Organize Your
Visual Legacy.
The self-hosted Digital Asset Management system built for high-volume news photography. AI-powered search, facial recognition, and professional metadata support on your own infrastructure.
Find photos by
describing them.
Forget tagging every single image. Our CLIP-based semantic search understands the content of your photos. Search for "red car in rain" or "smiling politicians" and get instant results.
Purpose-Built for
News Photography
Professional Vault combines modern AI capabilities with industry-standard metadata workflows. Everything a newsroom needs to manage millions of photos, built on proven open-source technology.
CLIP-Based Semantic Search
AI-powered visual understandingSearch for photos by describing them in plain language. Find 'red car in rain' or 'smiling politicians at press conference' without manual tagging. Built on OpenAI's CLIP model.
Facial Recognition Engine
Automatic clusteringIdentifies and clusters faces across your entire archive. Name a person once and find them in thousands of photos instantly. Perfect for tracking politicians, athletes, and public figures.
Professional Metadata Stack
IPTC / EXIF / XMPFull support for industry-standard metadata. Read, edit, and write-back IPTC captions, copyright notices, and keywords directly to original files. Your metadata lives inside the asset.
Native integration with NewsForge AI Newsroom OS. Drag and drop assets directly into your stories with automatic caption and credit insertion.
Platform Capabilities
Enterprise-Grade Features
Everything you need to run a professional photo archive. Secure, scalable, and built for teams.
Five-Tier Access Control
From viewer to admin, granular permissions for every user. Control who can view, download, edit metadata, or manage albums.
Album & Collection System
Organize assets into albums and smart collections. Share selectively with internal teams or external partners via secure links.
Approval Workflows
Route photos through editorial review before publication. Track status, add notes, and maintain a complete audit trail.
S3-Compatible Storage
Store assets on MinIO, AWS S3, or any S3-compatible backend. Scale from gigabytes to petabytes without architecture changes.
Complete Audit Trail
Track every view, download, and edit. Know exactly who accessed what and when. Essential for copyright compliance.
Mobile Applications
Native iOS and Android apps for photographers in the field. Auto-upload from camera roll with background sync.
Complete Data
Sovereignty.
Your archive is your most valuable asset. Don't rent it from a cloud provider. Professional Vault runs on your own hardware or private cloud with zero vendor lock-in.
- AI-powered semantic search (CLIP)
- Facial recognition and people clustering
- EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata support
- Metadata write-back to original files
- Five-tier role-based access control
- Self-hosted on your infrastructure
- S3-compatible storage (MinIO)
- Photo approval workflows
- Integration with NewsForge
- Mobile apps (iOS & Android)
S3 Storage
Scale to Petabytes using MinIO or AWS S3.
Audit Logs
Track every view, download, and edit.
Originals
Always download the original full-res file.
Advanced Filters
Filter by ISO, lens, camera, date, location.
Under the Hood
Built on Proven Technology
Professional Vault extends the battle-tested Immich platform with newsroom-specific features. Docker-based deployment with horizontal scaling support.
Core Components
Deployment Options
Docker Compose or Kubernetes. Air-gapped deployment with complete data sovereignty.
Deploy on AWS, Azure, or GCP. We handle setup and maintenance.
Fully managed by LoneSock. Focus on your content, we handle infrastructure.
Designed for NewsForge
The only DAM that integrates natively with our AI Newsroom OS. Drag and drop assets directly into your stories with automatic metadata insertion.
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