Sekondo Launches Plugin to Automate Adobe Tasks with Claude or ChatGPT

Sekondo, a software development company based in Córdoba, Spain, has launched a groundbreaking plugin that allows users to automate tasks in Adobe applications by simply talking to Claude or ChatGPT. The plugin, named Sekondo, is set to go on sale on September 30, 2026, and users can reserve a seat for free at the company’s website.

The idea for Sekondo came from Jose Manuel Fernández, a seasoned graphic designer with over three decades of experience. As the head of Colectivo Zulú, a studio for graphic design, 3D architectural visualization, and digital set design, Fernández has faced the repetitive and time-consuming tasks that designers often encounter.

Sekondo connects Claude or ChatGPT to six Adobe applications, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Classic. The plugin works by reading the structure of the document, making necessary changes, and allowing the professional to sign off on the work.

The plugin's capabilities are impressive. It can generate an 18-page brand identity manual in Illustrator, retouch 125 photos in Photoshop in just over two minutes, translate a 12-page brochure frame by frame, animate a manual without keyframes, edit a conference highlights reel from 80 raw clips, and develop 72 photos in Lightroom Classic, each with its own settings. The plugin can work in several apps simultaneously, with one assistant in each.

Sekondo will be available for purchase on September 30, 2026. The plugin will run on macOS and Windows, and users will need a subscription to Claude or ChatGPT to get started.

Fernández's vision is to help designers and creatives save time and focus on the creative process. With Sekondo, designers can automate repetitive tasks and have more time to innovate and bring their ideas to life.

The plugin's development began with a layout artist's habit of leaving eye-catching notes on pages to remember what was still pending, such as "caption missing" or "contents don't match." The first thing Fernández asked Sekondo to do was read these notes. From there, he kept widening what it could do, job by job, on his studio's real work.

Today, as the demos on its website show, Sekondo builds an 18-page brand identity manual in Illustrator from the palette and the logo. In Photoshop, it watches the designer retouch the first photo of a jewellery catalogue and does the remaining 124, at one second per photo. In InDesign, it translates a 12-page brochure frame by frame, each text keeping its own style, without breaking the layout. In After Effects, it animates that same manual without a single keyframe. In Premiere Pro, it edits a conference highlights reel from 80 raw clips, with its titles and music. And in Lightroom Classic, it develops 72 photos, each with its own settings. Those same videos were edited, subtitled, and rendered with Sekondo itself.

Unlike tools that generate a new image, Sekondo mostly works with what already exists: it reads how the document is built, measures before touching anything, and makes its changes on it. The professional decides and signs off; Sekondo does the work. It runs on the user’s own computer, on macOS and Windows, with the Claude or ChatGPT subscription they already have, and it can work in several apps at once, with one assistant in each.

"I built it for myself first," says Fernández.