Knowledge workers spend up to 50% of their working hours looking for the information they need to do their jobs. Knowledge workers run humanitarian organizations, and the time wasted on searching for information in their offices could be harnessed to more effectively serve their target clients. Further, identifying and managing the humanitarian organization’s critical records is crucial to maintaining ongoing compliance with regulatory and governing organizations. Modus is a method that solves that challenge. Modus accelerates implementation of compliance with records retention regulatory requirements in organizations so that volunteers and employees of the humanitarian organization can more easily find and use the information they need to help their target clients move efficiently and so they can remain compliant with regulatory and governing organizations in managing, storing, and disposing of their records.