Media Nexus · The Free Build

Your storage holds the footage. Media Nexus makes it usable.

Gear depreciates and software gets more expensive every year. Insight into your own archive is the one asset that appreciates.

$0 upfront · $4,669 if you keep it · nothing if you don't

See the product

Originals stay where they are.

Media Nexus search results for the query: audio where someone talks about the ocean and the forest. Each result is a transcript moment from a clip, with the exact quote, timecode, thumbnail, and an Open moment button.
The Free Build

Free until you decide to keep it.

Buying custom software before you have used it sounds risky.

So don't.

We build your Media Nexus archive first, around the storage you already have.

$0 upfront. $4,669 if you keep it. Nothing if you don't.

We'd rather build it than pitch it.

A limited program for qualifying in-house teams. Deployment, configuration, installation, orientation, 90 days of stabilisation.
What you get

The footage exists. Finding it is the problem.

These are screens from a running Media Nexus. Yours carries your volumes, your projects and your naming.

Find the moment by what was said.

Every clip is transcribed and tagged on your own hardware, so a plain-language search opens the exact timecode.

Plays in a browser, even when the drive is on a shelf.

Managed proxies and frame grabs mean a clip scrubs while the original volume is offline.

Asset detail panel in Media Nexus showing a video's proxy player, file metadata, tags, and a timestamped interview transcript.

Your volumes, by their real names, online or not.

Media Nexus knows which volume holds each file and whether it is connected right now.

Media Nexus library view showing four storage volumes, one offline, with file counts and capacity for each.

A system you own. Not a subscription you rent.

Vaultline is a service. We build you a custom system you own forever, around the storage you already have, and we keep building on it.

  • Ownership and independence

    You own the system. Nothing is rented, nothing is held hostage.

  • Accessibility

    Remote access, remote transfer, search, and organising without moving physical files, so the archive is usable from anywhere by anyone who should have it.

  • Protecting creative work and institutional memory

    Read-only indexing, originals stay where they are, backup and drive tracking, so the work and the knowledge of it survive.

  • For everyone

    Built for in-house teams of any size, not only the ones with a media manager.

After the archive

The archive is the base for everything after.

Unlocked creative potential: a team that can find, play, move and reuse what it already made spends its time making, not hunting.

Next

Review and post production

Review and approvals stop living in chat, and post gets the structure it works from.

Next

Drive tracking and backup protection

Copies you can account for, and drives whose contents you know without plugging them in.

Next

Remote access and automation

Our own managed remote access system, and the operational steps a person should not be repeating.

Each of these is scoped and priced per build. Recurring care exists if you want it, Care at $600 per month and Partner at $1,800 per month founding or $2,400 standard, and neither is ever required.

How it works

Four steps. You pay at the end, and only if you want to.

  1. 01Apply

    Two minutes: who you are, where your media lives, what costs you the most time.

  2. 02Fit call

    If it is a fit, you get the scope in writing. The keep price is $4,669.

  3. 03We build it

    Configured around your storage and your team, indexed against your real media.

  4. 04You use it, then decide

    Keep it and we invoice $4,669. Walk away and there is no invoice.

Built for in-house content, video and creative teams with a real library on storage they own or control, and real friction finding, moving or reusing it. Find the shot without asking the one person who remembers where it is.

Before you apply

Questions, answered plainly.

What does it cost if we keep it?

$4,669, fixed in writing before we build. It buys the Archive Pilot: your Media Nexus archive deployed on one approved storage environment, configured to your naming, folders, search fields and handoff, installed on hardware you control, an operator orientation, and 90 days of stabilisation. The Blueprint fee, if you bought one, is credited against it. Capabilities built on top afterwards are scoped and priced per build.

What do you build after the archive?

The archive is the base for everything after it: review, post production, drive tracking, backup protection, remote access, automation, and anything else the team needs. If a capability does not exist, we build it. Each one is scoped and priced per build.

Where does our media go?

Nowhere. Media Nexus indexes approved storage read-only and never renames, moves or deletes originals. Transcription and tagging run on hardware you control.

Is this a demo with sample data?

No. It is your Media Nexus, indexed against your real media, with your volumes, projects and naming.

What do we need to provide?

Read access to the storage you want indexed, a Mac to run it on (or we help you specify one), a short fit call, and someone who can make the keep-or-walk-away decision afterward.

Media Nexus · The Free Build

See your archive become usable before you pay a dollar.

Tell us about your team and your media. If it is a fit, we scope the build in writing and get started.

$0 upfront · $4,669 if you keep it · nothing if you don't
Media Nexus search results for a plain-language query, each result a transcript moment with its quote, timecode, thumbnail and an Open moment button.