BlueWhale Stack lets media networks and broadcasters run production, playout, archive and bureau estates from one control plane — on-premise at headquarters, public cloud for burst and OTT, and offline-tolerant edge at bureaus and field sites. Whale AI runs inside the perimeter for newsroom search, transcription and archive research in Arabic and English, with Observability watching it and the audit log recording it.
- In-perimeter
- Whale AI for newsroom and archive — no external AI exposure
- Arabic · English
- Bilingual newsroom and archive AI, fully offline where required
- Edge
- Bureaus and field sites under headquarters-grade policy
- One estate
- Production, playout, archive and OTT governed together
The regimes, and the control that answers each
| Regime | What it demands | The control that answers it |
|---|---|---|
| Sustained cyber threat against newsrooms | Uniform posture at headquarters, bureaus and field sites; privileged access attributable | One identity fabric with least-privilege, time-bound access; continuous vulnerability scanning across every estate; Edge Agent policy at bureaus |
| Editorial confidentiality & source protection | Newsroom material never reaches an external AI service | Whale AI in-perimeter on the network's own model, including fully offline; every prompt and response logged and versioned |
| Rights, retention & archive obligations | Archive and production assets governed with defensible retention | Policy as configuration across MAM and archive estates; evidence generated continuously |
| Broadcast continuity | Production and playout health visible, with ownership | Unified health and events; alert routing with ownership; ServiceNow and Jira integration |
What Media & Broadcasting teams get
- Run production, playout and archive on-premise, public cloud for burst and OTT, and bureau edge sites under one identity and one policy set
- Keep newsroom AI inside the perimeter — transcription, translation, archive search and research on the network's own model, logged and versioned
- Extend a uniform security posture to the most exposed remote bureaus, not just headquarters
- Join health, events and service operations across broadcast IT, newsroom systems and MAM into one view
- Meter and decompose cloud spend by production, programme and bureau
- Answer rights, retention and audit questions from a system of record rather than a scramble
Use cases
Archive and newsroom AI inside the perimeter
Arabic–English archive search, transcription and research assistance on the network's own model, deployed in the customer's environment — including fully disconnected — with Observability watching it and Audit logging it. Modules: Whale AI, Cloud Audit & Evidence.
Bureaus and field sites under one policy
Offline-tolerant edge estates at bureaus inherit headquarters-grade identity, policy and posture through the Edge Agent, and report into the same inventory. Modules: Identity & Access, Inventory & Discovery.
Production, playout and OTT as one estate
On-premise production, cloud burst and OTT platforms discovered, governed and billed together — spend decomposed by programme, production and bureau. Modules: Inventory & Discovery, Whalenomics, Observe.
Delivered engagement — Global media network, Doha
A Doha-headquartered media network put broadcast, streaming, archive and worldwide bureaus under one governance plane, ran Whale AI on its own models inside the perimeter for archive intelligence and transcription, and decomposed production cost per channel and programme.
- Zero
- External AI data exposure
- Arabic-English
- Offline archive AI
- Per-program
- Cost visibility
“The newsroom now uses AI for archive search and transcription every day, and every prompt and every document stays on our own systems. Sources and unpublished work have never left the building.”
Procurement, hosting and integration questions
Does newsroom material ever reach an external AI service?
No. Whale AI runs inside the network's perimeter on the model the network chooses — hosted in-region, its own, or fully offline — and every prompt and response is logged and versioned.
Which languages does the newsroom AI support?
Arabic and English were delivered for a global newsroom in Doha; other languages depend on the model the network selects.
Which edition is this?
The Enterprise Edition, deployed on-premise or BYOC, with Sovereign Operations classes where a bureau or archive must stay disconnected.
Platform certifications
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO 22301, independently audited by accredited bodies; a CSA STAR Level 1 self-assessment, a GDPR compliance assessment and a SOC 2 Type II readiness assessment. Certificates and verification numbers are in the Trust Center.