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For researchers and journalists

A field recording, a mailbox and a leaked archive, in one place that never leaves your hands.

For researchers, journalists and historians: the material is varied, the sources are sensitive, and the question you will ask next is not the one you asked today.

What you will use

  • Every kind of file. Recordings transcribed on your own hardware and searchable to the second; mailboxes and mail stores read into documents; scans read; pictures described if you ask.
  • Search four ways. By words in 29 languages plus Chinese, Japanese and Korean; by meaning; by appearance; by question, with an answer that cites its pages.
  • Connections drawn for you. Attachments, threads, the documents a page refers to, versions of your notes — as a list or a graph.
  • Nothing leaves. Models run where the archive runs; hosted AI is off until you switch it on for a stage and a workspace, and never for a workspace under a barrier.
  • Provenance and checksums for what you were handed. The arrival recorded, the file checksummed four ways, read back on a schedule, so what you publish is what you received.
  • Notes with versions. Write beside the material; every save is a version, the originals untouched.

modules: Transcripts, Ask, Semantic and visual search, Connections, Notes — all included

A recording’s page with its transcript in time-coded blocks, each a button that plays from that moment.
Recordings transcribed, searchable to the second.
The connections of the roof survey report drawn as a graph — the minutes, the letter, the photograph and the e-mail — with the same connections as a list beside it.
See how documents connect, as a list or as a graph.

An archive that understands what it keeps.

The same archive, the same guarantees.

Thirty days with every module, no card, wherever you choose to run it. How it works · What leaves your archive