RECTO/verso
Research photographs / Desktop app
A photograph of a manuscript is only part of the record. RECTO/verso keeps research photographs with their repository details, notes, transcriptions, references, and figures.
Explore RECTO/versoAn independent software studio / Oklahoma City
We're Audreyand Darrin.We make software.
We start with people.
What are they working on? Where do they get stuck? Could we make something useful for them?
Those conversations help us decide what to build. Then we stay close enough to see how it works.
What we're making
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Marches
Historical maps / Free in your browser
Free border data gets scarce before about 1800. Marches lets you make historical maps from your sources, draw your own borders, and mark how certain each one is. No account needed.
Make a map with MarchesThe people behind it
Dodgen + Wells = DodgeWell
Audrey Dodgen ↗
Co-founder / Product & development
Audrey built Marches and the first version of RECTO/verso. She leads product direction and develops software at DodgeWell, drawing on nearly twenty years of work as a storyteller and photographer.
She holds an MA in photojournalism and an MBA.
Darrin Wells ↗
Co-founder / Engineering & design
Darrin builds and maintains our software and designs its interfaces. He's spent 15 years building for the web.
He holds degrees in software development and graphic design.