Attachment
Know the person behind the role.
Parents, partners and grandparents are more than the role they played in your life. Kept surfaces the chapters, relationships and choices that shaped them.
Private family memory reconstruction
Know them now.
Keep them later.
There is more to the people you love than you will ever remember to ask. Kept reconstructs their lives from the messages, photographs, emails and voice notes your family already has—so you can understand them more fully while they are here, and preserve more than fragments when they are not.
Every claim links to its sourceHuman-reviewedPrivate and permanently yoursFounding access open · no payment · no files required
“I had no idea that was why she called every Sunday.”— the kind of detail a family can still talk about together
Who were they before they became the person you know?Why this matters
The real loss
The files often survive. The meaning disappears first.
A photograph can last a century and become unintelligible in one generation. Names vanish. Context collapses. The ordinary details that made someone themselves are the first things a family loses.
Regret prevention
Find the questions while they can still answer.
The archive reveals missing names, unexplained moves and unfinished stories—turning preservation into conversations you can still have.
Belonging
Give the family a shared account.
Scattered recollections become one navigable record of the people, places and moments that made your family yours.
Effort
No year of prompts. No blank page.
Start with material your family already created naturally: chats, emails, photos, recordings and documents.
A reconstructed chapter
The move nobody explained.
A fictional example showing how Kept turns separate records into one understandable family story.
Why they moved north
For years, the family described the move as a practical decision. The records show something more personal: after missing three birthdays in one year, Daniel and Lena agreed that work would no longer decide where the family lived.
Sources: letter dated 12 Sep 1998; voicemail recorded 19 Oct 1998; photograph annotations from the first house viewing.
The small kitchen that everyone later complained about was the reason they chose the house. It had a table large enough for eight.
Source: Lena’s note on the reverse of the estate-agent photograph: “Too small everywhere except the room that matters.”
The move became the beginning of Sunday dinner—not a tradition inherited from earlier generations, but a deliberate repair.
What only the family can complete: Who were the first eight people at the table?
How the first version will work
Discovery first. Archive second.
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Send one source
A WhatsApp export, an email folder, photographs or voice notes. One source is enough to begin.
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We reconstruct one chapter
Agents connect people, dates and events. An editor checks every statement and preserves uncertainty.
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Your family completes it
You receive a finished preview plus the questions only your family can still answer.
Founding access
Which story would you regret never understanding?
Kept is being developed with a small group of families. Apply to help shape the first version around a real person, question or family chapter that matters to you.
- No payment or commitment
- No family files requested at this stage
- Early access is selective and not guaranteed
- A short research conversation is entirely optional
Founding applications open
Trust is part of the product
Intimate enough to matter. Rigorous enough to believe.
Source-backed
Every factual statement points to the message, image, recording or document behind it.
Human-reviewed
An editor checks accuracy, tone and whether a technically true detail belongs in the final archive.
Private by design
You choose what is excluded before processing. Fully local workflows are available.
Yours permanently
The archive opens offline and remains usable without an account, app or subscription.
Start before the context is gone
Know more of them while you still can.
Start with one person, one unanswered question and one chapter worth recovering.
Apply for founding access