Ryan McKeague is the founder and CEO of Flomenco, one of the three winners of the 2025 PILOT Innovation Challenge. In today’s media landscape, teams face growing pressure to create, adapt and deliver content faster, often with fewer resources. Yet many are still stuck with fragmented tools, manual processes and disconnected data that limit their agility.
Flomenco was built to change that.
As a 2025 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge winner, Flomenco was proud to introduce an expansion of our product into an AI-powered media automation platform that simplifies operations, accelerates workflows and helps teams get more value from their media.
Flomenco: The Next Generation
Flomenco is built for the next era of media operations—tailored to simplify and speed up workflows for creators, studios and enterprises. Drawing from deep industry experience and modern cloud and AI technologies, Flomenco transforms time-consuming tasks into structured, efficient processes.
At the heart of the platform are three pillars: intelligent media relationship creation and discovery, no/low-code workflow automation and built-in operational analytics. Together, they help eliminate manual work, break down data silos and expose new opportunities for monetization. Flomenco integrates with your existing systems and tools, giving you a centralized way to manage the content lifecycle with speed and scale.
Navigating the Evolving Media Landscape
Media organizations today—from major studios to independent creators—face a shared challenge: how to keep up with rising content demands without becoming overwhelmed by complexity. Recent reports echo these challenges.
Industry experts featured in the DPP’s 2025 Cloud Native Distribution Report remarked, “We’re focusing on trying to simplify our supply chain technologies as much as possible. As a broadcaster and a studio, we’re looking at different ways to monetise our content and our formats. We need a supply chain capability that’s extremely flexible – not just old software running in the cloud.”
Large content teams often struggle with legacy systems that slow productivity. Meanwhile, smaller teams now have access to powerful tools but lack the time or support to manage them effectively. Both ends of the spectrum feel the strain.
This dichotomy highlights a significant gap—traditional media operations struggle with inefficiencies, while emerging creators battle complexity and overload.
Flomenco: A Comprehensive Solution
Flomenco bridges the gap with a unified “control plane” for media operations. It brings together media assets and metadata, using AI to surface meaningful relationships across your library. These insights help teams discover content, automate routine work and scale more effectively.
Intelligent Asset Discovery
Search by natural language, structured metadata or context. Flomenco reveals links between related assets—such as alternate versions or derivative works—helping teams find what they need faster and make better editorial decisions.
⚙️ No-Code Workflow Automation
With Flomenco’s visual builder, teams can automate tasks like content packaging, metadata mapping, QC and delivery—without needing engineering help. Workflows are easily updated over time to respond to evolving business logic and content conditions. As one of our customers said to us recently, “As things needed to be adjusted over time, Flomenco made those changes quick and easy, allowing us to move ahead confidently with platform launches.”
Operational Excellence
Flomenco gives teams visibility into workflow performance. Monitor execution, detect anomalies and continuously improve how work gets done.
Looking Ahead
Flomenco is built for the future of media operations—intelligent, flexible, and connected. It gives teams the power to connect their systems and data, discover insights and relationships across media assets and act with speed and precision. Whether you’re distributing episodic content or uncovering value in your archive, Flomenco helps you move faster, work smarter and adapt more easily.
For more information, visit flomenco.com.