RoadHistorical Experience Platform
We handle the technology. Your story stays front and center.
Visitor check-in and narrated audio for Texas museums, libraries, historic sites, historic neighborhoods and main streets, historical commissions, visitor centers and city and county facilities.
Available today
Pick one or use them together. We set everything up, and your staff never has to touch the technology.
Small 3D-printed tiles that sit beside your exhibits. A visitor scans one with their phone camera and hears the story, narrated in English or Spanish. There is nothing to download and no kiosk to maintain.
QR tiles · Bilingual narration · Tap to play
Hear one nowA QR guest book for your front desk. Visitors sign in on their own phones. You see where they came from on a live map and how attendance moves by the day, week and month, and you can export the list any time.
Guest book · Origins map · Attendance reports
A guided tour of your whole site, stop by stop, built from the same tiles and narration so it grows with you.
Multi-stop tours
Keep in touch with the people who walked through your doors. Newsletters go out under your own name, and we take care of unsubscribes, bounces and the legal footer.
Your name on every send
Your site appears in RoadHistorical for people who are already driving Texas in search of history, alongside more than 16,000 historical markers on iPhone and Android.
Place page · Directions · Nearby stops
Live now
Visitors to the Doss in Weatherford scan narrated tiles at the historic log cabins in Pioneer Cabin Park and sign the guest book at the front desk, using the same tools listed above.
Hear the Strain CabinHow it works
Tell us about your site and the stories you want people to leave with. A short call is enough to get started.
We research and write the stories, record the narration, print the tiles and set up check-in. You approve every word before anything goes live.
Visits show up on your dashboard as they happen, with where people came from and how attendance moves over time.
Coming soon
Partners who join now help shape these, and get them first.
Stories that link your site to related places across Texas. A visitor who finishes with you knows where to go next, and visitors at those places find their way to you.
Connected stories across sites
AI that helps your staff search, organize and connect your own collections, from letters and photographs to oral histories. It runs on a machine at your site, so your archive stays under your control, and every answer points back to its source.
Your archive, searchable · Sources on every answer
Questions
No. Visitors scan a QR code at your front desk and sign in on their own phone, in the browser. There is nothing to install and no kiosk to buy.
A live view of your visits, a map of where visitors came from, and attendance by day, week and month. You can export the list any time.
Yes. Staff can enter paper sign-in sheets with the names, emails and dates people wrote down, and those visits count on the day each visitor actually came.
Museums, libraries, historic sites, historic neighborhoods and main streets, historical commissions, visitor centers, and city and county facilities that welcome the public and want to know who comes through the door.
Attendance by day, week and month, and where your visitors travel from, are the kind of figures grant applications and board reports ask for, and you can export them whenever you need them.
A small 3D-printed tile sits beside an exhibit or landmark. A visitor scans it with their phone camera and hears the story, narrated in English or Spanish, with nothing to download.
Become a partner
A few details are enough to start. Andres Ortega, our founder, reads every message and will reply to you personally.
Prefer email? support@roadhistorical.app
