Multi-Modal Asset Matching

By
Juliette Felix
August 8, 2025
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Business Challenge

Many organisations struggle to track and match large numbers of physical or digital assets. Information arrives in every format imaginable: cropped photos, audio notes, and handwritten or loosely structured lists. Employees must manually interpret and reconcile asset descriptions, which rarely follow a template and often include different languages or vague details. Searching for items is tedious and unreliable. Systems cannot match similar assets across these formats, resulting in missed connections, persistent errors, and wasted time.

How It Works

AI automation solves these pain points with multi-modal intelligence. The solution ingests asset reports from text, photo, or audio inputs through an easy portal or API. Audio notes become readable text through automatic transcription. The AI breaks down every entry into key features of the assets. All information is standardised across languages and synonyms, so “blue bag,” “bagage bleu,” and “navy case” are going to be identified as similar. Staff review suggested matches, edit entries, and approve new records to ensure accuracy.

Visual and textual data are embedded in a unified index, enabling powerful semantic search. Users can search by keywords, upload a photo, or combine different inputs. The system instantly ranks and surfaces relevant assets, even when the query is imprecise. Feedback from users, such as corrections or confirmations, helps the AI improve with every search.

All asset records are securely stored, with encryption and user-level access controls. Edits and searches are logged, supporting traceability and reporting needs. Sensitive information in images can be automatically redacted for privacy.

Key Functionalities

  • Accepts input by image, audio, or text
  • Automatically transcribes and summarizes details, expanding and tagging descriptions in multiple languages
  • Embeds and indexes every asset for semantic and visual search, not just basic keyword lookup
  • Lets users search by natural language or with a photo, finding matches even when inputs are partial
  • Continuously improves as analysts validate, correct, or give feedback on results
  • Operates in compliance with data protection standards, with audit logs and permission management
  • Modular system can be adapted and upgraded without disrupting operations

Results

Teams using this approach can reduce manual classification and reconciliation effort by up to sixty seconds for each asset they process.  

✓ Asset records are richer, more consistent, and easier to audit or analyse.  

✓ Users find what they need faster and with greater accuracy, even across languages or incomplete data.  

✓ The human-in-the-loop validation keeps trust and quality high, while ongoing feedback helps the system get smarter over time.  

✓ Scaling up to large volumes becomes practical without increasing administrative workload.

Example Applications

Lost and found programs in airports or hotels become proactive rather than reactive.

Insurance and logistics teams reconcile claims and evidence confidently.  

Museums and warehouses maintain precise records and streamline audits.  

Customer service teams can quickly find a product or asset, whatever the format of the original report.

Juliette Felix
Engineering Manager, Layers
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