AI first, human in charge. AI does the tedious, error-prone work so people can do the judgment work, and nothing destructive happens without a written approval.
The challenge
Years of accumulated data, media and hardware, spread across drives, devices and generations of copies. Nobody could say what existed, what was safe, or what was wasted.
The response
- Read the symptoms for what they are, find the real problem, and fix the cause.
- Fingerprint every file, so every decision can be proven.
- A small team of AI agents doing the heavy lifting under a five-level risk ladder.
- Every approval logged, every claim checked, zero AI slop.
What it produced
- 126 TiB and 14.7 million files fingerprinted.
- 12.9 TiB that existed only once, found and protected first.
- 4 silently truncated camera originals caught and repaired.
- Zero deletions without a proven copy and a written approval.
Figures are as of November 10, 2026. The full story, with the method and the mistakes, is on the AI Projects pages.