Your documents lived in different boxes, in different rooms, for different decades. A letter from 1994 in one box. A photo from 1994 in another. A journal entry from that same month in a drawer nobody opened.
Separately, they're artifacts. Together, they're a story.
Everything in The Archive, plus
- AI analysis of your entire transcribed archive for narrative threads — recurring themes, relationships, conflicts, transformations
- Cross-document connections — what your father wrote the same week your mother took that photo
- A one-on-one walkthrough session where I show you what the pipeline found
- Face identification — we name every person in your photos together on the call
- Oral history capture — the stories you tell during our session are recorded and transcribed
- A memoir scaffold — suggested structure, key moments, narrative arcs ready to write from
The walkthrough
This is not a software demo. It's the moment you see your family's story laid out across a timeline for the first time and start saying things like "I forgot about that" and "I didn't know he wrote that."
I show you the faces the AI clustered. You tell me their names. And in the telling, you start remembering things you forgot you knew. That conversation — your voice, your words, your memories — becomes part of the archive.
Most people who start at The Story don't need convincing to continue to The Companion. The threads do the convincing.