Introducing Media Moana — The Programmable Media Platform

We built Media Moana for people who treat images as raw material, not just memories. Whether you're a cross-border ecommerce team processing a thousand product photos a day, an indie developer wiring image jobs into your stack, or a small studio juggling Photoroom, Topaz, and a folder of bash scripts, you've probably felt the same pain: the management tool doesn't understand AI, the AI tool doesn't manage files, and the automation tool doesn't do either.

Media Moana brings them under one roof.

Three Layers, One Pipeline

Every capability fits into three layers that build on each other:

Organize  →  Process  →  Automate

You can stop at any layer. Most teams move through them as they grow.

Organize — All Your Media, Finally Organized

A unified library with three-layer search built in:

• Native metadata — EXIF (camera, lens, ISO, shutter, aperture), file attributes, source type
• Location intelligence — GPS coordinates reverse-geocoded to country, city, and district
• AI understanding — object & scene detection plus OCR text extraction, all searchable alongside EXIF

Drop in a folder of photos and search "sunset on a beach in Lisbon shot wide-open" — no manual tagging required. Duplicates are detected by content hash at upload, so re-syncing a folder is a no-op.

The library also doubles as an analytics surface. Every photo's metadata becomes a queryable dimension, with built-in charts for camera gear, lens usage, focal-length distribution, country breakdowns, and photos-per-year timelines. No separate BI tool needed.

Process — Every Major AI Model, One Interface

A curated, multi-provider marketplace covering the image workflows that actually matter:

Pricing is transparent USD per operation — no credits, no tokens, no math. You see the exact cost before each run.

You also get an AI Chat workspace that doubles as a general-purpose multi-provider chat tool, so a small team doesn't need a separate ChatGPT or Claude subscription on top. And there's a built-in Photo Editor for the manual work AI can't do well — resize, crop, color adjustments — saved straight back to your library.

Automate — Set It Up Once. It Runs Forever.

When a workflow stabilizes, lift it out of your hands:

• Event triggers — every upload to /products automatically gets background removed and resized to three sizes, then published
• Cron schedules — every night at 2am, batch optimize the day's uploads
• REST API — every action in the web UI is also an endpoint; full feature parity, day one
• CLI — moana process --preset web-optimize ./photos/ from any shell or CI pipeline

# Submit a processing job via the REST API
curl https://api.mediamoana.com/api/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $MOANA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "type": "process",
    "mediaIds": ["<media-id>"],
    "presetId": "builtin-preset-util-web-optimize",
    "mode": "NEW_MEDIA"
  }'

The combination of REST API and CLI means two things in practice: you can replace a stack of disconnected SaaS tools with one API key, and your future AI agents can call Media Moana directly the moment they need to process an image.

Who It's For

• Cross-border ecommerce and POD sellers — process 1,000 product photos in minutes. Replace Photoroom + Topaz + ImageKit with one API.
• Indie developers and AI builders — a REST API and CLI for your entire media pipeline. curl your first request in 30 seconds.
• Small studios and content teams — a searchable library with AI processing built in. Stop juggling five tools.

Pricing in One Paragraph

All features are unlocked on every tier, including Free. You pay for quota (file count, monthly non-AI operations, monthly credit included) and support level, not feature gating. Every new account gets a $5 welcome credit on first login — no card required — which is enough to put any model in the catalog through real work before you decide whether to subscribe. See /pricing for live per-model prices and tier details.

What's Next

GA is just the starting point. On the near-term roadmap:

• AI Agent integration — MCP server and Agent SDK so AI agents can autonomously call Media Moana as a media processing node
• Third-party model marketplace — open the catalog to community-contributed AI models
• Team collaboration — multi-user permissions and shared workspaces

Getting Started

1. Sign in and claim your $5 welcome credit
2. Run through the Quickstart to make your first API call
3. Or take the product tour for a walkthrough of the web UI
4. Jump into the Image Library and upload a folder of photos

Have feedback or running into something weird? Reach us through Support — we read everything.