Pitches in someone's inbox. Field rushes in Dropbox. The contributor rolodex in a news director's notebook. Wire pickups in a syndication spreadsheet. Mix-IP holds the story end-to-end — every pitch, every contributor, every embargo, every syndicate, every re-license — for the legal life of the byline. Built for newsrooms that source from everywhere, move fast, and need to defend a frame in court three years later.
Bundled on every plan: Vault 88 for source-protection NDAs and embargo-locked previews · Pro Transfer App for field rushes and broadcast masters · Wise + Stripe rails for reporter, photographer, and fixer payouts in 60+ currencies.
Pitches in someone's Inbox. The contributor rolodex in a news director's notebook. Field rushes in Dropbox. Embed agreements in a paralegal's Outlook. Wire pickups in a syndication tab on the news desk's shared OneDrive. Mix-IP holds the story end-to-end — every pitch, every contributor, every embargo, every syndicate, every re-license — for the legal life of the byline, so the relationships, the verified profiles, and the source-protection promises all survive the reporters who leave and the desks that re-org.
One story, one record, five steps. Maren Vasquez, news director at The Bureau, assigns an investigative package to Adisa Okonkwo — from credentialing the embed photographer through to the day, eighteen months later, DocFront re-licenses the package for a documentary feature. No source NDA on a paralegal's hard drive. No embargo coordination across forty individual emails. No wire-pickup retraction that misses the regional partner. Each step below cross-links to the feature page that does the work.
Pitches arrive from staffers and from the global stringer network — investigative angles, frontline footage, fixer-led leads from regions the desk can't physically be in. Maren reviews the pitch board, briefs the package out to Adisa with Hadi (embed photographer) and Yasmin (fixer / local stringer) already KYC/AML-verified against their workspace profiles; embed agreements, source NDAs, and attribution chains attach to the story record from the first review. The relationship lives in the workspace, not in Maren's notebook — the next news director who joins inherits the rolodex.
Adisa files raw 4K field rushes, audio interviews, and Hadi's stills via Pro Transfer App over a 4G hotspot — the upload resumes when the connection drops, hash-verifies on landing, and the desk sees the new files at the next shift change. Source identifiers stay encrypted under The Bureau's tenant key throughout the transfer; the rushes hit the workspace, the source NDAs hold, and the fact-check team can start verifying frame-by-frame the moment a clip lands.
Fact-check and legal review the package via Vault 88 — verified contributor profiles, KYC/AML clearance status, prior-work attribution, and the source register all readable on the same story record. The desk knows who the source is, what they've filed before, and where their KYC/AML check landed before a frame goes through fact-check. NDA-gated dailies stay reviewable in-platform with per-recipient forensic watermarks for the partner-preview cycle. Embargo lift is keyed to the publish timestamp on the story record — a closing mechanic, not the mechanism that holds the package together.
Publish goes live and the story drops simultaneously to The Bureau's flagship, ConsensusWire's regional desks, the broadcast cut, the podcast feed, and forty regional partners. Per-channel license boundaries apply automatically: web edition gets perpetual, broadcast cut gets a 24-month window, the regional EMEA pickup gets a 12-month territorial license, the archive horizon stays seven years. License events fire contributor payment splits to Adisa, Hadi, and Yasmin on the same record — no parallel ledger, no spreadsheet, no missed wire pickup share, no fixer waiting on a second-cycle invoice.
It's October 2027. DocFront wants to re-license the package for a feature documentary. The workspace surfaces the original source-protection NDAs (still encrypted under tenant KMS), the embed agreement, and Hadi's per-frame release; provenance proves the chain of custody to DocFront's procurement; the legal-hold metadata exports cleanly to e-discovery if litigation surfaces. License events fire re-license payouts to Adisa, Hadi, and Yasmin within 72 hours of contract signing. The byline holds; the source promise holds; the archive horizon stretches.
Mix-IP consolidates the long-memory layer of the newsroom — the source register, the embed agreements, the embargoes, the syndication boundaries, the retractions, the re-licenses. We don't replace the tools your reporters and editors actually love. Your CMS stays. Your wire feeds stay. Your edit suites stay. Your transcription pipeline stays. We just stop the story from leaking out the seams between them.
Three newsroom workflows that ran end-to-end through Mix-IP. Embargo-lift latencies, syndication scale, and re-license payout cadence from illustrative composite stories.
The Bureau — coordinated investigative drop
Embargo held across forty partners simultaneously — not a single regional pickup broke the window. Source-protection NDAs survived a discovery motion six months later because the source register stayed encrypted under The Bureau's tenant key.
ConsensusWire — daily wire feed scaling
Regional EMEA license expirations now flag 60 days out. Zero accidental over-rights in the last quarter — the operational saving alone covered the seat cost. Retraction cascades hit all twelve regions with one action.
DocFront — long-tail re-license
Provenance proved at procurement on the documentary side. Original embed photographer received re-license payment within 72 hours of contract signing. Source-protection NDAs survived intact through the re-license review.
All three workflows are illustrative composites pending Jonathan-redlined customer stories. Fictional newsroom + wire names flagged for legal naming review.
Newsrooms working with confidential sources, embed agreements, embargoed material, and litigation-discoverable archives need more than a vendor with a shared Google Drive. Mix-IP ships the controls newsroom counsel, IT, and procurement actually verify before signing — with source-protection that survives the platform itself.
SOC 2 In progress
Type II audit underway with a Big-Four-aligned firm. Trust services criteria: security, availability, confidentiality. Report expected H2 2026.
Verified contributors, encrypted under your key Enterprise
Every reporter, photographer, fixer, and source runs through KYC/AML and profile-metadata registration before they touch the story — the desk knows who the source IS, not just that the bytes are encrypted. Unpublished material then sits encrypted under your tenant's KMS key (AWS KMS or BYOK), not a shared platform key, so even a subpoena to Mix-IP returns encrypted blobs without your desk's key. The reporter's source-protection promise survives the platform that holds it.
DPA-ready Live
GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum signed at workspace creation. Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. EU data residency on request — useful when sources sit in jurisdictions where US discovery would otherwise reach.
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 byline does not. Useful for verification AND for proving authenticity when synthetic-media claims surface in court three years after publication.
SOC 2 status reflects current audit progress. Per-tenant KMS & deepfake-resistance language pending product + legal review before formal procurement responses.
Newsrooms
Brief the story. Hold the source.
Hold the byline — for the legal life of the work,
not the life of the reporter who filed it.
Includes Vault 88 for source-protection NDAs and embargo-locked previews · Pro Transfer App for field rushes and broadcast masters · Wise + Stripe rails for reporter, photographer, and fixer payouts in 60+ currencies.