No app to learn. They just talk.
Send a link. It opens to one warm question and a single big button. They tap it, tell the story the way they always have, and Told does the rest — no login, no typing, no menus to fight.
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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.
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Her voice, kept
Every answer is recorded and transcribed. The words become chapters; the recording stays, tied to the page.
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You watch it fill in
From your phone, you see the book take shape chapter by chapter — and nudge her along when she stalls.
This is the actual app — not a mockup.
A real screen recording. The interviewer asks about a Sunday morning in her mother's kitchen, hears "coffee and the smell of freshly made pancakes," and follows the thread to the brother she raced to the table. A conversation — not a form.
- ✓It adapts. Every follow-up comes from what they actually said — not a fixed list of questions.
- ✓Type or talk. Dictate, record, or thumb it in — whatever's easiest for them.
- ✓Nothing lost. Each answer is saved word-for-word and becomes part of a chapter.
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.
Three steps. One finished book.
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.
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.
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.
Something they can hold — that still speaks.
A proper hardcover, printed and bound. On every chapter, a small QR code: scan it and the page reads itself aloud, in the voice that told it. The book on the shelf and the person in it, together.
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.
"…and your grandfather just stood there in the rain, holding those flowers, refusing to leave until I said yes." — Margaret, 84
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.
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.
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