# Cards and models What a card on a Studio board shows, and its editor: how many it makes, the model each of its stages runs on, its inputs, its settings and its direction. ![The Images card open in its editor beside the board: Generate · Image, Images, the Setup and Results tabs, Variations, 2 per overlay × 3 overlays = 6, and Models with Art direction on Gemini 3.7 Flash, Render on Nano Banana 2 and Text check on Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/editor.29d930b9.avif) Every card that makes something has the same parts, on the board and in its editor. Press a card to open its editor beside the board; **Expand**, at its top right, gives it the whole screen, with its settings and its results side by side. ## What you can do here - [Build a board](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/build-a-board): Start a Studio board from a starter flow or from nothing, put cards on it from Add or your Library, wire them together, and let Auto layout keep it in order. - [Run a board and control its cost](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/run-and-cost): Run one card, a card and what follows, a selection or the whole board; read what it should cost and set the most it may spend; then stop, finish or retry it. - [Images and video](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/images-and-video): The Images and Videos cards' settings: formats, ratios, on-image text, start frames and length, what each model can do, and refining an image. ## The card on the board From the top: what it makes, as in **Generate · Hook**, and its name, which you can change with a double-click; its status; the inputs it takes, each with what is wired into it; how many it makes, with **Fewer** and **More** beside **×3**; its results; and at its foot, the model it runs on with what a run should cost, and the button that runs it. ### Status | The card reads | It means | | --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Not run** | Ready, and nothing made yet. | | **Needs angle**, or the name of another input | A required input has nothing wired into it. | | **Choose a model**, **Choose 3 models** | A stage has no model yet. Nothing runs on a model you did not pick. | | **Choose a ratio** | The model it renders on cannot make the ratio the card asks for. | | **3/9** | Running: three of its nine results are done. | | **6** | Done: the number of results it made. | | **6 of 12** | Unfinished: a stop or a failure left some of its results unmade. | | **Outdated** | Its inputs, its settings or what they carry changed since its last run. | | **Stopped**, **Failed** | Its last run made nothing: it was stopped first, or every result failed. | | **$1.75 cap** | Its last run stopped at its spending cap. | | **2 products**, or another clash | Its inputs stand on different products, offers, angles or casts. See [When inputs disagree](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/wires-and-context#when-inputs-disagree). | ### The button at its foot **Run** runs the card, and the cards before it that have nothing to give it yet. After a run it reads **Run again**, **Re-run** when the card is outdated, and **Finish** when a run left it unfinished: Finish makes only what is missing. While it runs, **Stop** stops this card alone. See [Run a board and control its cost](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/run-and-cost). ## Setup The editor opens on **Setup**, in this order. ### Variations How many results the card makes, and, once something is wired into its main input, how that count multiplies: **3 per angle — wire more to fan out**, or **2 per overlay × 3 overlays = 6**. Each kind of card has its own range: up to 10 for copy and strategy, 8 for images, 4 for videos and pages, 3 for research. See [How many a card makes](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/wires-and-context#how-many-a-card-makes). ### Models One picker for each stage of the card that calls a model. No model is picked for you: a new card reads **One stage needs a model — nothing runs on one you didn’t pick.**, and once every stage has one, **Each stage runs on the model you picked, on your own key.** ![Models for an Images card: Art direction on Gemini 3.7 Flash at $1.5/$7.5, Render on Nano Banana 2 at $0.067 an image, and Text check, marked Optional, on Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/models.dfd5614f.avif) | Card | Its stages | | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Copy, avatars, angles, actors, offers | **Model**, which writes every variation | | Research | **Research engine**; Omnymous' own engine adds a **Driver**, the text model that plans the searches | | Voice of customer | **Driver**, which writes the analysis, and **Screening**, which sorts the reviews first | | Images | **Art direction**, **Render** and **Text check**, which reads the rendered text back and repaints once if it came out wrong | | Videos | **Script** and **Render** | | Pages | **Copy**, which fills the template, and **Images**, which paints its image slots | Press a picker to choose. Models are grouped by provider, with their price and what they can do, such as **Vision**, **Reasoning** or **Reference photos**; a model with a limit says so, as in **Won’t animate a photo of a person**. A provider without a key reads **Add a key**. **Text check** is optional: **Off** skips it. ![The Model picker of a Hooks card, opened on its pick: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5, ticked, each with its price per million tokens and Vision · Reasoning](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/picker.80f084c8.avif) When the board holds other cards of the same kind, **Use for all hooks** (or images, or videos) gives them this card's picks. ### Inputs Each input the card takes, with what it is for. **Required** marks the ones it cannot run without, and **· one** the ones that take a single item. **Add** beside an input offers **From library** or **Generate new**; the item lands on the board as a card of its own, wired in. ![Add on an input of the Images card: From library and Generate new above a search of the Library and the items that fit it](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/add.1a76e415.avif) An input filled through another input reads **Carried**, with where it came from, such as **from the hook**. An item already on the board that fits an input is offered beside it, with **Use**. ![Inputs of an Images card: Angle, Carried, The 3am Economy from the hook; Overlay, with Hooks wired in; Product, Carried, Daily Greens Superblend from the hook](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/inputs.249898a2.avif) ### Context Everything the results stand on, carried in by the inputs all the way back: the angle, the avatar, the research and the product. Wire an input yourself to choose one of them explicitly. See [Wires and context](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/wires-and-context). ### Direct For a card that makes more than one result, the tabs choose what the settings below it apply to: **All 6** for every variation, or one variation by its number. A variation with settings of its own reads **directed on its own**, and **Reset** gives it back the card's. ### Settings and creative direction The settings of the kind of item the card makes, such as a hook's **Hook Type** or an image's **Format**. A field left on **Auto — AI decides** is the model's call; a field you fill is enforced on every variation. **Creative direction** is free text that applies to every variation; a brief wired into the card rides ahead of it. ### The editor's foot How many the card makes and what they should cost, as in **6 images · ≈$0.86**, with the reason when it cannot run, such as **Choose a model for every stage to run**. **From here** runs the card and every card after it; **Run** runs the card. ## Results **Results**, beside Setup, holds what the take on the card made. A kept result is what the cards after it are built from: press a result's tick to drop it, or **Keep all** and **Drop all** for the whole take. **Takes** lists every run of the card, newest first, with what it kept and cost; the one marked is the take the board uses. ![Results of the Images card: Take 7 · 6 results, with Keep all and Drop all above six images, each ticked and labelled with the hook it prints; then Takes, every run of the card from 7 down to 1, the active one marked, each with what it kept, its model and cost, take 5 stopped at its $1.75 cap](https://docs.omnymous.com/media/generation/studio/cards-and-models/results.7cd67c6b.avif) Press a result to open it: what it was made from, its settings, its own direction, and, for an image, **Refine**, which edits it on a model you choose. See [Images and video](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/images-and-video#refine-an-image). ## Questions ### Why does a new card ask for a model when I already picked one on another card? Studio never picks a model for you, and each card keeps its own picks. To give every card of the same kind the same models, open one, pick its models, and press **Use for all hooks** (or images, or videos). ### Where do I see what a card cost? Its foot shows what its next run should cost. What runs really cost is in the [Runs view](https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/runs), and each item's own cost in its panel in the Library, under [How it was made](https://docs.omnymous.com/library/inspector#how-it-was-made). --- Source: https://docs.omnymous.com/generation/studio/cards-and-models