For community and volunteer-run archives

Cataloguing that is actually possible.

Local history societies, parish record groups and volunteer archives. No IT department, no training manual, and every price published.

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30 free credits a month · No card needed

What you get

Built for a Tuesday afternoon.

A new volunteer should be cataloguing within the first session, and the quality should not depend on who turned up.

The Archivers.ai processing screen showing five of five files completed, with counters for pending, processing, completed and failed items, and each photograph and document ticked off by name
Getting started

Upload a box, get a queue.

Photographs, parish registers, maps and letters go in together. Drafts come back ready for a volunteer to check.

  • Works in any web browser
  • Nothing to install or configure
  • Credit cost shown before you commit
See the full workflow
An Archivers.ai audio player showing the waveform of an hour-long recording beside a timestamped transcript, with each line labelled by speaker and clickable to seek the audio
Oral history

Spoken memories become searchable text.

Reminiscence sessions and recorded interviews are transcribed with timestamps and speakers, so a name can be found again.

  • Audio transcription on paid plans
  • Timestamped, speaker-separated lines
  • Search the words, not the file name
What the platform does
An Archivers.ai search for a British family who emigrated to Canada after the war, returning nineteen results as cards with thumbnails, dates, titles, extents and linked subject and name headings
Going public

Your archive, online, without a website.

The Starter plan includes a public portal at yourarchive.archivers.ai, so people can search the collection themselves.

  • Public portal included on Starter
  • Search in plain language, not keywords
  • You decide what is published
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What it costs

Published, to the penny.

30

Credits a month on the free Community plan

From 6p

Per credit on the largest credit packs

Free

Volunteer and reviewer seats on every paid plan

£3–£5

Typical manual cataloguing cost per item

One credit catalogues one photograph or object, one document page, one minute of video, or five minutes of audio. See plans and credits

Common questions

What community archives ask first.

Do I need technical knowledge to use Archivers.ai?

No. If you can use a web browser, you can use Archivers.ai. Nothing to install, nothing to configure, and the help centre covers each step.

How do I get started?

Start free: 30 credits a month, no card required. You will have help from your first upload.

How much will it cost?

Plans are sized for small grants and volunteer-run archives, with every price published. Volunteer and reviewer seats are free, and Starter includes a public portal.

Can I export for grant reporting?

Yes. EAD3 and BagIt with PREMIS exports are designed to support NLHF-style digitisation workflows and reporting conversations. Each programme still applies its own requirements.

Do we have to trust the AI's guesses?

No. Archivers.ai drafts a first description of each item — a volunteer always makes the final call. Every suggestion arrives with its evidence attached, so you can see why a date or a name was proposed before you amend it or accept the record.

Is our data safe?

Customer collection data is not used to train foundation AI models; we follow vendor no-training commitments. You own your archive and can export or delete it at any time.

Start small. Grow when you are ready.

Free with 30 credits a month. When the collection is ready to go public, Starter adds the portal.

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