Media Node

Give your media operation its own brain.

A dedicated server that runs your media workflows, persistent AI agents, and Media Nexus, always on, inside your building, on the same network as your storage.

See the two nodes

Media Node $6,000 · Media Node Pro $8,500 · you own the machine

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

A system you own forever, built around the storage you already have.

Media Node is the machine that base runs on. We configure it, we install it, and it belongs to your team.

  • The one asset that appreciates

    Gear depreciates. Software gets more expensive. Knowing what you have, where it is, and how to get it is the one asset that appreciates.

  • Your media never moves

    Media Nexus indexes approved storage read-only, and never renames, moves or deletes originals.

  • Tagging and transcription, free

    Transcription and tagging run on hardware the client controls, so the intelligence costs nothing per hour and nothing per file.

  • Nothing is rented

    You own the system. Nothing is held hostage, and the archive is the base for everything we build after.

Two nodes

Buy the appliance once. Vaultline Managed keeps it current.

The Node is a one-time purchase: you own the hardware outright. Vaultline Managed is what keeps the infrastructure, Media Nexus, and the AI layer actively maintained and improving, with the first three months included.

Media Node

For a working media library.

$6,000One-time · hardware included · yours to keep

  • The appliance itself, built and tested before it ships

  • Storage connection, integrations, and credentials wired up

  • Your first workflows configured around how your team works

  • Remote activation and handoff

  • Three months of Vaultline Managed (Media Nexus included)

Media Node Pro

For queues that never empty.

$8,500One-time · hardware included · yours to keep

  • Everything in Media Node

  • Multiple proxy and transcription lanes running at once

  • Larger local AI models without starving media jobs

  • Built for multi-terabyte ingest days and deep back-catalogue runs

  • Three months of Vaultline Managed (Media Nexus included)

Choose by workload, not by spec sheet: if one day's footage regularly outruns overnight processing, or you want the backlog and the AI enrichment moving at the same time, you want the Pro. We'll tell you which one fits when we look at your volume.

What runs on it

The archive is the base for everything after.

Media Nexus runs on the Node from day one. This is what your team opens.

Search

Search and organising without moving physical files, so the shot is not only findable by the one person who remembers where it is.

Browse and play

Remote access and remote transfer, so the archive is usable from anywhere by anyone who should have it.

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

Account for the copies

Read-only indexing, so copies nobody can account for get accounted for.

Duplicate-file review screen in Media Nexus listing four groups of matching files across different storage volumes.
Vaultline Managed

What the monthly line covers.

  • $475 a month

    Vaultline Managed is $475 a month after the first three included months: managed infrastructure, a managed Media Nexus, a managed AI layer, and a monthly pool of AI usage and Vaultline Compute.

  • What support means

    Support covers bug fixes, configuration changes, and minor adjustments to existing workflows. New custom workflows or integrations are scoped separately.

  • Partner members

    Already a Partner member? Vaultline Managed is included: no separate charge.

  • Or run it yourself

    Self-managed mode has no control plane, forbids Vaultline remote support, and rejects Vaultline-managed AI routing. Same binary, same local safety boundary.

Questions

The things teams ask first.

Is this just a Mac mini you configure for us?

The hardware is how the infrastructure gets delivered, not what you are buying. What you are buying is an always-on automation layer for your media operation: Media Nexus, the job queue, the workers, the workflow runtime, the safety boundary, and the deployment and support around it.

Does it replace our NAS?

No. Your media stays exactly where it is. The Node mounts your existing storage (sources read-only) and writes derivatives only to locations you designate for that purpose.

What can Vaultline see or do on our Node?

Health and status, not your media. Paths, filenames, transcript text, and raw diagnostics stay local. Remote support is a separate grant that is off by default, every supported action is a specific named operation rather than a shell, and you can disable it from the control center.

Can it run without a connection to Vaultline?

Yes. Self-managed mode has no control plane, forbids Vaultline remote support, and rejects Vaultline-managed AI routing. Same binary, same local safety boundary.

Do we need Media Nexus too?

Not necessarily: Media Nexus can be installed and owned on your own hardware as a complete system on its own. If a Node is your path in, it ships with Media Nexus already running on it, and Vaultline Managed keeps both current together. If you already run Media Nexus, the Node simply becomes the machine it lives on.

What does it cost?

$6,000 for a Media Node, $8,500 for a Media Node Pro, one-time, hardware included, with the configuration work to connect your storage and stand up your first workflows. Vaultline Managed is $475 a month after the first three included months: managed infrastructure, a managed Media Nexus, a managed AI layer, and a monthly pool of AI usage and Vaultline Compute. Support covers bug fixes, configuration changes, and minor adjustments to existing workflows. New custom workflows or integrations are scoped separately. Partner members have it bundled already.

What happens if we stop Vaultline Managed?

You keep the Node (you bought it) and the workflows configured on it keep running. What rides on Vaultline Managed is everything that keeps improving: Media Nexus and AI-layer updates, monitoring and signed updates, included usage, and our help changing things. We'll walk through what that means for your setup before you decide, not after.

Media Node · commissioned individually

Build a media operation that keeps working when your team goes home.

Tell us about your storage, your volume, and the workflows you are doing by hand. We will tell you honestly whether a Node is the right answer yet.

Hardware included · Vaultline Managed included · commissioned individually