Find what matters before the archive becomes unknowable.
Read-only discovery, inventory, and evidence mapping for owner-authorized drives, estates, private archives, legacy storage, and collections whose digital structure has outlived its documentation.
Digital value rarely announces itself.
Important material is often scattered across old computers, external drives, copied folders, databases, application stores, compressed archives, backups, cloud exports, and devices no one has opened in years.
Ordinary search works when someone knows the filename, format, and location. Estate and legacy material often violates all three assumptions. Trident designs controlled discovery workflows that preserve source media, surface candidate material, and leave the final judgment with a person.
Preserve, inventory, inspect, explain.
The objective is an evidence map—not an opaque algorithmic verdict.
Authorization & boundaries
Identify ownership, stakeholders, media, handling rules, and what the work is not authorized to access.
Preservation
Keep originals untouched whenever possible and work against copies or read-only sources.
Inventory
Map media, volumes, directories, formats, archives, databases, and obvious gaps before chasing individual files.
Explainable discovery
Rank candidates with visible reasons, categories, and recommended next steps for human review.
Treasure Hunter.
Trident’s internal Treasure Hunter application combines path and filename heuristics, selective content inspection, archive enumeration, read-only database analysis, structured-store parsing, and explainable scoring across user-owned media.
The project demonstrates how conventional inspection, structured parsing, privacy boundaries, and a careful interface can work together when no single search index knows what matters.
View the case study →Start before the last knowledgeable person or machine disappears.
No polished brief is required. Describe the media, the authority to access it, and what would be costly to lose.