About Mix-IP

The platform built for how
creative work actually moves.

Mix-IP is a production-first platform for the studios, agencies, brands, and newsrooms that ship creative work for a living — and the reporters, photographers, directors, designers, and contributors they hire. We hold the work end-to-end: every brief, every master, every contract, every embargo, every license event, every renewal. For the legal life of the record. For the people who own it.

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Bundled on every plan: Vault 88 for NDA-gated previews · Pro Transfer App for masters at every channel size · Wise + Stripe rails for contributor payouts in 60+ currencies.

The work that holds

Production runs on tools that don't talk to each other.
The workspace, the contract, the syndicate, the renewal.
Mix-IP holds all of it on one record.

DAMs that don't hold contracts. Contracts that don't track renewals. Syndications that don't survive a wire-pickup retraction. Archives that lose source-protection NDAs after the reporter rotates out. Brand briefs that lose their commission contract when the agency rotates account leads. Mix-IP holds the work end-to-end — every brief, every master, every contract, every embargo, every license event, every renewal — for the legal life of the record, so production rights survive the people who leave and the systems that re-org.

60+ Settlement currencies Wise + Stripe rails route to creator, contributor, agency, and contractor accounts in 60+ currencies — license events fire splits the moment they trigger, not when finance gets to the spreadsheet on Friday. Payments & Contracts included.
7yr+ Archive horizon Every IPR record holds with its provenance, contracts, and contributor splits for at least seven years — on-chain anchored, audit-ready, readable in one click on every plan including Free. IP Registry included.
4 Industries served Film production, brand content, newsrooms, agencies — each with its own use-case page, each carrying the same locked product underneath. The voice changes; the architecture doesn't.
100% Provenance audit-ready Every asset's chain of custody, license terms, and contributor splits readable in one click on every plan, including Free. SHA-256 hashes anchored on every IPR registration; provenance survives the platform.
Origin — why we built this

The rights problem
we kept watching break.
For twenty-five years.

Mix-IP is not a startup platform. It is two decades of production infrastructure packaged as software — built by the people who ran the production network it was designed for. Mix-IP emerged from Transterra Media, a marketplace and production network of 20,500 journalists, filmmakers, and photographers across 180 countries delivering for ABC, BBC, CNN, Airbnb, JWT, Publicis, and Ogilvy. Three chapters below: the rights problem we kept watching break, the production-first principle, and what running on Mix-IP actually means.

01/03 The rights problem

Production runs on tools that don't talk to each other. We kept watching the work break in the seams.

DAMs that don't hold contracts. Contracts that don't track renewals. Syndications that don't survive a wire-pickup retraction. Brand briefs that lose their commission contract when the agency rotates account leads. Field reporters whose source-protection NDAs vanish when they leave the masthead. Twenty-five years building production infrastructure across 180 countries — UN broadcasts, wire-service feeds, agency campaigns, documentary productions — and the same pattern broke the same way every time. The asset survived; the rights record didn't. Mix-IP holds all of it on one record because that's the only structure that survives a multi-year audit.

  • One record per work — brief, contract, master, NDA, embargo, license event, renewal — readable for the legal life of the work
  • Provenance survives the platform — SHA-256 hash anchored on every IPR registration, audit-ready years after the byline runs
  • Designed for re-license — the documentary partner three years later can read the chain of custody without re-doing the legal work
Open IP Registry
IPR · ONE RECORD PER WORK
Investigation 2026-Q1 — The Bureau
Registered 02 Mar 2026 · SHA-256 anchored · 7yr+ horizon
Commission contract
Lead correspondent · Adisa Okonkwo
On record Counter-signed · 02 Mar
Source-protection NDAs
3 sources · KMS-encrypted
On record Tenant key · per-source
Re-license terms
Documentary · broadcast · archive
On record 7yr+ · auto-renewing
Provenance · on-chain anchored Audit-ready · one click
02/03 Production-first

Built for how the work actually ships. Not for the idealised desktop workflow that doesn't exist.

Field reporters file from a 4G hotspot. Production wraps at 3am. Brand directors rotate every 18 months. Wire pickups go regional in twelve languages. Source-protection NDAs need to outlive the reporter who signed them. Renewal events fire on a calendar nobody is watching. Mix-IP is built for those rhythms — the hotspot upload, the late-wrap timestamp, the rotation that should not break the contract record — not for a workflow that assumes everyone is online, on schedule, and reading the same Slack channel. Production-first means respecting the mess, not pretending it isn't there.

  • Tolerates the rhythms of real production — resumable uploads, async sign-off, time-zoned renewal events, multi-language masters
  • Designed for rotation — the contract, the NDA, the embargo, the renewal stay on the work record after the lead changes desk
  • Plays with the rest of the stack — CMSes, edit suites, wire feeds, e-discovery, transcription — instead of replacing them
Open Projects
PROJECTS · HOW THE WORK SHIPS
Aurora Documentary — 2026 Season
Field rushes · multi-region masters · rolling renewal
Field upload · 4G hotspot
Resumable · hash-verified
02:48 GMT 128 GB · 6 segments
Regional pickups
12 languages · staggered drop
On schedule Embargo · per-region
Retainer renewal
Auto-fires 60 days out
T-44 days License event · queued
In production · rotation-resilient Held on the work record
03/03 What running on Mix-IP means

Free tier holds the same architectural promises as Enterprise. What scales is volume, not principle.

Bundled on every plan: Vault 88 for NDA-gated previews and source-protected dailies. Pro Transfer App for terabyte-class transfer at every channel size. Wise + Stripe rails for contributor payouts in 60+ currencies. On-chain provenance on every IPR registration. SOC 2 Type II audit underway. DPA-ready at workspace creation. Per-tenant KMS keys at Enterprise — your keys, your control plane, your offboarding rotation. The Free tier and the Enterprise tier carry the same architecture; what scales between them is volume, retention horizon, and team-management surface — not the principle that the work belongs to the people who own it.

  • Free tier ships with on-chain provenance, DPA-ready, Vault 88, Pro Transfer App, and 60+ currency settlement — the architecture is the same
  • Enterprise adds per-tenant KMS keys, custom retention horizons, and team-management surface — not different products
  • Defensible from day one — the architecture that protects an Enterprise rights record protects a Free-tier solo workspace too
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EVERY PLAN · INCLUDING FREE
The architecture is the architecture.
Free · Pro · Studio · Enterprise
Vault 88
NDA-gated previews · source-protected dailies
Bundled All plans
Pro Transfer App
Desktop transfer · masters at every channel size
Bundled All plans
Payments & Contracts
Wise + Stripe · 60+ currencies
Bundled All plans
Per-tenant KMS keys
Your keys, your control plane
Enterprise AWS KMS · BYOK
Architecture · same on every tier Volume · retention · team surface
What we believe

Four principles. The product is built around them.

The mantras you'll see across Mix-IP — on the landing footer, in the use-case heroes, in the founder readouts at industry conferences. They're not slogans. They're the four principles that decided what the platform does and what it refuses to do.

Your work. Your rights. Your money.

The three things creative work depends on. We built the platform that holds all three on one record — the brief, the contract, the master, the renewal, the payout — for the legal life of the work.

No doubt about the source.

Every source, every contract, every contributor — credentialed and registered before the work ships. The byline carries the source. The chain of custody stays readable years after the people who filed it have moved on.

The byline holds.

For the legal life of the work. Source NDAs, embed agreements, commission contracts, and re-license payouts survive the reporters who leave, the desks that re-org, and the agencies that rotate account leads.

Production-first, always.

Built for how the work actually ships — field hotspots, 3am wraps, regional pickups in twelve languages, retainer renewals, archive horizons. Not the idealised desktop workflow. Not the demo-day platform.

Founders

Built by people who have run production for two decades.

Mix-IP is the system its founders kept needing and never had. The team has shipped at the UN, ABC, BBC, CNN, Nike, Coca-Cola, Cannes Lions, and on the core banking platform that runs UBS, HSBC, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank. The founders self-author these bios; the legal review is pending.

Jonathan Giesen, CEO and Co-Founder of Mix-IP — black-and-white headshot

Jonathan Giesen

CEO & Co-Founder

Twenty-five years building the production infrastructure other companies treat as someone else's problem. Founded Global Nomads Group at 25 — educational broadcasting for the UN, CNN, ABC, and PBS, connecting 1M+ children across 80+ countries, backed by a $21M Bezos Family Foundation grant. Co-founded Transterra Media — a marketplace and production network of 20,500 journalists, filmmakers, and photographers across 180 countries delivering for ABC, BBC, CNN, Airbnb, JWT, Publicis, and Ogilvy. Mix-IP is the system Jonathan kept needing and never had. He leads platform, product, and infrastructure.

Ulises Cabrera da Silva, COO and Co-Founder of Mix-IP — black-and-white headshot

Ulises Cabrera da Silva

COO & Co-Founder

Twenty-four years in creative-production. Shipped work for the world's largest networks — WPP, Publicis, Y&R, Leo Burnett, Grey, BBDO, and Turner — on international campaigns for Nike, Adidas, Toyota, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo across the US, LATAM, and APAC, with award-winning work recognised at Cannes Lions. Founder of multidisciplinary production companies in the UK, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil. Uli and Jonathan co-built Mix-IP from the ground up — production craft on one side, the engineering to hold it on the other. He leads operations and the production-first principle through every product decision.

Moe Sayadi, CTO of Mix-IP — black-and-white headshot

Moe Sayadi

CTO

Enterprise architect with dual degrees in mechanical and software engineering. Currently Enterprise Architect at Avaloq — the core banking platform serving 170+ financial institutions across 35 countries, including UBS, HSBC, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank. Moe brings the reliability practices financial services demand to a platform creators rely on. He co-built Mix-IP from the database up; today he leads architecture, security, and the engineering disciplines that make Vault 88, Pro Transfer App, and the IP Registry production-grade on every plan, including Free.

What we ship

Seven product surfaces. One platform. One record per work.

Mix-IP ships eight product surfaces, all bundled on every plan including Free. Each product carries one job. None of them duplicate another. The work flows from pitch to byline to renewal across all eight without ever leaving the workspace.

Projects

The workspace that holds the work.
Briefs & Hiring

From RFP to commission contract, on one record.
Opportunities

Inbound work meets the outbound roles.
IP Registry

On-chain provenance for every record.
Vault 88

NDA-gated previews and source-protected dailies.
Payments & Contracts

License events fire splits in 60+ currencies.
Pro Transfer App

Desktop transfer for masters at every channel size.
Built defensible from day one

The compliance answer your legal team will require.

Studios, agencies, brands, and newsrooms working with confidential briefs, embargoed material, contributor contracts, and audit-discoverable archives need more than a vendor with a shared Google Drive. Mix-IP ships the controls counsel, IT, and procurement actually verify before signing — with the same architecture on every plan, including Free.

SOC 2 In progress

Type II audit underway with a Big-Four-aligned firm. Trust services criteria: security, availability, confidentiality. Report expected H2 2026.

Per-tenant encryption keys Enterprise

Your KMS, your key, your control plane. Briefs, contracts, masters, and unpublished material are encrypted under your tenant's key — not a shared platform key. Vault 88 Enterprise ships per-tenant KMS keys (AWS KMS or BYOK). Your offboarding rotation is yours to schedule; Mix-IP can't decrypt without your key.

DPA-ready Live

GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum signed at workspace creation. Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. EU data residency on request. Built for European creators, brands, and contributors from day one — not bolted on after the first procurement review.

On-chain provenance Live

Every IPR registration anchors a SHA-256 hash on-chain. The provenance survives Mix-IP — if the platform disappears, the chain of custody on the work does not. Audit-ready years after the byline runs, the campaign retires, or the agency rotates account leads.

SOC 2 status reflects current audit progress. Per-tenant KMS language pending product + legal review before formal procurement responses.

The work belongs to the people who own it

Your work. Your rights.
Your money.

Three things creative work depends on.
One platform that holds all three on one record —
for the legal life of the work, on every plan including Free.

See Pricing Start a Workspace

Bundled on every plan, including Free. Vault 88 · Pro Transfer App · IP Registry · Payments in 60+ currencies. Mix-IP holds the work. The work holds for the people who own it.