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Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

Multimodal AI search

Multimodal AI search

Key Takeaways

Key Takeaways

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One source of truth for your entire creative team. Consolidate your workflow and cut costs.

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Playbook

Shade vs. Playbook

See how Shade stacks up against Playbook and where the use cases make sense for each.

Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Playbook advertises itself as the Dropbox for Designers. You can see more in our comparison with Dropbox. Practically, Shade and Playbook serve two different purposes and markets. At Shade, we’ve designed our file system to work with petabytes of data across multiple locations and regions. This enables you to create a highly flexible and customizable infrastructure plan using our managed or bring-your-own storage offerings across your local, on-prem, and cloud infrastructure. Playbook only offers their creative cloud as a solution. Shade’s AI search provides a full neural search capability across all petabytes of data to find exactly what you need across these locations. Shade is also well suited to support over 500 file types across various other media, including BRAW, R3D, Audio, 3D objects, and more. All of these are searchable with AI using Shade.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

The cloud has historically promised much but has underdelivered with slow internet access, hefty egress fees, and poor data management. However, clouds and tools like Playbook are not designed to work with terabytes of files in real-time. Shade, however, with our ability to stream chunks of files and work with them in downstream applications, you can search, work, and share terabytes of data in real time from any location to any software. Shade also supports bringing your own storage to have the exact search and access capabilities on your existing hardware infrastructure. Now, all your data from anywhere is accessible as if it were on a super intelligent SSD.

Multimodal AI search

Shade offers a multimodal AI neural search—not just a tag-based search. This means you can search for “two people walking through a forest” or a “tinny snare drum” and find the exact image/video or SFX you need. We generate tags, objects, faces, and embeddings at scale so you can search through millions of files entirely in real-time.

Ready to switch?

One source of truth for your entire creative team. Consolidate your workflow and cut costs.

Book a Demo

Book a Demo

Book a Demo

See how Shade stacks up against Playbook and where the use cases make sense for each.

Shade is designed for all media workflows, not just design.

Practically, Shade and Playbook serve two different purposes and markets. Shade organizes items traditionally as files to work well with operating systems and downstream applications. Shade can AI search over 500 different file and media types, including BRAW, R3D, Audio, 3D objects, and more.

Creative teams need hybrid solutions.

Shade is designed for hybrid workflows and systems where data is on-premises, such as long-term storage, NAS, and any other server infrastructure preconfigured. It unifies your data across cloud storage providers and locally into one access, search, and sharing pane. Playbook offers yet another cloud alternative.

Shade is more than a UI: work with your files in real-time.

Shade offers a multimodal AI neural search—not just a tag-based search. This means you can search for “two people walking through a forest” or a “tinny snare drum” and find the exact image/video or SFX you need. We generate tags, objects, faces, and embeddings at scale so you can search through millions of files entirely in real-time.

Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Shade is built to manage petabytes.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

Work like you’re on an SSD, not in the cloud.

Multimodal AI search

Multimodal AI search

Multimodal AI search

Key Takeaways

Key Takeaways

Key Takeaways

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