Live in production at Reading School — founded 1125

Your school's archive, finally answering questions.

My Archivist turns your prospectuses, magazines, photographs and records into an AI archivist your whole community can talk to — with every answer linked to the original document.

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30 minutes. Real archive, real questions.
No slideware, no commitment.
The Reading School Archive, powered by My Archivist
Built for sceptics

AI your governors will actually sign off.

We know schools don't buy hype. My Archivist is deliberately narrow: it reads your archive, and nothing else.

Every answer cites the original

Answers link to the actual scanned page, programme or photograph they came from. Anyone can click through and verify against the source. No citation, no claim.

Your data stays yours

Your documents are never used to train third-party AI models. No marketing to your community, no third-party tracking. You can walk away with your data at any time.

Read-only by design

The Archivist can browse and answer — it can't alter, delete or publish anything. Your archivist stays in control of what's in the collection.

What you get

One platform. Your whole heritage, working for you.

01

The Archivist — AI chat over your collection

Ask in plain English; get clear answers drawn from your digitised prospectuses, magazines, programmes, records and photographs — each with a link to the original.

02

Autonomous email digests

"This week in the school's history" and event-aware digests, composed automatically from your archive and sent ahead of Speech Day, Founders' Day and more.

03

Cine reels & media galleries

Digitised film, photography and negatives, browsable and surfaced in answers as image galleries.

04

Print sales & giving

Let alumni buy archive prints and support the school — donations and Giving Day pages built in.

Chatting with The Archivist
In production today

Reading School: nine centuries, one conversation.

One of the oldest schools in England runs its public archive on My Archivist. Families, alumni and historians ask questions in plain English — and get cited answers drawn from prospectuses, a century of school magazines, speech-day programmes and photography.

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26k+
documents indexed and cited
900
years of history, searchable
£0
paywall for the community — free forever
No procurement marathon

Your own archive, answering questions in 5 days.

EdTech buying usually means months of meetings. We'd rather show than tell: send us a sample of your archive and we'll put a working pilot in your hands within a week — so your decision is based on evidence, not a pitch deck.

Day 1

Handover

You share a sample of your digitised material — PDFs, scans, photographs. No IT project required.

Days 2–3

We index it

We build your private Archivist on that material. Nothing is used to train third-party models.

Day 4

You interrogate it

Your archivist and leadership team ask it the hard questions and check every citation.

Day 5

Pilot goes live

A working pilot in your hands — decide with evidence, on your timeline.

See it answer your questions. Live.

Get in touch and we'll walk you through the Reading School archive live — you choose the questions. If you like what you see, a 5-day pilot on your own material is the next step.

30-minute live demo, online
Bring your archivist, bursar or head — we'll take their hardest questions
No obligation, no follow-up sequence
Thank you.

We'll be in touch within one working day to arrange your live demo.

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