Fireside

The kit includes 100 cards organized into 10 themes, like Childhood, Parenting, Love & Relationships, and Wisdom & Legacy. Each card holds a single question meant to open a real story rather than a one-word answer. You don't have to invent prompts or know how to interview someone. The cards do that part for you. What's your first memory of your mother's kitchen? That kind of prompt, and the rest flows.

The companion app records your conversation directly. You don't need a separate recorder or a phone propped at an awkward angle. Open a browser, hit record, and talk. Because it's browser based, it works on most devices with a current browser, and you skip app installs entirely.

Every recorded session gets transcribed automatically, so the words exist as text you can read and search later. That matters for anyone who's tried to scrub through an hour of audio to find one good line. The transcript is the base layer, and the highlights sit on top of it. You can also keep it as a plain record of exactly what a parent said, in their own words, on the day you asked.

Fireside uses AI to pick out the parts of a conversation worth keeping, then saves them alongside the transcript and the raw audio. This is the practical payoff. An hour of rambling becomes a handful of moments you'll actually want to revisit or share. When you come back to the archive months later, you'll have a shortlist of the stories that mattered instead of a folder of raw audio you'd have to listen through from the beginning.

You can send individual stories or a whole collection to family members by email or through a private link. That turns a personal archive into something relatives can open on their own. Useful when you want a sibling or cousin to hear a story in a parent's own voice. Sharing also means a single interview session can reach relatives scattered across different cities and time zones without anyone having to copy files or pass around a USB drive.