How a Major Hollywood Studio Extended Its Metadata System Without Custom Dev

The challenge

Studios need SKUs and identifiers that match internal rules: feature vs. special vs. episodic, format, territory, and more. Off-the-shelf metadata tools don't always support that logic. Building and maintaining custom code inside the platform is slow and ties up engineering.

This studio needed their metadata system of record (Fabric) to produce custom SKUs and logic for features, specials, and episodics—without turning every change into a development project.

The solution

Flomenco powers custom SKU generation logic that sits on top of Fabric. Workflows read from Fabric, apply the studio's rules (feature vs. special vs. episodic, formatting, sequencing), and write the right identifiers and metadata back. The studio keeps using Fabric as the system of record while Flomenco extends it to match exactly how they package and track content.

The results

• 83,359 workflow executions in 2025—custom logic running at scale
• One place for business rules: SKU logic lives in Flomenco, not in scattered scripts
• No lock-in: Changes to naming or logic don't require platform custom dev
• Fabric remains the source of truth while Flomenco handles the "last mile" of custom SKUs