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Private personal biographer · voice-first

The stories
only you
can tell.

Yaad asks thoughtful questions, listens as you talk, and turns your memories into beautifully written chapters that sound like you on the page. For you first — and only for others if you choose.

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No writing. No camera. No homework. Just talk.

Private by default. Invitations open in small batches — we write the moment yours is ready.

Sample chapter

See a memory
become a chapter.

Your words, the photographs you keep, and the stories behind them. See the kind of chapter your conversations can become.

Share a photo with Yaad. It can notice visible details and ask about them. You tell the editor who was there, what happened, and why it matters. Photos and captions can sit alongside the finished story.

Illustrative chapter01

The house above the tailor

Tehran, 1978

She kept the front key pinned into her blouse because she never trusted herself to put it down. The staircase creaked on the third step from the top and we learned to skip it after her nap hour.

My sister kept her limes in a jar on the windowsill. The biggest one was always for our father’s tea. We could look, but we were not to touch. It was a small thing, saving a lime for someone.

In that house, small things were how we looked after one another.
Illustrative image of three green limes in a glass jar on a sunlit windowsill, beside a patterned curtain.
The windowsill, and the limes we were not allowed to touch.
Fictional story and conversation · AI-generated image. An illustration of a chapter with photos.

Begin with a memory of your own.

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Why Yaad

If you do not tell it, no one else can.

Photos can show where you were. Calendars can show when it happened. But only you can explain what it meant, what changed, what you noticed, what you carried, and what you understood later.

Yaad gives those stories a place before they fade into fragments.

For your future self

Return to the chapters of your own life in the language you actually spoke.

For the people you choose

Share a chapter, passage, or memory with someone who belongs in that story.

For what would otherwise disappear

Capture the details no photo, text thread, or family member can fully reconstruct.

How it works

One conversation becomes a chapter.
Chapters become a life.

  1. i.
    Chapter i · the first question“Tell me about the house you grew up in.”

    Begin with a question already waiting

    Start with yourself, someone you love, or one chapter of life you do not want to lose. The book opens on its first question — you are never staring at a blank page.

    Setup · two minutes
  2. ii.

    Talk through one calm conversation

    Yaad asks like a thoughtful biographer and listens without rushing. No script, no performance, no homework.

    One sitting · 20–45 minutes
  3. iii.

    Receive a chapter. Add more when memory returns.

    Each conversation becomes a written chapter that sounds like the storyteller on the page. Come back when another memory arrives — no streaks, no nudges.

    Anytime · your pace

Keep & share

One story, many ways
to keep it.

Living archive

A private archive that grows with every memory.

Find a chapter by what was said, who was there, where it happened, or what it meant.

Private audio

The original audio, kept with the chapter.

Revisit the actual conversation whenever you want to hear the voice behind the words.

Shareable excerpts

Share one passage with only the people you choose.

Invite someone into a specific memory, chapter, or excerpt. Nothing else becomes public.

Optional keepsake

An optional printable book to hold onto.

Download a printable PDF to keep — for yourself, your family, or someone who belongs in the story.

How to begin

Begin with one story.

For your own story

Keep what only
you can tell.

Your life, your relationships, your turning points — captured in the language you already speak. For your future self first, and for the people you choose later.

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For someone you love

Help them tell the stories
you have never heard.

Start gently with a person you want to understand more deeply. One conversation can become a chapter you can both return to — no pressure, no deadline, nothing to learn.

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Trust

The story stays yours.

Privacy

Private by default. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Nothing is public or shared unless you choose to share it.

Consent

The storyteller stays in control. Choose what to keep, what to delete, what to share, and who can see it.

Ownership

Your words stay yours. Export your chapters as a printable PDF and keep that copy in your own files.

No AI training

No AI training on your stories. No engagement tricks, streaks, or pressure to return. Come back only when a real memory arrives.

Voices

After the first session.

" My dad spoke for forty minutes about a bicycle. I had never heard the bicycle story.
" I thought I was just recording a memory. What came back felt like a chapter of my life I had never put into words.
" I read the chapter three times. It sounded like her — just on the page.

From early sittings, names withheld — the book stays private, and so do its tellers.

Begin with one

One story you
do not want
to lose.

Request an invitation and begin with a single conversation — for yourself or someone you love.

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