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Media Intelligence Platform

Understand Every Frame. Deliver in Real Time.

Fifth Layer is the engine that lets you work with what's inside your video and audio. Generate captions, detect content violations, analyse sentiment and use AI to understand patterns - all in real time. No heavy engineering required.

Zero-code workflows
Broadcast-grade quality
Real-time processing
THE CHALLENGE

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

Behind the Scenes

See How Fifth Layer Works

Fifth Layer gives you a simple way to design what happens to your streams. No code required.

Visual canvas showing operator blocks
Visual Builder

Design What Happens

This is where you design what happens to your streams.

Pick blocks like listen, analyse, save or alert and place them in the order you want.

Fifth Layer connects the blocks for you and keeps everything running in the right sequence, every time.

Watch It Live

You can see what's happening in real time.

Watch executions, see summaries, check for problems, and confirm everything is working.

No guessing. You see exactly what Fifth Layer is doing.

Real-time dashboard with results and metrics
Live Results

How It Works

Three steps to transform your media operations

Ingest & Normalise
1

Ingest & Normalise

Connect live streams (HLS/RTP), files, feeds, APIs and databases. Parse, segment and enrich on the way in.

Orchestrate with Agentic AI
2

Orchestrate with Agentic AI

Chain operators and agents (STT, vision, summarisation, routing, actions). Use policies to adapt in real time.

Operate & Deliver
3

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

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

Sports Highlights & Moment Detection

Detect plays, logos and crowd sentiment; auto-assemble highlight reels with timestamps.

Minutes to publish, higher engagement.

Compliance & Brand Safety

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

Podcast/Radio STT + Chaptering

High-accuracy STT, diarisation and topic segmentation; auto-generate chapters and show notes.

Better SEO and discoverability.

Archive Enrichment & Search

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

Ad & Sponsorship Intelligence

Logo/product placement detection and competitive tracking across channels.

Evidence-based sales and pricing.

Ready to move faster on media?

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

Feature
Manual Build
Fifth Layer
Spinning Up New Workflows
Custom pipelines for every show, channel and format
Launch new media workflows in minutes, not months
AI for Live & VOD
Wrangle transcodes, timecodes and ML vendors by hand
Drop-in operators for captions, detection and summaries
Multi-Channel Output
Separate stacks for linear, OTT, clips and social
One graph that fans out to every destination
Real-Time QA & Compliance
Manual spot checks and ad-hoc monitoring tools
Always-on checks across every feed as it airs
Brand Safety & Rights
Spreadsheet tracking and late-stage legal review
Automated checks tied to the media and its metadata
Experimenting With New Formats
Start a new engineering project every time you iterate
Reuse the same building blocks for new use cases

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers for media teams.

Can we deploy in our cloud and connect to our MAM/DAM?
Yes. Bring your own cloud and storage. We integrate via standard APIs (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) and common MAM/DAM interfaces without vendor lock‑in.
Which AI models do you support?
Open ecosystem. Mix and swap models per workflow across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS).
Can editors use this without engineering support?
Yes. Template‑driven workflows with guardrails, role‑based access, and approvals. Power users can extend with parameters; engineers can add custom operators when needed.
What does zero‑code mean?
Design visually in the console: drag operators, connect ports, publish. APIs and SDKs are optional for deeper integration, not a prerequisite.
How are costs managed?
Live metering per workflow, budgets and alerts, and rate limits. Usage exports for invoicing and cost attribution by team or project.
Is this suitable for live as well as file‑based?
Yes. Built for both. Sub‑second routing for live streams with back‑pressure controls; batch processing for archive and VOD.

Ready to See What Fifth Layer Can Do for You?

Transform your audio and video into production ready intelligence today.