The Gilded Archive

Preserving the integrity of scholarship through precision technology

Our Sacred Vow

Founded in 2018 by disillusioned PhD candidates and AI researchers, The Gilded Archive was born from a simple belief: every scholar deserves accurate citations without financial barriers. We've built the most comprehensive citation engine ever created — trained on 15 million sources across 187 countries.

Today, we serve 2.8 million researchers, from Nobel laureates to first-year undergraduates. Our technology is open-access, forever free for students, and constantly evolving with new academic standards.

2018
Founded
47
Team Members
100%
Open Source Core
0
Data Sold

✦ Chronicle of Excellence ✦

2018

Founded at Harvard Innovation Lab

2020

First AI citation model launched

2022

1 million citations milestone

2024

Real-time collaboration added

2026

The Gilded Archive opens to world

✦ Curators of The Archive ✦

📖

Dr. Eleanor Voss

Founder, AI Ethics

🔬

Prof. James Whitmore

Lead Linguist

⚙️

Maya Chen

CTO, Neural Engine

📜

Dr. Samuel Okonkwo

Citation Standards

✦ Our Founding Sanctuary — Cambridge, MA ✦