Axle AI Announces Strategic Partnership with ERA to Deliver Smarter Media Workflows

Boston, MA – 2nd September 2025 – Axle AI, the developer of radically simple media search and workflow automation solutions, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with ERA, a leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions for the Media and Entertainment industry.

By combining ERA’s high-performance infrastructure with Axle AI’s powerful media asset management (MAM) interface, this collaboration creates a unified solution designed to make media workflows smarter, faster, and more efficient.

As media content volumes continue to grow, studios and creatives need scalable ways to store, search, and repurpose their assets. Together, Axle AI and ERA are addressing this challenge. ERA delivers robust infrastructure—including high-performance workstations, storage, and private cloud—while Axle AI brings the intelligence layer with workflow automation and advanced search capabilities. Key features include scene recognition, speech-to-text, natural language search, Axle Tags for scene description, and face recognition.

“This partnership is about giving creative teams the ability to manage, search, and collaborate on their content without the complexity typically associated with enterprise MAM systems,” said Neil Blake, Director EMEA & Global Integrations at Axle AI. “ERA’s infrastructure and expertise, combined with our solutions, unlock significant efficiencies and help clients maximize the value of their media.”

Sean Baker, Managing Director at ERA, added: “Partnering with Axle AI allows us to deliver a smarter, more seamless workflow for our clients. By combining our private cloud infrastructure with Axle AI’s intuitive MAM interface and workflow tools, we’re helping creative teams focus on what they do best – producing amazing content while reducing the time and complexity of media management.”

With this partnership, Axle AI and ERA are empowering the Media and Entertainment industry with a scalable, AI-driven solution that simplifies media management, accelerates workflows, and gives creatives more time to focus on storytelling.