Bedrock Archive

The essential upgrade
for research and writing.

Discover without doubt.

A verified historical data platform indexed for storytelling and displayed in 3D geographical space. A firewall around historical truth. A door wide open to discovery. Search engines are built for keywords. Bedrock is designed for stories.

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13B
Items in US collecting institutions · IMLS Heritage Health Information Survey, 2019
4.8B
Items already at risk of permanent loss · Heritage Health Index, 2004
51%
Of institutions have no preservation budget · Heritage Health Index, 2004
The Crisis

"Comprehensive digitization of America's historical collections will not be achieved this century at current rates."

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

That's just one of the problems Bedrock addresses.

Thousands of communities across America have historical societies — mostly non-profits — holding irreplaceable records telling the origin stories of their communities. Most of these historical societies have annual budgets under $50,000 and no budget to digitize their collections.

We live in an age of information abundance and truth scarcity. Search engines surface algorithmically ranked content — optimized for clicks, not credibility. AI-generated material floods the web with no reliable way to distinguish it from verified fact. Primary sources are physically decaying, digitally inaccessible, and siloed in aging institutions that lack the resources to preserve them.

Journalists, historians, academics, documentary filmmakers, genealogists, and students all face the same problem: too much unverified data, no structured way to navigate it, and no visual framework for discovering the stories hidden within.

Bedrock addresses all of these.

"When an elder dies, a library burns."

West African proverb

This proverb reflects a compounded problem. Not only are the physical collections at risk — the local historians who hold precious knowledge of their community are also disappearing.

The Platform

Verified historical data. Story-indexed. Displayed in 3D geographical space.

Our priority is to accelerate the process of digitizing historical collections and make them universally accessible.

The state of Colorado is our pilot project. There are roughly 260 historical societies in Colorado, dozens of which are at risk. Our plan involves dispatching a team of Mobile Archivists to assist with their digitization projects. We will also provide digitization grants for communities in need. Simultaneously, our team of designers and developers will build the platform to access the data in new and innovative ways.

The problem isn’t a sexy one, so it gets overlooked. But Bedrock is taking the challenge because it’s important. We believe it’s the right thing to do. Now that we’ve figured out how to get it done, it’s time to put it in motion.

We’ve designed a platform with a proprietary verification process, indexing code, and graphic user interface. The design contains these elements:

Indexing story elements
Every document is parsed for story elements that make history searchable as narrative. Search for a person, an event, a time period — and find the documents that connect them across sources you didn’t know existed.
3D Geographic Interface
Records plotted at precise geographic coordinates on a time axis. Watch a county fill in, homestead by homestead, watch the railroads roll through. Navigate history spatially, not just chronologically.
The AI Content Firewall
Every record in Bedrock carries a Verification Score and a human verifier’s credential. Machine-extracted content is clearly labeled and separated from human-verified content. The distinction is always visible.
Cornerstone — The Consumer App
Photograph your family’s old documents and photographs. Cornerstone connects them to the verified Bedrock archive. Search and see what else was going on in your grandmother’s hometown when she graduated high school.
Our shared mission with historical societies

Our mission is your mission.

Our mission is to help you accomplish your mission. Bedrock is a verified historical data platform built for the organizations that preserve America's past — and for every researcher, genealogist, journalist, and student who depends on them.

We've read your mission statements. Hundreds of them. From communities across America. The history is different. The people are different. The community is different. But the mission is always similar.

Preserve
Your mission says
"To preserve the history and heritage of our community for future generations."
Bedrock does
Digitizes your physical collections, verifies and indexes them, and makes them permanently accessible — protected against building failures, disasters, funding gaps, and the passage of time.
Promote
Your mission says
"To promote the history of our community to the widest possible audience."
Bedrock does
Places your collections in front of researchers, genealogists, journalists, and documentary filmmakers who are actively searching — making your institution discoverable to anyone, anywhere, at any hour.
Educate
Your mission says
"To educate the public, especially young people, about the history that shaped our community."
Bedrock does
Delivers your verified primary sources directly into K–12 classrooms and university research programs — with your institution named as the source on every record students encounter.
Collect
Your mission says
"To collect, catalog, and care for artifacts, documents, and photographs that tell our community's story."
Bedrock does
Extends your collecting reach through the Cornerstone app — family photographs, documents, and oral histories contributed by community members easily enrich your institutional collection.
Community
Your mission says
"To serve our community — the people who live here now and the descendants who carry this place in their memory, wherever they have gone."
Bedrock does
Returns a share of every subscription generated by your community's members directly back to your institution so you can continue your good work.
Our mission is to help you accomplish yours.
Partner Societies

Bedrock is the accelerant.

Historical societies want to partner with Bedrock because it accelerates their mission.

Every historical society partner engages in two distinct transactions with Bedrock. The Data Partnership brings the society’s collections into the Bedrock platform. The Institutional Subscription gives the society’s staff and researchers access to the entire Bedrock database. These are independent agreements. The transaction is designed to favor both partners. Bringing at-risk collections online is the priority over profit. The first years are the building years. We reinvest in communities, and we stay connected to the communities.

Partner Institution Rate
$14.95
/month · for active data partners
$149/year annual billing — one month free
Year 1 of partnership: free
5 staff and volunteer accounts included
Unlimited patron read-only access in your research room
Revenue share on every Basic-Partner subscriber your society generates
Hardship waiver available for societies with annual budgets under $15,000
Your subscription self-funds after 6 new members. At $9.95/month, each member who joins Bedrock returns $2.49 to your society. Six of those subscribers cover your $14.95 monthly cost exactly. Beyond six, your society earns. A society with 20 subscribers nets $34.85 a month — more than twice the subscription cost — back to your institution every month.
Transaction A — The License
Your society accesses Bedrock
Your institution pays Bedrock a subscription fee for staff and patron access to the full platform. $14.95/month for data partners. Standard institutional rates for non-partners.
Transaction B — The Partnership
Bedrock indexes your collection
Your institution contributes its digitized materials. Bedrock indexes them, verifies them, and makes them discoverable. You receive digitization grants, revenue share, and attribution on every record from your collection.

A historical society pays annually what a university library pays monthly.

The positive circle — how $14.95 makes everything better

Step 1
Society pays $14.95/month
After the first year. Year one is free.
↓
Step 2
Society promotes Bedrock to its members
Every new member above 6 is income for the society.
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Step 3
Members subscribe at $9.95/month
Society earns $2.49/subscriber/month — 25% flat revenue share.
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Step 4
Bedrock reinvests in communities
Heritage Labor Pool grows. More digitizing grants. More community historian pay. Better platform for everyone.
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Step 5
More collections. Better database. More subscribers.
The platform becomes more valuable. Which brings more subscribers. Which funds more reinvestment. The circle turns.
Subscription Tiers

Access for every kind of researcher — and every kind of institution.

Basic
$19.95
/month
Individual hobbyists and curious researchers. Personal use.
Core platform access
Story-indexed search
3D geographic interface
Standard support
Basic — Partner
$9.95
/month · via partner society
Active members of a Bedrock partner historical society. 50% discount through your society.
Same as Basic tier
Active society membership required
Your society earns revenue share
Partner membership required to maintain this rate — creates a natural renewal incentive for both subscriber and society.
Professional
$49.95
/month
Researchers, journalists, genealogists, documentary filmmakers, historical writers. Commercial use.
Commercial use rights
Bulk export + advanced search
API access
Priority support
Non-linear documentary assembly tools
Institutional
$149–299
/month · Standard and Pro
Libraries, universities, genealogical societies, large historical organizations.
10–30 seats + admin dashboard
Shared collections and workspaces
Patron/public access mode
Usage reporting + dedicated support
Enterprise: custom pricing, unlimited seats

Annual billing available at all tiers: 2 months free. · Partner Institution Rate $14.95/month for active data partners — see Partner Societies section above.

Colorado 100 — Partner Target List

100 institutions. 64 counties. Covering every corner of Colorado.

The first 100 institutions out of approximately 260 in the state. From all 64 counties. Covering the most at-risk collections as well as the largest collections. Then the next 100 to continue digitizing historical collections across Colorado.

These are just three of the 100:

Holyoke · Phillips County
Phillips County Museum
Volunteers Carol and Hilda open the doors every Wednesday, 1:30–4pm. The W.C. Powers photographic collection documents Phillips County from 1889 to 1899. Last preservation effort: 1985.
Pueblo · Pueblo County
Steelworks Center of the West
CF&I Archives: 100,000+ photographs, 150 films, 30,000 maps, 6,000 cubic feet of records documenting one of America's largest steel operations and the Ludlow Massacre labor history. Most materials at basic processing level only. Open by appointment.
Denver · Denver County
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society / Beck Archives
Nearly 50 years of oral histories. Concern about preserving records of Jewish life post-October 7th. Community records are disappearing. How best to archive digital files, if they haven't been deleted. A community actively creating history that has nowhere to go. A new sort of problem but very real.
Business Model

Seven revenue streams. A self-sustaining preservation infrastructure.

Bedrock's business model is designed to sustain and grow without dependence on grant funding. Grants are a strategic tool for partnership development — not a revenue stream. The platform earns its way by delivering genuine value to researchers, institutions, genealogists, educators, and technology partners who are willing to pay for verified, story-indexed historical data.

Stream 1
Consumer Subscriptions
Basic ($19.95), Basic-Partner ($9.95), and Professional ($49.95) individual subscriber tiers. Professional dominates revenue — 2.5× Basic rate, one-third of the subscriber base.
Stream 2
Institutional Licensing
Standard ($149/mo), Pro ($299/mo), and Enterprise (custom) tiers for libraries, universities, archives, and K–12 districts. Colorado alone: 850–950 potential institutional accounts.
Stream 3
Partner Revenue Sharing
Society revenue share (outgoing: 25% flat of Basic-Partner subscriptions). Possible large organizational endorsement deals with AASLH, SAA, FGS, and state genealogical societies.
Stream 4
Educational Licensing
K–12 building ($49/mo), district ($299/mo), and university accounts. C3 Framework and Common Core aligned. The AI content firewall is the most urgent media literacy teaching tool of 2026.
Stream 5
API & Data Licensing
AI training data licensing (one-time corpus fee + update feed — public domain, human-verified, structured metadata commands a premium) and third-party API access for genealogy platforms and developers.
Stream 6
Cornerstone App
Consumer mobile app. Freemium with a precise conversion trigger: "A matching verified record was found." The lowest-cost subscriber acquisition channel for Bedrock Professional.
Stream 7
Ancestry / Platform Partnerships
Affiliate or featured integration deals with major genealogy platforms. Ancestry (3M paying subscribers, 27M DNA members), MyHeritage (65M users).
Year 1
Capital Deployment
Year 1 is the build year. Prototype live at Month 4 from first day of operations. Pilot Partner Access at Month 6. Full system operational at Month 12. Revenue begins in Year 2.

Reinvestment is a principle.

We give back to the communities that make their collections available. We reinvest to accelerate the digitization process. By year four, Bedrock is reinvesting more than 14% of revenue — the single highest-return investment available to Bedrock. Reinvestment builds the Heritage Labor Pool, which pays for digitization grants and labor for digitizing and verifying.

Early Access · Bedrock Archive, Inc.

Bedrock: The solid ground beneath the digital world.

Digitizing historical society collections might not be a sexy project, but building a bold, new, innovative research platform sure is.

If you'd like to know more —
Be a partner
Historical societies with collections to digitize, or institutions with digital collections to be seen in the unique Bedrock interface. We forge a symbiotic relationship — your community can subscribe to Bedrock for half price by being a member of your institution. Your institution receives a partner share of the revenue. This dynamic naturally improves retention. Both parties receive revenue by increasing society membership. Bedrock builds its database and the institution's collection is preserved and visible. They both fulfill their mission statements.
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If you're passionate about history, cartography, or building digital earth — or maybe all three — you'll want to be a part of this. Please introduce yourself if you are a designer, developer, 3D artist, archivist, cartographer, or project manager. We will be posting positions soon. Keep checking back or click below to be notified.
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You know that internet 2.0 is under construction. You also know that quality data is like gold. Bedrock is carving out their niche in the next digital platform, and they will populate it with verified data. If that intrigues you, click below for an Investor Brief Packet.
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