A book of their life — before it's too late

Keep their voice, not just their words.

Told turns your mum or dad's own tellings into a real, finished book — with a QR code on every chapter that plays it back in their actual voice.

See how it works

Closed beta. We're testing with a first group of families.

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Chapter 3 · Falling in love
"What do you remember about the first time you saw him?"
She's talking. Told is listening — capturing every word, in her voice.
Tap the circle. Just talk.
See it in action

No app to learn. They just talk.

Send a link. It opens to one warm question and a single big button. Your mum taps it, tells the story the way she always has, and Told does the rest — no login, no typing, no menus a 78-year-old has to fight.

  • 1

    One question at a time

    A patient AI interviewer that follows the thread of what she actually says — not the same 52 questions mailed to everyone.

  • 2

    Her voice, kept

    Every answer is recorded and transcribed. The words become chapters; the recording stays, tied to the page.

  • 3

    You watch it fill in

    From your phone, you see the book take shape chapter by chapter — and nudge her along when she stalls.

Why the others fail

Most of these gifts never get finished.

The intention is beautiful. The follow-through is where it dies — a weekly email that feels like homework, software they can't get past, and a year later, a blank book.

"We sent it to 20 people. Only 2 could navigate the software."
— a real review of the market leader
Told asks out loud. A gentle voice conversation, no login, no typing — it adapts to what they actually say.
"My parents didn't answer a single question for a year."
— a gifter, on why the book stayed empty
We finish it for them. You get a real, shaped book at the end — not a pile of prompts and the guilt of an unfinished present.
How it works

Three steps. One finished book.

01

They talk

A warm, patient AI interviewer asks about their life and listens — by voice, on any device, with a one-tap link that needs no account. It follows the thread of what they say.

02

We shape it — never invent it

Their answers become clear, readable chapters in their voice and phrasing. Nothing is made up. The words are always theirs.

03

A real book — and their voice

A printed hardcover you can hold, with a QR code on every chapter that plays the original recording. You keep the words and the sound of them.

The part that undoes people

Then one day, you hear them again.

A transcript keeps what they said. Told keeps how they said it — the pause before the punchline, the laugh, the way only she tells that story.

Years from now, a grandchild opens the book, scans the code on a chapter, and the room fills with her voice — reading her own life aloud. That's the thing you can't get back any other way.

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Made to be trusted with a life

Their story stays theirs.

Their real voice

The AI never invents facts or rewrites them into someone they're not. It keeps their words.

You own it

The book and the story are yours — exportable and keepable forever. No lock-in, no lapse.

Private by default

It's a family memoir, not training data. Their story never trains anyone's model.

Closed beta

We're in closed beta.

Told is being tested with a small first group of families. Public sign-up opens soon — this is where it'll be.