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Arch Platform Technologies, Inc.

Arch Platform Technologies, Inc. is a private technology company. It is commonly known as Arch Platform Technologies, the Arch Platform, or Arch. The company provides a cloud workstation infrastructure platform that serves creative, design, engineering, and scientific industries. This includes video and film post-production, advertising, product development, architecture and construction, energy, and health sciences. It supports collaborative workflows requiring cloud workstation instances with high performance memory and GPUs.

History and Founding

The company was founded in 2016 by VFX and technology executives Guy Botham and Edward Churchward, originally to serve Vitality VFX, a Hollywood visual effects studio, by providing a cloud infrastructure alternative to a costly on-premises data center. Botham teamed up with Churchward, a cloud technology expert, to architect the initial platform.

Products and Services

Arch offers a hybrid-cloud workstation, storage, and compute farm platform built on a secure, scalable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model. The platform enables creative and technical teams to dynamically scale compute resources like workstations and render farms without the limitations of on-premise hardware.

The platform also functions as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) orchestration engine for “studios in the cloud,” supporting virtual production, editorial, color correction, animation, game development, and other demanding workflows.

Arch has demonstrated its platform at major industry events, including NAB 2023 and HPA Tech Retreat 2023, highlighting its capability to create hybrid and cloud-based creative environments, in partnership with companies such as HP Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Partnerships and Recognition

• In 2021, Arch joined Teradici’s Advantage Partner Program, embedding Teradici’s high-fidelity PCoIP remote display and Cloud Access Software (CAS) technologies into its platform to enhance performance for demanding VFX and virtual production workloads.
• Also in 2021, Arch received the Engineering Excellence Award from the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) in recognition of its technical innovation in creative infrastructure-as-a-service.
• The company has also integrated technologies such as NICE DCV for high performance and secure streaming and is one of the few Autodesk-certified Flame system integration partners on AWS.
• Wacom Company, Ltd. and Arch Platform Technologies partnered in 2025 to integrate and provide Wacom Bridge, a technology that enables seamless pen input from a local Wacom device to a remote workstation. It enhances the creative experience by addressing potential latency issues and providing full Wacom driver support on both local and remote machines.

Clients and Industry Adoption

Arch’s technology has been adopted by major studios, visual effects houses, creative agencies, universities, and design/engineering firms. Its early users included Vitality VFX and Solstice Studios, for the film Unhinged, as well as companies such as Track VFX and FatBelly VFX. More recently studios like A+E Networks have pioneered solutions incorporating their platform.

Arch now supports a diverse client base, from university to forensic accident reconstruction clients, as part of a broader platform effort to expand beyond creative industries.

Recent Developments

In mid-2025, Arch announced it closed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the global availability of streamlined, cloud-native workstation environments.