By investigators, for newsrooms.
Online sources disappear. Your evidence shouldn’t.
Capture, preserve, and re-use web content — creating tamper-evident capsules that hold up under scrutiny. On your infrastructure, under your control.
In pilot with European investigative newsrooms.
30-minute call and demo to hear about your workflows.
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How it works
From capture to published evidence
One workflow — from the moment you capture a page to a verifiable source in your published story.
Capture
One click turns any page — social media and logged-in content included — into a faithful, interactive capsule, made right on your machine.
Organise & collaborate
Build a shared source desk: organise captures, deep-link to the exact highlight, and collaborate with your team.
Publish & embed
Keep a capsule private, share it with your team, or publish and embed it on your own site. Private by default — nothing leaves your machine unless you choose.
GDPR-compliant
Built in Germany, designed for European data protection standards from day one.
eIDAS-aligned
Cryptographic signatures aligned with European electronic identification standards.
On-premises
Deploy on your own infrastructure. No cloud dependency, no third-party data access.
Courtroom and library-ready
Built on standards designed to stand the test of time.
From the field
News and Research
Dispatches about our work, product, and collaborations.
A byline for the evidence
Journalism has always run on attribution — who saw it, who stands behind it. Chain of custody is the byline extended to your sources. And it forces an honest reckoning with what a faithful record actually contains.
Every investigation should start with an empty browser
A small ritual borrowed from the Berkeley Protocol — and what it really protects. A note on hygiene before evidence.
Your screenshot won't survive a legal challenge. Here's what will
Chain of custody isn't just for courts. When a reader asks "how do I know you saw this?" — here's what journalists and newsrooms need to know about web archiving and chain of custody.
An archive that rewrites history: what the Archive.today ban means for your sources
Nearly 700,000 citations removed after an archiving service was caught tampering with its own captures. Here's what it means for reporters who rely on third-party archives as evidence.
Team
Built by investigators, for investigators
Founders
Basile Simon
Basile is a researcher working at the intersection of engineering, law, and journalism. He co-founded Airwars in 2014 and has designed archiving and verification workflows ever since.
Niko Para
Niko co-founded Syrian Archive in 2014 and has since worked with NGOs and media organisations, including Security Force Monitor. He co-founded DOT • STUDIO with Tilman.
Tilman Miraß
Tilman works at the intersection of technology, politics, and journalism. As a developer at Deutsche Welle, he built AI-powered tools for investigative journalism. He co-founded DOT • STUDIO in 2024.
Support staff
Phương Trịnh
User experience
Malie Bertram
Engineering and customer support
Advisors
Mirko Lorenz — Innovation Manager, Deutsche Welle; Chairman and former CEO, Datawrapper GmbH
Tessa Walsh — Senior Engineer, Webrecorder; librarian and scholar in North America
Beni Buess — Former head of product, Livingdocs AG
Michael Ertl — Editor / Chef vom Dienst, Tagesschau / ARD
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