Your partner. For the long term.
Gado Images works with organizations worldwide to digitize, annotate, distribute and monetize their visual collections. Whether you’re a photographer, a private collector, or a large institution, we can work with you to find new audiences and new revenue streams for your content.
A Complete Solution
Gado Images works with collections in all stages, from completely unprocessed archives held by estates, to born-digital collections from contemporary photographers, to large institutional collections with extensive metadata and fully-implemented Digital Asset Management systems.
We work with you to provide complete solutions, from digitization, to research, to image editing/restoration, to caption writing/metadata generation. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, we tailor our services to the specific needs of your collection, whether it’s a few hundred historical artifacts or an institutional archive with millions of assets.
As a social enterprise, we work with historically-important collections of all sizes. Our unique model lets us prioritize preservation over profits, sharing important collections that might otherwise go unseen.
With You for the Long Term
You’ve spent years--or perhaps even a lifetime--building your collection, honing your craft, or stewarding your institution’s holdings. You deserve a partner that’s with you for the long term.
At Gado Images, we believe in long-term thinking. As a high-tech company, we move fast, but we also know that realizing the full potential of a visual collection can take years, or even decades. Many of our partners have been with us since our founding in 2010. Our goal is to work with you over the lifetime of your collection, providing value today while ensuring that your materials are preserved and used far into the future.
With no outside investors and a social enterprise business model built on revenue-driven growth, a social mission, and shared risk/reward, Gado Images is not beholden to the short time horizons of venture capital or the public equity markets. We’re structured this way for one reason--so we can serve our partners over the long term, providing sustainable growth for your collection and valuable contributions to history.
Innovative Technologies, the Best People
As an AI driven social enterprise, Gado Images brings deep learning, machine vision and other advanced AI technologies to the challenge of processing and monetizing our partners’ materials.
We work with world-leading Artificial Intelligence companies, including IBM Watson, Google Vision, Imagga, Clarifai, Cloud Sight, and Microsoft Azure to provide best-in-class AI capabilities.
Our proprietary Cognitive Metadata Platform provides a wide range of Visual AI capabilities to complement our skilled human team, including tagging images, extracting text using advanced Optical Character Recognition, recognizing people and places in our partners' images, writing sentence-length captions for automatic finding aids, tagging brands and logos, colorizing images, upscaling small images using super-resolution, and much more.
While our AI capabilities are cutting-edge, we believe in a blended approach, combining AI technologies with a human touch. Our research team includes former BBC staff members, archivists, translators and historians. By combining innovative AI with the best people in our field, we provide solutions that yield fast, accurate, actionable results.
New Audiences, New Opportunities
To distribute and monetize our partners’ content, Gado Images works with markets worldwide, including Getty Images, Alamy, Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest, Sheet Music Plus, Universal Images Group, and many more.
We provide complete management for our partners’ content, from placement on marketplaces, to marketing and promotion, to fielding research requests, to accounting and advanced analytics to determine which parts of your collection are most in-demand.
With a global reach, we bring your content to new audiences worldwide. Our materials routinely appear in publications including the New York Times, Time Magazine, CNN, BBC, Forbes, Fortune, Inc, The Wall Street Journal and more, as well as in textbooks, television programs and documentary films.
We generate substantial licensing revenues for our partners, to turn their collections into a source of passive income to support their ongoing operations, consistent with our mission of supporting cultural heritage work worldwide.
Work with Us
Contact Gado Images to learn about working with us today.