Lens Cap Labs
Frame37 · a local AI photo app
Picture
your dream.
Frame37 runs on your own computer. It fixes the photos you have and makes the ones you missed, learning how you see from your own library. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is metered.
Join the waitlistA local, private AI photo editor you own outright.
Local AI
The computer on your desk is enough.
The model runs where the pictures are. No queue, no outage, and it works with the network off.
Read morePrivacy
Some pictures are not for a machine you have never met.
Nothing is uploaded, and what is made is marked as made.
Read morePersonalization
Not the average of everyone. You.
It learns how you see from the photographs you already have.
Read moreOwnership
A tool you own, not one you rent.
What it learns about you is a file on your disk. Bought once, like a lens.
Read moreAgentic
Let the machine do the work. You pick what you like.
It sorts, fixes and tries things overnight, with no limit on how much it tries.
Read moreShow, don't tell
A picture is worth a thousand words. Do you really want to type a thousand of them?
That is what generating an image has come to mean: a paragraph of adjectives, a wait, a result that is almost right, and another paragraph to fix the part that was not. You type and hope. Then you type again.
A photograph should not be argued into existence. Put the pieces where they belong. Paint over what should change and leave alone what was right. Slide until it looks like what you meant. The picture is the instruction, and the frustration goes away, because you are no longer describing what you want. You are doing it.
I
Fixing is the first thing. Making is the second.
Once something has learned your way of seeing, it can do the ordinary work the way you would: straighten the horizon you would have straightened, warm the skin you would have warmed, leave alone what you would have left alone.
And it can go one step further. It can make the picture that was not taken, of people and places it knows, in light you have shot a hundred times. Not an image of someone. An image of them, the way you see them.
II
Keep the subject. Change everything else.
The dog stays the dog. Everything that went wrong around him goes away.
About
Lens Cap Labs
Lens Cap Labs brings together people who rarely share a room: scientists and engineers, designers and artists, photographers and videographers. Each arrived from a different corner of the craft, carrying a different kind of expertise, and all of them chose to work on a single question.
What would photo tools look like if they ran on your own machine, kept your pictures to yourself, learned your taste, and belonged to you outright? That question is our mission, and Frame37 is our first answer to it.
We are based in Plano, Texas.
Founder
Dr. Suraj Raghuraman
Lens Cap Labs was founded in 2026 by Dr. Suraj Raghuraman, who spent six and a half years at Topaz Labs in Dallas, most recently as Head of AI Engine, the senior technical executive responsible for the on-device inference engine behind Topaz Photo AI, Video AI and Gigapixel AI, and for the company's engineering partnerships with NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple and Microsoft.
Emmy Award
Named by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as a significant contributor to the 2025 Technology and Engineering Emmy for AI image and video enhancement in high-quality TV catalog restoration. Work from the engine has screened at SXSW and aired on HBO and Disney.
Research
PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas on interactive 3D tele-immersion. More than twenty peer-reviewed publications, over 250 citations, a Best Student Paper award at ACM Multimedia 2017, and research cited in two United States patents.
Industry
Member of the Intel AI Architecture Review Board and the NVIDIA Developer Council. His engine has been showcased at CES, GTC, Microsoft Build, Computex and the Snapdragon Summit, and is used by NVIDIA to benchmark new RTX GPUs.
In the press
Quoted in the launches of Windows ML, TensorRT for RTX and the Intel AI PC Acceleration Program, and in case studies from NVIDIA and AMD on running diffusion models on consumer hardware.
The through-line is one problem: making state-of-the-art AI run fast on the computer you already own. Frame37 is that problem applied to your photographs.
FAQ
Common questions
What is Frame37?
Frame37 is a local AI photo app from Lens Cap Labs. It catalogs the photos on your computer, learns your style, your people and your places from them, fixes photos the way you would have, and generates the photos you never took.
Does Frame37 upload my photos?
No. Learning, editing and generation all run on your own computer. Nothing is sent to a server, and the app works with the network off.
Is Frame37 a subscription?
No. Frame37 is sold under a perpetual license. You buy it once, own it, and there are no tokens, credits or usage limits.
What platforms does Frame37 run on?
Frame37 is being built for all platforms, running on the GPU or neural hardware already in your machine.
How is Frame37 different from cloud AI photo editors?
Cloud editors send your pictures to a generic model on someone else's server and meter every attempt. Frame37 learns from your own library, keeps everything on your disk, and lets the machine try as many times as it needs.
When can I get Frame37?
Join the waitlist on this page and we will tell you when there is something to see.
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