Why we built Stories.

Most families only realize what they've lost after it's gone. A funeral, a move, a sudden illness — and with it, a whole library of stories no one wrote down. The names survive. The dates survive. The voices don't.

Genealogy software is full of names and dates. What it doesn't do is capture the way your grandmother laughed when she told a story she'd told a hundred times. Or the detail your father remembers about the day he met your mother that your mother has never once mentioned.

We started Stories because we believed those things were worth preserving, and because the existing tools treated them as afterthoughts.

The four beliefs behind the product

• Capture first, organize later. The moment someone is ready to tell a story is not the moment to ask them to fill in a form.
• Every perspective matters. A family's past is a chorus. Stories that contradict each other aren't errors to reconcile — they're the whole point.
• The least technical user is the most important one. If Grandma can't participate without learning new software, the product has failed. Proxy capture is not an afterthought.
• Zero friction. One tap to record. Forward an email to capture. Upload a dinner conversation and let the system figure out who said what.

What's next

We're working on a phone-based capture option — an AI interviewer that can call a family member on a schedule, ask gentle questions from our prompt library, and save the conversation directly to their profile. It's designed for the relatives who will never download an app, and for the stories that would otherwise never be recorded.

If that resonates — if you have a family member whose voice you want to keep — we'd love to have you.