ContextFormers

Multi-Modal AI Extraction
for Complex Physical & Digital Assets.

Turn unstructured photos, video, documents, 360° panoramas, and LiDAR data into privacy-safe, actionable enterprise intelligence. Eliminate manual analysis and deliver trusted compliance and operational insights automatically.

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DISPARATE SIGNALSFORMED CONTEXT

WHY CONTEXT MATTERS

AI only knows what fits in its context window.

A model has no memory beyond its working context. Everything it knows about a task at a given moment is whatever fits in that window. What is not there does not exist. The limit on enterprise AI is rarely intelligence. It is that the information needed to make a good decision is trapped in formats a model cannot use: a decade of broadcast footage, a hospital floor scanned in 360°, a shelf of as-built drawings.

Detection alone does not fix this. Recognizing a face in a frame is a detection. Knowing that it is the correspondent from the 2019 broadcast, that the clip is cleared for licensing, and that the bystander beside her must be redacted before delivery is context.

ContextFormers forms that context. We extract what matters from visual and spatial sources, connect it to your own people, assets, places, terminology, and source evidence, validate it, and deliver it into the systems you already run. The result is intelligence a model, or a person, can trust.

Generative AIMultimodal searchComputer visionSpatial AIWorkflow automationEnterprise integration
17,000+Hours indexed
20TB+Processed
6Major film & TV productions
3 yrsDaily production use

THE PRODUCT

One engine that scales across industries.

ContextFormers is a single extraction engine. It ingests visual and spatial source material, extracts what matters, forms context around the results, validates them, and delivers structured output into the systems customers already run.

The same engine runs on a broadcast archive, a hospital floor, and a set of utility drawings. What changes is the input and the output schema — not the intelligence in between.

01

Extract

Detect, read, and locate what matters across images, video, audio, documents, and spatial sources.

02

Form context

Connect detections to the customer's own people, assets, places, terminology, and source evidence.

03

Validate

Confidence, cross-source corroboration, and human review before anything is treated as fact.

04

Deliver

Structured output into search, GIS, asset systems, APIs, and the workflows already in use.

Trust runs through every step: privacy, governance, provenance, confidence, and human review.

Asset detection across a facility scan with bounding boxes and confidence scores
Detection with confidence scoring
Text recognition reading equipment labels and room numbers from a 360-degree scan
Label and sign recognition
Detected assets mapped onto a building floor plan with coordinates
Detections mapped to floor-plan coordinates

TRACTION

Already running in production.

ContextFormers is not a demo. The engine had three years of daily production use behind it before the company was formed — and it is now licensed inside an Esri partner's product.

ARCHIVE INTELLIGENCE3 yrs

Daily production at the Los Angeles News Service

Three years of daily use powering search and licensing across one of the most important broadcast news archives in the country — shipped and demonstrated throughout as VizmoAI, before ContextFormers was formed to commercialize it.

DISTRIBUTIONLicensed

Teaming and licensing with geoConvergence

A signed teaming, joint development, and licensing agreement with geoConvergence — an Esri Gold Business Partner and 20-year Cornerstone Partner. Facility intelligence — indoor asset detection from 360° scans and LiDAR — is licensed into their Scan2Twin pipeline and running in ArcGIS Indoors, with joint work underway on infrastructure intelligence for utilities.

MEDIA COLLECTION80K

Major Hollywood estate collection

An 80,000-asset pilot on a major Hollywood estate collection — cataloging, indexing, and making searchable decades of historically significant media.

WHERE IT APPLIES

One engine. Three applications.

PRIVACY IS A GATE, NOT A FEATURE

Redaction is a legal requirement before a scan can be delivered.

In hospitals and other occupied buildings, scans capture identifiable people, screens, documents, and protected health information. That data must be redacted before it can be stored, shared, or used in any system.

ContextFormers products detect and obfuscate PII automatically—faces, text, screens, and sensitive areas—immediately after capture, ensuring compliance before data enters any downstream platform.

Deployment, isolation, and redaction

REAL-WORLD INTELLIGENCE

Turn the world into structured intelligence.

Choose a context to see how unstructured information becomes intelligence that people and systems can use.

Broadcast archive control room with media intelligence overlaysModern facility interior with equipment and facility intelligence overlaysDigital site plan and mapped environment with infrastructure intelligence overlays
Showing Media Intelligence

01 / Media Intelligence

Find the moments and meaning hidden across media.

Identify people, voices, dialogue, objects, locations, and events—then connect every match to its source and surrounding context.

Intelligence your systems can use

01

Searchable moments

Find the exact segment, object, place, or event.

02

Structured metadata

Create consistent, governed context for every source.

03

Connected knowledge

Reveal relationships across people, places, and events.

04

Workflow-ready signals

Connect verified signals to enterprise systems, human review, and the next best action.

FOUNDING TEAM

Built by people who know the archive and the enterprise.

ContextFormers brings together enterprise technology, AI product development, and lived experience creating and managing historically important media.

Bala Kalyanasundaram, Co-founder of ContextFormers

CO-FOUNDER · Chief Product & Operations Officer

Bala Kalyanasundaram

Formerly Director of UX at Google; enterprise AI platforms and agentic experiences
Zoey Tur, Co-founder of ContextFormers

CO-FOUNDER · President

Zoey Tur

Emmy and Murrow award-winning broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, and aviation pioneer

GET IN TOUCH

See ContextFormers on your data.

We’ll run a walkthrough on your archive, scans, or spatial data—so you can see exactly what ContextFormers finds.

hello@contextformers.com