HercuLayer helps organizations unlock the value of large-scale data through
reliable ingestion, fast and accurate retrieval, intelligent querying, and
security by design.
Accurate retrieval over full corpora
Security and privacy by design
Qualitative analysis in production
Focus
Our specialties
Four problems, taken seriously, in everything we ship.
Large document collections
Ingestion pipelines that turn thousands of pages into structured,
queryable records while keeping every link back to the source.
Retrieval and querying
Hybrid search across the full corpus. Answers come from the record
itself, and when the record is silent the system says so.
Security first
Access control, PII redaction, and compliance designed into the data
model from the start. FERPA and COPPA handled in production today.
Qualitative data
Surveys, interviews, and focus groups turned into analysis you can
stand behind, shipped for schools and research teams.
About
A development studio for data that has to be secure and accurate.
HercuLayer designs and builds software for people whose work lives in
documents and records: manuscripts, case files, survey responses,
transcripts, inventories.
The pattern is the same across everything we make. Ingest
carefully, keep one canonical record, retrieve accurately, and protect
the data at every step. We believe the best products are built
on great software, with AI serving as a helpful assistant rather than
the centerpiece.
Portfolio
See some of our work
chaptereye.com
ChapterEye
Manuscript platform
A manuscript platform for authors. It reads a full book into a structured
index of chapters, characters, places, and scenes, then gives feedback
grounded in that index. Retrieval is hybrid, combining semantic and exact
search across the entire manuscript, so guidance reflects what is actually
on the page.
A workspace for true crime research and legal document review. Case files
are ingested and resolved into canonical people, places, and evidence.
Teams build connections on a shared board, and every suggestion passes
peer review before it joins the record.
A student voice platform for schools. Surveys and focus groups feed
qualitative analysis that administrators can query directly. Built for
districts that need clear answers from thousands of open ended responses
without losing a single student's words.
Live transcription and analysis for focus groups and interviews. Supports
more than forty languages with automatic translation, live sentiment and
tone scoring, and PII redaction that meets FERPA and COPPA requirements.
Part of the Student Story platform.
An inventory tracker and eBay lister for resellers. Orders import
automatically, items are scanned at pickup so nothing gets left behind,
and listings go live in one click with generated titles, descriptions,
and categories.