a reference by describing it rather than naming the file.
- AI-assisted moodboards. Type a few keywords and the app pulls related visual material from the web so the first version of a board exists before you start curating.
- Web reference search. Search across saved content and adjacent material online from the same field, so the canvas grows during exploration instead of after.
Who Kosmik is for
- Brand and product designers building moodboards for client kickoffs who need every reference and tag to stay searchable a month later.
- Art directors running multiple campaigns at once who want a single canvas per pitch instead of folders full of screenshots.
- Independent researchers and writers collecting visual references for long-form essays who think in associations rather than file paths.
- Studio leads coordinating juniors on a creative project who want everyone dropping references into the same shared visual space.
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