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Cairn DAM

Digital asset management is where a team stores, organizes, and shares brand and marketing assets — images, video, logos, guidelines. Cairn DAM gives you that library as software you own, with your files in your own cloud instead of a vendor's.

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What you get

A complete app, yours to keep.

Every Cairn Trail ships as a complete, AI-native application — full source in your own repository, a native MCP server, and a first-class CLI. Here’s what Cairn DAM includes out of the box.

  • Central library with folders, collections, and tags
  • Fast search and filtering across metadata
  • Version history and approval states
  • Share links and embeds with access control
  • Renditions and downloads in any format
  • Native MCP server and CLI so agents can file and find assets
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Know your options

Every way to get digital asset management.

We’d rather you saw the whole map than a sales pitch. Here are the tools teams actually evaluate — what each is good at, said plainly. Cairn is one option among them.

// where Cairn fits

So why Cairn?

Bynder and Brandfolder are polished and governance-heavy — and priced for enterprise, with your assets living on their cloud. The open-source DAM field is genuinely thin (ResourceSpace and Phraseanet are the real pure-play options, and both feel dated). Cairn DAM aims for the gap: a clean, modern asset library as code you own, hosted wherever you like, and extensible by your own agents.

Yours, for good

However you get there, Cairn DAM is software you own — full source in your GitHub repository, running in your own cloud. No phone-home, no license server, no kill switch. Export your data any time; Cairn could disappear tomorrow and your software would keep working.