Leave your story for the people you love.

Talk about your life with Rosa — a kind, curious host who listens carefully and follows what you say — in your own words and at your own pace. Together you decide what to record, and it becomes something your family can keep.

There’s no rush. You can pause whenever you like, and a younger relative or friend is welcome to sit with you while you record. Rosa isn’t a real person — but she’s been built to feel like a good one.

What you end up with

From the free trial: one chapter of your book — an hour with Rosa about your childhood, written up in your own words and kept as a PDF. A full story ends up with:

A recording of each part of your story, polished and ready to keep — a video if you record on camera, or just your voice if you’d rather not be seen.
A book you can print, or save as a PDF, laid out in chapters.
A family website as a file you download and pass on — it isn’t put online for you.
The words themselves — a written transcript to go with each recording.

What happens to what you tell Rosa

Who can see it: You. We don’t share it with anyone and there are no share links — if you want family to see something, you download it and pass it on yourself.
How Rosa works: She’s a computer host, not a person. So she can listen and reply, what you say is handled by the speech and AI services this site uses — they’re listed in our privacy policy.
Deleting it: Ask Rosa to delete one recording, or everything, whenever you like — one sentence is enough.

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Just start a conversation

The main page is one big chat with Rosa. You tell her what you’d like to do — record a short piece, plan a longer autobiography in chapters, share a photograph, or just talk while she gets to know you — and she takes it from there. No forms, no menus to navigate.

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The whole thing, in a picture

Five steps, and you can stop after any of them with what you’ve made so far still yours. Move along it with the buttons underneath — or, in a conversation, just ask Rosa where all this is heading and she’ll bring the same picture up beside her.

The whole journey

This is everything, beginning to end. You can stop at any point along it, and whatever you have made by then is already yours.

Most people spend their first few visits simply talking. There is no schedule, and nothing further along the path is waiting on you.

How a sitting actually goes

You start by talking to Rosa. If you’re not sure what you want to do, just say so — she’ll explain the options out loud. When you’re ready to record, she’ll ask whether you’d like the camera on or just your voice, and guide you through it. When you’d rather plan first, she’ll help you sketch chapters before you commit to recording one. When you want to share a photograph of someone you’re talking about, you can take a picture with your phone or email it to her, and she’ll bring it into the conversation.

Only you can download it

Every finished video is yours alone. We don’t share it with anyone, and we don’t hand out share links — if you want to share it with family, you do that yourself with the file you’ve downloaded (cloud drive, USB stick, email). Ask Rosa to show you your recordings and she’ll bring up the list with download buttons.

Delete anything, any time

Every finished recording, photo, and note stays until you ask Rosa to remove it — one sentence (“please delete that last recording”) is enough. Two things do tidy themselves away. If you record a chapter twice and choose which take to keep, the other take goes after seven days (you can change your mind any time before then). And the raw sound or video of a conversation you walked away from — left untouched for a week and never saved as a recording — is deleted a month after that; what you said is kept, in its transcript and in everything it added to your story and your book. If you’d rather close your account here, you can ask her to do that too.

Thinking further ahead

We’re a recording studio, not a vault: the copy that matters is the one you download and hand over. Whatever is still sitting in your account isn’t something your family can ask us for later — so don’t leave the only copy with us. Download your videos while you’re well, put them where your family already looks (a cloud drive they can open, a USB stick in the drawer with the photo albums), and tell someone they exist. A recording nobody knows about can’t be found.

What Rosa asks

A small fixed opening (your name, who you’re recording for) and then an unfolding conversation. Rosa is warm and curious — not a therapist and not a journalist. She asks one thing at a time, listens carefully, and follows what you actually said.

She’ll remember you

If you come back for a second sitting, Rosa picks up where she left off — the family names you mentioned, the places that mattered, the stories you’ve already covered. You don’t have to re-introduce yourself.

She watches the framing too

During a recording on camera, Rosa glances at how you look and passes on a quiet note if something’s distracting in the final picture — bright light behind you, microphone covering your chin, that sort of thing. She stays out of the way otherwise.

Keep the words too

Every interview also produces the words themselves, in three shapes: a plain text transcript, a printable keepsake laid out like a small book — cover photo, chapters, one button to print it or save it as a PDF — and a family kit that keeps the whole conversation on one page beside the recording. Ask Rosa for any of them, or find them next to each recording. The words outlive the recording: even if you delete it, its transcript stays.

Share your photos with her

You can take a picture with your phone (or pick one from your photo library) and Rosa will bring it into the conversation — she might ask who that is, or where it was taken. If you take a picture of an old photograph, she’ll do her best to crop out the table and the room around it so just the photograph is left.

Sit with someone you trust

You don’t have to do this alone. If a relative or friend wants to sit with you while you record, send them this invite — it opens your email with everything ready to go.

Setting this up for a parent? Here’s a short guide for families.

What it costs

It’s free to try while we get ready: an hour with Rosa about your childhood, and one chapter of your book to keep as a PDF. Paid stories — for yourself, or as a gift for someone you love — are coming soon. See the prices and get told when they’re ready.

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Things you can just ask for

There are no menus to learn. Say any of these out loud, in your own words, and Rosa takes it from there. You do not need to remember them — asking “what can you do?” during a conversation works just as well, and she will suggest whatever fits the moment.

The conversation itself

“What can you do?”: Ask out loud any time and you'll get a plain answer — a couple of things worth trying next, not a list to memorise.
“What happens after all this talking?”: A simple picture of the whole journey appears beside your host — talking, chapters, recording, making the film, and it being yours to give — moved to whichever part you're asking about.
“Give me a bit longer to think before you answer.”: The pause before each reply gets longer or shorter. Useful if you like to gather your thoughts mid-sentence.
“Could you keep your questions a bit shorter?”: The register shifts from the next question onward — shorter, warmer, chattier, more formal, whatever suits you.
“Let's just do a short one today.”: A few minutes, one long sitting, or a chapter at a time across many visits. You can change your mind whenever.
“Let's do my childhood next time.”: The agreement is remembered and offered back at the start of your next visit, so you never restart from nothing.
“I'd rather read your questions than listen to them.”: Questions appear as text you can read at your own speed, and you can type your answers instead of speaking them.
“I'd like to stop for today.”: You get a proper goodbye rather than a save button, and nothing is lost. Picking it up later carries on where you left off.

What gets remembered

“What do you remember about me?”: The people, places and moments kept from your past conversations, read back to you a category at a time.
“Which session did I talk about my mother in?”: Your past sittings get searched — titles, chapters and every word said — and you're told which one, and roughly when.
“Please forget what I told you about my brother.”: You'll be asked once to be sure, then it's deleted properly — not hidden. It won't come up again unless you raise it.
“Please don't use their name — just call them my brother.”: The story stays exactly as you told it; the name is swapped everywhere from then on — what's written down, what's made from it, and what I say out loud. The recording itself still has it.
“Tom and Thomas are the same person.”: The two entries are combined into one, with both names kept, so they don't split apart again later.

Making your story

“What does my story look like so far?”: A warm picture of your life appears — your own people, places and stories pinned to the parts of a life — and you walk it together, adding whatever's missing.
“Can we shape this into chapters?”: You build an ordered list of chapters together, out loud — adding, renaming, reordering — and record them one at a time.
“Can we record this one properly?”: The conversation becomes a real recording to keep — audio, or on camera if you'd rather. You can stop at any point.
“Can you make the video now?”: A polished version is produced and lands in your recordings, ready to watch, download, or keep somewhere safe.
“Could this become a book?”: The host opens the book panel right here in the room and says how ready it is — once your chapters are decided and the first is recorded, it lays them out as a printable book; you choose how it reads, then save it as a PDF.
“Could you make a little website for the family?”: The host opens the website panel right here in the room and says how ready it is — once your chapters are decided and the first is recorded, it turns them into a little website you download as one file; choose how it looks and how it reads, then share the folder with the family.

Bringing things in

“I've got a photo I want to show you.”: You'll be asked whether it's a printed photo or one on your phone, then it appears on screen and becomes part of the conversation — including questions about who's in it.

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