How Luminary Studio Cut Image Search Time by 80% with Nexa

Case Studies / Luminary Studio

Before Nexa: Luminary Studio, a mid-sized creative agency managing 14 distinct client accounts, was drowning in a sea of untagged assets. With over 200,000 images scattered across disconnected folders, creative teams were spending an average of 45 minutes per session hunting for the right visuals. The "search time tax" was eating into production schedules and frustrating designers who preferred to create, not search.

The Goal: Luminary needed a way to ingest and organize their entire archive in a single weekend, providing instant retrieval for a team of 12 creatives without hiring additional FTEs.

Luminary Studio workflow interface showing Nexa dashboard with bulk ingest settings and tag management panels

The Nexa Solution

Luminary’s Creative Operations team deployed Nexa in a matter of hours. Using Nexa's bulk ingest API, they connected all 14 client repositories to the platform. Within 48 hours, Nexa had processed the entire 200,000-image backlog.

They configured custom tag sets for each client (e.g., "Eco-Friendly Packaging," "Urban Architecture") and set up dynamic collections to auto-sort assets by campaign status. The result was a unified, searchable knowledge base that grew alongside the agency.

80%

Reduction in search time

FTE hours saved daily

Manual tagging required

200k

Images processed in 48h

Instant Ingestion

Automatically pulling assets from Adobe Creative Cloud and shared network drives without manual file transfers.

Semantic Search

Designers now type natural language queries like "warm, outdoor, couple, golden hour" and get instant results.

Dynamic Collections

Campaign folders update automatically as new assets are tagged, ensuring the team always has the latest version.

Brand Consistency

Automated color palette extraction ensures every asset in a collection adheres to brand guidelines.

"Nexa didn't just organize our images; it transformed how our team thinks about them. The 80% time savings on search has fundamentally changed our project delivery speed."

— Sarah Jenkins, Creative Operations Lead, Luminary Studio

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