Contextual search for audiovisual archives

Find the
moment.

Search what was said.
Search what was seen.

Fumana is search software for media teams. Find spoken words, visual moments and editorial context across hours of video and audio — without relying on filenames or manual scrubbing.

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THE ARCHIVE IS ONLY
THE BEGINNING.

Find Anything.
Make something of it.

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Fumana CloudVISUAL SEARCH
Fumana’s working visual search interface with a natural-language query for crowd reactions.Three actual visual search results with source playback and Save to Clip List controls.
BUILT AROUND REAL EDITORIAL WORKFLOWSBuilt for filmmakers, editors, post-production teams, broadcasters and archive-heavy organisations.

You remember a moment.
Fumana finds it.

Start with a phrase, a picture in your head, or an idea. Find useful material across your media library.

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Find the idea. Even without the exact words.

Search dialogue, interviews and long-form recordings by words, themes or meaning. Hybrid search brings keyword and contextual matches together, with optional AI-assisted ranking.

ACTUAL PRODUCT INTERFACE
Actual Fumana spoken search controls with a natural-language query, hybrid search mode and optional AI ranking.

Spoken search · Keyword + meaning · Timecoded results

What was said. Interface detail

Actual Fumana spoken search controls with a natural-language query, hybrid search mode and optional AI ranking.

Real Fumana interface details. Screenshots are shown for demonstration.

A finding becomes
a starting point.

Discovery is only useful if you can do something with it. Move from a search result to material you can work with.

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    Search

    Find words, ideas or visual moments across your archive.

  2. 02

    Review

    Play the source at its timecode. See what came before and after.

  3. 03

    Save

    Collect useful moments together in a Clip List.

  4. 04

    Export

    Prepare your selections for the next stage of the edit.

Transcript ReviewREAD / REFINE / REVIEW
Real Fumana transcript review with timecoded Afrikaans dialogue and Show raw ASR controls for comparing refined text with the original transcription.
Actual transcript interface · Source details cropped
STAY CLOSE TO THE SOURCE

The words.
The context.
Your judgement.

Review transcripts alongside the material. Work with refined and multilingual text, compare it with the original transcription, and keep editorial decisions in human hands.

Fumana helps you find and organise material. You decide what belongs in the story.

An archive.
Ready to be used.

Keep projects, sessions and source recordings organised. Search across collections, return to source moments, and bring useful material back into your workflow.

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Fumana archive interface with New project and New session actions.
ProjectsSessionsSources
Fumana archive source-files row for organising and inspecting source recordings.

Archive interface details. Project names omitted.

Watch Fumana work.

A look at the product and the thinking behind it.

Play the video when you’re ready.Watch on Vimeo (opens in a new tab)

Make audiovisual
archives as
searchable as text.

LESS SEARCHING.
MORE FINDING.

So much knowledge is held in recordings. Fumana is being built to make it easier to find, understand and use — without relying on memory, filenames or hours of manual scrubbing.

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Cloud today. Local next.

Fumana is available in the cloud today. We’re developing toward secure local and on-premise deployment for organisations whose audiovisual material needs to stay within their own infrastructure. Local deployment is not yet generally available.

Jaco van Bosch, founder of Fumana.JACO VAN BOSCH / FOUNDER

Built by someone
who knows
the search.

Jaco van Bosch

Filmmaker and technologist building tools for people who work with large audiovisual archives.

Fumana began development in 2025 and was incorporated as Fumana AI (Pty) Ltd in 2026.

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