At Archivist, our mission is to leverage the power of AI to make the RPG gaming experience more enjoyable by automating the operational and organizational tasks - not the creative ones.
At Archivist, we aim to revolutionize your gaming experience by seamlessly documenting, organizing, and making your sessions easily accessible. Our goal is to free up your time, allowing you to dive deeper into your adventures rather than getting bogged down with clerical tasks.
Imagine a gaming world where you can spend more time exploring new realms, developing intricate storylines, and creating unforgettable moments with your friends. With Archivist, you no longer need to worry about taking notes during intense sessions, recalling on-the-spot names for NPCs, or organizing scattered bullet points into coherent canon. Our AI handles all of these details, ensuring that your immersion remains unbroken and your storytelling is fluid and dynamic.
While AI can perform many tasks, we recognize that the heart of an engaging game lies in human creativity. It's the unique story hooks, plot twists, homebrew statblocks, stunning artwork, and improvised arcs that make your games truly special. Archivist enhances your ability to focus on these creative elements by taking care of the repetitive and time-consuming tasks.
“Leave the archiving to us, and focus on what you do best - telling epic stories with your friends.”
We are Greg H. and Greg W., fellow adventurers and co-founders of Archivist. We met through a mutual friend who connected a group of us to play D&D back in 2020. Through the pandemic, kids being born, some of us moving away, and other chaotic life events, D&D was how we stayed connected. We still play regularly. We've traveled together through the shadows of Barovia, recklessly opened far too many suspicious books within the walls of Candlekeep, and gotten in way over our heads pulling heists in Duskvol.
Everyone in the group has had a run at playing the role of GM. After years of playing together, each of us has discovered what we love about running campaigns, what our strengths are, and where there is room for growth. Greg H. is the DM who's always coming up with homebrew content on the fly, while Greg W. is the mechanically-focused one and a dedicated note taker. Regardless of which archetypes we fell into as storytellers, or which varying aspects of the game sparked enthusiasm, the “chores” of playing a tabletop RPG were pretty apparent and consistent across the board. Attempting to recall a homebrew ruling from a prior week, our resident "rules lawyer" asking tons of questions, or the note taker getting fatigued as we approach midnight and the end of a slog of an encounter, each either broke the session's immersion or led to inconsistencies in the narrative. Writing session recaps became a tedious and time-intensive to write with our bi-weekly cadence and spotty notes.
That's when we came up with the idea for Archivist. We wanted to use AI to handle the “boring” stuff so we could focus on what really matters: building and interacting with our world. We now have a silent partner who diligently takes our notes for us, writes summaries, documents all of the narrative elements of the planned or improvised campaign moments, and has near-perfect recall of everything that's happened in the story if we want to ask it questions.
After chatting with a number of other GMs and players, we discovered that many other groups experience the same frustrations Archivist was solving. Since then, we've been working to turn Archivist into a platform that every TTRPG enthusiast can use to elevate their gaming experience.
Archivist is built specifically for TTRPGs: how characters evolve, how plot threads reappear eight sessions later, and how continuity is everything. We didn't want an AI that hallucinates—we wanted a historian. It's not trying to be clever—it's trying to be accurate.
Not as often as we'd like, but we still play every other week with our original group.
Our last campaign ran for over two years, and now we're in a follow-up campaign set 200 years later in the same world. The twist? Our new party is dealing with the consequences of what the old party did. Turns out turning Candlekeep into a militarized, politically dominant capitalist superpower has... consequences.
Ask Archivist, our dedicated campaign chatbot, hands down.
It's been the most useful feature—especially mid-session when we need to do quick fact recall like “Wait, what did that NPC say three weeks ago?” The complexity of context management and pulling the right information was no joke to build, but when it clicks, it's magic. We quiz it constantly, sometimes just to stump it.
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