Every life leaves a record.
Now it can speak.
Pastale reads the documents a person, a family or a group left behind — letters, interviews, photographs, records — and turns them into a life you can walk through, question and write about. Every answer traced back to the page it came from.
Invitation-only early access.
Four steps, and you stay in charge of every one
The whole flow at once. Each step lights up in turn.
Letters, transcripts, memoirs, certificates, photographs. PDFs, text and images — handwriting included.
Handwriting transcribed. People, places, dates, quotes and themes pulled out and de-duplicated — each keeping its page reference.
Correct the transcript, settle conflicting dates, merge duplicate people. As accurate as your family knows it to be.
Walk the timeline, follow a person, ask in plain language — or talk with an AI representation of the subject in their own words.
Five ways a record can speak
Three you can use today, two we are building toward. Click through, or let it run.
Ask anything across every document at once — or speak with an AI representation of the subject, grounded in their verified words and voice profile. Always disclosed as AI.
Factual questions answered from the record, with every claim footnoted to a document and page. Where the sources disagree, it says so rather than picking one.
Spring of 1921, most likely March or April.1 They moved to a rented house nearer the school in Martinsdale.2
Build an outline from real events, then draft chapters with period context. Every paragraph keeps its sources, and the chapter library lets you revise or revert.
In the spring of 1921 the family left the homestead outside Martinsdale. Elias was twenty, and remembered the road as mud to the axles…
A chapter assembled into a narrated short film — scanned letters, photographs and maps cut to the story, with the timeline as the spine. Something you could show at a reunion.
Home videos and saved voicemails transcribed and woven into the timeline. And with explicit family consent, chapters read aloud in a faithful re-creation of the voice itself.
“…tell your mother the roses came back after all. I didn’t think they would, after that frost.”
Everything here is working now
Not a roadmap. These are the parts of the app you would use the week you are invited.
Every answer traces back to a document and a page. You can always see where the claim came from — and whether any sources disagree.
“He kept the letters in a cigar box under the bed, and read them in the order they came.”
In their voice, grounded in verified words. Always disclosed as AI.
Life events in order, with dates and page references.
Everyone mentioned, and how they relate.
The locations that mattered, and why.
Direct quotes and the recurring threads of a life.
Vocabulary, patterns, turns of phrase.
Outlines and chapters with period context, saved to a library.
Vision suggests links to people, places and events.
The future of remembering
You are arriving early enough to shape this. Here is what we are building toward.
Hear them again, in their own voice
Chapters read aloud — and one day, with explicit consent, in a faithful re-creation of the voice itself.
Every recording, remembered
Decades of interviews, home videos and voicemails transcribed and woven in.
The whole family, contributing
Relatives adding memories by replying to an email. No app, no login.
A keepsake you can hold
A print-ready illustrated book compiled from the profile — to gift, to pass down.
Walk the map of a life
Every place that mattered, pinned and explorable across cities and generations.
Trust, built in
An AI that checks its own work and shows plainly what is grounded and what is not.
These are your family's records
We treat them that way. Nothing here is buried in fine print, and if any of it changes you will hear it from us first.
You decide what is uploaded and who can see each profile. Roles are enforced per profile, not per account.
Every profile is isolated from every other. Nothing is public unless you deliberately share it.
Chat, document understanding, photo analysis and narrative generation run on enterprise AI infrastructure. Your material is sent to these providers only to generate your results — it is not used to train their models, and is not kept by them beyond the short time needed to return a response.
Passwords hashed with bcrypt. Short-lived sessions on secure, HttpOnly cookies. Sign in with Google or email.
You decide what's uploaded and who can see it, and you can request a full export or permanent deletion of a profile at any time. You should never be locked in.
Somebody in your family kept everything. Start there.
Pastale is in invitation-only early access while we build it with the first families using it.