What you receive
One interview. Four ways the story is kept.
Every Revere begins the same way: a few unhurried conversations with Henry, our AI interviewer. What those conversations become is this page. A written memoir. A living edition online. An audiobook in their own voice. Letters to the people who shaped them.
The excerpts below are not marketing copy. They are from our own finished memoirs; we each went through the full Revere before we asked anyone else to.
01 · The book
The Memoir.
A full-length book of their life, told in their own words. Not a highlights reel: every chapter runs as long as their story supports, from childhood to now, drawn from the actual recorded conversations.
Every sentence traces back to something they actually said. Nothing is invented, nothing is padded, and they read and approve every chapter before anything is finished. If a line feels wrong, they change it, or ask Henry to revisit the moment in a short follow-up conversation.
It arrives as a digital book on every edition. On Heirloom and Chronicle it is also printed: a cloth-bound, foil-stamped hardcover, typeset the old way, with their photographs placed beside the moments they belong to. Made to sit on a shelf for a hundred years.
Digital on every edition · printed on Heirloom and Chronicle
Chapter Nine
Coming Home to Something New
It was a decision we had talked about for a long time, and when we finally made it, the reason sitting underneath everything was simpler than I usually admitted out loud: I had grown up without a real relationship with my grandparents. Mum and Dad had emigrated from South Africa, and my dad's parents stayed behind. I do not even know their names, which is embarrassing to say.
That gap was always there, a thin kind of absence I could not fully name… I did not want them growing up with that same missing link to the people who came before. Coming home was, in part, a deliberate act.
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02 · The living edition
The Living Memoir.
The same life, online, for family anywhere in the world. A private link opens the book by chapter, by person, by decade, on any phone or screen, with no app and nothing to install.
This is the edition with their voice in it. Beside the moments that matter, the family can press play and hear them tell it: the actual recording, in their actual voice, set inline next to the words. Their photographs sit beside the moments they belong to, and anyone in the family can send in pictures through a simple photo-gathering link.
And it is theirs to keep, not just to visit. At any time the family can download the entire Living Memoir as a single file, words, photographs and voice included, that opens in any browser with no internet at all, now or decades from now. Hosting runs five years on every edition, with a simple renewal offered at the end, and it can be password-protected if they prefer.
Every edition · voice clips on all tiers · photographs 40 / 80 / unlimited
03 · In their own voice · Chronicle
The Audiobook.
The whole memoir, read aloud in their own voice. We train it on their actual interview recordings, with their written consent, so the book can be heard exactly as they would have told it: their accent, their cadence, their way of landing a sentence.
It arrives as a chaptered audiobook the family can play from the Living Memoir or download and keep forever. For the people who come after, it is the closest thing to sitting across the kitchen table from them.
Chronicle edition · built only with their recorded consent
In David's own voice
1. The Boys on Redfield Road
Half a minute from the opening chapter of David's audiobook, read in his own cloned voice.
04 · The letters
The Tribute Letters.
Some of the most important things in a life story are the thank-yous that never quite got said. The Tribute Letters say them. First-person letters, in their voice and drawn from their telling, to the handful of people who shaped their life: the best friend, the first mentor, the sister who was there for all of it.
Each one is reviewed word by word by the storyteller before anything is sent. Then it goes out as real post: the letter, a card explaining the story it belongs to, in a proper envelope. Three letters on Heirloom, five on Chronicle.
People keep them. That is the point.
Three on Heirloom · five on Chronicle · every word approved first
Eleanor,
I was thinking the other day about the year we shared the desk by the window in Mr Henderson's homeroom. 1968. The afternoon sun coming through the casuarinas across the oval, hitting your green pencil case at exactly the wrong angle so neither of us could read what we were copying off the board.
The thing I remember best is not the trouble we got into, which was constant, but the day you cried. You were trying not to let anyone see, and you'd put your head down behind the geography textbook. I held your wrist under the desk for the rest of the class. Neither of us said anything about it then or later.
I think it was the moment I understood that being a friend was mostly about being there without making a noise about it. I learned that from you. I have used it my whole life.
I hope this finds you well.
Maggie
Three editions
The same story, kept more fully.
Every edition carries the full interview and the full-length memoir. Memoir ($149) keeps it digitally. Heirloom ($349) adds the printed book and three Tribute Letters. Chronicle ($499) adds the audiobook in their own voice, five letters, and unlimited photographs.