Ceivo has joined the TwelveLabs Verified Partner Program, bringing state-of-the-art video understanding directly into the Ceivo platform. Unlike computer vision models that break video into frames and audio separately — never achieving holistic understanding — TwelveLabs processes video natively across visual, audio, and temporal modalities simultaneously, delivering semantic understanding of what content actually means, not just what objects appear on screen. Customers can now search, clip, and reason over their entire video library using TwelveLabs' multimodal models — running on Amazon Bedrock inside the customer's own AWS account, so their media files never leave their control.
What this means for customers
The integration connects Ceivo's governance layer to TwelveLabs' video foundation models, deployed through Amazon Bedrock in the customer's own AWS environment. That means natural-language search, scene-level understanding, and automatic clipping all execute privately — within the customer's account, on their infrastructure, with their files staying exactly where they are. No data is copied to a third-party service. No footage leaves the building.
- Semantic search across video — ask for "cars driving at sunset" and get back exact timecoded matches, not just filename hits.
- Automatic scene and action detection — no manual tagging required, and no army of interns needed to catch up on the archive.
- Natural-language reasoning over footage — summarize a clip, pull highlights, or generate shotlists directly from the content itself.
- Full provenance — every AI-generated output is traceable back to the source asset, the exact model version that produced it, and the policy context it ran under.
Why it matters
Media teams are drowning in footage. Traditional metadata-based search only finds what a human remembered to tag — and in most libraries, that's a tiny fraction of what's actually there. Conventional computer vision approaches try to solve this by analysing frames and audio in isolation, but they miss the relationships between what's being said, what's being shown, and how a scene unfolds over time. TwelveLabs takes a fundamentally different approach — processing video natively across visual, audio, and temporal modalities at once — so the search understands what a scene means, not just which objects a frame contains. With TwelveLabs inside Ceivo, every frame becomes searchable, and every result ships with the rights, usage, and policy context that governance teams need.
Because the AI runs on Amazon Bedrock inside the customer's own AWS account, there is no data sharing with external services — the models come to the media, not the other way around. For studios, broadcasters, and rights holders who treat their content libraries as crown jewels, that distinction is everything. Files stay local, compute stays private, and the customer retains full custody of their assets at every step.
That combination — powerful video AI, a proper governance layer, and true data residency — is exactly what enterprise media operations have been waiting for. Most AI tools make the content findable. Very few make it safely findable at the scale of a real studio or broadcaster, without requiring the customer to hand their footage to yet another cloud service.
Governance first, always
The integration runs through Ceivo's Model Context Protocol (MCP) layer, which means every TwelveLabs call against a customer's content is:
- Policy-checked in-flight — rights, usage, and access controls are enforced before the model ever sees a frame
- Fully logged — who ran what, against which asset, with which model version
- Cost-aware — teams can see and control the compute footprint of AI search across their library
"Pairing TwelveLabs' video understanding with Ceivo's media governance gives our customers the best of both worlds: powerful AI search and the auditability enterprise media operations demand." — Ceivo Team
What's next
The integration is available now to Ceivo customers on the Pro and Enterprise plans. We'll be demoing it live at NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas on the Signiant "Connected Intelligence" booth (Stand W2131, West Hall), with a joint on-stage session at the TwelveLabs booth on Monday, April 20.
Request a demo to see it live, or reach out to your account team for rollout details.