Media & Entertainment

Media companies often own more content than they can find, package, license, or monetize. We automate the rights, metadata, and production operations that turn a content library into a working business.

Where media operations get stuck

The library grows faster than the systems that manage it.

  • Content archives nobody can search by topic, talent, or rights status
  • Transcripts and subtitles generated by hand or outsourced and slow
  • Rights and licensing records spread across spreadsheets and emails
  • Royalty calculations done manually and late
  • Sponsor deliverables tracked in a note that someone forgot to update
  • Publishing across YouTube, podcast, web, and social handled piece by piece

Results That Matter

Real impact from automation solutions delivering measurable business value

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Canadian
Owned & Hosted

For controlled IP and sensitive content

3-8 wks
Typical Timeline

From discovery to a working automation

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Any
DAM / CMS

We work with your existing library and tools

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Logged
Every Asset

Clean metadata and rights trail per asset

Key Features & Benefits

Comprehensive automation solutions designed specifically for your industry

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Asset Tagging & Metadata Enrichment

Auto-generate descriptive metadata — topics, people, places, products, moods — against your taxonomy, so archives become searchable by what's actually in them.

  • Vision + speech + text analysis
  • Mapped to your controlled taxonomy
  • Review queue for edge cases
  • Pushed into DAM / CMS

Transcript & Subtitle Workflow

High-quality transcripts and subtitles generated from your library, with accuracy review, speaker identification, and translation — ready for publishing or licensing.

  • Multi-language transcription
  • Speaker identification
  • Subtitle formatting (SRT, VTT)
  • Editor review queue
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Rights & Licensing Database

Rights, licenses, and restrictions captured in a structured database linked to every asset — with renewal alerts, territory filtering, and usage logs.

  • Asset-level rights records
  • Renewal and expiry alerts
  • Territory and use-case filtering
  • Usage history per license

Royalty Calculation Support

Pull from distribution reports, sponsorships, and licensing data to support royalty calculations — with a full audit trail so the numbers are defensible.

  • Multi-source data aggregation
  • Rate-card and contract application
  • Exception queue for ambiguous splits
  • Audit trail per payee

Sponsorship Deliverable Tracking

Sponsorship and brand-partnership commitments tracked per deliverable, per platform, per asset — with auto-generated proof-of-performance reports.

  • Deliverable tracking per contract
  • Platform-linked verification
  • Proof-of-performance reports
  • Renewal readiness flags
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Multi-Platform Publishing Pipeline

One source of truth for an episode, a video, or a post — published across YouTube, podcast, web, and social with platform-specific formatting and scheduling.

  • Single source, multi-destination
  • Platform-specific formatting
  • Scheduling and embargoes
  • Cross-post analytics consolidation

Automation workflows we build

Reusable patterns we adapt to your specific tools and processes

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Asset tagger

Vision + speech analysis pushed to your DAM taxonomy.

Transcript workflow

Multi-language transcripts with speaker ID and review.

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Subtitle pipeline

SRT / VTT generation for every long-form asset.

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Rights database

Per-asset licenses with renewals and territory rules.

Royalty calculator

Distribution + licensing data to defensible payouts.

Sponsorship tracker

Deliverables per contract with POP reports.

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Publishing pipeline

One episode out to YouTube, podcast, web, and social.

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Archive search

Semantic search across transcripts and metadata.

Transform Your Challenges Into Opportunities

See how automation solves common industry pain points

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Problem

Archive content nobody can find because metadata is thin

Solution

Auto-tagging against your taxonomy with review queue for edge cases

Problem

Transcripts are a bottleneck for publishing and licensing

Solution

Transcription + speaker identification + editor review in one workflow

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Problem

Rights questions take hours to answer

Solution

Structured rights database with territory and use-case filters

Problem

Royalty statements arrive late and get disputed

Solution

Automated aggregation with audit trail per payee

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Problem

Publishing the same episode to every platform takes a day

Solution

One source of truth, platform-specific formatting, scheduled delivery

The Transformation

See the difference automation makes

Before Automation

  • Archive searches fail because metadata is thin
  • Transcripts done manually or slowly outsourced
  • Rights looked up by asking a colleague
  • Royalties calculated late in spreadsheets
  • Sponsorship POP reports assembled by hand
  • Publishing to each platform is a separate task

After Automation

  • Archive searchable by topic, talent, rights
  • Transcripts and subtitles produced continuously
  • Rights answered from a structured database
  • Royalty data aggregated with audit trail
  • POP reports ready per sponsor
  • Single publish action lands everywhere it should

Systems we connect for media

The stack that runs a modern media operation.

DAM & Archives
Bynder Frame.io Brightcove Custom DAMs Cloud storage (R2, S3, GCS)
Publishing Platforms
YouTube Podcast hosts (Megaphone, Transistor, Buzzsprout) CMS (WordPress, Contentful, Sanity) Social APIs
Rights & Licensing
Rights databases Contract management tools Spreadsheet libraries Legal review tooling
Financials
QuickBooks Xero Royalty accounting tools Distribution reports

Don't see your system? If it has an API, a CSV export, or an email inbox, we can probably work with it.

AI with guardrails

We use AI for messy information. We use deterministic automation for actual business execution. Every workflow is controlled, logged, and reviewable.

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Human-Reviewed Tagging

Auto-tags go through a review queue before becoming canonical metadata on high-value assets.

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Rights-Aware Publishing

Publishing actions check rights metadata and halt when a territory or use-case conflicts.

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Canadian / Private Hosting

Pre-release and IP-sensitive content stays in private infrastructure with private model endpoints.

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Audit Trail

Every metadata change, rights lookup, and publish action logged for royalty and legal review.

Why Choose Us

Built on expertise, trust, and proven results

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We Automate Operations, Not Creative

We don't replace editors, writers, or producers. We make sure the content they make is tagged, rights-cleared, searchable, and monetized.

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Rights-Aware By Default

Every automated workflow respects the rights metadata per asset — no accidental re-publishing or territory violations.

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Private IP Hosting

Canadian-hosted options with private model endpoints for sensitive IP, pre-release content, and controlled archives.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will AI tag our archive badly and ruin our metadata?

Auto-tagging runs against your taxonomy, not a generic one. For high-value assets, tags land in a review queue before they become canonical metadata. For bulk archive material, tolerance is usually higher. You decide the review threshold per collection.

Does this integrate with our DAM?

Yes. We integrate with Bynder, Frame.io, Brightcove, cloud storage (R2, S3, GCS), and custom DAMs. Your DAM stays your system of record — we enrich and sync metadata rather than asking you to migrate.

Can you handle rights and licensing without getting something wrong?

Rights workflows are deterministic — we don't let LLMs interpret contracts autonomously. The model extracts proposed rights terms from contracts for legal review, and the structured rights database is what publishing and licensing workflows actually check against.

What about pre-release and sensitive IP?

We deploy on Canadian-hosted or private infrastructure with private model endpoints for pre-release, unreleased, or IP-sensitive content. Data doesn't flow to public AI APIs unless you explicitly authorize it.

Can we publish once and distribute everywhere?

Yes. One source of truth per asset publishes to YouTube, podcast host, CMS, and social with platform-specific formatting, thumbnails, and scheduling. Analytics from each platform come back into a consolidated view.

Turn The Archive Into A Working Business

Let's map the metadata, rights, or publishing workflow that's underusing your content and build an automation that unlocks it.