A single project manager
One person owns your project from kickoff through final delivery. Direct line, replyable email, no ticket queues.
Institutions & Large Projects
Museum-grade digitization for collections at scale.
Museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and foundations bring us collections-level projects: managed end-to-end, billed on milestones, conservation-grade throughout. Whether it's 200 paintings or 100,000 negatives, we scope the right pipeline and deliver to your standards.
200 → 100k+
Project sizes we scope, end to end
Standards alignmentCalibrated
FADGIImaging
MetamorfozePhoto
ISO 19264Scanning
Project-managed
On-site or studio
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What you get
A real partner for institutional work.
Institutional projects don't run on self-serve forms and ticket queues. They run on people who know your collection, your constraints, and your deadlines — and own the project from start to finish.
Conservation-grade handling
Cotton gloves, dust-controlled prep, anti-static surfaces, filtered air. Chain-of-custody documentation by request.
Standards alignment
FADGI, Metamorfoze, ISO 19264 — we calibrate the pipeline to whatever your collection policy or grant requires. Discussed during scoping.
Metadata in your format
Dublin Core, Spectrum, EAD, MODS, or your CMS's specific export shape. Data delivered ready to ingest.
Milestone billing
Net-30 or net-60 terms available; payments tied to delivery milestones, not arbitrary calendar dates.
On-site or in-studio
Bring the work to our Denver studio, or we set up at your facility for sensitive originals that shouldn't travel.
How a project runs
Four phases, scoped together.
The shape varies — a 200-piece painting collection isn't a 30,000-negative archive — but the structure stays the same.
01
Discovery
A scoping call to understand what you have, what you need, and what success looks like. Format types, sensitivity, deadlines, standards alignment.
02
Sample / pilot
A small batch first — typically 10–30 representative pieces — captured to your standards, calibrated, reviewed together. Fixes are cheap here, expensive later.
03
Production
Full project, scheduled in batches with defined milestones. Status updates at each milestone; samples reviewable along the way.
04
Delivery
Masters in your specified format, metadata in your CMS's shape, originals returned with chain-of-custody documentation if requested.
The pipeline
What "museum-grade" actually means here.
The phrase gets used loosely. We mean it specifically — equipment, calibration, and verification you can hand to your conservator without a footnote.
Phase One IQ4 capture
150-megapixel medium-format digital backs. Reflective and transmissive workflows. Color depth that stands up to a museum's spectrophotometer.
Cruse synchronized-light scanning
For paintings, large flats, and texture-rich originals — the Cruse pipeline captures even, glare-free illumination across the surface, no seams or stitching.
Color verified, not assumed
Each capture session is profiled against a museum-class target. Final delivery includes the verification report so your registrar has the receipts.
Tell us about your collection.
We'll get back within one business day to set up a scoping conversation — no commitment, no quote-mill template.
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