For directors and heads of collections

A backlog your service budget can actually absorb.

Manual cataloguing runs at three to five pounds an item. Archivers.ai runs at pennies, with your archivists reviewing every record.

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Fixed-scope 30-day pilot · £1,200 · Scoped on a call

The case

Evidence a committee can act on.

Not a slide deck. Reviewed records from your own collection, and a cost line you can defend afterwards.

An Archivers.ai accession of 90 board meeting minutes, headed 90 items and 0 of 90 reviewed, in a sortable table with columns for personal data detected, content warnings, evidence citations, title, date and creator
Progress

Backlog reduction you can report.

Items processed, items awaiting review, items accepted. Concrete counts for a board paper rather than an estimate.

  • Counts per accession, updated as work lands
  • Credit usage visible against the budget
  • Personal data and sensitivity flagged in the list
See plans and credits
An Archivers.ai record awaiting review, showing a personal-data flag, an expandable evidence panel for how the date and location were inferred, and evidence marks beside each drafted descriptive field
Governance

Nothing is published without a person.

Every AI-assisted field carries its evidence, its edit history and its review state, which is what your auditors will ask about.

  • Human accept before anything leaves the platform
  • Personal data flagged before open licensing
  • AI processing runs in EU data centres
Trust and procurement
The Archivers.ai Explore workspace answering a question about a football club’s role in its community before 1900, with a grounded summary drawn from the archive’s own reviewed board minutes
After the project

The work keeps earning its keep.

Once the backlog is described, the same records become staff research and public discovery instead of a finished project.

  • Staff Explore on every paid plan
  • Public discovery portal for the collection
  • Engagement evidence for funder reporting
Public access and Explore
The numbers

Published, to the penny.

£3–£5

Typical manual cataloguing cost per item

From 6p

Per credit on the largest credit packs

£1,200

Fixed-scope Archivers Pilot, including 1,500 credits

30 days

The pilot window, agreed on a scoping call

The manual figure derives from Archives Revealed project outcomes. A qualified archivist costs around £36,000 a year before overheads, on ARA 2026 guidance. See plans and credits

Common questions

What a committee will ask.

Does this reduce our archivist headcount?

That is not the argument. The drafting step gets faster, so skilled staff move from data entry to review, engagement and outreach. Material that would never be catalogued gets done.

Do we need to go to tender?

Annual plan costs are designed to sit well below typical procurement thresholds, so most services can buy on a purchase card or a single quote.

Invoice and purchase order are available on Institution plans and larger credit packs.

What will our data protection officer be told?

Application compute and the database both run in London (AWS eu-west-2), with AI inference in EU data centres. The published data processing agreement and sub-processor list are on the Trust page.

What does the Archivers Pilot include?

A fixed scope agreed on a call, guided setup, retroconversion or configuration of the first collection, and 1,500 credits, for £1,200 one-time. It is sold by invoice, not self-serve.

Does this replace our collections system?

No. AtoM, ArchivesSpace, Axiell, Modes, Adlib, Mimsy, Preservica and Archivematica stay the system of record. Archivers.ai exports into them in standards-based formats, so your catalogue stays portable and there is no lock-in.

Start with an Archivers Pilot.

A fixed-scope pilot on your own collection for £1,200, scoped on a call, with every record reviewed by your team.

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