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Generic Description

creative.space is a fully managed storage platform designed for video teams that need speed, simplicity, and seamless collaboration—without relying on traditional cloud or complex IT setups.

Unlike typical storage or cloud sync solutions, creative.space eliminates the need for uploading, downloading, or relinking files. Users can simply copy a link to any file, folder, or project and share it with a teammate. When clicked, the file opens instantly in the correct creative application (like Resolve, Premiere, or After Effects), with the storage auto-mounted and all media online—no duplicated files, no waiting.

This cloud-like behavior is delivered from high-performance on-prem storage that is fully managed by DigitalGlue. That means 24/7 support, proactive monitoring, and zero IT headaches for the team.

From direct-from-camera ingest (C2C) to instant project launching, shareable review links, and archive integration, creative.space replaces storage, file transfer tools, MAMs, and review platforms with a single, unified system.

The result: faster delivery, fewer errors, and more time for actual creative work.

creative.space isn't a new tool to manage. It's the invisible infrastructure behind creative flow.

Detailed Description

creative.space reimagines media workflows around a single, radical idea: every file is instantly shareable via a link. Not just a download link. Not a cloud sync. A direct connection to the live asset—no duplication, no delay, no relinking.

This link-based model replaces the need for cloud storage, file transfer tools, MAMs, VPNs, and even traditional review platforms. Here's what you can share:

All of this runs through a fully managed infrastructure with consistent DNS pathing, auto-mounting and launching on desktop, and zero IT friction.

With creative.space, collaboration doesn't require a managed turnover—it's just a link.

This isn't file access. Its creative presence—delivered, instantly.

Technological Advancements

creative.space introduces a new paradigm for remote media collaboration—merging link-based access with intelligent, high-performance tunneling to deliver a seamless, secure experience across teams, roles, and locations.

Until now, remote workflows were defined by friction: VPN setup, manual drive mapping, relinking media, and constant IT intervention—just to get to the files.

creative.space eliminates all of that.

This is powered by a new integrated system:

1. Web-Based Link Sharing – Role-based, secure access to live media without duplication.
2. Desktop Launching – Storage mounts automatically, and files open in their default application as defined on the user's operating system, which can be set to their creative app of choice.
3. Backstage – creative.space's tunneling system and access layer, enabling remote access to on-prem systems without opening firewall ports or managing networking.
4. Spaceline (WireGuard-based VPN) – Our new WireGuard-based VPN client, replacing ZeroTier with a high-speed, purpose-built connection for creative workflows. It's 5x faster, hole-punches through NATs, and requires zero configuration by the end user.

Together, this doesn't just improve remote access—it redefines it.

creative.space isn't storage that mimics the cloud.

It's creative presence, everywhere.

Every file: linkable. Every project: launchable. Every collaborator: connected—without compromise.

This is what collaboration should feel like.

Market Need and Solution

The world is drowning in content, yet video teams struggle with a hidden tax: the copy-wait-copy cycle that strangles creative flow. This inefficiency multiplies exponentially as teams scale. Each new team member, project, and revision compounds complexity, turning what should be simple collaboration into a logistical nightmare.

Consider the typical workflow: a creative packages project files and media assets, uploads them to the cloud, waits for uploads to finish, shares the link. Then they wait for feedback, download comments, implement revisions locally, and re-upload everything again. Now multiply this by ten people, five concurrent projects, and three review cycles. What starts as hours of overhead becomes days of lost productivity and creative potential.

creative.space shatters this paradigm with a "store once, access everywhere" solution that scales linearly instead of exponentially. Our customers aren't just getting storage, they are reclaiming their time, freedom, and focus:

By replacing the fragmented copy-wait-copy cycle with instant, link-based access to centralized storage, creative.space transforms how video teams work. Projects open directly in editing applications with all media instantly available—no downloads, no relinking, no version chaos.