Coactive Content Discovery
coactive.ai
What it is
Coactive Content Discovery searches large image, video, and spoken-dialogue libraries with natural-language queries. Its Agentic Discovery can combine visual scenes, spoken dialogue, environmental audio, recognized faces, and structured metadata in one search. Users can submit text, an image, or both; reference images can find similar content, related scenes, and near-duplicates. Transcript search handles semantic concepts and exact phrases, while audio search can locate non-speech sounds independently of visuals. Searchers can exclude unwanted content, with those constraints retained through follow-up queries and drill-downs. Video results can be narrowed to ranked shots shown as timestamped moments. The REST API includes text-to-image, text-to-keyframe, reverse-image, transcript, person-identity, and video shot-drill-down searches. Content is processed during ingestion so visual, transcript, and metadata signals remain searchable without reprocessing. Coactive documents organization-level SSO through SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect, including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Google Workspace. The platform is offered through web and API access, with pricing available on request.
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Content Discovery searches image, video, and spoken dialogue libraries using natural-language queries.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Product
- Content Discovery searches images, video, and spoken dialogue using natural-language queries.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Intended users
- Coactive describes the platform as built for teams working with large image and video libraries, including content operations, data science, editorial, product, and engineering teams.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Audience
- Content Discovery is built for teams working with large image and video libraries.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- API
- A REST API exposes semantic text-to-image and text-to-keyframe search, reverse image search, transcript search, person-identity filtering, and video search with shot drill-down.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Integrations
- Coactive names AWS, Databricks, and Microsoft as technology partners, and says its APIs can support integrations with third-party tools such as Mimir and Adobe Premiere.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Security
- Coactive says it uses a security-by-design approach and has implemented security and regulatory controls such as SOC 2.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Support
- Coactive offers product demonstrations, documentation for its APIs and SDKs, and a support contact route.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Headquarters
- Coactive lists San Jose as its headquarters.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Founded
- 2021Read 28 Sep 2026 · coactive.ai
- Agentic search
- Agentic Discovery routes a query across visual scenes, spoken dialogue, environmental audio, recognized faces, and structured metadata.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Audio search
- Audio search can find environmental sounds, crowd reactions, music, and other non-speech audio independently of visual content.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Image search
- Users can upload a reference image to find visually similar content, related scenes, or near-duplicate assets.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Indexing
- The platform processes content once during ingestion and searches visual, transcript, and metadata signals without reprocessing.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Ingestion
- The platform processes content once during ingestion and makes it searchable across visual, transcript, and metadata signals without reprocessing.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Integration
- Mimir integrates Coactive conversational search into newsroom video workflows and lets editors generate editing timelines from selected moments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Negative search
- Users can specify content to exclude, and the page says those constraints persist across follow-up queries and drill-downs.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Refine results
- Users can exclude content with negative search constraints and preserve those constraints across follow-up queries and drill-downs.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Search API
- The REST API includes semantic text-to-image and text-to-keyframe search, reverse image search, transcript search, person-identity filtering, and video search with shot drill-down.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Search inputs
- Users can search with natural-language prompts, image prompts, or both together.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Search signals
- Agentic Discovery can search visual scenes, spoken dialogue, environmental audio, recognized faces, and structured metadata in one query.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Security approach
- Coactive describes its approach as security by design and says it works with customers to help them comply with privacy laws.Read 4 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Single sign-on
- Coactive documents organization-level SSO using SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect, including providers such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Google Workspace.Read 5 Oct 2026 · docs.coactive.ai
- Transcript search
- Transcript search supports semantic searches for concepts and exact phrase matching.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
- Video drill-down
- Search results can be narrowed to ranked shots with timestamps so users can select specific moments within a video.Read 5 Oct 2026 · coactive.ai
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Searches visual, transcript, audio, and metadata signals
- Accepts text and reference-image prompts
- Supports timestamped video shot drill-down
- Provides REST API search functions
- Documents SAML and OpenID Connect SSO
Limits
- Pricing is available only on request
- Designed for large image and video libraries
- Content must be processed during ingestion
- Some search functions require API access
Who it suits
It is built for content operations, data science, editorial, product, and engineering teams managing large image and video libraries. API users and organizations needing multimodal search or SSO can use its documented interfaces.
Verdict
Coactive combines multimodal discovery, persistent exclusions, and timestamped video drill-down for large media libraries. Its API and SSO documentation support integration work, while pricing requires a direct request.
Where Specifiction places it
- AI Video Search Tools#13 of 247.7