Coactive Content Discovery vs DISKO

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.

DISKO is a media asset manager for Mac that organizes video footage using AI tagging, transcription, face recognition, shot descriptions, and plain-language search. The maker says these AI functions run on the Mac; footage is uploaded only when a user chooses to sync a project to DISKO Cloud. The desktop app plays formats including ProRes, DNxHD, MXF, and 10-bit HEVC, with real-time LUT preview. It can export selects, rough cuts, and multicamera sequences as XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. DISKO can index and preview Google Drive clips without downloading originals until they are needed for editing. Cloud review includes timestamped comments, frame drawing, side-by-side comparison, version stacking, client portals, and viewing analytics. The desktop app requires an Apple Silicon Mac with an M1 chip or later. Cloud Free includes 2 GB, screenwriting and shot-list tools, and review links. Cloud Pro costs $12 a month at a founders rate locked for life; DISKO Local costs $99, paid once.