Conversion
Packages conversation files. Do it yourself in the Archive & Evidence Studio, or request a human-checked archive. No content truth review either way.
Diagnose it
Find the responsible rescue level before repairing the project.
Human archive review and project rescue. Routine preservation belongs to the Archive & Evidence Studio; this pathway is for work that needs judgment, from human-checked packaging through shallow diagnosis, evidence review, and controlled technical review. Each level answers a different question.
The rescue ladder
Four levels, four distinct jobs.
Readiness Scan
Inventories gaps, complexity, and the responsible next tier.
Evidence Audit
Human review classifies documented, unsupported, contradictory, reproducible, and unknown items.
Recovery Sprint
Implements agreed corrections only after diagnosis.
Human-checked
Verified Conversation Archive
$95–$125human-checked packaging
A person checks and validates the packaged archive when you want more than software output.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place.
Included
- Clean supported export within published limits
- Human-checked Markdown and audit JSON
- CSV index and manifest
- SHA-256 checksums
- Duplicate summary
- Package validation record
Not included
- Verification that the conversation content is true or complete
- Malformed or mixed sources (see Complex Export Recovery)
- Diagnosis of the wider project (see Readiness Scan)
Best for: Clean supported exports where someone needs a human to confirm the package is sound before relying on it.
Scope boundary: Bounded limits confirmed at preflight. Manual archive jobs are capped at 12 in the first full year.
Next step: Request a Readiness Scan if the archive turns out to be mixed or unclear.
Request a scope reviewPayment follows scope approval.
Human-checked
Large Conversation Archive
$150–$225after preflight
The same human-checked packaging for a larger clean export, quoted after a compatibility preflight.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place.
Included
- Larger clean supported export after preflight
- Human-checked Markdown and audit JSON
- CSV index, manifest, and SHA-256 checksums
- Duplicate summary and validation record
Not included
- Verification that the conversation content is true or complete
- Malformed, copied, or mixed sources
- Project diagnosis or evidence audit
Best for: Larger archives that are still clean and in a supported format.
Scope boundary: Quoted after preflight. Counts toward the 12 manual archive jobs available in the first full year.
Next step: Move to a Readiness Scan if the preflight shows mixed or damaged sources.
Request archive reviewPayment follows preflight and scope approval.
Best effort
Complex Export Recovery
$195+after paid preflight
Best-effort reconstruction when an export is malformed, copied, mixed, or incomplete.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place.
Included
- Paid preflight assessment
- Best-effort reconstruction of readable records
- Explicit warnings for anything missing, inferred, or unrecoverable
- Written summary of what could and could not be recovered
Not included
- A guarantee that any specific record can be recovered
- Verification that recovered content is true or complete
- Evidence audit or contradiction review
Best for: Archives that failed a normal conversion, or sources assembled from several places over time.
Scope boundary: Best effort only, quoted after a paid preflight. Some sources cannot be recovered.
Next step: Decide, with the preflight in hand, whether recovery is worth doing at all.
Describe the damaged exportPreflight is paid separately; recovery is quoted after it.
Diagnose it
Archive Readiness Scan
$295bounded diagnostic
A bounded diagnostic that tells you what shape your archive is actually in before anything larger.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place.
Included
- Structured inventory of supplied sources
- Complexity assessment and source grouping
- Five documented concerns
- Recommended next tier, including doing nothing
- Written summary
Not included
- Full evidence or contradiction audit
- Repair, rebuild, or implementation work
- Code execution
Best for: Projects where nobody can currently say what exists, what is current, or what conflicts.
Scope boundary: Bounded scope with a 2.5-hour internal cap. Limited to 15 scans per year while labor data is being validated.
Next step: Escalate to an audit only if the scan shows evidence problems that justify it.
Request a scope reviewPayment follows scope approval.
Diagnose it
Founding Mini Rescue Review
$395three founding openings
A small, document-only first review offered at a founding price to build published case evidence.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place. Three founding openings only.
Included
- Focused review of a bounded document set
- Claim and conflict notes
- Risk list
- Short action plan
Not included
- Code execution
- Full Core or Technical Rescue Audit
- Implementation work
Best for: Small document-only projects willing to become a sanitized case study.
Scope boundary: Three external openings only, then retired or repriced. No code execution.
Next step: Move to a Core Rescue Audit if the review shows the project needs full evidence work.
Request a scope reviewPayment follows scope approval.
Diagnose it
Core Project Rescue Audit
$1,250 founding / $1,750–$2,250 standardhuman-reviewed diagnosis
The main evidence-led diagnostic: what is documented, unsupported, contradictory, reproducible, or still unknown.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place.
Included
- Executive report
- Source-of-truth map
- Claim and evidence ledger
- Contradiction register with human disposition
- Risk register
- Code-status inventory
- 30-day recovery plan
Not included
- Controlled code execution (see Technical Rescue Audit)
- Implementation or repair work
- Legal, financial, or regulatory opinions
Best for: Projects where decisions have been made on an unclear record and someone needs to know what holds up.
Scope boundary: Bounded scope confirmed at intake. Founding pricing is limited and ends by condition, not by date.
Next step: Choose a decision sprint, a recovery sprint, or no further work at all.
Request a scope reviewPayment follows scope approval. Milestone billing applies above $1,500.
Decide it
Evidence-to-Decision Sprint
$2,500–$3,250one defined decision
Turns a reviewed record into one clearly documented decision with its evidence and alternatives.
Opens in stages
Opens in stages. Human archive work begins only after service and data terms, insurance, secure transfer, retention and deletion procedures, and independent QA are in place. Referral or follow-on only.
Included
- One defined decision question
- Evidence summary and quality assessment
- Options with assumptions and risks
- Written recommendation
- Implementation sequence
Not included
- Multiple simultaneous decisions
- The underlying audit, if one has not been done
- Implementation work
Best for: Teams stuck on a single consequential decision: continue, repair, rebuild, publish, or stop.
Scope boundary: One decision and one evidence set, both fixed at the start.
Next step: Proceed to implementation only if the decision calls for it.
Discuss an existing engagementPayment follows scope approval.
Diagnose it
Technical Rescue Audit
$4,500–$6,000after technical intake
Adds controlled execution and reproducibility review for code-heavy projects.
Opens in stages
Opens last. Technical work begins only after isolated execution controls, an approved-command policy, insurance review, and a signed independent technical reviewer are all in place.
Included
- Everything in the Core Rescue Audit
- Controlled execution in an isolated environment
- Dependency and reproducibility review
- Code-status evidence
- Independent technical QA review
Not included
- Unlimited code remediation
- Managed IT or production support
- Security certification or penetration testing
Best for: Projects where generated code runs inconsistently or documentation conflicts with the repositories.
Scope boundary: Bounded repositories and source lines, confirmed at technical intake. Unexecuted code is never described as working.
Next step: Move to a recovery sprint if the audit produces a repairable backlog.
Describe a technical projectPayment follows scope approval and milestone terms.
Candidate versus conclusion
Automation surfaces signals. People confirm findings.
Duplicate matches, contradiction flags, unsupported claims, or anomalous files begin as candidates. Reports distinguish candidates from human-reviewed conclusions.
No public file uploads
Secure archive transfer follows scope approval, agreement, and payment. The public form is for scope descriptions only.
Unknown condition?
Request a readiness scanStart with a Readiness Scan.
A shallow diagnostic protects everyone from mis-scoping a mixed archive.