Introducing ZDAM Flow

Design Your Operations on a Canvas.
Let Them Run Themselves.

Visual, no-code automation built directly into your DAM. Draw the rules once: tag it, get it approved, watermark it, notify the right person. Every asset that flows through your library then follows them automatically.

ZDAM Flow — canvas
Approved Rejected
Trigger
metadata_changed
Approval
workflow set
approvedrejectedchanges
Action
set_visibility
End
success
End
reject

Why Teams Love It

The automation layer generic tools like Zapier or n8n could never be: one that natively understands assets, metadata, rights, versions, storage tiers, approvals, and portals, because it lives inside the system that owns them.

If You Can Whiteboard It, You Can Build It

A drag-and-drop canvas with color-coded building blocks: Triggers, Logic, Human steps, Actions, AI, Governance, Lifecycle. Connect them with natural, flowing lines. No code, no scripts, no developers in the loop.

It Reacts to Your Library in Real Time

Flows fire the instant something happens: an asset is uploaded, metadata changes, a tag is applied, an approval completes, rights expire, or on a schedule, or from an inbound webhook. Your operations respond automatically, 24/7.

Build Together, Live

Multiple people can edit the same flow at the same time. See each other's cursors and selections, changes converge instantly, everything autosaves. The Figma/Google-Docs experience, for workflow design.

Change Safely, Never Break What’s Running

Every published flow is an immutable, versioned snapshot. In-flight work keeps running on the version it started on. Test any change risk-free with Simulate, a full dry-run that touches nothing, then publish with confidence.

Total Visibility

A live run inspector shows each execution step-by-step: what fired, what’s waiting, what a human still needs to approve. A "would this asset fire this flow, and why?" tester means you’re never guessing.

Governance-Grade by Default

Permission-gated, entitlement-gated, and audit-logged end to end. Approvals with deadlines and escalation. Retention schedules, disposition sign-off, legal holds, and metadata-driven access rules, wired right into the automation.

What You Can Build

In minutes, not months.

Efficient Onboarding

Clear procedures, familiar tools, and roles you create in a few clicks. Every step is easy to understand, so even first-time users are up to speed in a single day.

Rights & Compliance on Rails

When rights status flips to expired, block downloads, pull it from active portals, and open a disposition-approval task automatically, with a permanent record.

Cost-Smart Storage

Assets untouched for 90 days move to a colder storage tier; on the rare retrieval request, restore gracefully and notify the requester.

Embargo & Release Windows

Hold an asset until its release date, then publish it to the regional portal the moment the embargo lifts.

Client Delivery

On final approval, generate the right renditions, create a branded share link, and email the client, hands-free.

Scheduled Housekeeping

Nightly sweeps that flag stale content, enforce retention, and keep your library clean.

The Building Blocks

If it happens in your DAM, a flow can respond to it.

Triggers

Upload, metadata change, tag applied, approval outcome, smart-collection entry, schedule, date-based ("7 days before rights expire"), inbound webhook, storage events, share events, and more.

Logic

AND / OR / NOT gates and branching so a flow can make decisions, split into parallel paths, and handle exceptions.

Human-in-the-loop

Approval and assignment steps with SLAs, deadlines, delegation, and multi-channel notifications (in-app, email, Slack, Teams, webhook). Automation where it helps; people where it matters.

Actions

Watermark, write metadata, add to collection, create a share, generate renditions, set visibility, tier storage, apply embargo, notify. Each one is a real, production-grade ZDAM capability.

AI

Auto-tagging, description, and generation with built-in cost controls: per-node budgets, per-flow and per-tenant spend caps, and a full spend ledger. Powerful and predictable.

Governance & Lifecycle

Retention, disposition approval, legal holds, access rules, and archival tiering. Compliance built into the flow, not bolted on after.

What Makes Flow Different

Generic automation tools
ZDAM Flow
× Blind to your content
✓ Asset-native: every node understands assets, metadata, rights, versions, storage
× Data leaves your platform via APIs
✓ Runs inside your DAM: nothing exported, nothing to secure between systems
× Breaks running jobs when you edit
✓ Version-pinned: in-flight work is never disrupted
× Solo editing, copy-paste sharing
✓ Real-time multiplayer editing with autosave
× "Hope it works"
✓ Simulate, test, and inspect before and after every run
× Automation as a security blind spot
✓ Permissioned, entitled, fully audited

JSON

Portable & AI-ready

Export any flow as a clean JSON file and import it back. Hand a workflow to an AI assistant to analyze or refine, then bring it straight back in. Export and import are separately permissioned and fully audit-logged.

Templates

Reusable, from day one

Start from curated starter templates, save your best flows as reusable templates, or pull vetted flows from the marketplace. Roll a proven flow across your library with throttled, budget-capped backfill.

Audited

Built for trust

Multi-tenant isolation, role-based permissions down to individual actions, per-tenant feature entitlements, encrypted credentials, and an immutable audit trail. Automation your security team can sign off on.

See Flow in Action

Book a demo and we'll design your first flow with you, in about the time it takes to read this page.

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