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THE FAMILY LEGACY OPERATING SYSTEM

Give them a beautiful book of their life — in their own voice before the stories are gone.

Heirloom's gentle AI interviews your parent or grandparent — voice or text, in 10 languages — and turns their answers into a Memory Book your family keeps forever, plus a living archive you can still talk to.

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No tech setup · Works by phone · Cancel anytime · Consent-first

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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Voice Preservation

Their actual voice, cloned and preserved. Every laugh, every accent, every pause — captured and encoded so future generations hear exactly how they sounded.

ElevenLabs Voice Clone
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The AI Ancestor

A conversational AI built from their stories and values. Your grandchildren can ask Grandpa a question — and hear his voice answer, in his words, from his wisdom.

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Video Avatar

Their face. Their voice. Moving, speaking, responding. A video presence future generations can see — not just hear. Available in our Eternal tier.

Coming Q3 2025

Time-Capsule Messages

Record messages locked until a future date or milestone. "Play this for Jaywon on his 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
2

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
3

Their Legacy Lives in Your Family Vault.

You receive the printed memoir, the voice clone, and access to the AI conversation system. Your children and grandchildren can "talk" to them — asking questions, hearing stories, receiving guidance — for decades. We guarantee data preservation for 25+ years.

🏛️ 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, transcript, and voice model 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. Voice clones are watermarked and cannot be exported 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.

SIMPLE PRICING

Give a story. Keep a voice.

Start with a one-time gift, or keep the whole family's living archive. 30-day money-back guarantee.

🎁 The Gift

Keepsake

$199 one-time
Capture one life, completely — a beautiful Memory Book in their own words, yours forever. No subscription.

  • 1 storyteller, full guided interview
  • 168 questions · 10 languages
  • Voice & text capture
  • Memory Book (printable + PDF)
  • Lifetime read access for the whole family
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Their Real Voice

Heritage

$299/yr
Everything in Family — plus real voice cloning. Hear them answer in their own voice. Also $499 one-time.

  • Everything in Family
  • Real voice cloning (ElevenLabs)
  • Multiple families & branches
  • Priority support
  • Also available as $499 one-time
Start Heritage — $299/yr →
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.
Stories from Real Families

Hear what Heirloom means to them.

Illustrative stories, AI-narrated from real customer themes — tap any card to listen. We swap in real customer videos as families share them.

Illustrative · AI voice Asian-American man reflecting
★★★★★
"My father passed three days before our first recording. I signed up for Heirloom three weeks after his funeral — too late for him. So I started with my mother. Eight sessions in, my twelve-year-old son asked his grandmother a question through the Heirloom AI. She answered in her voice, with a story I'd never heard. I can't get my father back. But my grandchildren will know exactly who their grandmother was."
David K. — Bergen County, NJ
Illustrative · AI voice Korean grandfather, age 88, in Seoul
★★★★★
"My grandfather in Seoul is 88. He doesn't speak English. He doesn't use computers. I live in New Jersey. With Heirloom we call him on Sundays. He talks to my uncle in Korean. The AI transcribes, translates, and every Monday I read a new story — his brothers during the war, the restaurant he opened in 1962. My daughter is three. She'll grow up knowing her great-grandfather's voice. In Korean and English. That's 효도."
Sarah K. — Fort Lee, NJ / Seoul, Korea
Illustrative · AI voice Gen X father at home
★★★★★
"I'm 47. My best friend died of a heart attack at 46 two months ago. His kids will grow up not knowing who he was. So I'm not just recording my parents — I'm recording myself. Once a week, 20 minutes. My voice, my stories, my values — stored for my kids. If something happens to me, they'll still have me. It's the best $149 a year I spend. And I hope they never need it."
Michael T. — Princeton, NJ

"My mother was diagnosed in January. By April she had trouble finishing sentences. I wish I'd started a year earlier. What we captured in January — her voice telling how she met my father — my kids will replay for 50 years."

— Lisa M., Bergen County, NJ

"I'm a pastor. I've officiated 200+ funerals. I've never heard 'I wish we'd saved more money.' I hear 'I wish we'd recorded more stories' at nearly every one. Heirloom is what I wish I'd had for my own father."

— Rev. David H., Atlanta, GA

"My father-in-law is 79. We've had 11 Heirloom sessions. Last week I realized: I actually know him now. After 22 years of marriage to his daughter, I finally know him. That alone is worth the monthly price."

— Michael T., San Diego, CA

What Families Are Saying

Real voices. Real impact.

Illustrative stories based on real customer themes. Portraits sourced from Unsplash (commercial license). Names may be changed.

Grace A.
★★★★★
"I always said I'd record Mom's stories someday. Someday almost didn't come. Three sessions before her memory started fading, we captured her immigration story. My kids play it at dinner. She passed in March. Those recordings are everything."
Grace A.
Daughter · Chicago, IL
Maricel S.
★★★★★
"My lolo is 91. He spent his whole life thinking his stories weren't worth telling. Eight sessions later he was in tears — in a good way — because someone finally asked. His great-grandchildren in Los Angeles will grow up knowing exactly who he was."
Maricel S.
Family historian · Manila & Los Angeles
James W.
★★★★★
"We recorded my father-in-law for two years. When he passed, we played his voice at the service. Every person in that room heard him speak openly, vulnerably, with love — for the first time. He'd never done that before Heirloom."
James W.
Son-in-law · Melbourne, Australia
Sofia M.
★★★★★
"My abuela doesn't speak English. My Spanish isn't perfect. Heirloom bridged us in ways 30 years of family dinners never could. She told me stories she'd never told her own daughters. I have them in her voice, forever."
Sofia M.
Granddaughter · Miami, FL
Kenji T.
★★★★★
"I started recording my father when his Parkinson's was still mild. Now his hands shake and he can barely hold a cup — but in the app, his voice is strong and clear as the day we began. We didn't wait. I'm so grateful."
Kenji T.
Son · San Jose, CA
Dr. Amara N.
★★★★★
"As a geriatric nurse I've sat with hundreds of families in their final weeks. The most common regret? 'We never asked.' Heirloom should be prescribed. I've recommended it to every family I work with."
Dr. Amara N.
Geriatric Nurse · London, UK

Illustrative testimonials based on real customer themes. Portrait photos sourced from Unsplash under commercial license. Names may be changed or composite.

Hear Them Speak

60 seconds that will stay with you.

Short moments from families who started before it was too late.

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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 AI is built entirely 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. Think of it as a knowledgeable, wise version of them — able to answer questions about their life, share their stories, and offer the wisdom they actually expressed during capture. It uses their real voice (via voice clone) so it sounds like them. It is clearly presented as a "legacy AI" — not a claim that they are still alive.
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.
On our Legacy and Eternal plans, we guarantee 25 years of preserved access. We also provide full data exports (audio files, transcripts, AI model files) so your family is never dependent solely on us. The recordings and transcripts are yours — forever.
LifeBook charges £7,500+ (~$9,500) for a memoir book alone — no AI, no voice, no avatar. StoryWorth ($99/year) collects text stories and prints a basic book — no AI, no voice, no avatar. Heirloom is the only service that combines frictionless story capture, professional memoir production, voice preservation, and a conversational AI your grandchildren can talk to — at a price accessible to every family.
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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The best time was five years ago.
The second best time is today.

Every story not captured is a story lost forever. Start with one phone call. One session. One voice message.

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