EU-SOVEREIGN · OPEN SOURCE · FEDERATED

Your media stack. Your data. Your rules.

Nine production-grade platforms for newsrooms, broadcasters, and creators — hosted in EU datacentres, built on FOSS, and engineered to talk to each other instead of locking you in.

Why this matters

Three reasons to move your media stack here.

Modern newsrooms and indie creators are paying enterprise prices for tools they can't move and data they don't control. We rebuilt the stack on open standards.

Lock-in is quietly bleeding newsrooms

Dataminr, Vimeo, Anchor, Frame.io — the bill goes up every renewal, the export options shrink, and the data lives on someone else's server. Regional broadcasters and independent creators pay enterprise pricing for tools they cannot move. We rebuild that stack on FOSS so the exit door is always open.

GDPR-native, EU-resident, no Schrems surprises

Every byte of audio, video, metadata, and AI inference runs inside the EU on hardware Kawkav operates. No US-controlled subprocessors in the hot path. Standard contractual clauses are not a workaround — they are not needed.

Federation beats walled gardens

Tube, Podcast, and Radio speak ActivityPub. Your audience follows you from Mastodon, from another PeerTube instance, from any fediverse client. You are not renting reach from an algorithm — you are publishing on the open social web.

How it fits together

Nine products. One workflow.

Signals flow in, content is produced, distribution goes wide, and assets are preserved — all on infrastructure you can audit. Click any node to dive into that product.

Production layer Storage spine Publishing layer Intelligence Newsroom Live Sovereign S3 Spine Tube Podcast Radio Restream DAM
The products

Nine product families. One stack.

Each product ships as 3 tiers, can be bought standalone, and shares identity, storage, and billing with the rest when you bundle into the Suite.

Intelligence

AI-assisted newsroom intelligence: geopolitical signals, market data, OSINT — without sending your queries to a US vendor.

  • Real-time signal triage
  • Bring-your-own LLM key
  • EU-hosted, GDPR-clean
€99 – €799 / mo Learn more

Newsroom

Sofie broadcast automation — the same rundown system NRK, BBC, and TV 2 Norway run on — priced for regional stations.

  • Full MOS-NRCS workflow
  • Live rundown + playout
  • White-glove onboarding
€499 – €1499 / mo Learn more

Tube

PeerTube video hosting on ActivityPub. Federated by default, yours by design.

  • Federated, no algorithm
  • Live and on-demand
  • P2P delivery
€9 – €99 / mo Learn more

Live

Sub-second WebRTC plus LL-HLS streaming, EU-hosted end to end.

  • Sub-second WebRTC delivery
  • LL-HLS for scale
  • SRT/RTMP/RTSP ingest
€29 – €299 / mo Learn more

Podcast

Castopod with Podcasting 2.0 — chapters, transcripts, value-for-value, fediverse-native.

  • Podcasting 2.0 ready
  • Fediverse comments
  • Premium subs supported
€5 – €39 / mo Learn more

Radio

AzuraCast multi-station web radio with scheduling, AutoDJ, and live DJ relay.

  • Multi-station from one panel
  • AutoDJ and live shows
  • Listener analytics
€15 – €99 / mo Learn more

Restream

Datarhei Restreamer broadcasts one feed to every platform that still matters.

  • Multi-platform fan-out
  • SRT bonded ingest
  • Local recording
€5 – €39 / mo Learn more

DAM

ResourceSpace digital asset management — BSD-licensed, trusted by Oxfam and UN agencies.

  • Brand-safe asset library
  • Granular access control
  • Federated search
€49 – €499 / mo Learn more

Transcribe

AI speech-to-text (Whisper large-v3-turbo) over a simple async job API — upload audio, poll, download subtitles. Your recordings never leave the EU.

  • TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON output
  • 99 languages + translate to English
  • API-first, S3 upload/download flow
€9 – €99 / mo Learn more

Stems

AI stem separation (Demucs) — split any track into vocals, drums, bass and other, delivered as lossless FLAC over the same async job API.

  • 4-stem or karaoke 2-stem modes
  • Lossless FLAC stems
  • API-first, S3 upload/download flow
€9 – €99 / mo Learn more

Virtual Producer

Cloud creative workstation on RTX 4090 / A6000 GPUs. Beeble Studio, Blender, Natron, ffmpeg, OpenShot, OBS, Audacity, VLC — ready at first launch. The render / grading / compositing endpoint for the full 360° media & cinema production stack.

  • RTX 4090 / A6000 with native CUDA
  • VFX / film / audio suite pre-installed
  • RDP / VNC / SSH from any client
€1 / hour Learn more
Bundle · Sovereign tier available

Suite — every product, one tenant

Every Media & Intelligence product as a single, integrated environment with shared identity, shared storage, and shared billing. Sovereign tier ships a dedicated single-tenant deployment on isolated hardware for regulated buyers, public broadcasters, and ministries.

€29 – €4999 / mo Learn more
Developer API

Four curl calls to a transcript.

Transcribe and Stems are API-first products: an async job queue with presigned S3 upload and download. No SDK required — anything that speaks HTTP works.

  1. Request an upload slot. The API answers with a presigned S3 URL on Kawkav's EU object storage.
  2. PUT your media file straight to storage — no size-limited form uploads.
  3. Queue the job and get a job id back immediately.
  4. Poll until done. Results arrive as presigned download links: TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON transcripts, or FLAC stems. Inputs and outputs auto-delete after 7 days.
# 1 — create an upload slot
curl -X POST https://transcribe.kawkav.com/v1/uploads \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KAWKAV_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"filename":"episode42.mp3"}'

# 2 — upload to the presigned URL from step 1
curl -X PUT --upload-file episode42.mp3 "$PUT_URL"

# 3 — queue the transcription job
curl -X POST https://transcribe.kawkav.com/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KAWKAV_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"upload_id":"$UPLOAD_ID","language":"auto"}'

# 4 — poll; done = presigned TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON links
curl https://transcribe.kawkav.com/v1/jobs/$JOB_ID \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KAWKAV_API_KEY"

# same flow at stems.kawkav.com → FLAC stems
Roadmap

What's shipping when.

Public, committed milestones for the next 12+ months.

  1. Shipped · June 2026
    AI layer v1 is live — Transcribe (Whisper speech-to-text) and Stems (Demucs separation) async APIs on EU compute. GPU video upscaling follows as v2.
  2. Q4 2026
    First regional broadcaster pilots go live on Newsroom with full MOS-NRCS integration and on-prem playout bridges.
  3. Q1 2027
    Federation Hub — cross-product unified inbox, comment moderation, and an ActivityPub bridge so Tube, Podcast, and Radio share one fediverse identity.
  4. 2027 +
    Sponsoring a FOSS browser-based non-linear editor — the honest gap in the open video ecosystem we intend to fund.
Custom projects

Bespoke media-tech, built in the open.

The Suite covers the common ground. Everything beyond it is a conversation. Kawkav takes on custom MOS-NRCS integrations, dedicated regional broadcaster stacks, ministry-grade sovereign deployments, and integration work with existing playout, MAM, and traffic systems. Typical engagements run three to six months with a dedicated engineering pod. All code stays FOSS, all infrastructure stays on hardware you can audit, and you own the deployment when we are done.

Frequently asked

Common questions.

Is everything really EU-hosted?
Yes. Every product family runs on hardware Kawkav operates inside EU datacentres — primarily Spain. Storage, compute, transcoding, and AI inference all stay inside the EU. No US-controlled subprocessor sits in the request path.
Can I bring my own LLM key (BYOK)?
Yes, on Intelligence and across the AI layer shipping in Q3 2026. Plug in your Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, or self-hosted endpoint and your prompts route through it directly. We also offer a fully EU-hosted inference option for buyers who need zero external dependencies.
Can I migrate from Vimeo, Anchor, Restream.io, or Dataminr?
Yes. Guided migrations on every product family: RSS and audio import for Podcast, full video catalogue import for Tube, channel and destination mapping for Restream, and source feed onboarding for Intelligence. Sovereign and Broadcast tiers include hands-on migration as part of onboarding.
Can I self-host instead of using Kawkav-managed?
Yes. Every product is FOSS — AGPL, GPL, MIT, Apache, or BSD — and you can run it on your own infrastructure. Kawkav-managed is the convenient default; self-host is the always-available alternative. Paid support contracts available for teams running these stacks themselves.
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