Begin at $200/session. We coordinate everything. Stories accumulate in your private archive every month. Order a legacy product (video, book, or keepsake) whenever your family is ready.
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.
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.
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 comfortable and informed working with older adults at all cognitive levels, including those with dementia or significant memory challenges. They slow down and follow your loved one's lead. Because every person is different at that stage, outcomes vary; your family will be the best judge of whether sessions are producing stories worth continuing. If they're not, you can cancel any time.
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.
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.
Whenever your family is ready, order a produced legacy product built directly from your accumulated archive. No deadline, no pressure.
Here's exactly what a monthly session looks like, from the interviewer's arrival to the recording landing in your archive.
No scripts, no formal interview structure. The guide leads with curiosity and follows wherever your loved one takes the conversation.
Our guides are comfortable and informed working with people at all cognitive levels, including those with dementia. Sessions adapt to your loved one's condition and pace. Outcomes vary; your family will know best whether sessions are worth continuing.
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.
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.
Share access with every family member. No per-person fee. Listen together or separately, from any device, any time.
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.
Every session is warm, in-person, and recorded. The style shapes how your guide engages with your loved one.
Long-form storytelling without interruption. The guide opens a topic and then steps back, giving your loved one space to narrate at their own pace. Stories unfold naturally, in full, in their own words.
A good fit when your loved one is a natural storyteller or tends to open up once given room to talk.
An active back-and-forth between guide and storyteller. The guide asks follow-up questions, reflects back what they hear, and helps dive deeper into specific moments and themes. More dynamic, more discovery.
A good fit when your loved one responds well to prompting or tends to give short answers without someone to draw them out.
Your guide will recommend a style based on your loved one's personality. You can always request a specific approach.
We work with families regardless of where your loved one lives.
We coordinate directly with your loved one's facility team. In-person sessions scheduled around their existing routine.
For loved ones living independently or with family. Sessions conducted in their home by an in-person guide.
A meaningful place: a childhood neighborhood, a park, a favorite spot. Sessions can travel to wherever the story lives.
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