Archival · Rights · Clearance

The production workspace for every third-party asset.

Production is chaos — we bring the order.

arcWorks helps archival and clearance teams track assets, rights, releases, budgets, and EDLs from first cut to final delivery.

Illustration of the arcWorks project board: clearance progress, budget, and releases for a documentary series at a glance.

Trusted by archive & production teams worldwide
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from scattered to sorted

One workspace instead of twelve tabs

arcWorks · one recordSYNCED
The Last Reel · everything in one place
Asset + source + rightsLINKED
Releases + signaturesTRACKED
Budget + EDL + legalIN SYNC
Provenance + AI checksVERIFIED
Versions + deliverablesAUDIT-READY
One source of truth — no more FINAL_v7.

Built for the arc of production

1
Pre-production
Plan sources & budget early.
2
Production
Capture releases as you shoot.
3
Post-production
Match EDL cuts to clearance.
4
Legal review
Redline & sign in place.
5
Final delivery
Audit-ready, every asset cleared.
everything in one bin

Tools that fit how you actually work

Asset Archive
Searchable home for clips, stills & music.
EDL Import & Rectification
Cuts mapped to source & status.
Content Budgeting
Live spend vs. budget.
Releases
E-sign talent, location & crowd.
Collaborative Legal Review
Redlines & approvals together.
AI Metadata Extraction
BITC recognition & tagging.
Usage Terms & Restrictions
Territory, term & expiry tracked.
Deliverables Tracking
Every version, audit-ready.
intelligent. organized.

One workspace, every clearance job

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Mock of the Asset Archive: a season-wide catalog of licensed clips with arcTrace AI-provenance status, vendor, and usage for each clip.

inside Legal Workspace

Term Tracker — the production ends, the liability doesn’t

Borrowed footage, stills, and music are almost never licensed forever — it’s “one year from delivery,” a festival window, a territory through 2027. Term Tracker watches the clock on every inbound license and alerts at 90 / 60 / 30 days, so nothing lapses while it’s still in your distributed cut.

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ship it clean

Deliverables — the exact format each studio wants, auto-filled

Pick who you’re delivering to and arcWorks loads their required format, then fills it from your project data. Drag in the fields you need, resolve any gaps it flags, and export a package that’s audit-ready.

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1Pick recipient
2Auto-fill from project
3Resolve gaps
4Deliver package
a little help from AI

Six AI features, built right into the bin

Each works on your real documents and assets — reading metadata, verifying authenticity, extracting terms, and scoring risk. No guesswork.

01 · CONVERSATIONAL COPILOT
Ask Cue
Ask anything about an asset and get a sourced answer — drawn from your documents, not guesses.
Find blockersStatus rollupSemantic searchDraft vendor emailsForecast delivery
AI Metadata Extraction · BITC
Reads burn-in timecode straight off the frame and auto-tags every segment in seconds.
Burn-in timecode, read automatically. 12 segments auto-tagged in seconds.
Provenance & AI Detection
Checks every asset for AI-generated content, verifies its C2PA history, and reverse-matches the original source.
and it doesn’t stop at chat
AI Document Parsing
Reads licenses and extracts every term into structured fields.
AI Redline Risk Scoring
Scores clause risk and flags off-policy grants before you send.
AI Auto-Proposals
Detects new assets and proposes the right binding and layout.

Your whole team, on the same page

Remote producers, editors, and legal reviewers work from one source of truth — redlines, document reviews, approvals, and project updates, centralized.

Real-time redlines & comments
Invite legal & production parties
Approvals & sign-off, tracked
Clause 4 — Grant of Rights

Licensor grants a perpetual three (3) year worldwide license.

JLJ. Lewis · Legal
Capped at 3 years per master agreement.
● 2 of 3 signedFinalize
built by people who know the work

We've chased the missing release at 2am, too

3PSync was built by archival, clearance, and post-production veterans who lived the spreadsheet chaos — and decided to fix it. arcWorks is the tool we wished we'd had on every show.

Archival Producers
decades on doc + unscripted
Clearance & Legal
rights, releases, restrictions
Post-production
EDLs, delivery, finishing
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Tell us about your production and we’ll show you how arcWorks fits your archival and clearance workflow.

A walkthrough tailored to your show
Migration from your current spreadsheets
no more 2am asset hunts

Stop chasing assets.
Start clearing with confidence.

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