The challenge, approach & outcome.
- 01Challenge
A digital media platform's 200,000-hour video library was almost entirely unsearchable. Editors hand-tagged the top 5%; the long tail rotted. Search-driven engagement was capped because the catalogue was dark.
- 02Approach
Built a pipeline that ingests video, runs scene detection and computer vision tagging, transcribes audio via Deepgram, and feeds the transcript + visual tags into an LLM summariser. Outputs structured metadata: scene tags, speakers, topics, summaries, and chapter markers — all indexed for search and recommendation.
- 03Outcome
200,000+ hours processed end-to-end in eight weeks. Average processing time of 9 minutes per hour of video. Search-driven engagement up 47% because the long tail of the catalogue is now discoverable.

