Archiv turns raw, unlabeled event footage into a tagged, rights-checked, instantly searchable catalog, ready the moment it comes in, not hours later.
Right now, that job usually goes to someone with a broadcast or post-production background, scrubbing raw footage by hand after every event. Archiv does that work as the footage arrives.
Hundreds of clips pile up before anyone writes down what's in them, so nothing is usable until someone finds the time.
Unreleased names, music, and recognizable faces slip through unflagged until legal has to ask after the fact.
Finding one moment means scrubbing through hours of raw footage, or hoping someone remembers which folder it's in.
Raw coverage goes in exactly as it comes off the card. A cleared, searchable catalog entry comes out the other side.
Coverage lands with nothing but a timecode and a shot note, exactly how it comes off the card in the field.
Archiv logs it the way a professional footage logger would: keywords, a one-line summary, a confidence score, and a clearance flag. All automatically.
Anyone on the team can pull a moment in plain language, instantly, across the whole vault.
Every clip is checked for the things that usually stall a release, like unreleased names, music, and recognizable faces, and flagged before legal has to ask.
AI proposes the catalog entry, biased toward flagging for review whenever it's unsure, since a missed clearance flag is a far bigger risk than an unnecessary one. A person still owns the final call, and nothing reaches the highlight reel until it's approved.
Pulls every approved standout moment across an archive and orders it into a suggested cut, with a running time, in the time it takes to read this sentence.
Search in plain language across every event that's been logged, not just the one open on screen.
Catches the second camera angle of the same moment before it clutters the catalog.
The catalog leaves as JSON or CSV, ready to feed into whatever DAM or MAM system already runs the archive.
Drop in a folder of real clips in the demo and Archiv logs them for real, reading the footage itself instead of fictional sample data. Just needs your own free Anthropic API key.
Feed it one long recording instead of pre-cut clips, and Archiv finds where one moment ends and the next begins, splitting it into separate logged entries automatically. A visual-change heuristic, not perfect scene detection, but it turns raw continuous coverage into a real catalog without cutting it yourself first.
Archiv is a product of BuilderBias LLC, built on the belief that AI should augment people, not replace them. Bias toward the human in the loop, by design.
builderbias.comTwo sample events, ready to log. No setup needed.