For broadcast and digital media teams

Run AI on your media in minutes.

Build workflows for transcription, summarisation, object detection and clip generation without rebuilding your media pipeline every time.

Media workflow
From source to reusable outputs
Running
Media Input
Transcribe
Detect
Summarise
Generate Clips
Export
Transcript
Ready
Clips
Queued
Metadata
Synced
Export into your CMS, MAM, search index, caption files or API.

See What Fifth Layer Can Do

Choose a media workflow, then adapt it to your channels, formats and destinations.

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Live Transcription & Captions

Turn live streams into transcripts, captions and searchable text as they run.

View workflow
Workflow
Live stream
Segment audio
Speech-to-text
Speaker labels
Caption export
Output preview
Live transcript
00:14:09 Presenter
Tonight we are live from the stadium.
Caption files ready
Input
HLSSRTRTPUploaded media
AI steps
SegmentationSpeech-to-textDiarisationCaption formatting
Outputs
TranscriptSpeaker labelsSRTVTTSearchable text

From Months of Build Time to Hours

Replace one-off media AI projects with reusable workflows your team can configure, run and export without rebuilding the pipeline.

Building yourself

A new engineering project for every use case.

Time to production
Months
  • Build ingest and processing code
  • Integrate AI models manually
  • Wire storage, queues and retries
  • Build monitoring and exports
  • Repeat for every new use case

With Fifth Layer

Reusable workflows media teams can run themselves.

Reusable workflow
Hours
  • Connect media sources
  • Build visually
  • Use pre-built AI operators
  • Run serverlessly
  • Export reusable outputs

Media source

Live stream, file, API or archive

Workflow builder

Reusable media and AI blocks

Serverless execution

Managed runs, retries and visibility

Finished output

Captions, clips, summaries and metadata

See How Fifth Layer Works

Connect media, build a workflow and deliver structured outputs without managing the underlying pipeline.

Connect media

Use a live stream, uploaded file, API or archive source.

Build workflow

Chain media and AI operators on a visual canvas.

Deliver outputs

Export transcripts, captions, clips and metadata.

Build the Workflow

Reuse the same workflow across programmes, channels and formats.

Media input
Transcribe audio
Detect objects
Summarise segment
Create clips
Export metadata

See the Outputs

Review useful media outputs as each workflow runs.

Live
00:08:12 Presenter

The late goal changed the whole match.

00:08:19 Analyst

The replay shows the run starting outside the box.

Detected objects
goal player stadium crowd reaction
Suggested clips
Late winner 08:04
Review
Analyst replay 08:17
Ready
Export package
metadata.json
captions.srt
summary.txt

Fifth Layer vs Building It Yourself

Replace one-off pipeline projects with reusable workflows your media team can configure, run and monitor.

Building yourself

Infrastructure and orchestration owned by engineering.

Fifth Layer

Self-service software for repeatable media AI workflows.

Months of engineering work
Visual workflow builder
Custom ingest and processing code
Pre-built media AI operators
Separate AI model integrations
Managed serverless execution
Bespoke monitoring and retries
Live, file and archive support
Manual export handling
Real-time visibility
Hard to reuse across formats
Reusable workflows and outputs

See Fifth Layer in Action

Use Fifth Layer to build reusable AI workflows for transcription, summarisation, detection, clipping, archive enrichment and localisation. Connect your media, run in the cloud and deliver outputs into the tools your teams already use.