A guided conversation with a patient AI interviewer that captures the life and thinking of the person who shaped your family's direction: the values, the decisions, the reasoning behind what was built and what they hoped it would become. Not a corporate history. The human story, in their own voice.
Your family has governance documents, advisors and a succession plan. It almost certainly doesn't have the story of why any of it was built.
Enterprising families invest heavily in structures: family offices, holding companies, constitutions, charters. Almost none of it captures the thinking of the person who started it. How they saw risk. What they were trying to preserve. What they hoped the family would become. In most families, that story has never been captured at all.
From gift to heirloom in three unhurried steps. You do the giving; we do the rest.
A short form after purchase: who they are, the chapter of their life or the enterprise you'd like to go deep on, and anything sensitive to handle with care. We send them a private link, or you can hand it to them yourself.
The interviewer listens, follows the threads that matter and never rushes. The values behind every major decision, the reasoning that never made it into a governance document. They can stop whenever they like and carry on another day, on the web or, in Australia and the US, by phone.
We master the audio and write it up as their story on a private heirloom page. The family reviews it, suggests any corrections, and keeps it for the generations who inherit the responsibility.
Not a recording sitting in a folder. A finished heirloom, ready to listen to, read and pass on.
Every word, professionally mastered so it sounds like them on a good day. Play it from the start, or jump straight to a chapter or a favourite moment.
A private heirloom page that tells it in chapters, with highlights, themes, a timeline of their life, family photos and, where the story suits it, painted illustrations. The full transcript comes as a Word document.
Download the audio and transcript to keep forever. Share the private page with the family, and tell us about any names or spellings to fix before it's final.
Enterprising families accumulate a great deal: businesses, assets, relationships, responsibilities. Almost none of them keep a proper account of the person whose judgement and values made all of it possible. That is what an Enduring Story captures. See a finished heirloom →
Children and grandchildren who know their family stories, including what was feared and hoped and chosen along the way, show measurably higher self-esteem, resilience, and sense of identity. The research is consistent. For a next generation inheriting a complex family enterprise, understanding the values behind it is the foundation everything else is built on.
Mike Boyd
Host, The Business of Family
For a decade, Mike Boyd has been in conversation with patriarchs and matriarchs of business families, the next generation trying to understand what they're inheriting, and the advisors who serve them: first in private, and later on The Business of Family podcast, where dozens of those interviews have been published. The pattern he kept seeing: enormous effort spent on structures, almost none in the story of the person who created the conditions for all of it. Family charters that captured the rules, and almost nothing that captured the reasoning.
Everything he learned from those conversations, what to ask, when to wait, when to follow a thread, when to leave something alone, is built into the interviewer at the heart of Enduring Stories. It is not a generic chatbot with a list of questions. It is a guided conversation, built by someone who has spent years having them.
As many conversations as they need. A lifetime worth keeping.
Up to five hours of conversation, across as many sittings as they like. Nobody is cut off mid-story.
One payment. No subscription.
Start their story30-day money-back guarantee. If it isn't right for your family, tell us within 30 days and we'll refund you in full.
Giving it as a gift? After checkout you choose whether we email them a private link or you get them started yourself. They can start when they're ready.
For an in-person recording with several generations of the family, over one or two days: from US$25,000. Enquire about Legacy
Everything is private and belongs to your family. We do not use your family's recordings to train AI.
Most families mean to record why it was built one day. We make it happen now: you give it, they talk, we do the rest.
Start their storyKept for the generations who inherit it.
