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Everything an editor needs to write about Yourtale in one place. If something is missing, email hello@yourtale.art and the founder answers personally.

Facts

  • Company: Yourtale AS, Oslo, Norway.
  • Founded: 2026.
  • Founder: Eirik Albrektsen, second-time founder in the memory space. His first company made children's books.
  • What it is: A voice-interview memoir service. An AI interviewer, a hardcover book drafted from the parent's own words, and the real voice recordings kept for the family.
  • Who it is for: Adult children who want to capture their parents' life story. The child usually buys; the parent usually talks.
  • Price: $199, one time, the founding rate while we print the first ten books. No subscription.
  • Languages: English and Norwegian.
  • Data: Encrypted in the EU. Never used to train models. Full deletion on request.
  • Print: Colour hardcover, about 200 pages.

Numbers you can quote

  • One hour of interviewing comes out at roughly fourteen pages of book.
  • Sessions run 30 to 45 minutes. Eight to twelve sessions is typical.
  • Six to twelve weeks from the first session to a printed book, at the family's pace. Interviewing most days, about ten hours of conversation fits in six weeks.
  • Up to 25 hours of interviews per memoir.
  • The cheapest human ghostwriter in the category, StoryTerrace's Swift package, is $1,200. Full memoir ghostwriting runs $12,000 to $42,000.

The founder

Eirik Albrektsen founded Yourtale in 2026. He is a second-time founder in the memory space, a father of three, and the first real memoir in the system is his own grandmother's. He talks about how to interview a parent before it is too late, what AI can and cannot do for family memory, and running a small company honestly about its AI.

Available for interviews, podcasts, and written quotes. Email hello@yourtale.art.

Logo and images

The logo is a stack of concentric rectangles in the ratio of a book. Please do not recolour it.

How to describe us

Call it an AI interviewer, not an AI companion or a chatbot. Say the book is drafted by AI from the parent's own words and edited by the family, not ghostwritten. Say "we interview you", not "Yourtale interviews you". The company is Yourtale, one word, capital Y.

Questions editors ask

What is Yourtale, in one paragraph?

Yourtale helps busy adult children capture and preserve their parents' life story. An AI interviewer asks the questions by voice, the parent talks on their own schedule, and the family gets a hardcover memoir written from the parent's own words plus the real voice recordings. Nobody has to write anything. The customer edits the book themselves; no ghostwriter and no editorial staff touch it. One-time price, founded in 2026 by Eirik Albrektsen.

How is it different from Storyworth or Remento?

Those services send one written or recorded question a week for a year. Yourtale runs a real interview by voice, with follow-up questions, at whatever pace the family chooses, and drafts chapters rather than collecting answers. It is one payment rather than a subscription, and the family keeps the real voice recordings alongside the book.

Is a human writing the book?

No. AI drafts every chapter from the transcript, in the speaker's own words, and the customer edits it. Please do not describe Yourtale as a ghostwriting service or say that our editors shape the book. Neither is true.

Can we test it?

Yes. The first interview session is free and needs no card. Journalists who want a full walkthrough can email the founder for a guided session.