MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Discover talentat scale.

A digital talent marketplace for film and media — turning personal networks and offline word of mouth into structured, searchable professional discovery.

Media & EntertainmentMarketplace EngineeringDiscoveryPayments
Client context

Where the story starts.

Film and media production depends on a fragmented network of actors, technicians, creative professionals, agencies, production houses and casting teams. Discovering the right talent usually relies on personal networks and offline communication. The goal was to digitise professional discovery and opportunity matching without replacing the industry relationships it runs on.

The challenge

One marketplace, fundamentally different users — talent, agencies and production houses.

A talent profile works nothing like an agency profile, and a production company's requirements are different again. The platform had to accommodate several distinct account types while keeping them inside one shared marketplace. Discovery mattered most: media search depends on many professional attributes rather than a single product category, so the search model needed detailed profile attributes rather than simple catalogue lookups.

Architecture

How the platform is wired.

The path a single request travels — each step an engineering decision.

01Professional profile
02Categories & filters
03Search & match
04Opportunity
05Application
06Notification
What we built

The applications behind it.

01

Talent application

Professionals create profiles across talent categories with the attributes discovery depends on.

02

Agency portal

Agencies build profiles and participate in talent and opportunity workflows across the marketplace.

03

Production platform

Production houses publish opportunities, discover professionals and manage applications.

04

Search and discovery

Advanced filters over detailed professional-profile attributes for multi-attribute media discovery.

05

Administration platform

Oversee users, categories, transactions, operations, audit logs and free and paid participation.

Engineering challenges

The hard problems we solved.

Not screens — the difficult, load-bearing engineering underneath.

Multi-account marketplace

Supporting distinct talent, agency, production and administrator account types within one shared marketplace.

Attribute-based discovery

Building search and filtering over detailed professional-profile attributes rather than a single product category.

Mixed monetisation

Handling both free and paid participation depending on the category and service model.

Opportunity notifications

Notifying users when relevant opportunities appear, applications change or platform actions require attention.

Technology

Architecture, not a logo wall.

ExperienceReact · React Native capable architecture
ApplicationNode.js · .NET · REST
DataMongoDB · relational database by domain
PaymentsPayment gateway integration
NotificationsFirebase · application notifications
Outcome

What became possible.

A structured marketplace connecting professionals and opportunity providers

Discovery and participation that scale beyond personal networks

Distinct account types unified in one shared platform

Free and paid participation supported side by side

Related capabilities

The services this drew on.

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