Your AI drafts the first cut of the story.
It pulls your notes and source material into a first draft, files new assets so people can actually find them again, and checks copy against your style guide. Self-hosted CMS and DAM remove per-seat design tool costs.
What your AI would do in Media.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
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Drafts the first cut of a story or newsletter from your notes and source material.
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Tags and files new assets into your library so the next person can actually find them.
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Checks a piece against your style guide and flags what needs a look before it goes out.
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Flags a syndication or licence expiring before it's used past the date you're allowed to run it.
About
About half.
of South Africa's journalism workforce is gone: an estimated 10,000 in 2008 fell to about 5,000 in 2018
What your AI does about it:
It drafts the first cut from your notes, files new assets where the next person can find them, and checks copy against your style guide.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 170K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 7 common media tools
R 153K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The media stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical media firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Media stack
7 tools · R 170K/yr in licences
Replace
Bynder
Media / DAM · R 66K per year
With
ResourceSpace
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 59K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 170K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 17K
Annual savings
R 153K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where media time and money leak
What we hear on every media discovery call.
Hours lost tagging and hunting for assets
Finding last month's shoot in a shared drive eats more time than the shoot itself took. An AI tags and files new assets as they come in.
Adobe Creative Cloud per-seat across the team
Editorial, design, video and social all need a licence. A team of 10 on the full suite is a six-figure annual bill.
CMS lock-in and migration cost
Years of content trapped in a proprietary schema. Self-hosted WordPress or Ghost export cleanly because the formats are open.
How we handle the media edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI publish anything without an editor?
No, it drafts and files against the style guide. An editor still signs off before anything goes live.
How does self-hosted DAM help with rights management?
Stock imagery, music licences and syndication rights become visible and auditable instead of scattered across email threads.
Will we lose our content history moving off a proprietary CMS?
No, WordPress and Ghost use open formats, so your archive exports cleanly.
Does this cover ECTA requirements for digital ad contracts?
Yes, we configure digital contract workflows for advertising and syndication deals to meet ECTA.