Museum gallery interior

Protect collections. Run heritage estates on evidence

Museums, archives, and heritage estates run some of the most environment-sensitive buildings anywhere. Tacit gives every team one evidence-based view of what is happening inside every gallery and store.

Heritage estates cannot afford a silent drift

Galleries, stores, labs, and plant share one heritage fabric and a patchwork of BMS systems. Drift hides in plain sight until a loan condition issue or a near miss surfaces it.

Tacit unifies the data and surfaces every fault with evidence, root cause, and the impact it carries.

Conservation standards under pressure

Drift outside agreed bands puts objects, loans, and reputation at risk.

Mixed-vintage estates

Galleries, stores, and plant span decades of construction, each with its own BMS and quirks.

Collections risk versus energy spend

Every retrofit decision needs evidence on both sides.

Evidencing conditions to funders and insurers

Loan reports, insurer disclosures, and grants expect continuous data.

Every role, one source of truth

Director of Estates

Run a heritage estate with the rigour of a research campus.

  • Catch HVAC and plant faults before they affect a gallery or store
  • Replace reactive callouts with evidence-driven planned maintenance
  • Build a defensible record of performance for trustees and funders

Director of Finance / Resources

See where the estate budget goes, and decide what to fund with evidence.

  • Quantify avoidable spend with specific cost figures, not averages
  • Know what to fund now and what to defer, backed by data
  • Give trustees a defensible case for capital decisions

Collection Care Team

Protect the collection with continuous evidence, not periodic audits.

  • Track temperature and humidity bands by gallery and store, in real time
  • Surface drift before it becomes a condition issue or loan breach
  • Generate audit-ready records for accreditation and loans

Head of Sustainability

Cut energy without compromising the collection environment.

  • Quantify waste with specific findings and cost impact
  • Track decarbonisation progress against funder commitments
  • Identify retrofit opportunities backed by continuous monitoring

Operations Lead

Spend less time decoding alarms, more time fixing the right thing first.

  • Faults ranked by cost and conservation impact, not alarm volume
  • Eliminate hours reconciling alarms across legacy BMS systems
  • Trace every recommendation back to verifiable evidence

What hides inside a heritage estate

Representative findings, surfaced by Tacit agents with the impact they carry attached.

Figures are illustrative, based on typical findings across comparable estates, not a specific site.

Conservation
Gallery 12

Relative humidity drifting outside agreed band overnight for 9 consecutive nights.

Loan risk

Archive
Store basement

Temperature spike during summer peak, control deadband too wide for stored material.

Conservation risk

AHU
Heritage gallery

Unit shutting down overnight, no occupancy schedule accounting for stored objects.

£140/day

Sensor
Object store

RH sensor offline, zone unmonitored for 11 days.

Audit gap

Energy
Plant serving conservation lab

Consumption 36% above design intent, baseload never drops overnight.

£260/day

Three capabilities, working as one

Findings

AI agents monitor every asset 24/7 and surface faults with evidence, root cause, and impact, ranked so estates and conservation teams know where to focus first.

  • Conservation environment drift across galleries and stores
  • Plant short-cycling, deadband conflict, and schedule gaps
  • Energy waste quantified in cost per day
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Built-in AI Agents

Four specialist agents covering air handling, central plant, controls integrity, and conservation environment. The Conservation Environment agent is purpose-built for heritage estates.

  • Domain-specific engineering and conservation logic
  • Grounded in established conservation environment standards
  • Active from day one, no configuration required
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Indoor Environment

Real-time thermal comfort, humidity, and CO₂ tracking by gallery and zone. Continuous evidence of the conditions your collection depends on.

  • Gallery- and store-level temperature and humidity
  • Band-compliance tracking against agreed conservation envelopes
  • Drift flagged before it becomes a conservation issue
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