E-commerce
- Operational problem
- Catalog and campaign assets sprawl across disconnected image tools.
- Workflow model
- Ingest → moderate → transform → variants → deliver
- Primary output
- PDP-ready variants, overlays and auditable preparation jobs.
PROGRAMMABLE MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE
Process, transform, understand and deliver images, video and documents through one programmable and auditable platform.

Platform
Images, video, documents and AI operations should not live in disconnected systems. SialFlow brings them into one workflow engine, one API model and one operational view.
Image, video, document and AI-adjacent jobs share the same control plane instead of disconnected tools.
Bearer auth, project scope, async jobs and outbox events follow one model across capabilities.
Quota, concurrency and fair scheduling keep multi-tenant workloads predictable.
Job timelines, retries and audit-oriented event trails stay attached to every run.
Execution
Image pipelines with URL transform grammar and async job patterns — from ingest through variants on one control plane.
Example pipeline
Background remove (example)
# Async job → new asset
POST /v1/images/{id}/bg-remove
{"format":"png"}
# Sync CDN path (alpha formats only)
/i/{org}/{image}/w400-e-bgremove-f-png/preview.png
# Poll: GET /v1/images/jobs/{job_id}Image
Turn repetitive image operations into durable, versioned and observable pipelines.
Input → nodes → variants
hero.jpg · ingest
Background remove · Running
Smart crop · Queued
w800 / w1200 / avif · Queued
enrich / moderate · roadmap
Timeline · encode ladder
Encoding, scene markers, and batch jobs share the same job and telemetry model. Transcription as a Flow step is still ahead of the shipped first vertical.
Video
Run VOD, live and batch media processing through a shared orchestration and telemetry layer.
Document Processing
Convert document pipelines into searchable, classifiable and machine-readable workflows on the same control plane.
Secure Documents
Store the pack once, share it with your team, or send an outside recipient a link that expires. They open it under your rules — and you keep a clear record of the delivery.
AI & moderation
Background remove is live. Broader enrichment and moderation queues stay on the roadmap — we keep AI-adjacent work on the same tenancy and Job Center, without pretending GenAI is fully shipped.
Async background remove for heavy jobs, plus sync delivery transforms when you need an immediate alpha PNG or WebP.
AI-adjacent jobs share tenancy, quotas, events, and Job Center visibility with image work. Enrichment and moderation queues come later.
We ship bg-remove and image pipelines first. Broader GenAI enrichment is direction, not a pretend live product.
Architecture
A layered control plane: clients hit one API model, policy and tenant scheduling decide execution, workers process, storage stays at the boundary, events close the loop.
Client / API
Bearer auth | project context | idempotent creates
Workflow control plane
Jobs | pipelines | outbox events | versioned defs
Policy + tenant scheduler
Quota | concurrency | fair share | retries
Worker capacity
Image · AI · Video · Document — isolated execution
Object / customer storage
Upload sessions | derived variants | connectors
Events + telemetry + audit
Outbox | job timelines | Governance audit explorer
Multi-tenant
Quota, concurrency and fair scheduling keep shared infrastructure from becoming a noisy neighbor problem.
Tenant execution matrix
| Tenant | Running | Queued | Scheduler note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenant A | 12 | 40 | fair share |
| Tenant B | 4 | 8 | within concurrency |
| Tenant C | 8 | 19 | retry backlog |
Sample UI for quota, concurrency, and fair scheduling - not production counters.
Storage & providers
Connectors and worker pools are designed so storage ownership and compute providers stay at explicit integration boundaries — without locking you to a single vendor name.
Solutions
Each solution maps to a workflow shape — not a generic icon grid.
Developers
Auth, tenancy headers, async jobs and events stay aligned so image, video and document work feels like one platform.
curl · background remove (shipped)
curl -X POST https://api.sialflow.com/v1/images/$IMAGE_ID/bg-remove \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SIALFLOW_API_KEY" \
-H "X-SialFlow-Project-ID: $PROJECT_ID" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"format":"png"}'
# 202 → job kind=bg_remove · poll GET /v1/images/jobs/{id}Observability
Illustrative telemetry for node status, retries, provider pool and audit events — not a live product screenshot.
Job record
RunningProgress, retries, and audit stay attached to every job on the control plane.
Control boundaries
Trust is expressed as architectural controls — not customer logos or unverified certifications.
Jobs and outbox events leave an operational record you can inspect.
Org, workspace and project context scopes work and credentials.
Worker pools are treated as interchangeable execution capacity.
Connectors keep storage ownership at the integration boundary.
Status, retries and duration stay visible at the job and node level.
Pipeline changes can be tracked as versioned workflow definitions.
Published Flows keep allow/deny evidence and lineage on each run — separate from the outbox.
Transforms and bg-remove jobs run under project tenancy and quota, with Flow gates where you publish a definition.
Start building
Create a workspace for the developer portal, then run image, video and document jobs on one control plane.
Start with an image pipeline, a video job or a document flow, then connect them as your operation grows.
Start free
Create your organization workspace and start processing media on one control plane.
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