How Story Gathering Works

Begin at $200/session. We coordinate everything. Stories accumulate in your private archive every month. Order a legacy product (video, book, podcast, or keepsake) whenever your family is ready.

Step by Step

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Begin at $200/Session

Get started online in a few minutes. You'll tell us about your loved one: their name, their location (assisted living facility, adult family home, or their own home), and any background that helps our guides prepare.

If your loved one is in a facility, we'll ask for the facility's name and address. If they're at home or in another setting, we'll note that too.

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We Coordinate the First Session

Within a few days of getting started, our team reaches out to arrange scheduling with your loved one, or their care team if they're in a facility. We send a simple introduction and handle all the logistics. No effort required from you.

Sessions can be conducted in person at a facility, in the home, or on location. Whatever setting works best for your loved one, we'll make it happen.

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Sessions Begin at Your Chosen Pace

A trained interviewer visits your loved one at the frequency you've chosen, in person. Sessions are warm and unhurried, up to one hour each. Our guides know how to draw out stories that don't surface in family visits: the childhood details, the pivotal decisions, the people and places that shaped a life.

Our guides are also experienced working with older adults at all cognitive levels, including those with dementia or significant memory challenges. They slow down, follow your loved one's lead, and find the windows of clarity that exist even in difficult conditions.

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Stories Arrive in Your Private Archive

Each session is added to your private family archive, accessible through your family portal. Listen from any device, any time. Share access with family members anywhere in the world. Every session that's been recorded stays in your archive permanently, whether or not sessions are ongoing.

Through the portal, you can also submit story prompts: topics, questions, and memories you'd like the guide to explore in the next session. The more specific, the richer the story.

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Your Archive Keeps Growing

While sessions are active, one happens every month. Three months in, you have three sessions. A year in, you have twelve. The archive grows and deepens, capturing different eras, different topics, different moods and memories over time.

There is no preset endpoint. Gathering continues at your chosen pace until you decide to pause or stop. You can always resume if circumstances change.

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Order Legacy Products Any Time

Whenever your family is ready, order a produced legacy product built directly from your accumulated archive. No deadline, no pressure.

  • Memorial Video. A produced film built from your sessions and family photos.
  • Printed Story Book. Bound and printed, a physical heirloom.
  • Produced Podcast. Polished, edited episodes from your archive.
  • QR Keepsake. An engraved plaque or stone linking to the audio.
  • Private Raw Audio Feed. Unedited session recordings, no production required.
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What Actually Happens in a Story Session

Here's exactly what a monthly session looks like, from the interviewer's arrival to the recording landing in your archive.

During the Session

Warm, Conversational Format

No scripts, no formal interview structure. The guide leads with curiosity and follows wherever your loved one takes the conversation.

Trained for Older Adults

Our guides are experienced working with people at all cognitive levels, including those with dementia. Sessions adapt to your loved one's condition and pace.

About 30 Minutes

Long enough to go deep, short enough to keep energy up. The guide knows how to read when to continue and when to close a session warmly.

After the Session

Added to Your Private Archive

The recording is processed and added to your family portal within a few days. You'll receive a notification when it's ready to listen.

Shared With Your Whole Family

Share access with every family member. No per-person fee. Listen together or separately, from any device, any time.

Prompt the Next Session

After listening, submit new story prompts through your portal to guide what the next session explores. The guide uses your prompts to shape the conversation.

Sessions at a Facility, at Home, or on Location

We work with families regardless of where your loved one lives.

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Assisted Living Facility

We coordinate directly with your loved one's facility team. In-person sessions scheduled around their existing routine.

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Their Home

For loved ones living independently or with family. Sessions conducted in their home by an in-person guide.

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On Location

A meaningful place: a childhood neighborhood, a park, a favorite spot. Sessions can travel to wherever the story lives.

Frequently Asked Questions

We typically reach out to the facility within a few days of getting started. Most facilities confirm scheduling within one to two weeks. Your first session usually happens within the first month.
Yes, through your family portal, you can submit story prompts any time before a session. Specific topics, questions, names to ask about, eras to explore. The more you submit, the more targeted the sessions become.
Recordings are delivered as audio files in your family portal, streamable from any device and downloadable in a standard format. You can listen in the portal or save them to your own storage.
If a session can't be arranged in a given month due to your loved one's health or the facility's schedule, we'll reschedule as soon as possible. We do not charge for months where no session took place.
Yes. Contact us and we'll pause your sessions. Everything in your archive remains accessible. You can resume any time.
Our guides are trained in-house or contracted interviewers who specialize in working with older adults. They undergo training in conversational interviewing, working with dementia, and recording techniques before conducting their first session.

Ready to start building their archive?

Sessions are $200 each. Choose your cadence. Stories accumulate. The window stays open for as long as you keep gathering.

Cancel any time  ·  Archive stays with your family forever