San Francisco-based digital publishing company Inkitt is expanding its portfolio with the launch of “Ironblood,” a new microdrama application focused entirely on AI-generated action, sci-fi, and superhero content.
Inkitt, which also owns the romance-focused microdrama app CandyJar, emphasizes that Ironblood is the first platform of its kind to target the action genre, which it claims is currently underserved in the vertical video market.
Under the leadership of CEO and founder Ali Albazaz, the company has already released trailers for four upcoming projects ahead of the app’s official launch on July 15, with plans to debut 30 new titles every month. The content for the platform is developed through Inkitt’s proprietary 1,200-feature behavioral model, which identifies stories with blockbuster potential from user manuscripts, and these promising scripts are subsequently transformed into video series using their custom “Cinematic AI” production tool.
Boasting more than 50 million total users across its applications and approximately 1 million paid subscribers, Inkitt reports significant engagement metrics, claiming that each of its web novels generates $1 million in sales every week while users watch around 80 million episodes monthly on CandyJar.
“We’ve proven the model in romance and fantasy to millions of users,” said Ali Albazaz, CEO and founder of Inkitt. “Now we’re taking our operating system into new genres, new formats and new audiences. There is no microdrama app specifically for action, sci-fi, and superheroes. Ironblood is it – and we’re building it entirely with AI.”
