Real keepsakes
What actually arrives at your door.
Hardcover memoirs we've made for other families, their portrait on the cover, their stories and photographs printed inside.
The Life of Tribhuwan Singh · in his own words
Kahani calls your parent or grandparent each week for a gentle 15-minute conversation. No app, no typing, just their phone. After a season of talking, we turn it all into a printed memoir in their words.
Hardcover memoirs we've made for other families, their portrait on the cover, their stories and photographs printed inside.
You set it up once. We do the gentle, patient work of listening, week after week.
Add their name, number, and language. You make a warm first call so they know to expect a friendly voice, never a cold, surprising one.
A warm AI companion phones them for about 15 minutes, asks thoughtful questions, and really listens, following the threads they care about most.
After a season of conversations, every story is woven into a printed memoir, in their own words and voice, and posted to your door.
Hindi, English, and regional languages, so they speak freely, the way they think, not in a tongue that makes them self-conscious.
No app, no smartphone, no buttons. The phone simply rings. If they can answer a call, they can make their book.
Calls are short and unhurried. They can skip a question, pause a story, or end early, it waits patiently for next week.
Beyond the book, you keep the original recordings, the actual sound of them telling it. The book you read; the voice you replay.
Their words, edited with care into real chapters, the people, the turning points, the philosophy, the lessons they'd want their grandchildren to know.
"My mother started getting ready for the call like it was a visit. We now have stories about her childhood none of us had ever heard."
"Dad isn't a phone person, but he'd talk to Kahani for half an hour. The book reads exactly like him, even the jokes."
"We lost Nana three months after his book arrived. It is the most precious thing our family owns. I can still hear him in it."
Start anytime. Cancel anytime before the book is printed.
No. Kahani calls their ordinary phone, a basic feature phone or landline works perfectly. There is nothing for them to download, install, or learn. If they can answer a call, they can make their book.
That's exactly who this is built for. Kahani speaks Hindi and English today, with more regional languages rolling out. They speak in whatever language they think and dream in, and we write the book in that voice.
That's why you introduce us first. You make a short, warm call letting them know a friendly voice will check in each week to hear their stories. The first Kahani call is expected and welcome, never cold or surprising.
No problem at all. Calls are gentle and never insistent. If they miss one, we simply try again at a better time. They can keep a call short, skip any question, or pause a story for next week.
The conversations span about twelve weeks, roughly a season, to gather enough rich material. After the final call, your printed Heirloom is written, designed, and posted within two to three weeks.
Yes. The first edition captures the crux of their life and philosophy. Many families come back for deeper editions, childhood, the marriage years, their work, each its own keepsake.
Start their first conversation this week, while every story is still theirs to tell.
Make their book →