# Fovea, the reviewer beside ROUTIX

> Fovea checks every picture the chat makes against your source and your request, and sends back a take that does not hold up — before it is built on.

In every chat, ROUTIX does not work alone. Beside it sits **Fovea** — a second agent whose only job is to look. ROUTIX makes; Fovea checks. Every picture the chat makes on the way to your video — a reference sheet, a frame, a storyboard — is held up against your source and against what you asked for, before anything is built on it.

The name is the eye's own: the fovea is the small point at the back of the eye where sight is sharpest. That is the look Fovea brings to each take.

## What you see

- **Fovea Agent** — the title on Fovea's notes in the chat, with an open eye. Under it, one short line about what it found, for example *"Strong take — it holds up against the source."* or *"One thing I could refine next take: …"*.
- While it looks, a frame reads *"Fovea is reviewing this frame"*, and the chat's steps say *"Checking this against the source"*.
- When a take needs another pass: *"Preparing another take"*, and the frame card says *"Fovea reviewed this frame against its target — running a refined take."*
- On the key frame of a build, Fovea takes *"One extra careful look at the key frame."*
- In the reading of your video, the chapter **Continuity — What stayed true** is Fovea's. It says **Fovea Agent realized** when it is done.
- Fovea's full working notes live in **Routix Mind**, beside the chat.

Fovea never pretends. When it could not judge a take, it says so — *"No read on this take — I'm not calling it either way."* — and the frame is marked **Not verified**, rather than passed.

## What Fovea does for you

It depends on how you let ROUTIX run (see [Blind and Blink](https://routix.studio/help/chat/blind-and-blink)):

- **Blind** (the default): a take that does not hold up is never handed over as finished. ROUTIX makes a refined take on its own, and you see *"Preparing another take"* while it does. You do not have to do anything.
- **Blink**: Fovea's read is advice. ROUTIX stops, shows you the take with *"Fovea's read: …"*, and your word decides. If you approve a take Fovea had doubts about, it is accepted and the work goes on.

Fovea's look has no price of its own. A new take is a new picture, priced like any picture the chat makes — and like every picture, it is kept only when it is delivered.

## How strictly Fovea judges

You choose how readily Fovea sends a take back.

1. In the composer, press the eye button — it reads **ROUTIX decides**, or the choices you made.
2. In **How I'll make this**, find the last slider: **How strictly Fovea judges**, from **Forgiving** to **Unsparing**.
3. Pick a level. The line under the slider says what it means.

| Level | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **Lenient** | *"A take is only sent back when Fovea answers that a difference makes it a different thing."* |
| **Standard** | *"Fovea's everyday judgment — an unresolved doubt can still send a take back."* This is where every chat starts. |
| **Exacting** | *"Same bar as Standard, and what Fovea noticed but let pass is spoken in its line instead of staying in its notes."* |

Your choice is kept for that chat and applies from Fovea's next look. **Exacting** does not make more takes or cost more — it only tells you more. The slider is ready once the chat exists (after your first message).

## Frequently asked questions

### Does Fovea cost extra?

No. Its look has no price of its own. Only a new take costs anything, priced like any picture the chat makes.

### Can I overrule Fovea?

Yes. Switch the chat to **Blink** and every take waits for your word: **Approve** accepts it, even if Fovea had doubts.

### Does Fovea judge my battles in Studio?

No. Fovea works in the chat. In Studio's **Eye to eye**, the takes stand side by side and you are the judge.

Source: https://routix.studio/help/chat/fovea · Updated 2026-10-20