Ask the question you never got to ask.
And get an answer in their own words, from a memory they actually recorded — with the recording still attached, so you can hear them say it.
Answers are AI, built from real memories — and always say so.
You asked
How did you and Grandad actually meet?
“At a bus stop, in the rain, and he pretended he was waiting for the same bus. He wasn’t.”
From Meeting your grandad · 3:38An illustration of the answer format. The live version, with real memories, is on the home page.
What asking is like
Real answers, not invented ones
In their words, with the recording still attached
Every answer is drawn from a memory they actually recorded, and names which one. Where that memory was a voice recording, you can press play and hear them say it — not a summary of it, and not a voice pretending to be theirs.
- Each answer names the memory behind it
- Play the original recording, in their voice
- Always labelled as AI built from real memories, never as them
It will tell you what it does not know
An honest silence beats an invented memory
If they never talked about something, the character says so plainly and points you at what they did cover. That refusal is enforced in the product, not merely requested of the model — because an invented memory would be worse than no answer, and much harder to unhear.
- No answer without a memory behind it
- It suggests what they did talk about instead
- You can always read the source and judge for yourself
Across languages and generations
Ask in yours, even if they recorded in theirs
Grandparents rarely think in the language their grandchildren grew up speaking. Ask your question however it comes to you; the answer arrives in the same language, and the original recording is still sitting underneath it, unchanged.
- Ask in your language, whatever they recorded in
- Share with siblings, cousins, and your own children
- Save the answers that matter most
You already have one of these.
Not “tell me about your life” — nobody can answer that. Something small and specific, the kind of thing you would only ever ask across a kitchen table.
What were you frightened of when you were my age?
10 questions, drawn from the interview bank.
Every one of these is a question the guided interview actually asks.
Hear someone answer oneWhat families actually do with it
Hear it, not just read it
The transcript is there for searching. The recording is there for the times reading it is not what you needed.
Keep what matters
Save the answers you want to come back to. They stay in one place rather than scattered through old conversations.
Bring the others in
Siblings and cousins can be given access too, so nobody has to be the one relaying stories to everyone else.
A character never claims to be the person. It says what it is, every time.
The hard part is asking them to start.
Most people are quietly flattered to be asked, and quietly convinced nobody would want to hear it. Both things are usually true at once.
Worried about what happens to their recordings? Here is exactly how they are handled.