The brief is incomplete. The approval is in somebody’s inbox. Adobe Workfront built a business around the hours that vanish between having an idea and getting it out the door.
A singing picture brought Hedra its first rush of users. The harder business was learning what creators needed after the joke landed: a place to plan, test, make and revise the whole piece.
Branko Lukic helped turn a portable speaker into a design statement. His next problem is more personal: keeping your own judgment in the work when AI can generate almost anything.
AI made it cheap to create another image, video or campaign. Canto is betting companies will pay to remember which version they can actually use.
LucidLink is a San Francisco-based company that makes cloud storage feel like a local hard drive. Its Filespaces platform streams file data on demand from cloud object storage, letting creative teams and enterprises around the world collaborate on huge files - video, design, datasets - without syncing or downloading. Customers include Paramount, Spotify, Adobe, A&E Networks, BuzzFeed and Shopify.