Glórund crossing heterogeneous terrain in search of Túrin felt like an apt opener for an article about searching across heterogeneous assets! Is this too much of a stretch? Well, anyway… If you search for "digital asset management software," you'll find many mature solutions. Adobe Experience Manager — probably the most recognizable name in enterprise marketing infrastructure — handles digital assets as part of a broader content management platform. Cloudinary and Bynder represent the more focused end of the spectrum: purpose-built DAMs with polished interfaces, rich metadata management, and integrations designed for marketing teams. These are mature, well-funded products with years of iteration behind them. So why build one from scratch? The honest answer: I didn't build this because the market had a gap. I built it because I had some questions: How do you model metadata for creative assets that are structurally heterogeneous: a PNG, an HTML email and a push notification living in the same library?…