Local-only discretion
No cloud upload and no external content processing for your library.

Search locally
Private local workflow for sensitive archives with discreet search, zero cloud upload, and large-library readiness direction.
Product preview
Query
spoken mention of the red notebook in archive interview
Speech
Search transcript text without uploading media.
Visual
Find visual motifs across private archive footage.
People
Review and filter detected people in local-only workflows.
Short answer
Private local workflow for sensitive archives with discreet search, zero cloud upload, and large-library readiness direction.
No cloud upload and no external content processing for your library.
Search by dialogue, visuals, and people across private collections.
Validate quickly, then move from older tooling with a clearer workflow UX.
The friction
Private local workflow for sensitive archives with discreet search, zero cloud upload, and large-library readiness direction.
How Focus helps
Focus keeps processing on your machine and gives a modern retrieval workflow for private archives.
No cloud upload and no external content processing for your library.
Search by dialogue, visuals, and people across private collections.
Validate quickly, then move from older tooling with a clearer workflow UX.
Product preview
Query
spoken mention of the red notebook in archive interview
Speech
Search transcript text without uploading media.
Visual
Find visual motifs across private archive footage.
People
Review and filter detected people in local-only workflows.
How it works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
01
Use the trial to verify retrieval quality on representative private files.
02
Check whether the results beat current Stash/Hydrus retrieval friction.
03
Move to full access once workflow quality and discretion needs are confirmed.
Ready
Use Focus for discreet local private library workflows.