Cataloging technology

Everything in its place.

EveryEverything builds cataloging technology — software that takes large, disordered collections of things and turns them into an organized record you can search, maintain, and rely on.

§ 01What we build

The parts of a working catalog.

Cataloging is not one problem. Our technology covers the steps that have to hold together for a catalog to be worth using.

Ingest

01

Bring in material from wherever it already lives — scans, exports, spreadsheets, file shares, sensor and data feeds — and normalize it into records without losing where each one came from.

Resolution

02

Recognize when separate records describe the same thing, across inconsistent naming, spelling, formatting, and language, so a catalog holds one entry per item rather than many.

Classification

03

Place each record within a structure — your own schema or a standard one — and keep the reasoning behind each placement visible, so uncertain cases can be reviewed rather than assumed.

Search

04

Make the finished catalog usable: fast lookup, structured queries that understand the hierarchy, and a stable API for the systems and people that depend on it.

§ 02How it works

From scattered to catalogued.

The same sequence applies whether the material is a storeroom, a file share, or a data feed.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Material is gathered from its existing sources and formats.

  2. 02

    Normalize

    Records take a consistent shape, with provenance retained.

  3. 03

    Resolve

    Duplicates and variants collapse into single entries.

  4. 04

    Organize

    Entries are placed in a structure that fits the collection.

  5. 05

    Publish

    The catalog is versioned and made available to query.

§ 03Approach

How we think about a catalog.

A catalog is only as good as its worst entry, which shapes how we build.

Provenance is kept

Every record stays traceable to the source it came from. Nothing is silently rewritten.

Uncertainty is visible

When the system is unsure, it says so and routes the record for review instead of guessing quietly.

The structure is yours

Collections differ. The catalog adapts to how you already describe your material, not the reverse.

§ 04Built for

Collections larger than the time to describe them.

Our technology is designed for organizations holding more material than they can catalog by hand.

Archives and libraries

Collections that have outgrown the descriptive work available to maintain them.

Research collections

Specimen, sample, and dataset holdings that need consistent identification over time.

Operations and inventory

Parts, assets, and supplier data spread across systems that disagree with each other.

Contact

Tell us what you have.

If you are sitting on a collection that has outgrown the way it is currently described, we would like to hear about it.