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Content Outline
Every story, organized by life chapter. Childhood, career, love, hardship, wisdom. A master map of what your family shared.
GatherOurStory
The stories your family never wrote down
One email starts it. CC your siblings, your cousins, anyone you want. Remy, your AI family correspondent, guides the conversation from there. Over days or weeks, your family's memories surface naturally, together, through the simplest medium there is.
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- sarah@email.com, mike@email.com, cousin.rachel@email.com
- Subject:
- Let's get Grandma Ruth's stories
"Hey everyone, I've been thinking we should capture Grandma Ruth's stories before they're lost. I signed us up with Remy. Just reply to this email conversation…"
How it works
No app. No account. Just reply.
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Send one email
Email start@gatherourstory.com and CC every family member you want involved. That's it. No signups, no downloads, no passwords.
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Remy takes it from here
Your AI correspondent introduces herself, warms up the group, and begins drawing out stories. She waits for multiple replies before responding, so everyone feels heard.
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Stories surface naturally
Over days or weeks, Remy guides the family through childhood memories, career stories, love stories, hardships, wisdom, photos, and immigration tales. It never feels like homework.
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Everything comes together
Remy synthesizes weeks of conversation into a professional package: a content outline by life chapter, a photo inventory, a tailored interview guide, and a family contribution summary.
Meet Remy
A correspondent, not a chatbot.
Remy doesn't rapid-fire questions or respond instantly to every message. She reads the room. When your cousin shares a childhood memory and your aunt adds a detail you've never heard, Remy weaves them together and gently steers toward what comes next.
She addresses each person by name. She celebrates what they've shared. She nudges the quiet ones without pressure. By the end, your family has produced a rich body of material without it ever feeling like a task.
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Patient
Waits for the family to reply on their own time. No deadlines, no nagging. Life is busy.
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Warm
Writes like someone who genuinely cares about your grandmother's immigration story.
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Perceptive
Notices when a sibling mentions something in passing that deserves a deeper question.
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Inclusive
Draws out quieter family members and makes sure every voice becomes part of the record.
What your family receives
From scattered memories to a living record.
After weeks of conversation, Remy produces five deliverables that turn your family's collected stories into something lasting.
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Photo & Media Inventory
Every photo, video, and document your family contributed, catalogued and ready for the next step.
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Interview Guide
30 to 50 questions tailored specifically to your elder, drawn from what the family shared. Not generic prompts.
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Family Summary
Who contributed what. Which stories resonated. What themes emerged. A snapshot of your family's collective memory.
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Interviewer Briefing
A one-page guide for whoever conducts the interview, so they walk in already knowing the family's story arc.
Every family has a story that only exists in someone's memory.
The immigration journey nobody talks about at dinner. The love story your kids have never heard. The hardship that shaped everything. Those stories live in your parents and grandparents right now. GatherOurStory helps your family bring them to the surface, together, before they're gone.
Start Your Family's Story