Selection
We look for specificity, honest uncertainty, consequential decisions, and geographic context. A narrative that could describe any founder is a template rather than an archive record.
Commercial success alone is not sufficient. The record must reveal something durable about building, choosing, adapting, or surviving.
Research
Records may combine founder testimony, existing interviews, company material, production archives, public documentation, and contextual research. Important claims should be attributable or clearly presented as editorial interpretation.
Existing Chai & Code stories and films are treated as first-party archive material and are preserved when they remain relevant to the new record.
Collaboration
Where founders participate, they may review factual details and clarify context. Review does not convert a record into promotional copy; it reduces avoidable factual error and respects consent around personal material.
Revision
Records carry publication and modification dates. Significant corrections are documented, while new evidence can expand a timeline without silently rewriting the historical record.