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The archive, answerable.

দশকের ফুটেজ, একটি প্রশ্নে খুঁজে পাওয়া — বাংলা ও ইংরেজিতে।

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Decades of footage, findable by what was said, what was shown, what was seen — behind the access rules, retention rules and proof your institution already lives by.

A private index over the video and audio you already hold. It reads from the systems that keep your footage and hands back timecoded answers — nothing moved, re-encoded or overwritten. Your cloud, your country, or with the cable unplugged.

Broadcasters · archives and heritage · courts and evidence · universities · streaming and sport · banks

› "বন্যার ত্রাণ নিয়ে মন্ত্রীর বক্তব্য" — the minister on flood relief
TimecodeResultSourceMatch
14:02:11Press conference — the statement delivered on camera, in fullNews bulletin, 2022Spoken
00:41:37Committee session — exchange with members on the same measureProceedings, 2022Spoken
02:15:49Evening report — the chair at the podium, supporting footageArchive tape, 2023Seen + spoken
00:03:08Lower-third names the measure and the date it takes effectNews bulletin, 2022On-screen text
Illustrative. Every result carries a timecode, a source and the way it matched, and links back to the original file. Zero results is an honest answer.
3ways to run it — cloud, in-country, air-gapped
2languages first-class — Bangla and English; others scoped per archive
100%of searches, views and exports in the audit log
0identity inference by default — a separate, lawful government mode only

Vendors sell you an engine and leave you to build the system. We deliver the finished system — and leave your systems of record exactly where they are.

Ingest, index, search console, governed export, roles and audit, usable by your staff on day one. It is not a playout system, an editor, a storage product or a surveillance tool, and the index it builds is never the record — it points to yours. Built on the engine that runs in public at contentine.ai.

01

Three capabilities. One private index.

Built once from your holdings, owned by you, readable by your team as plain text.

01.1

Index

The archive, written down.

One pass over the footage produces a second-by-second written record: scene descriptions, a full transcript through Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), every caption and lower-third through Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It works on uncatalogued material and on material whose catalogue stops at the collection level. Your existing metadata is read and enriched, never replaced.

  • Bulk ingest from drives, shared storage and Linear Tape-Open (LTO) restores
  • Mixed-language material treated as the normal case, not an exception
  • Originals checksummed on the way in; nothing is re-encoded
  • Output readable as text and returnable as sidecar metadata
Inputs
Tape restores, drives, watch-folders, digitisation output, existing digital libraries
Output
Timestamped scenes, speech and on-screen text; exportable as text or sidecar fields
Languages
Bangla and English first-class; others scoped on your own sample
Integrity
Checksum on ingest; index inspectable; originals untouched
01.3

Govern

Access, retention and proof — as product.

The controls a regulator, a bench or a board expects are features, not add-ons. Who may see what is decided by role-based access control (RBAC) mapped to your directory. How long footage is kept is a retention window with a disposition date, suspended by a legal hold when a matter demands it. What left the system, when, and in whose hands, is a manifest with a Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2) digest — the same file, provably.

  • Every search, view and export attributed and logged
  • Retention windows, disposition dates, legal holds
  • Tamper-evident exports with digests and access history
  • Production packs assembled for the regulator or the court
Audit
Complete log, owned by your compliance team
Retention
Per-asset windows and holds; deletion on schedule, never on its own initiative
Evidence
Chain-of-custody exports with checksums and access history
Exit
Originals, index and log returned; deletion is a contract term
01.4

Accessibility

Captions, audio description and plain-language search for public media and education, delivered with our Shruti-Drishti accessibility programme.

Insights

Library-level intelligence: holdings summaries, usage and licensing reports, board- and donor-ready briefs drawn from the index.

Extensions

Scoped where the need is real and the red lines hold: continuous compliance recording and first-broadcast provenance checks.

02

Your system of record stays the record.

The question every institution asks first — and the answer we put in the contract.

Contentine Labs is a sidecar. It reads from whatever already holds your footage, keeps your identifiers and checksums, and returns an index that points back to the original. The index is a derivative; the master, the catalogue entry, the evidential original and the book of record remain authoritative, in your custody, unedited. Machine-generated fields are labelled as machine-generated and never written over a human's description.

It reads from
The system that holds the footage
A Media Asset Management (MAM) system, a preservation repository, a Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS), a Video Content Management System (VCMS) or a call recorder — through connectors and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Where the files live
Shared storage, object storage, LTO restores, digitisation output — indexed in place.
Your directory
Single sign-on (SSO) and your existing roles.
It is not
The record
Not the preservation master, the archival description, the evidential original, the official transcript or the book of record.
The signal path
Not playout, transmission, live production or the edit.
The judge
It finds and proves; people decide.
03

Runs where your policy says it must.

Three postures, one product. Your security officer asks this before anything else, so it comes before anything else.

T1Cloud

Managed, disclosed region, live in days. For streaming, education and agencies.

T2In-country

Footage and index in an approved data centre in Bangladesh. For broadcasters, banks and ministries.

T3Air-gapped

Your own facility, no internet connection at all, models on premises. For courts, parliaments and classified archives.

ParameterT1 — CloudT2 — In-countryT3 — Air-gapped
Footage and indexManaged cloud, disclosed regionAn approved data centre in BangladeshYour own facility
Internet requiredYesPolicy-scopedNo
Artificial-intelligence (AI) modelsFrontier-class, cloudCloud or local, per policyOn premises — open or certified frontier-class
Access and auditFullFullFull
Personal dataCase-by-caseProcessed in-country where your classification or lawful basis requires itNothing leaves the facility
Typical startDaysWeeksScoped deployment

Postures are scoped per engagement. Legal applicability is specific to you and your counsel; we describe design intent, not advice.

04

Six rooms where footage piles up.

The same problem wears a different name in each of them. Read the one that is yours.

  1. 01Broadcast and news
  2. 02Government archives and heritage
  3. 03Courts and digital evidence
  4. 04Education and public media
  5. 05Streaming and sport
  6. 06Banking and regulated enterprise
04.1 · Broadcast and news

Forty years of bulletins, findable from the desk.

Newsrooms do not have a footage problem; they have a finding problem. The rushes exist, the tape restores exist, the Media Asset Management (MAM) system knows a title and a date — and the producer needs the clip where the minister said the word, by four o'clock. Manual logging has never kept pace with acquisition and never will.

We index in place from ingest and central storage, write scene, speech and on-screen-text fields back to your MAM as sidecar metadata, and let the desk search by description. The Non-Linear Editing (NLE) suite receives the exact frame. The Master Control Room (MCR), the Central Apparatus Room (CAR), signal processing and the video server sit outside anything we touch: we are never in the transmission path, and we say so in writing. Bangla and English bulletins in the same programme are the ordinary case here.

The archive stops being a storage bill and starts behaving like a licensing desk.

Reads from
Ingest chain, central storage, LTO restores, the MAM
Hands to
The NLE, as the exact frame plus logged clip and still exports
Never touches
MCR, CAR, signal processing, video server and playout
04.2 · Government archives and heritage

After digitisation, the finding aid.

A funded digitisation programme turns carriers into files. It does not turn files into finding aids. An archivist knows that a preservation master is not a working copy, that a checksum is a promise, that a collection-level description is honest but useless to a researcher who needs the speech, and that machine-generated metadata must never masquerade as archival description.

So the index is built from access copies, carries the identifier and checksum of the preservation object it points to, and labels every machine-derived field as machine-derived. Researchers search by what was said and shown; the catalogue remains the catalogue; the repository remains the repository. Retention and disposition run on your schedule — the system never disposes of anything on its own. This is the position a film archive or a records directorate is in the day the scanning contract delivers.

Reads from
The catalogue and finding aids, the preservation repository, digitisation output
Returns
Labelled discovery fields, timecoded, linked by identifier
Never becomes
The preservation master or the authoritative description
04.3 · Courts and digital evidence

Find the moment. Prove it is the same file.

Evidence is scattered across body-worn cameras, closed-circuit television, interview rooms, submitted phones — and, for older cases, tape and disc that no central search has ever reached. The test is not whether a reviewer can find the moment; it is whether finding it leaves the evidential original untouched, the chain of custody intact and the disclosure defensible.

The original is never modified. The index is a derivative beside your Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) and Records Management System (RMS), which keep the primary relationship — we are the legacy-archive, federated and sovereign search layer they do not have. Every access and export is logged; a production pack carries the digest before and after, so the recipient can verify the file for themselves. Nothing here decides, scores or adjudicates; it finds, and it proves. Identification of people is off unless a lawful, audited government mode is agreed in writing. Proceedings in Bangla and English are searched in either language.

Reads from
DEMS and RMS identifiers, the evidence store, restored legacy media
Produces
Hash-verified production packs with access history
Never becomes
The evidential original, the adjudication, or a redaction tool
04.4 · Education and public media

The lecture, searchable to the slide.

Students remember what the lecturer said and what was on the slide, not the file name in the Video Content Management System (VCMS). Librarians inherit special collections whose descriptions were written for a card catalogue. Both want the same thing — jump to the moment — without replacing the lecture-capture pipeline, the Learning Management System (LMS) or the streaming service that already work.

We index the recordings the institution already owns, speech and slides together, and return timecoded results and captions that respect course permissions. Migrations stop being a discovery loss: index before, during and after the move. Availability windows and approval workflows follow your content-governance policy. There is no identity inference on students or staff.

Reads from
VCMS and LMS course structure, lecture-capture output, digital collections, SSO
Returns
Timecoded results, captions and transcripts in the course context
Doesn't replace
The capture system, the LMS, the streaming platform
04.5 · Streaming and sport

Every instance of a moment is a sentence, not a project.

A producer knows the moment — the save, the line, the sponsor's board in shot — and not the asset name, and the content supply chain answers questions about assets. Across a season of full matches, "find every time this happened" is a project unless something has already watched the footage. We have.

Moments come back semantically across the whole catalogue, with the rights window and licensing fields that already exist surfaced beside each one, so the second question — may we use it — is answered with the first. Logging conventions are yours; we supply time-coded descriptors to shrink the backlog. We feed the highlight; we do not cut it. Playout, transmission and distribution stay exactly as they are.

Reads from
The content supply chain, MAM proxies and storage, rights data
Hands to
Editors, as deep links into the NLE; exports logged
Never touches
Playout, transmission, the edit, or rights adjudication
04.6 · Banking and regulated enterprise

Books and records, answered by search.

A regulator asks for the communications, not for a description of the system that holds them: readily accessible, protected from alteration, promptly produced in a usable format, kept for the schedule and not a day less. Recording is solved. Retrieval across years of calls in several languages is what is answered by reconstruction and sampling.

We index recorded calls and meetings from the recorder you already run and the Write Once, Read Many (WORM) archive you already keep — recorder-agnostic, both left untouched. Compliance searches by what was said; a request becomes a batch selection and a production pack with a time-stamped trail and digests. Retention schedules and legal holds apply; personally identifiable information (PII) stays behind roles. It is post-recording search and information governance, not market-abuse detection and not live monitoring. Bangla and English calls are indexed together.

Reads from
The call and meeting recorder, the WORM archive, surveillance and quality-assurance (QA) case identifiers
Produces
Production packs with time-stamped audit trail and digests
Never becomes
The book of record, a trade-surveillance engine, or real-time interception
The same line, in one table
SectorReads fromNever becomes or touches
Broadcast and newsIngest chain, central storage, LTO restores, the MAMMCR, CAR, signal processing, video server and playout
Government archives and heritageThe catalogue and finding aids, the preservation repository, digitisation outputThe preservation master or the authoritative description
Courts and digital evidenceDEMS and RMS identifiers, the evidence store, restored legacy mediaThe evidential original, the adjudication, or a redaction tool
Education and public mediaVCMS and LMS course structure, lecture-capture output, digital collections, SSOThe capture system, the LMS, the streaming platform
Streaming and sportThe content supply chain, MAM proxies and storage, rights dataPlayout, transmission, the edit, or rights adjudication
Banking and regulated enterpriseThe call and meeting recorder, the WORM archive, surveillance and quality-assurance (QA) case identifiersThe book of record, a trade-surveillance engine, or real-time interception
Also serving
Corporate legal and eDiscovery — recorded interviews, meetings and hotline material through preservation, review and production Legislatures and Hansard — long, multilingual, speaker-driven proceedings with permanent retrieval Public inquiries and tribunals — every recorded hearing governed, with defensible production packs Insurance claims and special investigations — claim video and recorded calls, searchable and governed Defence and critical-incident holdings — air-gapped, scoped case by case
Operating notes — Bangladesh

The Personal Data Protection Act, 2026 (Act No. 63 of 2026) was enacted on 10 April 2026 and replaced the 2025 Ordinance; most of it is deemed effective from 6 November 2025, with section 23 and sections 31–35 on deferred commencement. It treats facial images, voiceprints and other biometric identifiers as sensitive personal data (সংবেদনশীল ব্যক্তিগত উপাত্ত), and its cross-border regime turns on classification and safeguards rather than blanket localisation. Our position follows the Act rather than the shorthand: deploy in-country or air-gapped when your classification, risk assessment, procurement rules or lawful-processing basis require it, and keep biometric and person identification switched off unless explicitly authorised. Retention windows follow the Act's data-minimisation and lifecycle logic; audit and access controls are there to support your governance. What applies to you is a question for your counsel.

The situations this product exists for are already here. The Bangladesh Film Archive digitises, keeps a film catalogue and procures through the electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system; a 2025 procurement sought the collection and preservation of audio-visual documents (অডিও-ভিজ্যুয়াল ডকুমেন্ট সংগ্রহ ও সংরক্ষণ) from the 2024 uprising; Parliament publishes searchable proceedings. A digital archive (ডিজিটাল আর্কাইভ) needs a search and governance layer after digitisation, beside the catalogue. We state these as public facts, not as relationships.

Briefing notes in Bangla or English. The international overview is at the global edition.

05

Red lines, in writing.

Institutions trust systems whose limits are explicit. Ours are contractual, not cosmetic.

05.1

The index is a derivative

Everything the system produces points to an original it did not change. Machine-generated fields are marked as such and are never written over a description a person wrote.

05.2

Identity is gated, not default

Standard engagements describe appearance — never who someone is. Identity exists only in a separate government mode: agreed in writing, on a documented lawful basis, limited to named subjects, every match reviewed by a person.

05.3

No mass surveillance

We index archives you own — not the public, not social media, not live populations. Untargeted watchlisting and real-time population matching are declined in every contract.

05.4

No silent access

Every search, view and export is attributed and logged, and the log belongs to your compliance team.

05.5

No lock-in

Leave with everything: untouched originals, the full index as readable text, the audit log. Return and deletion are contract terms.

In their default, appearance-only configuration, deployments carry no biometric identification, categorisation or emotion inference — which keeps them in the minimal-risk tier of the European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, a point that matters to multinational and donor-funded programmes. The restricted government identity mode is treated as high-risk processing, scoped per jurisdiction to a lawful basis and the Act's or the local equivalent's requirements, and never used for real-time remote identification in public spaces.

06

The implementation risk, before the demo.

Institutional buyers decide on implementation risk, and South Asian tenders have their own grammar — Selection of Agency, Establishment and Operations, Development and Maintenance, Dedicated Resources, As per Statement of Work (SOW). Our documents are written in it, for inclusion in electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) and e-Tender submissions beside your prime systems integrator (SI).

Request for Proposal (RFP) requirements template

Requirement-by-requirement language your evaluators can lift: search inside video, on-premise or air-gapped indexing, multilingual search, integration with the system of record, audit trail and chain of custody, retention and legal hold, hash-verified export, acceptance criteria, support.

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Security and deployment architecture

Reference designs for the three postures; identity and SSO; network boundaries; availability and backup; what leaves the facility — and on T3, that nothing does.

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Sidecar integration guide

How the index reads from a MAM, repository, DEMS, VCMS or recorder and returns sidecar fields — identifiers, connectors, APIs, and the rule that it never rewrites.

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Accuracy evaluation guide

How to run an acceptance test on your own footage: the test corpus, speech and on-screen-text accuracy by language, visual retrieval, confidence reporting, and what "zero results" means.

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Data-sovereignty deployment guide

Mapping classification, risk assessment and lawful basis to a posture; retention and disposition; cross-border considerations; what is yours and your counsel's to decide.

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Commercial model

Licensing by indexed hours, seats and posture; a fixed-price pilot credited against year one; support and maintenance; exit terms in writing.

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Bill of quantities (BoQ) / SOW lineContentine, as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)Prime systems integrator (SI)
Product capability matrixCapability statement, requirement by requirementConsolidated into the technical bid
Deployment architectureReference design for T1 / T2 / T3Site survey, hardware, network, data-centre space
IntegrationConnectors and APIs to the catalogue, repository or evidence systemDepartmental systems and the digital archival portal
Migration and indexingIndexing engine, bulk-ingest tooling, index QADigitisation, tape restore, media handling, migration labour
TrainingAdministrators and searchers, in Bangla or EnglishEnd-user rollout and change management
Acceptance testAccuracy and acceptance criteria on your footage, named in the contractUser acceptance testing
Support and maintenanceProduct updates, second-line supportDedicated resources, first-line support, establishment and operations

Bid-language patterns, not universal clauses — each tender's Electronic Standard Tender Documents (eSTD) and SOW govern.

07

From first call to daily use.

Step 1

Scope

What is on the shelves, which system holds it, who needs to find things, and which posture your policy requires. Enquiries answered within two working days.

Step 2

Pilot — 30 days

Up to 1,000 hours indexed at a fixed price, five seats, success and accuracy criteria named in the contract. Your staff search real footage.

Step 3

Deploy

Your tier, your data centre if required, your single sign-on and roles, your retention rules. Training rights and data handling agreed in writing.

Step 4

Operate

Training, support, quarterly reviews, and a usage report your finance team can read. The pilot fee is credited against year one.

Capability statement, tender annexes and the documents above are available on request.

08 — Contact

Bring us an archive room.

Tell us what is on the shelves and who keeps asking for clips. We come back within two working days with a scoped pilot: fixed price, named success criteria, your deployment posture. Briefing notes in Bangla or English.

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09

Questions institutions ask.

Can we search footage that was never catalogued?

Yes. The index is built from the footage itself — speech, on-screen text, and scene descriptions — so thin or missing metadata is not a barrier. Whatever metadata you do have is read and enriched, not overwritten.

How does this sit with the Personal Data Protection Act, 2026?

The Act (No. 63 of 2026) treats facial images, voiceprints and other biometric identifiers as sensitive personal data, and governs cross-border transfer by classification and safeguards rather than blanket localisation. So we do not say "all data must stay in Bangladesh". We say: deploy in-country or air-gapped when your classification, risk assessment, procurement rules or lawful-processing basis require it, and keep identification switched off unless explicitly authorised. Retention controls follow the Act's data-minimisation logic; audit and access support your governance. What applies to you is for your counsel.

How does an e-GP procurement work with a systems integrator?

Delivery runs beside your enlisted prime systems integrator (SI) through the electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system. Contentine supplies the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) capability matrix, the deployment architecture, the indexing engine, product training and second-line support; the prime SI supplies site works, digitisation and migration labour, departmental integration, dedicated resources and first-line operations. The boundary is written into the Bill of Quantities (BoQ) and the Statement of Work (SOW).

Can a question in Bangla find an English moment?

Yes, and the reverse. Bangla and English are first-class for speech and on-screen text, including a programme, hearing or call that switches between them.

Does our footage have to leave the building?

No. Cloud is one of three postures. In-country keeps footage and index inside an approved data centre in your jurisdiction; air-gapped runs in your own facility with no internet connection at all. The posture is a contract term.

Which languages?

Bangla and English are first-class for speech and on-screen text, including archives that mix both. Other languages run through the same engine and are scoped on a sample of your own material, with accuracy measured rather than promised.

We already run a MAM, a repository or an evidence system. What changes?

Nothing you own. The index sits beside it, searchable through our console and returnable as sidecar metadata, with your identifiers and checksums intact. Every result points back to the original object in your system.

How is chain of custody handled?

Every search, view and export is attributed and logged. An export carries a Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2) digest and a manifest with its access history, so the recipient can verify it is the same file. The original is never modified.

Can it keep material for the right period and no longer?

Yes. Retention windows and disposition dates are set per asset; a legal hold suspends deletion when a matter requires it. The system never disposes of anything on its own initiative.

Can it identify people?

By default, no — it describes appearance. It can find "a man in a red jacket near the gate" without saying who he is. Identity is offered only under a separate, restricted government mode: in writing, on a documented lawful basis, limited to named subjects, every match reviewed by a person, every action logged. Never by default and never for mass surveillance.

What happens if we leave?

You take everything — untouched originals, the full index as readable text, and the audit log. Return and deletion are contract terms, not negotiations.

How soon can our team search?

A pilot slice is typically searchable within days of receiving footage; a full 1,000-hour pilot completes inside 30 days, including deployment, training and your team's own test queries.

What should our tender ask for?

Seven things, in requirement form: search inside video without manual metadata; on-premise or air-gapped indexing; multilingual search; integration with the system you already run; audit trail and chain of custody; retention and legal hold; hash-verified export. Our Request for Proposal (RFP) requirements template is written that way.