Research Portals
AI

Turn your archive into a place people can actually explore.

A custom-branded, hosted archive site you build inside TheirStory in a few minutes. Visitors search, explore, and talk to your entire collection through a private AI trained only on your content.

portals.theirstory.io
Discover

Residents describe Bunker Hill as a dense neighborhood of Victorian rooming houses and funicular railways, largely cleared during 1960s redevelopment.

12:04 M. Ruiz, 19983:41 Angels Flight oral history
Discover

Discover: ask a question, get a real answer

Ask a question in everyday language and get back an answer, not a list of files. Discover runs on a private, siloed AI trained only on your archive, so nothing you hold leaves your portal. Every answer cites the exact clip it came from, and it's a conversation: push back, narrow the question, or ask what you should be asking in the first place.

Plain-language Q&A across the whole collection
A private LLM trained only on your content, never sent outside your portal
Citations with all responses; one click to the video
Ask macro questions too: What's missing? What themes are here? What should I ask next?
Explore the collection

Explore the collection more than one way

Different questions need different views. Open the portal to a set of collections, sit with one interview end to end, or skim the Indexes tab to see everywhere a phrase surfaces across an entire project at a glance.

Any story opens in full, transcript synced to the media
Indexes: search a phrase and see every instance across a project at once
Narrow to a single collection, then jump straight to any hit
Named entity recognition

Every name, place, and event, tagged automatically

Named entity recognition reads each story and tags the people, places, dates, organizations, and events inside it. That gives visitors a second way through the collection, one that follows subjects rather than words.

Entities tagged by category
Open one entity to see everywhere it appears, in a story and across the project
Filter a project by category, then by any entity inside it
Every entity hit lands on the exact moment it's mentioned
Public or private

Public or private, your choice

Publish a community-facing archive the press and the public can explore, or keep a collection private for internal or donor-restricted use.

Public portals for community-facing archives
Private portals for internal or restricted collections
Per-story publish and update controls
Set it up yourself

Set it up yourself, no developer required

Portals are built into the platform, so there is nothing to install and nothing to develop. Choose which collections appear, arrange how they are presented, and match your own logo, color, and other branding. Adding or removing a story is a click, and it is live within minutes.

Your logo, colors, and branding, on your own subdomain
Add, remove, and reorder content yourself, live in minutes
No build project, no engineering ticket, no maintenance
Live portals

Explore portals already in the wild

See your own collection inside a portal.

Portals are available as an add-on to your existing TheirStory account.