About
Institutional memory deserves modern software.
Archively is built by engineers and archivists for the institutions that keep the record: universities, museums, foundations, and archives of every kind.
Our story
Why we build this.
Archively grew out of years of work with libraries, university archives, and heritage institutions. The same problems kept coming up: text extraction that never quite worked, cataloging software that forced a single workflow, and export formats that treated standards compliance as a CSV dump.
We started with the hardest part: a standards-first data model that lets a city archive and a specialist research library run side by side without their collections, branding, or policies touching. Around it we built an AI pipeline that drafts instead of decides, and an interface that treats curators as the experts they are.
If you run an archive and want software that works the way your profession does, we would like to show you the platform on your own records.
What we believe
Four principles, written down early.
Curators decide, not algorithms.
AI drafts; people approve. Every AI proposal waits for review, every decision is recorded, and expert judgement stays at the center of the record.
AI PROPOSES · STAFF DISPOSE
Standards over lock-in.
Your data moves through ISAD(G), Dublin Core, EAD, and MARC. The formats your collection arrives in are the formats it can leave in.
ISAD(G) · DUBLIN CORE · EAD · MARC
Boring infrastructure is a feature.
Archives run for decades. We choose dependencies, storage formats, and deployment models with that horizon in mind.
BUILT FOR THE LONG TERM
Fast interfaces, at any size.
Collections grow; the software should not slow down. We profile, measure, and fix, so daily work stays quick at a hundred records or a million.
MEASURED · PROFILED · KEPT FAST
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A working setup using your records, not a sales presentation.