Understand Every Frame. Deliver in Real Time.
You bring your streams. You choose what you want. Fifth Layer does all the hard work behind the scenes.
Working With Media Shouldn't Require an Army of Engineers
Thousands of Hours on Plumbing
Teams spend months building brittle integrations, format converters, and streaming infrastructure just to get started - before delivering any real value.
Fragmented Tech Stacks
Working with media means juggling multiple APIs, cloud services, AI models and databases - all held together with custom code that breaks.
Missed Monetisation Opportunities
Your media assets hold valuable insights and revenue potential, but complexity locks them away - too slow and expensive to extract.
Fifth Layer's Approach
Fifth Layer is your media processing engine. Ingest audio, video and streams - then transcribe, analyze, transform and deliver. We handle all the complexity, timing and scale. You build workflows visually and ship value in hours, not months.
Zero-Code Visual Workflows
Build complex media pipelines visually without writing code
AI Orchestration Built-In
Connect LLMs, speech models and computer vision with simple blocks
Real-Time at Scale
Process live streams, recordings and broadcasts with carrier-grade reliability
Unlock Revenue Faster
Turn media assets into monetisable intelligence in minutes, not months
See How Fifth Layer Works
Fifth Layer replaces brittle media pipelines with visual workflow's you can understand, control and trust.
Build the Workflow
This is where you define what should happen to your live and on-demand media.
Chain together steps like transcription, captions, tagging, clip creation and delivery using a simple visual canvas.
Fifth Layer handles ordering, coordination and execution so the workflow behaves the same way every time.
See It Run
As your media is processed, you can see progress and results in real time.
View transcripts, summaries, clips and outputs as they are produced, and spot issues before they become problems.
Nothing is hidden. You always know what is happening and where your media is.
How It Works
Three steps to transform your media operations
Ingest & Normalise
Connect live streams (HLS/RTP), files, feeds, APIs and databases. Parse, segment and enrich on the way in.
Orchestrate with Agentic AI
Chain operators and agents (STT, vision, summarisation, routing, actions). Use policies to adapt in real time.
Operate & Deliver
Deliver processed content and insights directly to your business systems. From CMS and archives to analytics dashboards.
Media Use Cases
Real-world solutions for broadcast, streaming, publishers, radio, sports, and newsrooms
Live News Clipping & Transcription
Ingest live HLS, detect ad breaks, transcribe speech, and generate verified summaries in real time.
Faster turnaround for web, social and on-air captions.
Sports Highlights & Moment Detection
Detect plays, logos and crowd sentiment; auto-assemble highlight reels with timestamps.
Minutes to publish, higher engagement.
Compliance & Brand Safety
Scene/keyword/face detection, profanity flags and age-appropriateness checks with human-in-the-loop review.
Reduced takedowns and regulatory risk.
Podcast/Radio STT + Chaptering
High-accuracy STT, diarisation and topic segmentation; auto-generate chapters and show notes.
Better SEO and discoverability.
Archive Enrichment & Search
Batch process archives for entities, topics and events; push rich metadata into DAM/MAM.
New monetisation from legacy content.
Ad & Sponsorship Intelligence
Logo/product placement detection and competitive tracking across channels.
Evidence-based sales and pricing.
Your team could be shipping value instead of wiring pipelines
Join broadcast and streaming teams shifting from bespoke pipelines to reusable graphs. See how Fifth Layer handles live feeds, VOD and clips in one place.
Fast to First Workflow
See Fifth Layer running on your live feeds and archive content in minutes, not months.
Built for Broadcast
Designed to integrate with your multi-channel distribution by default.
AI Without Rebuilding
Add captioning, detection and summarisation without another bespoke pipeline project.
Fifth Layer vs Building It Yourself
See why teams choose Fifth Layer over months of custom engineering
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about how Fifth Layer works.
See Fifth Layer in Action
See how media teams generate captions, transcripts, clips and metadata from live and on-demand content.