
The file explorer for creatives
Shade is an AI-powered solution that ensures you never lose another asset again. Visually search by the millions and edit using a powerful suite of tools.
Easily organize and find all of your assets, literally anywhere
We’ve all faced the problem of large download folders, assets scattered with various names, archives that grow to terabytes. It’s time that we do something about all of those assets.
Automatic Visual Previews for All Your Assets
We easily create turntable previews for everything from .mb, to .hip, to .blend, and more.
Autotagging, Captioning, and Metadata
We've built out a powerful AI that understands your assets better than anything else.
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Shade can search and manage your content
Digital assets are scattered from cloud to local, from folders to old hard dives, import into shade once, and we’ll have it indexed for you forever
Organize and understand your library
Shade uses AI to index videos, audio files, images, textures, and 3D models, while generating smart previews for all of them.
Label with AI
Autogenerated captions, transcriptions, tags and more
Intelligent organization
Create collections from faces, projects or appearance
Visually search your library
Search all of your assets by apperance or contents

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Completely and totally integrated into your workflow
A full suite of metadata, autogenerated tags, collections, captions, and transcriptions enables artists to always find what they’re looking for.
Fast
Designed to index and search millions of creative assets
Private and Secure
Built with studio compliance in mind. Run everything on your local network or on a secure cloud.
Set up in 2 Minutes
Rapidly set up and start using. Shade runs in the background without interrupting your workflow
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AI tools built into the platform
Pixel-perfect tracks, generative media, and a wealth of information makes editing feel like magic.
And there’s tons of more features and tools we’re adding to your creative toolkit and team
Collaborate Seamlessly, Proxy Everything
No more huge file transfers. Send proxies and sync libraries across devices.
We've built out technology to quickly help you generate proxies, and only send what you need to each other.

Connect to your existing version control
From helix core to custom, we got you. Index everything you work on.

Deploy on your existing infrastructure
Cloud native with no configuration or deploy locally for compliance

Headless, hackable, and modular API
Build results directly into your studio’s pipeline or internal tools. Shade comes with documentation for any language.

Your creativity and productivity unleashed
Shade organizes and makes it possible for you to become the creator you wanted to be. Less management, and more building.
Credits:
"...Fire in the sky" (https://skfb.ly/oCXvT) by WON is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Station Demerzel" (https://skfb.ly/ou8B7) by wa_rouk is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
"Futuristic cable car" (https://skfb.ly/oxExy) by Nazareno_rojas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"EMD GP7 Western Pacific 713" (https://skfb.ly/otRSN) by Jesper Landin is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Old Rusty Car" (https://skfb.ly/LxRy) by Renafox is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
"Space Age Radio" (https://skfb.ly/ooDDN) by Tom Seddon is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Images:
Starry photos by Guille Pozi, Denis Degioanni and Bartek Garbowicz on Unsplash Ása Steinarsdóttir on Unsplash