Every studio, post house and brand is sitting on years of finished work it can't find, can't open, and pays to store. We build the platform that turns that liability back into a library.
Fortify Media builds the Asset Foundry: the layer between your storage and your systems. It reads media estates where they live, cloud, servers and tape, makes every file findable and previewable, connects files to the work they came from, and feeds the tools you already run. Six services, one index: search and operations, previews, routing and delivery, processing and generation, a context engine, and script breakdown.
Fortify Media is led by Steve Cronan, founder and CEO of 5th Kind, the digital asset management company behind CORE: the platform that carried hundreds of films, including some of the biggest productions ever made, from a career that started on the Matrix sequels. Four issued patents in asset management and metadata-driven storage. NAB Product of the Year. Acquired by Sohonet in 2023.
Asset Foundry is what he chose to build next: not another DAM, but the layer he watched every studio need while running one. Seventeen years of watching great work disappear into storage taught a simple lesson: the library that wins isn't the one you migrate into. It's the one that meets your files where they already live.
The platform runs in our cloud or yours, on-prem included. The self-serve SaaS, in partnership with StorageDNA, brings the same engine to post houses and VFX shops. For security posture, see Security.
Fortify Media is built by a small senior team that ships. The person answering your email is the person building the product, and he has been building for this industry for twenty years.