CULTURETECHLENS
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Services
CultureTechLens is a Chicago Black cultural intelligence institution: a research institute whose verified knowledge graph — 4,111 entities and 2,527 mapped relationships, built from 14 deep-research flagship packages, 25 research briefs, and 9 dossiers — supports documentary producers, authors, journalists, museums, schools, and cultural organizations. The services below are that record, worked by the people who built it. Every deliverable carries full citations and a rights review.
Prices ratified by the founder, October 21, 2026. All engagements are mission-related educational and research work of CultureTechLens NFP, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The offers
Research Desk — $750
The Chicago Music-History Research Package: a documented research package on a scoped Chicago music-history question — brief, checked bibliography, sourced timeline, entity directory, and rights review, delivered as an accessible PDF and a structured spreadsheet.
Institutional Research Partner — $1,500
Research support, exhibition narratives, metadata cleanup, and source verification for cultural organizations, scoped in writing before work begins. Ongoing support runs on a research retainer at $1,000 / month.
Cultural Education Lab — $500
A 60-minute educational workshop with teacher handout and follow-up materials. Standing topics: Chicago house music, Black inventors, Black press history, and cultural preservation.
Curriculum Store — $79
The Chicago House Music Educational Kit: a downloadable classroom kit built from CTL’s verified research — timelines, worksheets, and classroom activities. The first kit in the store.
How an engagement works
- A short discovery conversation about your project and deadline
- A written scope with deliverables, price, and delivery date
- A deposit on the signed scope; balance on delivery
- Delivery with full citations — and a referral, if we earned it
Licensing
Dataset and archive licensing is a separate program, quoted per project and subject to CTL’s rights review — it is not priced on this page. To ask about it, contact us below.
Start a conversation
Email [email protected] with your project, your deadline, and the question you need answered. Every inquiry gets a human answer. Monthly giving sustains the public archive instead: support CultureTechLens.
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From the Archive
The archive in pictures
The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.
Trust & evidence
Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.
Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — see the corrections log.