AI agents are becoming the primary interface through which audiences discover, consume, and interact with media. ARCHAI is building the infrastructure that makes media archives agent-ready — on your terms, under your control.
Agentic AI is reshaping how content is found, packaged, and delivered. Media organisations that fail to make their archives agent-accessible risk becoming invisible to the next generation of AI-mediated consumption. ARCHAI addresses the strategic, technical, and legal challenges that stand in the way.
AI agents need structured, queryable, rights-aware access to content — not a search bar. ARCHAI designs the agentic retrieval interface your archive needs to stay relevant as AI-mediated consumption becomes the norm.
Technological sovereignty is not a slogan. ARCHAI's data-sovereignty-by-design architecture ensures your content never leaves your environment. Components interoperate through secure, abstracted APIs — your data stays yours.
Knowledge graphs promise richer retrieval, but the investment is hard to justify without evidence. ARCHAI measures and benchmarks knowledge graph ROI in real media workflows — giving you the business case before you commit.
AI Act obligations, copyright in training data, and rights metadata for archive reuse are intersecting in ways most organisations are not prepared for. ARCHAI embeds legal compliance from day one.
ARCHAI develops a culturally grounded benchmark for multimodal media retrieval. User group members gain access to the evaluation methodology and datasets — and help define what good looks like.
The ARCHAI user group connects VRT, DPG Media, Roularta, Limecraft, and research partners under a structured collaboration framework — enabling shared learning without shared data.
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Membership is open to media companies, cultural heritage institutions, content technology providers, and any organisation asking hard questions about agentic AI, data sovereignty, and the legal future of their archive.