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The processSix to eight weeksPlainly told
From your first text to everything they were, gathered from everyone who loved them, kept in the vault and the linen book at your door.
Most families start in the hardest weeks, so it asks little: a few memories by text, whenever you’re ready, the way they answered the phone, enough across everyone to hold a whole life. A person reads every conversation; you approve every page before it prints.
Introduction
What everyone remembers of them arrives in pieces: a story here, a photograph there, scattered across everyone who loved them. It comes back whole: a lifetime gathered and kept safe before it’s lost, in a linen hardcover you’ll hold.
Your part is small. The gathering is ours
Three moments are yours: the memories you share, the pages you approve, the book at your door. We do the rest: gathering a whole life from everyone who loved them, down to the story only they told, and keeping it safe before it slips away, in a vault and one linen book.
Step by step
1
Day oneThis moment is yours
Begin
A few minutes. No app to download.
You start the memorial with the person’s name, a few words about who they were, and the people who should be there, anyone who held a piece of them. A handful of names is enough; you don’t have to be complete.
What you'll need: nothing but names. Everything else can come later, or never.
2
Weeks one to fourWe carry this
Gather
Eli invites each person to remember, by text.
Each person receives a simple text conversation: an introduction, an invitation, and room to tell one story in their own words: the joke he always told, the way she made a room settle. Sharing takes a few minutes. Photos are welcome. Anyone can say no, and nothing more is asked of them. A person reviews every conversation before it moves forward.
If someone doesn't reply, Eli waits: one gentle reminder around day three, another around day seven, and never more than those two. Then it rests.
3
Weeks four to sixWe carry this
Weave
Writers and designers bring the voices together into the story of one life.
Professional writers shape the gathered memories into chapters, keeping each voice and finding the through-lines no one person could see alone. Designers set the words with the photographs, page by page, on archival paper.
4
Week sixThis moment is yours
Approve
You see every page before anything is printed.
The full book comes to you first. Read it slowly. Change what you want changed. Nothing goes to press without your yes. That’s the one rule we don’t break.
The press waits for you, not the other way around.
5
Weeks six to eightThis moment is yours
Keep
Everything they were, kept safe, then brought home.
Every story and photo, a whole life gathered from everyone who loved them, is held for good in a permanent digital vault, there whenever you want to return to it. Then it comes home in linen: the hardcover heirloom, slipcased, on archival paper, arriving at your door to keep and to hand down.
In plain numbers
What’s kept, and what carries it.
3
times you are needed: the first text, approving the pages, the day it arrives
72
pages holding a whole life, every story gathered from everyone who loved them and kept safe, bound into one hardcover linen heirloom: slipcased, museum standard
14
days to change your mind: full refund, no questions asked
The guarantee
You pay once the stories are here
You risk nothing to begin.
Fourteen days to change your mind, your money back in full, no questions asked. And if no memories ever arrive, you get everything back just the same. Payment is made upfront, when you begin.