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Your life, your book.

An AI interviewer asks the questions. You answer by voice, on your own schedule. We write your answers into a hardcover book, in your own words.

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$199, one-timeReady in six to twelve weeks
Three readers in marble reading alcoves
“We had one good coat between the three of us. Whoever went out in the cold wore it, and the others waited by the window.”
Margit, 78from her chapter on home
“I learned to fold a chart in the wheelhouse before I learned to read. The North Sea was patient with me, mostly.”
Henrik, 84from his years at sea
“I started the company in a borrowed room above a bakery. For two years I smelled of bread and slept beside the fax machine.”
Astrid, 51from the early days of her company
The book

A hardcover book, printed and bound.

Around 200 pages, written from your interviews in your own voice. Cloth-bound hardcover, sewn binding, printed in Sweden.

You choose the cover colour and the title. Extra copies are $40 each, and you can reorder any time.

Format
5.5″ × 8.5″ hardcover
Pages
≈ 200, sewn
Paper
Cream uncoated, 100gsm
Printed in
Falun, Sweden
i.

How it works.

Three steps, from the first conversation to a finished book on the shelf.

Step one

An AI interviews you.

A few voice sessions, 30 to 45 minutes each, on your schedule. The AI asks about your life, listens, and follows up. You just talk.

Step two

We write your chapters.

Your stories become chapters (childhood, work, family, the moments that mattered), written in your own words from what you said.

Step three

You get a hardcover book.

You review every chapter, choose the cover, and we print it. A real book, bound to last, that your family keeps for generations.

ii.

The sessions.

Eight to twelve sessions on average. 30 to 45 minutes each. By voice, on your schedule, over six to twelve weeks.

01First session

A broad conversation about your whole life. We use it to sketch the chapters (childhood, family, work, the turning points) and plan the sessions ahead.

Session 1Tell me about where you grew up. Who lived there with you?
02Chapter sessions

One chapter per session. We ask follow-up questions to capture the details: names, dates, what happened, what you remember.

Session 6 · Chapter: My fatherYou mentioned your father kept his tools in a tin. What was in it?
03Review & print

We write each chapter and send it to you. You read it, mark anything wrong, and we revise. Once you're happy, we print the book.

Chapter draftThe kitchen smelled of cardamom and burnt sugar, the way my mother kept her coffee, half-forgotten on the stove.
iii.

Pricing.

One book, one price. Everything it takes to make the hardcover, her real voice kept for the family, and nothing to remember every month.

$199one-time, no subscription
Founding price, while we print the first ten books.
  • Up to 25 hours of interviews with an AI interviewer
  • A hardcover book, written from her own words, yours to review and approve
  • Her real voice archive, the actual recordings, kept for the family
  • Full transcripts and a lifetime cloud archive
  • Unlimited photo upload, up to 100 AI restorations
  • The first printed copy, free shipping in the US
  • Full refund after the first session if it isn't for you
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No card to start. We charge when you order the book, and refund in full after the first session if it isn't for you.

What the book is worth

$199, against what each piece really costs.

The Yourtale memoir, bound hardcoverStoryTerrace Swift, cheapest human ghostwriter equivalent
$1,200
Her original voice archivethe real recordings, her actual voice, kept for the family
$297
Full transcripts and lifetime cloud archive
$197
Photos: unlimited upload, up to 100 AI restorationsold and damaged photographs repaired and printed
$147
Real value
$1,841   Your price $199

Every dollar is a real competitor's real price. You pay $199, one time, the founding rate while we print the first ten books.

iv.

Questions.

If yours isn't here, email hello@yourtale.com.

Anyone who wants a life recorded in a book. Most of our writers are between 60 and 90, and most sign up because a child or grandchild suggested it. It also works for capturing a specific period: the early years of a company, a marriage, or one particular chapter of a life.
We're straight about this. An AI runs the interviews and writes the chapters from what you actually said. You are the editor: you read every chapter, change anything that's wrong, and approve it before it prints. Nothing reaches the page unless you've approved it. We don't ghostwrite, and we don't invent.
You don't need to be. Our job is to ask the right questions. Yours is to answer them honestly. The writing and the structure are handled for you.
Six to twelve weeks from first session to printed book. Eight to twelve sessions, 30 to 45 minutes each, at whatever pace works for you. You can take longer if you want.
Yours. We transcribe every session and write the book using your own phrasing and the way you actually speak. You review every chapter and can change anything that doesn't sound right.
Encrypted, in the EU. Only you, and anyone you invite, can access your transcripts. You can request full deletion at any time, including after the book is printed. We never use your data to train models.
Yes. Extra copies are $40 each. We keep your file on hand for ten years after your last reprint, so you can order more for family any time.

Capture your stories
before they're gone.

One book, written from your own words, for your family to keep. $199, one-time. Ready in six to twelve weeks. Full refund after the first session if it isn't for you.

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