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Independent creative technology studio

Logic for impossible ideas.

We build software, media tools, collection systems, and experimental products—connecting physical materials, digital workflows, and the people who use them.

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Capabilities

One studio. Many kinds of useful work.

Our work spans software, media, collections, and interactive experiments. Each project begins with real materials, workflows, and people—not a predefined product or a single way of solving the problem.

  1. 01

    Custom applications

    Focused applications and utilities shaped from an unusual requirement or rough premise into a dependable working product.

  2. 02

    Filmmaker & media tools

    Purpose-built tools for filmmakers, festivals, archives, and production teams—from preparation and review through delivery.

  3. 03

    Collection systems

    Strategies and software that organize assets, identifiers, metadata, storage, search, and access around a collection’s real needs.

  4. 04

    Collection transformation

    Thoughtful paths from physical source to well-structured digital assets across moving image, photography, paper, and born-analog records.

  5. 05

    Applied AI workflows

    Transcription, OCR, visual analysis, and automation with provenance and human review kept visible.

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    Custom apps & experimental products

    Original applications, interactive tools, and unconventional products built where a useful idea needs both creative and technical practice.

In practice

A Modus Tollens initiative

Archival Film Explorer

Make moving-image archives explorable.

Explorer is our collection-specific practice for organizations that preserve, research, license, or publish archival film. It connects footage, metadata, transcripts, physical media, editorial context, and licensing workflows without forcing an archive into an off-the-shelf product.

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About

Small by design. Broad by practice.

Modus Tollens is an independent Maryland creative technology studio working across software, media, collections, AI, and games. We combine hands-on domain practice with product thinking and engineering to turn difficult workflows and unusual ideas into useful systems.

Model
Independent studio
Based in
Maryland, USA
Practice
Software · Media · Collections · Games

Philosophy

Modus tollens is a form of logical reasoning: if a conclusion is false, something in the assumption must be wrong. That idea shapes how we build: question assumptions, test systems, and turn constraints into useful products.

P → Q if P, then Q
¬Q Q is false
∴ ¬P therefore P is false

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Bring us the hard part.

A product to shape, a media workflow to untangle, a collection to make useful, or an experiment that needs a technical path forward—start with the problem.