HMIC PRODUCT · DISTILLERY
Turn a pile of records into something you can actually use.
Distillery reads, sorts, and structures your incoming material so you keep clean, consistent records -- without doing the intake work yourself every time.
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Every time new material comes in, someone has to read it all and re-enter it by hand.
Notes, exports, documents, threads -- when new source material arrives, the work isn't done until someone has read it, decided what matters, and typed it into a consistent shape. That loop repeats with every new batch, different every time, but always yours to do.
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Read-and-retype
Your source material arrives in whatever form it arrives. Getting it into your records means reading it and re-entering it -- by hand, every time a new batch comes in.
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Inconsistent shape
Two records that should look the same never quite do. The inconsistency compounds -- every search, every review, every handoff costs extra time to compensate for the variation.
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Lost in the pile
Material you processed is somewhere in the pile. Whether it surfaces when you need it depends on whether you tagged it right the first time, in the right mood, with the right label.
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How it works
Three steps. No new tools to learn upfront. Point it at what you already have -- it handles the rest.
01 — Point it at your source material
Documents, exports, notes, threads -- whatever your intake looks like. Distillery reads from what you already produce, not a format you have to produce for it.
02 — It filters and structures into consistent records
Each piece of incoming material becomes a record with a consistent shape -- the fields you actually use, the tags that let you find it, the links that connect it to what's already there.
03 — You keep the structured result
The intake work is done. What lands in your records is already sorted, tagged, and ready. The part that requires your judgment stays yours. The repetitive part doesn't.
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Who it fits
Anyone whose work produces material that has to go into records -- whether your intake comes with formal requirements or just keeps piling up.
Regulated intake
Your review packet needs every incoming document summarized and categorized before it touches your record system. Distillery handles that pass so your review is of the record, not the raw pile.
Personal or creative intake
Your scattered notes, research threads, and reference pulls need to become something searchable. Distillery gives your material a consistent shape without requiring you to redesign how you work.
Ongoing operational intake
New batches arrive regularly and someone has to process them. Distillery runs the first pass so your attention goes to judgment calls, not re-entry.
Multi-source consolidation
Your records pull from three different places that were never designed to talk to each other. Distillery normalizes the shape before anything lands in your system of record.
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Get a briefing
Distillery is in production today. If your intake problem sounds like what's described here, a briefing is the place to start -- a conversation about your material and how Distillery would handle it. Not a demo, not a funnel.
Once your material is structured, the next layer decides what's allowed to happen with it. MMS is the authorization layer -- it gates what can act on a record, and when.