The Operating System for Cultural Memory
Rainforest Studio turns temporary cultural moments into permanent, searchable living archives - so communities can find, learn from, and talk to their history long after the event ends.
So much cultural work lives in Instagram stories, short-lived websites, and scattered hard drives. Traditional archives are static, hard to search, and rarely designed for communities to actually use. Rainforest Studio builds Living Archives: structured, searchable, permissioned collections that make real stories discoverable - without losing context or control.
- Structured ingestion: turn messy audio, text, and images into a clean dataset.
- Search + chat: help people find the right story fast, with citations back to source material.
- Data control: exportable, standards-based, and designed for GDPR from day one.
> Question: "What did the textile mill smell like in 1960?"
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> Rainforest: Searching interviews + photos + programme notes…
> Match: "Mrs Patel - Oral History #42"
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> Answer: "She remembers hot oil and damp wool - and the street filling up every Tuesday morning…"
See Rainforest in action
A short walkthrough is coming soon. For now, you can explore our demo living archive and join the waitlist for early access.
What we're building
A living archive platform (RAG + structured ingestion) designed for cultural memory.
Ingestion you can trust
Turn interviews, programmes, scans, and photos into structured data with provenance - not a folder of files.
Search + chat with citations
Let people ask questions and get answers grounded in source material - with references back to the original artefacts.
Standards-based + exportable
Designed to avoid vendor lock-in: open formats, portable data, and long-term readability.
Privacy + safety by default
Permissioning, redaction workflows, and public-facing guardrails so archives can be used responsibly.
Join the waitlist
We're building Rainforest Studio with cultural workers, creators, and institutions. If you want early access (or want to partner on a pilot), add your name.