# Bradford Operations > Bradford Operations is a New York-based post-production company. Bradford Lab is the virtual post house — an agent-native cloud post-production facility where AI agents and human professionals collaborate on automated quality control, deliverables management, DCP validation, review rooms, and post-production workflows. ## About Bradford Operations was founded by Samuel Gursky, a senior colorist and post supervisor with over a decade of experience finishing documentary and narrative projects for theatrical, broadcast, and streaming distribution. The company provides professional post-production services including color grading, online editing, archival restoration, post supervision, accessibility consulting, and deliverables creation. Bradford Lab is the company's software platform — a cloud media library with post-production services built into it: version management, review and approval, automated QC, format validation, DCP inspection and authoring, caption delivery, deliverables management, and an AI assistant with deep domain knowledge of post-production. **It is your media library in the cloud, with a post house built around it.** Every asset on a project is tracked with every version of it, reachable from the suite, a laptop, or a client's browser. What makes it a post house rather than storage is that everything which happens to the media stays attached to the exact version it happened to — QC report, caption pass, loudness measurement, frame-accurate note, approval, share link, processing job, storage-tier change — rather than living in a spreadsheet beside it. This is also what makes agent-first post-production possible: an agent cannot do much with a folder of files, but it can do real work against a versioned record. **Bradford Post Assistant** is the bridge that attaches the workstation to that library. It is a desktop application running next to the creative tools (principally DaVinci Resolve), connecting into the application directly to read and drive project, timeline, color, and render operations. It reaches into the same library: from the workstation a user selects a project, asset, and specific version out of the cloud library and runs work against it, including fleet QC — no export, upload, and hand-off, because both sides address the same record. Colorist Copilot, the AI grading assistant once offered on its own, is now part of Bradford Post Assistant and is not sold separately: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/software/post-assistant ## What is a Virtual Post House? A virtual post house is a cloud-based post-production facility that provides the same professional services, tools, and workflow intelligence as a traditional brick-and-mortar post house — but accessible from anywhere. It handles deliverables creation, quality control, review and approval, asset management, and workflow automation. Bradford Lab is the first purpose-built virtual post house designed for collaboration between human professionals and AI agents. ## Agent-Native Architecture Bradford Lab is built from the ground up for both human operators and AI agents to work together: - **AI agents** handle the repetitive technical infrastructure work: ingesting assets, running QC, validating deliverables against specs, generating reports, flagging issues, managing workflows. - **Human professionals** retain creative oversight, final approval authority, strategic decision-making, and the craft that makes post-production an art. - **The platform** provides guardrails, human checkpoints, and structured APIs so agents augment professional workflows rather than operating unsupervised. This is not automation replacing people — it is a new model where agents handle the infrastructure and humans focus on the work that requires judgment, taste, and relationships. ## Bradford Lab — The Virtual Post House Bradford Lab handles the infrastructure and workflow layer of post-production: - **Cloud Media Library**: Every asset in a project organized by version, with in-browser playback for professional formats (including DCPs) and technical metadata read off the file itself. - **Automated Quality Control**: Codec validation, loudness analysis (EBU R128, ATSC A/85), resolution verification, color space checking, and standards compliance — governed by a three-layer model (standards profiles, QC profiles, policy profiles) that resolves through a scope hierarchy, with platform defaults an organization's admins can override for their org, client, or project. DCPs validate automatically at import; automatic triggering across the remaining check types is rolling out through the beta. - **DCP Validation & Playback**: Structural validation (CPL/PKL/ASSETMAP/MXF), multi-reel composition QC, SMPTE and Interop compliance, encrypted package detection, ISDCF naming validation, and in-browser playback with XYZ-to-Rec.709 color conversion. - **Deliverables Management**: Track, validate, and package deliverables for theatrical, broadcast, streaming, and archival distribution — agents handle the logistics. - **Review & Approval**: Frame-accurate review with drawn markup and threaded comments on scoped, expiring, revocable share links. File requests collect material from clients and vendors directly into a project. - **Captions & Subtitles**: Caption editor with Whisper-based transcription and audio event detection. Delivery export to SRT, WebVTT, SCC (CEA-608), MCC (CEA-708), Netflix TTML, Amazon TTML, IMSC 1.1 (Disney+/Hulu), iTunes ITT, SMPTE-TT (SMPTE 428-7), Interop DCSubtitle, and plain transcript. EBU-STL is NOT currently supported. - **Agent-Native Architecture**: Durable Temporal workflows perform operational work (probe, measure, validate, package, render) with human checkpoints on consequential decisions. - **Format-Aware Asset Management**: Understands ProRes profiles, audio channel layouts, subtitle formats, codec parameters, and delivery specifications. - **AI Post-Production Assistant**: Conversational assistant answering domain questions (codecs, captions, loudness, DCP standards via a maintained standards registry) and questions about project state. It helps you understand and direct work; the durable workflows are what execute it. - **Integrations**: Frame.io (bi-directional comment sync, account/tree import, webhooks, custom actions), Dropbox, Google Drive, and DaVinci Resolve via Bradford Post Assistant on the workstation. - **Security**: Organization-based access control, encrypted storage, scoped share links. ## Supported Formats Video: ProRes (all profiles), DNxHD/DNxHR, H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1, JPEG2000 (DCP MXF), XDCAM, AVC-Intra, MPEG-2. Audio: PCM WAV, BWF, multichannel stems (stereo, 5.1, 7.1, Atmos), AAC, Dolby Digital. Cinema: DCP (SMPTE and Interop), multi-reel, encrypted, subtitle reels. Subtitles: SRT, WebVTT, TTML, IMSC 1.1, SCC (CEA-608), MCC (CEA-708), iTunes ITT, SMPTE-TT, Interop DCSubtitle. (EBU-STL not supported.) Interchange: EDL, FCPXML, OpenTimelineIO (OTIO). AAF is read by conform/editorial QC tooling but is not a self-serve import or turnover format. ## Who Uses Bradford Lab - Post supervisors — agents handle deliverables tracking, QC monitoring, and vendor coordination - Producers — agents keep dashboards updated with real-time delivery status - Editors and colorists — agents validate output against specs before anything goes to the client - Independent filmmakers — agent-powered post infrastructure without the overhead - Remote teams — agents coordinate logistics across locations - Forward-thinking facilities — augment operations with agent workflows at scale ## Post-Production Services (Traditional) Bradford Operations also provides hands-on post-production services: - Color Grading (supervised, in-person and remote, HDR/SDR, ACES, Dolby Vision) - Online Editing (conforming, finishing, final assembly) - Archival Restoration (upscaling, AI enhancement) - Post Supervision (department coordination, vendor management) - Accessibility Consulting (closed captions, subtitles, audio description) - Deliverables (DCPs, broadcast masters, streaming encodes, LTO archival) ## Links - Website: https://www.bradfordoperations.com - Bradford Lab (Beta Signup): https://www.bradfordoperations.com/software/lab - Post-Production Services: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/post-production/services - Portfolio: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/post-production/portfolio - About: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/about - Full details: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/llms-full.txt ## Contact Email: hello@bradfordoperations.com Location: New York, NY ## For agents: what you can ask Bradford for Machine-readable doors: A2A agent card https://www.bradfordoperations.com/.well-known/agent-card.json (A2A 0.3: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/.well-known/agent.json); OpenAPI https://www.bradfordoperations.com/openapi.json; looks gallery https://www.bradfordoperations.com/agents/looks.json; and the one Bradford MCP, https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/mcp. Docs written for models: https://www.bradfordoperations.com/software/agents. None of these needs a key to start. The one Bradford MCP (https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/mcp): signed out, the read-only tools find_services, find_looks, get_look. Signed in (OAuth, which a member tool's 401 starts, or a Bradford API key as "Authorization: Bearer brd_…"), its tools are by entitlement: Lab members read their projects, assets, versions, comments, review status, share links, timelines and editorial analyses (list_projects, get_project, list_assets, get_asset, list_versions, list_comments, get_review_status, list_share_links, list_timelines, get_timeline, list_editorial_analyses, get_editorial_analysis, get_clip_cards, get_project_context; read-only, free); the DCP service quotes, orders and follows DCPs (dcp_list_sources, dcp_quote, dcp_request, dcp_status, dcp_list_jobs); a key with a toolkit scope adds the Bradford Toolkit tools, and a connected Frame.io account adds one frameio tool. Pass holders order over A2A. Earlier MCP addresses stay as aliases. - **Glitch looks for footage** (opening): Analog and digital video glitch looks on your footage: VHS and tape faults, old TV and CRT decoding, video feedback, vision-mixer keys, frame-buffer corruption and video-synth patterns, from Bradford Glitch, an OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve (macOS and Windows). License $199 one-time (both plugins $299). Cloud renders (coming): $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second. https://www.bradfordoperations.com/software/plugins/glitch - **Textures looks for footage** (opening): Screen and print textures on your footage: a picture filmed off a CRT or LED screen, LCD and handheld-camera looks, photocopy, risograph-style stencil print, screen print, gravure, cyanotype, dot-matrix and thermal-receipt prints, from Bradford Textures, an OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve (macOS and Windows). License $199 one-time (both plugins $299). Cloud renders (coming): $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second. https://www.bradfordoperations.com/software/plugins/textures - **DCP mastering (Digital Cinema Package)** (coming): Turn a finished film into a DCP for cinemas and festivals. As an agent service (MCP, A2A and API) it is coming: it will need a Bradford Lab account, the source in Lab storage, and will return the DCP to the Lab library. Today Bradford makes DCPs as a hands-on post service: write to hello@bradfordoperations.com. Price: by quote today; agent pricing not set. https://www.bradfordoperations.com/post-production/services - **Hands-on post-production by Bradford Operations** (available): People, not an API: color grading (HDR and SDR, ACES, Dolby Vision), online editing and conform, archival restoration, post supervision, accessibility (captions, subtitles, audio description) and deliverables (DCPs, broadcast and streaming masters, LTO archive), from a New York post house. Price: by quote. https://www.bradfordoperations.com/post-production/services Interfaces today: - bradford-fx (local MCP, stdio) (coming): Ships with the Bradford Plugins desktop app, which is not released yet. The effects engine inside the app speaks MCP; the app's "Connect to an agent" registers it with Claude Desktop or Claude Code as `bradford-fx` (command: the app's bradford_fx, args: ["mcp"]). Tools list effects and looks, describe parameters, validate a stack and render previews and files on the person's own machine with their license. - build_stack_from_references (local MCP, stdio) (coming): Built and tested by Bradford, not yet shipped to customers. Reference pictures and a written direction in, a validated Glitch/Textures stack out. Runs beside bradford-fx; abstains when the direction is not something these effects can make. - Cloud renders (CLI/MCP and API) (coming): Send footage and a stack to Bradford's render fleet from the Plugins app's CLI or MCP; the render comes back as a new version in the person's Lab library. Needs a Lab account, a license for the plugin, and a Lab balance: $1.00 per finished minute at HD, $3.00 at 4K, charged by the second. - A2A inquiry agent (available): An A2A agent (JSON-RPC, protocol 1.0 and 0.3) that answers what Bradford offers for a request in plain words, which looks fit, what it costs and how to start. It runs no jobs. - Public read API (available): GET the services and the looks gallery, with plain-words matching. No key needed. - Remote MCP (streamable HTTP, read-only) (available): The same answers as the public API as MCP tools (find_services, find_looks, get_look), for any MCP client that takes a URL. No key needed. To ask: GET https://www.bradfordoperations.com/api/public/agents/services?q=. To contract Bradford for anything here: hello@bradfordoperations.com.