Every asset has a spine. Give yours a signal.
Spine & Signal is a Media Asset Management platform for anyone with a growing library of video, audio and stills to organise — from decades-deep broadcast archives to the fast-moving footage pipeline behind a YouTube channel or studio. Search, structure, encode and govern it all from one modern system.
Built for archives, broadcasters & content pipelines. One platform, two ways to run it.
Most MAM systems age the way their browsers did.
A media library — broadcast archive or content channel — is built to outlive the software it's catalogued in. That's the problem — the software rarely outlives the browser plugins it was built on.
Dead on arrival
Embedded players and editors built on ActiveX, Flash or Silverlight simply don't load in a current browser — features that worked for a decade can go dark overnight.
Unenforced access
"Permission tags" that only hide a button aren't access control — if the underlying action isn't re-checked server-side, anyone who can reach the URL can perform it.
Fragile credentials
Plaintext, unhashed passwords in a decades-old user table are a liability every day they're live, not just at audit time.
One library, six disciplines.
Spine & Signal isn't a single screen bolted onto an old database. It's a modern web application, a governed API layer, and a fleet of media-intelligence services that understand audio, video and stills the way an archivist — or an editor — does.
Search built on real structure
Not a keyword box bolted onto a title field — structured search across every content type your library actually holds, from raw footage to a published cut.
- Per-type predicate search — masters, versions, stems, stills, generic audio & video, and more
- Full-text phrase search across synced metadata
- Searches save as reusable, reopenable queries — build once, hand off to the team
Every asset, fully instrumented
Open any recording and see it the way an engineer would — down to the waveform.
- Interactive waveform playback direct from source media
- Edit-decision-list & segment editing across physical/logical versions of a recording
- Full structure & relations — parents, members, links — at a glance
Archive-grade audio, verified
Encoding that checks its own work, and analysis deep enough to trust unattended.
- FLAC / MP3 / AAC encoding with bit-exact 24-bit preservation & built-in integrity verification
- Large-format (>4GB) WAV handling with corrupt-header repair
- Automatic track-boundary & scene segmentation, speech/music classification
- Spoken-language identification for unlabelled recordings
Vision, not just storage
The same rigor applied to video and stills — probing, editing proxies, transcription and quality QC, ready whether you're publishing to broadcast or to a channel.
- Automatic proxy generation for editing, plus scene-detected keyframes for chapter markers & thumbnails
- Full speech-to-text transcription with timecodes, automatically matched to each detected shot
- Broadcast-grade QC in a single pass — black/frozen/silent-frame detection plus EBU R128 loudness
- OCR text extraction with automatic language detection
- Face detection, near-duplicate detection (perceptual hash + AI semantic similarity)
- No-reference image quality scoring — flag soft, noisy or low-quality stills automatically
Run it like an instrument panel
Queues, processes and endpoints — visible and controllable, not hidden behind a server console.
- Live queue-message admin — filter, resubmit, and track failures by process
- Process & workflow visibility with active-instance counts
- Endpoint topology & live system health monitoring
Access that's actually enforced
Built the way the "why teams switch" problems above should have been solved from day one.
- Single sign-on via your existing directory (Windows AD / Kerberos)
- Role-gated administrative surfaces, not just hidden buttons
- Structured, queryable audit trail on every automated processing step
The analysis behind it
The transcripts, speakers, shots, OCR and quality checks that fill these records are produced by our own analyzers — described under Media Intelligence.
One backend, two jobs
An archive asks what it already has. A production house asks what ships today. Both questions need the same thing underneath: material that knows what it is, what is in it, and whether you may use it.
Archives and rights departments
What do we already have, and may we use it?
- Catalogue identity per asset — real ids, ancestry, provenance — not a folder tree of filenames
- Transcripts, segments, fingerprints and tags written back as ordinary metadata, so search reaches inside the recording
- Rights and usage as data, ready for reporting instead of a spreadsheet note
Production houses and creators
What do we ship today, and may we publish it?
- One master id ties a story across print, web, social and every language version
- Ingest from partners anywhere, without handing anyone access to your storage
- Analysis on ingest — transcript, scenes, embeddings — so today's cut is assembled from what you already shot
- Default deny where rights are unclear, a human approval gate before anything publishes, and sensitive location data stripped from public derivatives
Cloud-managed, or installed on your own infrastructure.
Same platform, same feature set — the difference is who operates it. Archives with strict data-residency or air-gapped requirements typically choose Installation; teams who'd rather we carry the operational load choose SaaS.
Spine & Signal Cloud
We host, patch, and scale the platform. You point your media storage and your directory at us and start cataloguing.
- Managed upgrades — no maintenance windows for you to plan
- Elastic capacity for encoding & analysis workloads at peak ingest
- Fastest path from decision to first indexed asset
- Security & SSO onboarding included from day one
Spine & Signal On-Prem
We install and configure the platform inside your own infrastructure, alongside your existing storage and directory services.
- Full data residency — nothing leaves your network
- Fits air-gapped, regulated, or broadcast-specific network requirements
- Your own team operates it after a guided handover
- Sized and configured around your existing storage and directory services
Built for teams who catalogue faster than they can afford to lose anything.
Book a walkthrough of Spine & Signal on your own material — we'll show search, waveform playback, the audio pipeline and the QC tooling end to end.