Foundry launched Griptape Enterprise, a new license tier of its Griptape AI workflow orchestration platform built to run generative pipelines entirely inside a studio's own infrastructure. The tier is available now.
On-premises or private-cloud deployment keeps plates, models, and metadata behind the studio firewall.
Modular diffusion pipelines run FLUX, Stable Diffusion XL, LTX, and WAN models locally on studio GPUs.
Kyle Roche, Griptape co-founder, steps into a new role as Foundry's Chief AI Officer.
Foundry positions it, in its launch announcement, as a governed alternative to the improvised setups studios have been building to bolt AI models onto existing pipelines.
A studio-controlled license tier aimed at security and governance
Griptape Enterprise sits on top of the base Griptape platform and adds the controls high-end facilities need before they let generative tools touch client footage. It offers studio-controlled licensing and permissions, plus enterprise governance with centralized, unlimited licensing across a facility.
Deployment runs on-premises or in a private cloud, so proprietary plates and trained models never leave studio-owned hardware. Color handling uses OpenColorIO for studio-grade plate and color management, and show-ready projects ship with templates for workspaces and versioning.
We covered Foundry's acquisition of Griptape, the deal that brought the orchestration technology in-house and set up this enterprise tier.
Nuke integration publishes workflows as versioned gizmos
Griptape Enterprise connects directly to Nuke. Artists can publish workflows as versioned gizmos and run scripts headlessly, which pushes generative steps into the same versioned, repeatable structure compositors already use for the rest of a shot.
The tier also adds agentic automation with a choice of local or cloud LLMs, and it ships an MCP server that lets AI agents pilot Griptape at scale. We previously detailed how Foundry brought Griptape agents into Nuke, Blender, and Maya through MCP, the same protocol underneath this release.
Modular diffusion pipelines run open models on studio GPUs
The generative core is a set of modular diffusion pipelines that support FLUX, Stable Diffusion XL, LTX, and WAN models running locally on studio GPUs. Keeping inference on local hardware matters for facilities that cannot send frames to an outside API for legal, security, or client-confidentiality reasons.
That local-first design lines up with Foundry's broader push to fold machine learning into its compositor, which we saw in Nuke 17.0 and its expanded machine-learning toolset.
Kyle Roche moves from Griptape CEO to Foundry Chief AI Officer
Kyle Roche, Griptape co-founder and its former CEO, has been named Foundry's Chief AI Officer. He joined the company in February 2026 when the acquisition completed.
Roche framed the enterprise tier as a way to move studios into AI production without the one-off workarounds many have assembled on their own:
Foundry has been a trusted technology partner to visual effects and animation studios for over 30 years. With the new Griptape Enterprise license tier, Foundry is shepherding high-end creative teams into AI-enhanced production in a safe and secure way, with artistry and craft at its core. While studios are navigating how best to integrate AI models with bespoke platforms and workarounds, we're pleased to offer Griptape as a highly customizable and safe off-the-shelf alternative.
What governed, off-the-shelf AI means for studio pipelines
For facilities weighing generative tools, the constraint has rarely been model quality. It has been control: where the data lives, who holds the license, and whether an AI step can slot into a versioned pipeline without breaking review and audit trails. Griptape Enterprise answers those questions by keeping deployment, models, and color management inside the studio's own walls, and by wiring the whole thing into Nuke's existing gizmo and scripting workflow.
Whether high-end studios adopt a packaged orchestration layer over their own internal tooling is the open question. With FLUX, Stable Diffusion XL, LTX, and WAN all running locally and Nuke as the front end, Foundry is betting that the facilities most cautious about AI are the ones most likely to pay for a governed way in.
