A small team. A narrow focus. A long view.

Two gaps, really. The first: most collection software is built for mid-sized institutions and priced for procurement cycles. Solo collectors, family archives, and small volunteer-run museums either buy what's too big for them or cobble together spreadsheets. Neither path builds records that last.

The second: FAIR has become the standard technical vocabulary for data stewardship, but most platforms leave the practice layer — who governs, how custody is held, how provenance is surfaced, how capacity is built — underspecified. We pair FAIR with four named Stewardship commitments (Authority, Custody, Provenance, Capacity), drawn from archival science, museum ethics (ICOM), and library practice (ALA, SAA). When engagements involve Indigenous materials, additional commitments apply. The principles page is the detailed version.

We focus on unstructured data — photographs, audio, objects, recipes, ephemera. Genealogy tools do text well. Museum platforms do catalogs well. Fewer tools do the stuff in the box at the back of the closet. That's where a lot of cultural memory lives, and that's a lot of what we work on. Conversely, personal collections — writings, photographs, audio, and video — are where we start, not where we end:

We specialize in personal curation of professional identities, with particular focus on scholarly work. We help researchers, artists, and other creative professionals build and maintain not just a "personal brand" but a personal archive, with the same rigor and ethics that larger institutions apply to their collections. The difference is that we do it for the individual, not the institution, so you retain control of your own story while we help you make it FAIR and, in the process, help you tell this story with receipts.

For academic clients, we use existing services (Zenodo, osf.io) for storage and hosting, so whatever we build can be maintained however you want. We design the structure and metadata of your archive to be interoperable with other systems. We also provide guidance on how to maintain your archive over time, so that it remains accessible and usable for years to come. In short, we help you create a personal archive that is not only well-organized and easy to navigate, but also built to last while maintaining your control and agency. You make the calls, you update the content, and you decide who has access. We help you make it FAIR, and we help you make it last.

We help you publish your work, preserve your legacy, and tell your story with confidence.