The recipe nobody wrote down. The name on the back of the photograph. The reason the ring goes to her and not to him. fAImily holds both directions of a family — the record of where you came from, and the structures that carry it forward.
One family. One archive. One plan.
01 Both directions
Genealogy software points backward and stops. Estate software points forward and starts at the money. A family is one continuous thing — the people who made you and the people you're making it for are the same story. fAImily is built as one record with two faces.
Backward · preserve
The tree, the faces, the voices, the objects and the food. Everything that disappears quietly when the person who remembered it is gone.
Forward · protect
Intentions written while you can still write them, the vehicles that fund the next generation, and the plan that survives the hard week.
02 What's inside
Every item in fAImily is tagged to the people in it and scoped to who should see it. Add a photo once and it lands in the archive, on the faces of the people in it, on their profiles, and in the tree — you file nothing twice.
Living people, the ones before them, and the lines that connect them — generation by generation. Imports your existing GEDCOM.
In the demoPhotos, home video, voice notes, letters, scans. Drag, drop, paste, shoot, or email them in — dates and places read straight off the file.
In the demoThe app finds the same face across forty years of photographs and asks you once who it is. Name them, and every picture they're in finds them.
In the demoThe pie everyone asks for at Thanksgiving. Written down once, attributed to whoever made it, kept where the family can find it.
In the demoPhysical objects with a photograph, a story, a provenance chain, and the person they're meant for next. The ring has a reason attached to it.
In the demoWrite the letter today. fAImily holds it until the day you choose — an eighteenth birthday, a graduation, a wedding, or the day after you're gone.
In the demoA prompt a day and one honest sentence. Tomorrow's family history is only today, written down before it goes.
In the demoBuild a profile of someone from what the family knows — their letters, their stories, their recorded voice — and ask it the questions you never got to.
In the demoBeneficiaries, intentions, and where the documents actually live — written down while it's calm, not found in a drawer under pressure.
In the demoBirthdays, anniversaries, the dates that matter and the ones that hurt. Shared across the household, carried year to year.
In the demoOne box across the whole record — people, photos, recipes, heirlooms, journal entries, capsules. Find the thing, not the folder.
In the demoThe 529 per child, the trust, the retirement book — held beside the plan they fund, so the intention and the account are never in two different places.
Next build03 The heritage package
fAImily began as Our Roots, and the name didn't go anywhere — it names the half of the product that points backward. Our Roots is the heritage package: the tree, the archive, the faces, the heirloom registry and the profiles of the people who came before.
There is usually one of them in every family. The aunt who knows which cousin is on which branch. The grandfather who can name every face in the box of photographs. The one who can still make the thing nobody else can make.
Our Roots exists to get it out of that one head and into a place the whole family can reach — while it is still possible to ask.
Preserve the past. Protect the future.
04 The forward half
Most families keep the money in one place and the meaning in another. The 529 sits with a brokerage; the reason it exists sits in somebody's head. fAImily holds the plan and the people it is for in the same record — the beneficiary on the account is a person in the tree, not a name on a form.
Estate intentions, beneficiaries and document locations are in the app today. The savings vehicles — 529 per child, trusts, and the retirement book — are the next build, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise.
05 The overview
A walk through a real family record: the first upload, the faces naming themselves, the tree filling in, a capsule sealed, and the plan written down.
Overview film — in production
06 Who it's for
The same record serves a single person, a household, and a family spread across four states — you never migrate, you only widen the circle. Every item you add carries the scope you gave it, so opening the family up never opens up the private things.
Tier one
Your own journal, your own archive, your own letters to the future. The seed — and everything you put in it stays yours as the circle widens.
Scope user
Tier two
Partner, kids, the people under your roof. Shared calendar, shared recipes, shared photographs — the everyday memory of one family unit.
Scope household
Tier three
Parents, siblings, cousins, the generations before, and the ones who haven't arrived. The tree, the heirloom registry, the heritage profiles, the capsules.
Scope family_circle
07 Where it sits
fAImily is an ImaginAItion product and a member surface of the pAIrtner network — one login, and the same standard that applies everywhere else on the network applies here: the family's record belongs to the family. It exports whole, on request, in a format that opens without us.
Nothing in a family archive is training material. What goes in is held for the people it belongs to.
An ImaginAItion product
On the pAIrtner network
Upload the box in the closet. Name a few faces. The rest of the record builds itself around what you already have.