The people who made the place.
An AI-guided interviewer calls the people your institution was built by in the A Story iPhone app and asks from 620 questions. You keep their words, and a book if you like.
Today the calls ring in the A Story iPhone app, in a private beta. Writing and the family archive work in any browser.
What you need
- An iPhone for the calls, today.Where a person has none, a staff member can start a conversation together with them. We help install the app. Shared devices for a class or a team: ask on the demo.
- An hour each person picks.The app rings then, and they answer and talk.
- One person on your side.For introductions and support. A program can begin with one class, one floor or one team.
- Each person’s consent, before their first call.They agree first, and can stop at any time.
- Pricing, quoted on the demo.For the program you describe. Relatives who read and add pay nothing.
Who we work with.
Any place with people worth hearing from.
- Colleges and universities
Alumni, in their own words.
A reunion class, the first women admitted, a department turning fifty. Each graduate is called at an hour they choose, and the archive grows class by class.
- Schools
The people a school was built by.
Retiring teachers, founding families, the first class to graduate. Recorded before the anniversary, not after it.
- Libraries, museums and historical societies
An oral history that keeps going.
Firsthand accounts beside the photographs and documents you already hold, with names and dates attached.
- Companies and nonprofits
The reason behind the record.
Founders, long-serving staff, the people retiring this year. The judgment and the history a handover document leaves out.
- Cultural, faith and community groups
How we got here, in their words.
The people who started the association, the congregation or the festival. Their accounts kept together for the generation that comes next.
- Senior living and care
Know the person behind the care.
A record keeps what happened. Their own words keep why.
From a demo to an archive.
How a program runs
A thirty-minute demo.
We show a real call and a real archive, and ask about your people and what you want to keep.
You choose who takes part.
The people you want heard, and how we reach them. Consent comes first.
A Story makes the calls.
Guided conversations in the A Story iPhone app, now in a private beta, at the hour each person picks.
You keep the archive.
Memories, transcripts and photographs in one place, and a book or an anniversary volume when you want one.
You decide. They agree.
A private working archive and a public anniversary volume need different decisions. We make them with you, before anyone is called.
What you decide
Who takes part
The people you choose, and how they are invited.
Who can listen
Only the people the storyteller and their family invite, unless you agree something else with us before anyone is called.
Consent
Each person agrees before their first call, and can stop at any time.
What is published
Nothing leaves the archive unless you and the person both say so.
What we can say today
What we can say today
- An AI-guided interviewer asks. Nobody at A Story listens unless you ask us to help, or someone reports something.
- Nothing appears until the storyteller says yes. Not a relative’s addition, not anything added on their behalf.
- We never sell data. We never train AI on the stories.
4 more we can say today
- The storyteller owns it, and can delete it all. Not the person who paid, and not the place that set it up.
- A full export, in open formats, whenever you ask. Audio, transcripts and photographs.
- A story told twice is fine. It is an invitation, never a test of what someone remembers.
- Stored and processed in the United States. The privacy policy, section 13.
Write to contact@astoryapp.com; Daniel answers every message himself.
Questions a review will ask
Questions a review will ask
- Where data is stored
- In the United States (privacy policy, section 13).
- How long it is kept
- For as long as the account or archive is active. Deleting it, in the app or by asking us, removes it within thirty days.
- Exports
- Audio, transcripts and photographs, and a PDF of the book.
- HIPAA and a BAA
- Bring them to the demo, or write to contact@astoryapp.com.
Thirty minutes, with a founder.
Bring your questions on privacy, consent and exports; price is quoted on the demo.
- You send this form.It goes to Daniel, our co-founder and CEO.
- Daniel writes back.Within a working day, to confirm one of the times you picked.
- Thirty minutes together.A live call, a real archive, and your questions.
- Start small.A program can begin with one class, one floor or one team.
Rather write? contact@astoryapp.com
Another idea? Write to us.