Use cases
Built for collections where who matters.
Wherever photos pile up faster than anyone can caption them, the people in them become invisible. PhotoGraph makes them findable again, and does it without moving a single image out of your environment.
Genealogy platforms
Give subscribers every photo of their ancestor.
Genealogy and newspaper-archive services hold hundreds of millions of images with no person-level navigation. Most of those photos have no name attached, so they never show up in a family search.
- A feature subscribers can’t get elsewhere: upload one photo of a grandmother and see her at every age.
- Uncaptioned uploads become searchable, turning stranded inventory into engagement.
- Cross-collection discovery: the same person found in uploads from different families.
- Revenue, not cost savings: a net-new product capability built on content you already hold.
Public institutions & historical societies
Reconnect the people your donors scattered across boxes.
Historical collections arrive one donor at a time. The same people appear in many of them, but nothing links a 1940s school portrait in one box to a banquet photo in another.
- Visitor family search that starts from a single photo.
- Exhibitions built around people: assemble a life story for everyone, not just famous people with millions of samples. PhotoGraph clustered a single person from only 4 photos, from high school to near retirement.
- Faster cataloging: photos processed in batch and with live inserts to boost value fast.
- Donor engagement: show donors where their family appears across the whole archive, and that their contribution made a positive impact.
A historical society
Brothers on the same baseball team. A fireman found both at the station and on a logging crew. A woman at a recurring protest, matched in everyday clothes and in costume with her face covered. None of it was findable before.
Fraud & investigations
Identity resolution that stays inside your perimeter.
Fraud, security and investigations teams work under data-sovereignty rules that rule out all external visibility. PhotoGraph helps you find the full narrative without manual intervention: explore by context, see every other party a subject encountered, and find how multiple people connect through one or more intermediaries, all with high accuracy.
- Your environment, no egress: images and results never leave your environment.
- Imperfect imagery: partial faces, low resolution, poor light and subjects turned away.
- Auditable results: every link is an edge in a graph that analysts can inspect and query.
- Fits your workflow through the API, alongside existing case tools.
Deployments in this sector are scoped with each customer to its legal authority and privacy obligations. See Trust & security.
Four hard images, one person. PhotoGraph links them all.
Media archives
Index your photo library by who is in the frame.
Studios, stock photo companies and media companies hold decades of photography filed by date, assignment or shoot. Finding every image of one person still means asking someone who remembers.
- Rights management: know every image of a person before you publish or license it.
- Licensing revenue: surface archive images that sales never knew existed.
- Editorial discovery: a full visual history of a subject for a retrospective or obituary.
- Stays on your infrastructure next to your asset management system.
- Evelyn HartIn the caption
- Marcus ValeFound by PhotoGraph
- Lena OrtizFound by PhotoGraph
- Theo WhitcombFound by PhotoGraph
Research, journalism & legal discovery
One setup, many projects, no commingling.
Researchers, newsrooms and legal teams often need identity resolution on one discrete dataset at a time: a study collection, the source images for a story, the image production in a legal matter. We help you set up an ad hoc solution once, then use it again and again, with each dataset kept strictly separate.
- Set up once, reuse repeatedly: the same configuration runs for every new project.
- Datasets that can’t be commingled: each project gets its own identity graph, and results never cross between matters, stories or studies.
- Legal discovery: find every appearance of a party across an image production.
- Journalism and research: verify who appears across source images, and follow people through a collection.
Don’t see your collection here?
If you hold a large image collection and need to know what, or who, is in it, we’d like to hear about it.