All case studies
Marrow
A horror comics imprint that lost a colourist to a phone upgrade.
The problem
Marrow’s editor had one perfect colourist saved in her phone’s notes app, described only as colourist — the good one, with a link that had since gone dead.
The phone was replaced. The note survived the migration. The link did not survive the artist’s portfolio move, and the good one became a person who had definitely existed and could not be produced on request.
With Artkive
Profiles now save with names, platforms and enough context that a dead link is an inconvenience rather than an obituary.
Because the record keeps skills, software and past conversation notes, an artist who moves platforms remains findable. The good one was eventually located on a different site, mildly baffled by the enthusiasm of the reunion.
The results
140
Artists with full records
Not just a link and a hope
1
Legendary colourist recovered
Twenty months later
0
Records lost to a new phone
The roster is not the device
Marrow is invented for this demo, and so is every figure above it.