Best AI Creative Agencies in Los Angeles (2026)

This list is published by Melloo, and Melloo is on it. We put ourselves first because this is our blog, and we think we are the right fit for the businesses we work with. Every other company here is a real Los Angeles agency or studio whose work we respect. We link to each one so you can look at their work and decide for yourself.

Los Angeles has become one of the main places where AI meets film, advertising and design. The companies below use AI in very different ways: some make content for local businesses, some make brand films for global companies, and some build original films and series. The right choice depends on what you need made.

1. Melloo

Best for: local and growing businesses that want content, video and the website and CRM behind it from one team.

Melloo is a creative AI agency in Los Angeles. We make AI-powered content, video, animation, branding and ads, then build the website and CRM that turn that attention into booked work. Work is in English and Spanish, and plans are month to month.

• What we make: short-form video, brand films, motion graphics, logo animation, photo shoots, social content, brand identity and ads
• Websites and CRM: the site, the CRM and the customer follow-up as one system
• AI receptionist: every call answered and logged to your CRM
• Our work and pricing
• About Melloo

2. Native Foreign

Best for: brands and studios that want AI-driven storytelling with Hollywood-level craft.

Native Foreign is a woman-owned creative agency and production company based in Culver City. It describes itself as an AI storytelling company that helps brands and Hollywood build worlds, characters and stories. Its work includes the Toys"R"Us brand film made with AI and the AI animated short Critterz, and it also offers AI consultation for brands and agencies.

Website: nativeforeign.co

3. Secret Level

Best for: brands, artists and studios that want AI-native or hybrid live-action entertainment.

Secret Level is an AI-native entertainment studio headquartered in Los Angeles, founded by Emmy-winning filmmaker Jason Zada. It makes original films, series, music projects and branded entertainment, moving between fully AI-native production and hybrid work that blends AI with live action. Its brand work includes projects for Coca-Cola and Raising Cane's.

Website: secretlevel.co

4. Tool

Best for: brands and agencies that need high-end production plus custom AI content pipelines.

Tool (Tool of North America) is a creative production partner with a production office in Santa Monica and headquarters in Torrance. It has been making commercial content since 1995 and has used AI in campaign work since 2016, with an in-house team of AI specialists. Tool builds custom AI pipelines for repeatable content such as product and lifestyle photography, animation and running car footage.

Website: toolofna.com

5. Ayzenberg

Best for: brands that want social-first marketing backed by AI-driven audience insight.

Ayzenberg Group is an independent agency founded in 1993 and based in Pasadena. It describes itself as an AI and social-first, fully integrated brand practice, with long experience in entertainment and video game marketing and an influencer marketing arm.

Website: ayzenberg.com

6. Asteria

Best for: film, television and animation projects that want generative AI used with consent-based training data.

Asteria Film Co. is an artist-led generative AI film and animation studio working out of the historic Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles. Led by co-founder Bryn Mooser, it uses AI alongside traditional animation and visual effects, and it built its own video model with a research partner using licensed footage.

Website: asteriafilm.com

7. Promise

Best for: filmmakers and studios building original films and series with generative AI.

Promise is an AI-native entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, founded by YouTube veterans George Strompolos and Jamie Byrne and AI filmmaker Dave Clark. It develops original films and series in animation, fully generative and hybrid live action, and runs an AI film school for working artists.

Website: promise.ai

How to choose

• You run a local business and need steady content plus the systems behind it: start with an agency that handles both, like Melloo.
• You are a large brand planning a major campaign or brand film: look at Native Foreign, Secret Level or Tool.
• You want social-first marketing and influencer work: look at Ayzenberg.
• You are making a film, series or animated project: look at Asteria or Promise.

Whoever you talk to, ask to see live work, ask who owns the finished files, and get the scope and timeline in writing before anything starts.

Want to see if Melloo fits? Book a 15-minute call or look at our work.