The archive is bigger than the catalogue.
AI drafts ISAD(G)- and Spectrum-aligned records, an archivist accepts every field, and it exports into the repository you already run.
30 free credits a month · No card needed
Works with the systems you already run
Three steps, one review gate. Archivers.ai sits between digitisation and the system of record you already run.
Drag in scans, photograph items with a phone, or bulk-upload a digitised backlog.
Every field cites its evidence, or is flagged as having none. Nothing lands unreviewed.
Reviewed records leave as open standards, or publish straight to a public access portal.
Typical manual cataloguing cost per item
Per credit on the largest credit packs
Credits a month on the free Community plan
Volunteer and reviewer seats on every paid plan
One credit catalogues one photograph or object, one document page, one minute of video, or five minutes of audio. See plans and credits
The same review gate and the same exports, sized to how your service works.
ISAD(G) drafts, EAD3 out, and a review gate on every field.
Spectrum-aligned object records for Axiell, Modes, Adlib and Mimsy.
A free plan, volunteer seats and a public portal, with no IT department.
Published prices, EU-resident AI, and a pilot before anything is signed.
“There’s either you use something like CALM or you use Excel. There’s nothing really in the middle — and I think this sits in the middle quite nicely.”
EU-resident AI processing
Data processing agreement published
Human review on every field
Every price published
AI for archives is not a magic box. It is extra capacity for the slow first pass — reading, transcribing and drafting — so archivists and curators spend their time on judgement.
Typed pages, printed forms and handwritten registers are read and transcribed. Every word carries a confidence score, and the words the AI is unsure of are marked for a person to settle.
Oral histories, recordings and film are transcribed and described on paid plans, so what they contain becomes searchable text rather than a title on a shelf list.
From the transcript and the images, the AI drafts the catalogue record: title, dates, creator, scope and content, and the people, places and subjects that become access points. Drafts map to ISAD(G) for archives and Spectrum for museum objects.
Each field cites the evidence it was drawn from, or says it has none. Provenance for AI-assisted fields — model, timestamp and review state — is recorded and leaves with the export as PREMIS events.
Personal data and potentially sensitive content are flagged before anything is published, so closure and redaction decisions are made by someone with the context to make them.
Full-text search runs across records and transcripts. Reviewed records publish to a public access portal, or export to AtoM, ArchivesSpace, Axiell and the other systems you already run.
Appraisal, arrangement, closure periods and the final wording are professional decisions. AI can also repeat outdated or biased language from its sources. That is why nothing leaves Archivers.ai until a person has accepted it, field by field.
Getting your archive ready for AI? The Archives and Records Association’s AI Preparedness Guidelines for Archivists are a good place to start, and our practical guide to preparing your archive covers the first steps. How we use AI
Start free with 30 credits a month, or talk to us about an institutional pilot.
