Stories of You
Video keepsakes for your family

Asking a question
is only the beginning.

Rosa interviews them by phone and follows the story where it goes. What comes back is theirs to watch, read, or listen to.

See how it works

Volume One, $99 one time. Nothing renews. See what arrives

Your first story is free No credit card Video usually emailed the same day

Why it matters

The years nobody
wrote down.

Every family has them. The summer job, the drive home, the kitchen that always smelled like something. They come up at dinner, everyone laughs, and then they go back to being nowhere.

Three children running through a garden sprinkler on a summer afternoon
A parent and two children baking together at a kitchen counter
A family standing together at the tailgate of a pickup on a dirt road

The stories that made us.

Sample stories

Watch what
comes back.

Every conversation comes back as a short video in their own voice. The illustration is drawn from what they said, and it arrives with music, captions and a full transcript.

Try it on yourself. Pick a question, answer it, and we email you the video.

How it works

Pick how the
conversation starts

What changes is only how the first conversation begins. Rosa interviews the same way after that, and the same thing comes back.

  1. Tap a link and talk

    No number to dial and nothing to install. We text them a link, they tap it, and Rosa is there in the browser. It is the fastest way in, and it is the one you can use on this page right now, free.

    A short form first, then Rosa talks with you. No card, about six minutes.

    A storyteller laughing mid-conversation, phone to her ear at a kitchen table
  2. Put the calls on a schedule

    Pick the days and the time. Their phone rings, Rosa says hello, and they talk. Any phone works, landlines too, and nobody has to remember to start anything.

  3. Let them call in when a story comes to mind

    Stories rarely arrive on schedule. Once they are set up, they have a number of their own, so a story that surfaces at eleven at night gets told at eleven at night.

Two people on a sofa watching a story together on a phone

Then Rosa asks the second question

Whichever way it started, this part is the same. Rosa asks about what they just said, not the next thing on a list, and has no set number of questions to get through. When the conversation ends, we turn it into a short video in their own voice, with music, captions and a full transcript, and usually email it the same day. The artwork is drawn from what they said, so nothing has to be found in a box in the attic.

From real calls

Three answers, word for word.

One thing I learned: work is not easy. You have to work at what you want to do.
Don E., on his first job at fourteen, unloading fifty-pound sacks of potatoes at a commissary in Sandusky.
Yep, I was fired from my first job. But guess what? I got to go to Niagara Falls.
Deborah Z., on the strawberry fight at Frisch's Big Boy, the weekend her parents were driving to Niagara Falls without her.
She would get up at four in the morning and make a whole breakfast for my dad before he went to work. Then before we went to school, she would make biscuits and gravy and eggs and sausage, and it was delicious.
Janie P., on her mother, who raised five children in Michigan and never drove a car.

All three came out of ordinary calls. Nobody prepared, and nobody wrote anything down.

Volume One

The same conversations, five ways.

Rosa keeps calling at whatever pace suits them, and every conversation becomes a video story in their voice, usually a half dozen or more across the volume. When the volume is finished, the same conversations come back four more ways: a film of that chapter of their life, an audiobook in their voice, a keepsake book in digital form, and the original recordings to download. You do not pick one. They all arrive. The film, ebook and audiobook arrive about two weeks after the last conversation.

Common questions

What people ask
before they start.

The questions that come up most often. The rest are on the FAQ page.

See all FAQs →
How long is each recording?

Up to five minutes. Most stories run two to three. They can hang up whenever they're done.

How is the video made?

The voice recording is paired with AI watercolor illustration and human curation: gentle music, captions, and a full transcript. The end result is a short keepsake video in their own voice.

Can they record from a flip phone?

Yes. We call them directly. Nobody needs a smartphone, an app, or any tech beyond answering the phone. Landlines work too.

Can I try it on myself first?

That's exactly how the free trial works. Pick a question, record your own answer, see what comes back. No credit card.

How fast do I get the video?

Usually the same day the call ends. We'll email you the moment it's ready.

Is my family's data safe?

Recordings are encrypted and stored privately. Only you, and anyone you choose to share a story with, can access them. We never sell or share recordings, and we never use them to train AI.