Foundry has announced Griptape Enterprise, a new tier of the Griptape AI workflow orchestration platform, extended to meet the stringent control and security requirements of high-end media production.
Featuring studio-controlled licensing and expanded project management capabilities, the Griptape update enables pipeline supervisors to curate exactly which models artists use, ensuring every workflow remains vetted, compliant and production-ready.
Studios can run Griptape Enterprise within their on-premises or private cloud infrastructure, ensuring the security of sensitive intellectual property through its strong control features and providing the privacy expected by Foundry customers working with some of the most valuable intellectual property in media and entertainment.
Foundry has also announced the appointment of Kyle Roche as Chief AI Officer to guide the company’s next-generation technology development, including Foundry Research initiatives.
Roche, Griptape Co-Founder and former CEO, joined Foundry in February 2026 following the company’s acquisition of the AI orchestration platform. The appointment underscores Foundry’s commitment to evolving Griptape from a specialised tool into the foundational architecture for the industry’s professional AI-integrated pipelines.
“Foundry has been a trusted technology partner to visual effects and animation studios for more than 30 years. With the new Griptape Enterprise licence tier, Foundry is guiding high-end creative teams into AI-enhanced production in a safe and secure way, with artistry and craft at its core,” said Roche.
“While studios are navigating how best to integrate AI models with bespoke platforms and workarounds, we’re pleased to offer Griptape as a highly customisable and secure off-the-shelf alternative.”
Offering a highly extensible Python-based architecture, the Griptape AI orchestration platform enables artists and studios to orchestrate multiple AI models and agents across the pipeline, from creative workflows to technical tasks such as data and metadata management, achieving AI efficiencies while retaining creative control.
Griptape Enterprise introduces advanced studio governance, production-driven pipeline automation and commercially cleared infrastructure to meet rigorous security and legal compliance requirements.
Key Enterprise tier features include:
Enterprise Governance and Infrastructure Control: Studios can run Griptape on-premises within their network security perimeter, keeping sensitive intellectual property, prompt inputs and private training data inside the facility. Centrally managed unlimited licensing and permissions control how artists and automated workloads access AI models and software features, keeping environments aligned with studio standards.
Key Griptape updates include:
Studio-Grade Plate and Colour Management: Griptape understands image sequences in the same way as industry-standard production tools such as Nuke, while Griptape’s OpenColorIO library brings colour management into line with the rest of the pipeline.
Show-Ready Projects: Templates define project workspaces, libraries, versioning and naming conventions. Library versions can be pinned for each show or shot, ensuring every production retains its approved toolset and reopens reliably as the wider pipeline evolves.
Nuke Integration: Technical directors can build a workflow in Griptape, expose the controls artists need and publish it into the pipeline as a versioned Nuke gizmo. Griptape workflows can also run Nuke scripts headlessly as part of a larger AI pipeline.
Agentic Automation: The built-in AI assistant accelerates artists’ work in Griptape, with a choice of local or cloud-based large language models. An MCP server enables AI agents to operate Griptape at scale, while AI coding skills, including those used internally by Foundry, allow studios to rapidly build their own trusted node libraries.
Modular Diffusion Pipelines: Griptape breaks image and video generation into stages that artists can rearrange, chain and refine, rather than relying on a single fixed generation step. Models including FLUX, Stable Diffusion XL, LTX and WAN can run locally on studio GPUs.
Griptape Enterprise is available now.
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