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Family — $149/year

The family archive you keep adding to

More than one voice. A full year. Stories grandparents and kids share — $149/year.

Gift Family

Multiple voices

Parents, grandparents, kids over time in one home.

Ongoing

Not a single chapter in the mail; add through the year.

Gift either way

Give Family to a parent, or start the archive for the grandkids. Same $149.

Consent-first. They stay in control of what gets kept.

⏳ The window closes. Every day without a recording is a story that may never be told. An 83-year-old has, on average, less than 7 years left. Start today — even a single voice message changes everything.

📞 Record your parent's first story this week. One phone call is all it takes.

Why Heirloom Exists

He waited one year.
His father died three days before the recording.

"I kept thinking I'd get to it. I had the number. I had the plan. And then I got the call. I will carry this regret for the rest of my life — not because he died, but because I let his stories die with him."

— Former MD, Fortune 50 Technology Company. His father's voice: gone forever.

This isn't a rare story. It's the most common regret of adult children everywhere. We think we have time. We don't book the visit. We don't press record. And then one day, there's nothing left to capture.

Heirloom was built to end this regret — with a service so simple that an 83-year-old can begin in a single phone call, and so powerful that his great-grandchildren can hear his voice and ask him questions decades from now.

What You Get

More than a memoir.
A living family legacy.

Heirloom combines effortless story capture with AI to create something no company has offered before.

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The Memoir Book

A beautifully bound, heirloom-quality book of their life — stories, values, lessons, history. Printed on archival paper. Yours to keep forever.

AI-Drafted + Human-Edited
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Stories, kept

Their words in the archive — stories, recipes, lessons — so the family can return to them through the year.

Family archive
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More than one voice

Parents, grandparents, kids over time in one home. The archive you keep adding to.

Family — $149/year
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Gift either way

Give Family to a parent, or start the archive for the grandkids. Same $149.

Same SKU
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Time-Capsule Messages

Record messages locked until a future date or milestone. "Play this for Maya on her 18th birthday." "Open this on your wedding day." Your voice, delivered on time.

All Plans
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The Family Vault

A private, secure archive that grows over generations. Add new members. Share across family branches. Protected by your family — for your family — forever.

Generational Access
The Process

Three steps. No technology skills needed.

If your parent can answer a phone call, they can build their legacy.

1

We Send the Questions. They Just Talk.

After you sign up, we send your parent a curated set of guided questions — by WhatsApp, phone call, or simple app. No passwords. No apps to learn. Just talking. Our AI records, transcribes, and translates everything — including Korean, Spanish, and more.

📱 Phone · WhatsApp · Tablet
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AI Builds Their Story. Humans Polish It.

Our AI processes every recording — identifying themes, organizing stories, generating a draft memoir. Then a human editor reviews and refines it. The result reads like it was written by a professional biographer who knew them personally.

✍️ AI Draft → Human Edit → Final Book
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Their Legacy Lives in Your Family Vault.

You receive the Memory Book and a family archive you can keep adding to. Children and grandchildren can return to the stories — for years. The recordings and transcripts are yours.

🏛️ Forever Accessible · Family-Only · 25-Year Guarantee
Trust · Consent · Ownership

Your family's stories deserve a careful custodian.

Heirloom was built with consent, ownership, and ethics at its core — because what we're preserving is sacred.

You own everything.

Every recording and transcript belongs to your family. Export, edit, or delete at any time. We never sell data, ever.

Nothing without consent.

Your loved one signs a recorded consent before any session begins. They choose what becomes part of the archive — and can withdraw anything, anytime.

The AI won't invent.

Our legacy AI is grounded in what your loved one actually said. It will not fabricate opinions, positions, or stories they never shared.

Family-controlled access.

You decide which family members can view or listen. Nothing leaves the archive without family-admin approval.

When families disagree.

Siblings don't always align on edits, sharing, or what to keep private. Our legacy mediators help. The goal is always what your loved one would want.

Forever, even if we're gone.

If Heirloom ever shuts down, you receive a full export and a self-hosted vault instantly. A 25-year preservation bond secures your family's archive.

Family — $149/year

The living archive

One plan. Same price to start or gift. Add voices through the year.

Compare: Storyworth charges $99/yr for ONE person's printed book — no AI, no voice, no council. LifeBook UK charges £7,500+ for a single memoir.
Heirloom gives them a beautiful Memory Book — and keeps their voice alive for the generations who'll never meet them. See full details on the pricing page.
Who It's For

Every family has stories worth keeping.

Heirloom works for any situation where wisdom is at risk of being lost forever.

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Aging Parents (75-90+)

The most urgent use case. Time is finite. Stories captured today become the greatest gift you'll ever give your children.

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For Your Own Children

You may not always be there. Capture yourself — your values, your stories, your hopes for them — now, while you can speak clearly and fully.

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Family Business Legacy

Preserve the founder's vision, values, and culture. Let the next generation ask the founder what they should do when things get hard.

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Immigrant Families

Your parents crossed oceans to build a better life. Their story of sacrifice and courage deserves to be heard by every generation that follows.

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Health Diagnoses

A diagnosis changes everything. Heirloom gives families a clear, urgent action — capture the stories before they're lost to illness or time.

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Veterans & Survivors

Their experiences must not be forgotten. Heirloom has preserved Holocaust survivors, Korean War veterans, and civil rights witnesses.

Questions

Frequently asked questions.

Yes — and this is exactly who we built Heirloom for. Your parent doesn't need to do anything except answer their regular phone or WhatsApp. We call them (or you call them with us on the line), we ask the questions, they talk. That's it. No apps. No passwords. No setup on their end.
They can speak in any language they're comfortable in. We fully support Korean, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, and more. All recordings are transcribed and translated by AI with human review. The final memoir and AI persona can be bilingual — so your son hears both the Korean and English versions of his grandfather's stories.
The archive is built from their actual recordings, stories, and values. It is grounded in what they actually said. It won't invent opinions or positions they never expressed. Family can return to those stories through the year — and keep adding more voices. The recordings and transcripts are yours.
Whatever is captured is preserved, no matter how much or how little. Even a single 30-minute conversation is enough to begin. We can work with what exists — phone voicemails, WhatsApp messages, videos, old letters — to build the richest possible legacy from what remains. Start today with whatever you have.
Family is $149/year for the living archive. We also provide full data exports (audio files, transcripts) so your family is never dependent solely on us. The recordings and transcripts are yours.
LifeBook charges £7,500+ (~$9,500) for a memoir book alone. StoryWorth ($99/year) collects text stories and prints a basic book for one person. Heirloom Family is $149/year for the living archive — more than one voice, a Memory Book, and the archive you keep adding to.
Absolutely — and this is one of our most emotionally powerful use cases. If you have a 3-year-old today, Heirloom lets you record your own stories, values, and advice now. When your child turns 10, 15, 21 — they can open the vault and hear your voice, ask you questions, and receive the wisdom you wanted to pass down. You don't have to wait until you're old. Start now.
$84T
in generational wealth being transferred — without the stories behind it
81%
of Americans want to document their life story. Almost none do.
3 days
was all that stood between one family and a story that could never be told
$9,500
is what legacy memoir companies charge. Heirloom delivers more from $149/yr.
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