Every storage purchase made sense at the time. That's the problem.

You already own the storage. Now know what's on it.

Duplicate files nobody knows about. Folders nobody can search. Files nobody can open without installing the app that made them. And another invoice for more capacity, because working out what is already there would cost more in staff time than the drives. Asset Foundry indexes the storage you already run, prices the duplicates against your own rates, and does the sorting that was never worth a person's week. You approve what it suggests. No migration, no services project.

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What you get

One product. Your whole estate.

Search, previews, reports, jobs, tagging and push ship together in one product, all running against the storage you already own.

One search, every drive

One search across your whole estate: cloud buckets, NAS, on-prem volumes and LTO tape alike.

Open anything, install nothing

Click a result and see it in the browser: ~140 formats, including the ones that normally need their native app installed just to look. Video previews render a ~500 MB file from a ~10 MB read, about 50x less than a full fetch in our tests.

Duplicates priced in dollars

Checksum-level reports group byte-identical copies across volumes and price the reclaim on your own rates, with a cost model spanning 8 storage tiers.

Jobs that wait for you

Run copy and process jobs across your volumes, or set scheduled rules whose matches queue as pending decisions until your team approves.

Tagging that asks first

AI-suggested tags queue for a human yes before anything publishes; no AI label applies itself.

Push where you choose

When something belongs in your DAM or your cloud, send it there as a deliberate job, and the destination system stays authoritative.

Self-serve · In partnership with StorageDNA

Your storage is already there.
Light it up.

STEP 01

Sign up

Create a workspace for your team. Self-serve, no sales call, no statement of work.

STEP 02

Connect your storage

Add your own keys for the cloud buckets, NAS and on-prem volumes you want indexed. Read-only. Nothing moves.

STEP 03

Explore everything

Search across cloud, NAS, on-prem and tape. Preview files in ~140 formats. Run duplicate and cost reports on your own storage rates.

01 · Explore

One search across everything you store.

Your archive stops being a black box the moment your index connects.

  • One search across your whole estate, from cloud buckets to on-prem volumes, with LTO tape included.
  • Previews for ~140 formats in the browser: legacy 3D scenes, camera RAW, EXR, and project files you would otherwise need the original app installed to open.
  • Ask in plain language. 'The hero comp from the season two spot' beats guessing filenames.
  • Fast on big files: previews pull a fraction of the bytes, about 50x less than fetching the whole file in our tests.
Search · all volumes
⌕hero comp, season two spot
LTO
S2_SPOT_hero_comp_v14.mov
sha256 9f3a… · 4.2 GB
NAS
S2_SPOT_hero_comp_v12.mov
sha256 77c1… · 4.1 GB
S3
S2_SPOT_gfx_pass.exr seq
1,204 frames · EXR
02 · Manage

Know what you have and what it costs.

Reports priced on your rates, so storage decisions become money decisions.

  • Checksum-level duplicate reports: byte-identical copies grouped across volumes, with the reclaim priced on your own storage rates.
  • Cold-file reports that show what nobody has touched, and archive ROI that shows what actually belongs on tape.
  • Auto-tagging that waits for a yes: suggestions queue for approval, nothing publishes itself.
  • A storage overview by volume, so 'what's on that NAS' has an answer that isn't a walk to the machine room.
Reports · duplicate savings
Reclaimable · on your rates
$1,940/mo
byte-identical copies across 4 volumes
Largest duplicate groups
MASTER_4K_final.mov×4 · 1.6 TB
brand_toolkit_2019.zip×7 · 410 GB
shoot_day2_cards/×3 · 890 GB
vo_stems_mix.wav×5 · 120 GB
03 · Orchestrate

Put your storage to work.

Jobs and rules that run where your files already live, with your team on the trigger.

  • Move, copy and process jobs across your own volumes, launched from the same place you search.
  • Auto-ingest rules by volume, path, pattern, type, size or date. Matches queue as pending decisions for human approval.
  • Optional push into a DAM, ShotGrid or cloud when you choose. Your destination systems stay authoritative.
Rules & jobs
WHEN volume LTO-ARCHIVE-02 · path /2019/* · type video
THEN queue proxy + thumbnail → hold for approval
214 matches pending · queued by rule, waiting on youApprove
push → DAM · optional · 154 assets72%
What it is, and isn't

Not a DAM. Not a migration.

Your files stay on your tape, your NAS, your buckets. Asset Foundry connects context on top of the storage you already own: search, previews, reports and jobs, wherever your files live. When something does belong in a DAM, ShotGrid or the cloud, push it there on purpose. That part is optional. Nothing about this product asks you to move your library.

The growth path

The front door, not the ceiling.

The all-in-one product is where you start, and the engine inside it is the same one we run at platform scale. When you outgrow self-serve, it unbundles into the full six-service platform: managed in your cloud or on-prem for enterprise estates, built out to complete production infrastructure for studios. The searches, tags, rules and reports you set up in early access are designed to carry forward on the way up.

The same engine is deployed at Warner Bros. across multiple petabytes.
Also shipping · self-serve today

We already ship self-serve.
Meet Revive.

Fortify's other product is live right now: Revive, a Google Drive app that colorizes black-and-white photos at massive scale. Select a folder, click once, and colorized copies land back in your Drive; files never leave Google's infrastructure. Pay per image from $9, credits never expire. The same engineering culture, already in production.

Revive · Google Drive
SELECT /Archive/1962_Campaign/ · 1,000 photos
ONE CLICK → colorized copies, same folders, same Drive
colorizing · batch of 1,00072%
Questions

Asked and answered.

What is Asset Foundry?

Asset Foundry is a self-serve SaaS from Fortify Media for teams whose storage has outgrown them. You add your own keys, it indexes the cloud buckets, NAS and on-prem volumes you point it at, and adds one search across all of them, previews for ~140 file formats, and duplicate and cost reports on your own storage rates. No files move.

Do we need any other software to use it?

No. You sign up and add your own keys for the storage you want indexed: cloud buckets, NAS or on-prem volumes. StorageDNA runs behind the scenes as our launch partner and powers integrations like ShotGrid, but you do not need to own it or know anything about it. If you already run StorageDNA, we connect to that index directly. The early-access list shapes what we connect next.

Do we have to move our files?

No. Asset Foundry indexes your storage in place and nothing moves: tape stays tape, NAS stays NAS, buckets stay buckets. Moving or copying anything is a job you run on purpose, and pushing assets into another system happens only when you choose it.

How is this different from a DAM?

A DAM asks you to migrate assets into it and keep them tagged forever. Asset Foundry does the opposite: it connects to the storage you already own and layers search, previews, reports and jobs on top. If you run a DAM, keep it; push finished work into it when you choose. Your storage stays put and your systems stay authoritative.

What does early access mean?

We are onboarding teams in waves. Sign up, add your keys, and start exploring: this is the shipping product, not a waitlist demo. Early-access teams work directly with the people building Asset Foundry and steer what we build next.

Can it push assets to our DAM or ShotGrid later?

Yes, when you choose. Push is optional and deliberate: send selected assets into a DAM, ShotGrid or cloud storage as a job or a rule you approve. Nothing syncs by default, and the destination system stays authoritative for whatever lands there.

Built for every bay in the building

One platform. Every seat in the shop.

Editorial finds the cut. The pipeline lands the plates. Finishing hits the spec. I/O tracks the drop. Systems keeps it governed. Here is what the Foundry does for each.

Early access · onboarding in waves

Your archive is ready
when you are.