museums & archives
Oral History Solutions for Specialists.
Built by archivists, for archivists. Backed by decades of experience building collections that will outlast us all.
Credentials
Thirty years building collections that matter.
Lumenairi was founded by a team whose careers have been defined by the challenge of preserving human testimony at scale. Our founders developed archival systems for major cultural institutions, oversaw the creation of large-scale testimony collections, and pioneered the conversational video technology that lets audiences engage with recorded individuals as if they were present. Our Head of Archives brings deep expertise in collection development, chain of custody, and long-term preservation strategy. Our CTO built the first conversational video system before the internet existed.
We understand archives from the inside. We understand chain of custody, provenance, metadata standards, access controls, and the difference between a collection that serves researchers today and one that remains meaningful in fifty years. Lumenairi is built on that understanding — not adapted from a marketing tool, not repurposed from a consumer app, but designed from the ground up for institutions that understand what preservation actually means.
The 31-year docent who knows where every object came from. The founding curator whose methodology shaped the institution. The community elder whose testimony is the only first-hand account that will ever exist. These are not content assets. They are irreplaceable human records.
Traditional oral history production is extraordinary work — and it costs $3,000 to $5,000 per interview to do at the standard your collection deserves. Which is why most institutions have captured far less than they know they should.
Lumenairi changes the economics without compromising the integrity.
Use Cases
Designed for the full range of institutional oral history work.
Whether you’re preserving voices, capturing expertise, or training at scale, Lumenairi mobile makes knowledge feel human, searchable and accessible, one question at a time.
Museums
Place interactive conversations alongside physical exhibits.
Visitors ask questions and receive answers from the people in the collection — not a text panel, not a passive video, but a real conversation with someone who was there. Exhibit mode extends this experience to large-format gallery displays.
Cultural Heritage
The stories of communities and their many traditions
The migrations, traditions, and community histories that define who a people are. Lumenairi gives cultural organisations the tools to collect these stories with the rigour they deserve and the accessibility that ensures they are actually used.
Libraries
Bringing new and existing collections alive
Oral history collections that are searchable, embeddable, and accessible online — without requiring significant IT infrastructure to maintain. From local community collections to national-scale projects.
Academic
Special Collections and Research
Student projects. Faculty interviews. Special collections. Build a living institutional memory that grows over time and remains accessible to researchers across generations. Integration with existing library management systems available.
- This is not a video platform wearing archival clothes — every feature in Lumenairi’s institutional offering was designed for the realities of professional collection management.
- Dedicated database instance — your collection is never on shared infrastructure. Your data is yours, always.
- Privacy controls to individual question level — decide precisely who can see what, down to the question. Essential for sensitive testimonies, donor requirements, and research access protocols.
- AI-generated catalogue entries, metadata, and transcripts — your archivists’ time is too valuable for manual metadata entry. Lumenairi generates a first-pass that your team refines.
- Chain of custody and provenance tools — built in, not bolted on.
- Download and export — your collection is always yours. No lock-in. No hostage data.
- Unlimited streams and interactions — your audience engages as much as they need to. No throttling, no per-view costs.
- Hi-fidelity exhibit mode — large-format display support for gallery and museum environments. Available on Archivist Pro.
- White-label branded app — your collection, your name, your experience on iOS and Android. Available as a $1,000/month add-on.