Do-not-train Per-tenant isolation Your archive, your rights
Now in beta with pilot societies

Turn your archive into living history.

Tourburst AI reads your documents, extracts the people, places, and events that matter, and helps you publish stories to your website, social media, and the Tourburst app — all while keeping your IP yours.

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On the morning of April 12, 1842, the Saints of Nauvoo gathered at the still-unfinished Temple. Brother Joseph addressed the congregation with a power I have not witnessed before.
— Hyrum Smith to Mary Fielding
👤 People
Joseph Smith Jr.
Hyrum Smith
📍 Places
Nauvoo Temple
📅 Dates
April 12, 1842
Built with historical societies in the Mississippi River Heritage corridor
Why Tourburst AI exists

You have decades of archives.
They're on shelves. They're not reaching visitors.

We have eight filing cabinets of primary sources and no time to digitize them. Our website hasn't been updated in two years. Our visitor numbers are flat. We know there are stories in those files — we just can't get to them.

— every society director we've talked to, in some version of these words

The workflow

Five steps. Decades of archives.

From a box of brochures and a stack of PDFs to a living, breathing catalog that publishes to every channel your visitors already use.

01
📥

Intake

Drop PDFs, scans, photos, audio, or entire folders. Up to 500 files per batch.

02
🧠

Curator

AI extracts people, places, events, and quotes. You review, edit, approve.

03
🗂

Catalog

Your archive becomes queryable — by person, place, date, event, or collection.

04
📖

Stories

AI drafts event reconstructions, biographies, and timelines — with citations.

05
🌐

Publish

Push to your website, social, the Tourburst app, PDFs, and presentations.

What you get

Every feature a working society needs.

Not a content management system with AI bolted on. A purpose-built platform for the people who steward history.

Asset Inventory with layered history

Every artifact in your care — from a building to a tractor to a silver hair pin — carries layers of history that stack over time. Tourburst AI lets you build those layers once and reuse them everywhere.

  • Unlimited custom layer types
  • Chain-of-custody tracking with provenance
  • Automatic cross-references to documents, people, and places in your catalog
  • Publish any artifact to your website, a story, a presentation, or a social post
🏺
Silver Hair Pin, c.1843
4 history layers
🔨 Manufacture Sheffield, England · Maker J.P. · c.1843
👤 Ownership chain 4 owners · 176 years · documented
🎁 Donation Margaret Parker-Hunt · March 2019
📖 Historical Context Linked to 2 documents, Whitney family portrait

Administrative Archive — your society's own history

Decades of meeting minutes, charters, bylaws, financial records, and leadership rosters. Tourburst AI ingests them all and shows you the patterns: growth seasons, funding cycles, governance style, mission drift.

  • Coverage heatmap shows you which years are fully documented
  • AI identifies growth patterns, donation cycles, and leadership transitions
  • Generate a 58-year retrospective deck in minutes
  • Capital campaign case statements drawn from your own evidence
Archive Coverage · 1970–2026
19701985200020152026
⚠ Gap detected: 1970–1983 has sparse coverage. Check archive boxes in storage.

Multi-target Publisher — one story, everywhere

Draft a story once. Publish it to your website, Facebook, the Tourburst app, your newsletter, or a print-ready PDF — all from the same source of truth. AI writes the teaser for each channel.

  • Direct WordPress integration (or static embed for any CMS)
  • AI-drafted social teasers with your approved voice
  • Newsletter blocks that drop into Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or Buttondown
  • Print-ready PDFs with your logo, fonts, and design
Publishing targets
🌐
Website
Society CMS
📘
Social
Facebook
📱
App
Tourburst
📧
Email
Newsletter
📄
Print
PDF brochure
🎞
Decks
Presentations
Your IP is your IP

We don't train on your documents.
We never will.

Historical societies hold irreplaceable primary sources. We built Tourburst AI so your licensed IP never leaves your tenant, never feeds a shared model, and is always exportable on your terms.

🔒 Per-tenant isolation

Your documents, your vector index, your extractions — isolated at the storage layer. No cross-tenant reads except through consumer projections you explicitly publish.

🤖 Do-not-train, enforced

Contractual opt-out with every AI provider we use, documented per-tenant. If a provider can't guarantee it, we don't use them. Ever.

📤 Full raw export, anytime

Every document you uploaded can leave with you. Export as a clean archive — originals plus OCR plus metadata JSON — whenever you want.

Pricing

Simple, society-friendly pricing.

Every plan includes the full workflow. Higher tiers get bigger quotas, more publishing targets, and advanced features like Admin Archive and Presentations.

Lite
Free
Bundled with Tourburst app listings

For single historic sites, small museums, or business listings. Get your visitors rich content without a subscription.

  • 25 documents per month
  • Library Intake + Curator
  • Basic Catalog
  • Publish to Tourburst app listing
  • AI story drafts (limited)
  • Community support
Get with a listing
Enterprise
Custom
Annual contract

For large archives, multi-site organizations, and institutions with specific compliance, integration, or data licensing needs.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited team seats
  • Custom storage & AI credit allotments
  • Dedicated customer success manager
  • White-glove onboarding + data migration
  • Custom integrations (CMS, fundraising, etc.)
  • SOC 2 report access
  • Custom DPA + IP licensing terms
  • Priority support (<4h)
Talk to sales
Research archive licensing and per-access commission payouts available as add-ons. Ask us about the Research Platform.
Common questions

The honest answers.

What happens to my documents if I cancel?
Your raw uploads (PDFs, scans, photos, typed notes) are yours. On cancellation, you have 30 days to export everything — originals plus OCR plus metadata — as a clean archive. After that, the raw tier is purged from our systems. The curated tier (AI-extracted entities, cross-references, corridor projections) is retained by Tourburst, which keeps your content serving tourists and researchers even after you leave. This is spelled out in our ToS.
Do you train AI models on my documents?
No. Every AI provider we use has a contractual do-not-train commitment per tenant. If a provider can't guarantee that, we don't use them. Your vector index is isolated at the tenant level — no cross-tenant reads except through consumer projections you explicitly publish.
What file types can I upload?
PDFs, images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC), scanned documents of any provenance, audio (MP3, WAV), video (MP4), Word documents, plain text, and CSV spreadsheets. We OCR handwritten manuscripts and poor-quality scans — the better the source, the better the extraction, but we've handled faded 19th-century letters and newspaper clippings from microfiche.
How accurate is the AI extraction?
Every extracted fact carries a confidence score and a provenance tag (AI-generated, AI-reviewed, human-entered, verified, or unknown). You approve, edit, or reject every entity before it enters your catalog. The AI is good — usually 85–95% accurate on clean documents — but the human-in-the-loop workflow means errors never propagate unchallenged.
Does it integrate with my existing website?
Yes. Direct WordPress integration is available out of the box. For other CMS platforms (Squarespace, Wix, custom), we provide a static embed snippet that renders your published stories and catalog items with your site's styling. Enterprise plans include custom integration work.
How does the Tourburst app listing bundle work?
Every historical site, museum, or business with a Tourburst consumer app listing automatically gets a Tourburst AI Lite tenant at no extra cost. You can upload up to 25 documents per month, have AI rewrite them for a tourist audience, and publish them directly to your app listing. Upgrading to Pro is a one-click tier flip — existing content gets re-extracted with Pro's richer schema.
What if I need more than 25 docs a month on Lite?
You can buy a per-document top-up at $2/doc, or upgrade to Pro for unlimited ingestion with monthly credits. Most Lite users find the monthly allowance covers their seasonal needs.
Can researchers access our archive?
If you opt in to the Research Platform add-on, yes. Academic and institutional researchers can license tiered access (view / download / print) to your archive, and you receive a commission on every access event. Your raw tier stays yours; the Research Platform only surfaces what you've committed to the catalog. This is currently in limited availability — talk to us if you're interested.
How long does onboarding take?
Lite onboarding is self-serve and takes under 10 minutes. Pro onboarding includes a 30-minute kickoff call to scope your archive and set up your first ingestion batch — most societies are publishing their first story within a week. Enterprise customers get a full data migration plan with white-glove onboarding.
Do I need technical skills?
No. The product is designed for society staff who know their archives, not developers. If you can use email and a web browser, you can use Tourburst AI. We have a full training library and real human support.

Ready to bring your archive to life?

Start a free 14-day trial. Upload your first documents. See a story published in under an hour. No credit card, no commitment.