Every family has more than photographs

You know the faces.
Do you know their stories?

Every family has photographs whose meaning lives in one person’s memory. Narratrace helps you capture the voices, details, and stories behind them — while those stories can still be told.

Family can mean a parent, grandparent, partner, sibling, close friend, chosen family — or the story you want to leave in your own voice.

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The story behind Narratrace

It started with a box of photographs.

When my mother passed away, I returned to India to be with my family and perform her last rites. On the morning I was going home, I found a box of old photographs — black and white, mostly, the kind that curl at the edges.

I recognized the faces. My father. Relatives I had known my whole life. These were my people. But I didn’t know the occasion, the year, the city, or what they were celebrating, surviving, or simply living through when someone raised a camera.

I knew the who. I had lost the what.

My family’s box happened to be in India. Yours may be in an attic, an album, a phone, or someone’s memory. Narratrace grew from a question that belongs to every family: how do we preserve the stories behind the people we love before the context disappears?

That is where Narratrace came from. The story it helps preserve next is yours.

Raaj Sharma, Founder of Narratrace
Raaj Sharma
Founder, Narratrace

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One family’s example

The stories we understand.
Sometimes years too late.

Maybe it is a recipe no one wrote down, the reason someone left home, or the joke nobody tells quite the same way. For me, it was something my father tried to explain when I was young.

He described how you could control the fans and lights in a room using a TV remote. I was too young to understand what he was describing. It was home automation — in 1980.

Years later, he told me about watches that never stop if you wear them every day — powered by the motion of the person wearing them. I didn’t understand that either. Not until I bought my first automatic watch, decades later, and felt it tick. And suddenly, across all those years, he was speaking again.

The problem wasn’t that he didn’t try to share what he knew. The problem is there was no record. When understanding finally caught up, the conversation couldn’t have its second chapter.

Every family has a conversation that deserves its second chapter.

Raaj's father
Dad
The one who explained things before the world had words for them.
Raaj's mother
Mom
The conversations I should have recorded, and didn’t.
Raaj Sharma, Founder of Narratrace
Raaj
The son who found the box, and built what should have existed.
How we capture it

A guided conversation.
A lasting family record.

Most of us don’t know where to start. The AI does. It guides the conversation deep into childhood, decisions, and the moments that shaped who they became — drawing out the things that would otherwise stay unspoken, and keeping every word.

"Tell me about your first job. What did you learn that stayed with you forever?"
"How did you meet your partner? What was the moment you knew?"
"Describe the home you grew up in. What did it smell like? What sounds do you remember?"
"What's the most important lesson your life has taught you — and who taught it to you?"
"What advice would you give your grandchildren? What do you wish someone had told you?"
"What's a moment from your life that you've never told anyone — until now?"

How a conversation begins

AI
Tell me about the home you grew up in. What did it smell like? What sounds do you remember?
G
Oh, it always smelled like cardamom. My mother made chai every morning at five, before anyone was awake. I used to lie in bed and just listen to the sound of the pot.
AI
That's a beautiful memory. Do you still make chai the same way she did? Did she ever teach you?
G
She tried. I was never patient enough. I regret that now.
AI
What happened next — after you left home? Did the smell of cardamom ever find you somewhere unexpected?
G
Once, at a market in London. 1971. I started crying right there in the street. People must have thought I was mad.
AI
How did that make you feel — standing there in that moment?
G
Like home was still inside me. Like she was still there. I bought a small packet and kept it in my coat for years.

Every response is transcribed and kept with care. The AI listens and adapts — going deeper whenever something meaningful surfaces.

Every interview recorded. Every letter sealed for the future. And then — delivered, at exactly the right moment.

Time capsules, delivered

Preservation looks backward.
This part looks forward.

Once a memory is preserved, Narratrace can carry it forward in time. Write a letter today — or record a voice message, a video, whatever form your words take. Seal it, set a date, and it arrives at exactly the right moment. Their wedding day. The first day of college. The birthday you won’t be there for.

Wedding day — Chicago, May 14th, 1967
Margaret & Harold 6:42 voice recording Letter locked
Margaret and Harold's wedding portrait — Chicago, May 14, 1967 Restored · 1967
The story
"Your grandfather was so nervous he forgot the rings in the car. My father had to run back — we were all laughing so hard by the time he came back, the whole church was. That's how our marriage started. Laughing."
Voice recording
6:42
Letter to Emily

"My darling Emily — by the time you read this, it will be your wedding day. I want to tell you something your grandfather never knew I saw, standing at the altar on the happiest day of my life…"

Unlock date
Opens on Emily's wedding day
Sealed · Will be delivered automatically
AI-generated family tags
Harold Margaret Wedding Chicago 1967
What Narratrace captures

Interviews. Letters. Time capsules.
A story with shape, not just files.

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AI Interviews

Guided conversations that draw out what would otherwise stay unspoken — childhood, decisions, the small details that make a life real. Every response becomes part of a lasting, searchable record.

Capture
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Time Capsule Letters

Write a letter today. Seal it. Set a date — a wedding, a graduation, a birthday ten years from now. Narratrace delivers it automatically, to the right person, at exactly the right moment.

Delivery
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Voice & Video Responses

Record a voice message or short video directly inside any interview. Hear the laugh. See the expression. Preserve the person, not just the words.

Capture
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Decade Archive

Interviews and recordings automatically organised into life chapters — Childhood, Twenties, Forties — so the whole story has a shape, not just a pile of files.

Archive
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Circles

Share your completed interviews and letters with a named audience — grandchildren, cousins, close friends — without making everything public. Your story, delivered to exactly who should have it.

Sharing
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Photo Memories

Upload old family photos. AI reads each one — describing the scene, tagging the people, identifying the era — so nothing stays lost in a box or a folder.

Archive
How it works

Capture it today.
Keep it forever.

01

Start an interview

Open Narratrace and hand it to the person whose story you want to preserve. The AI guides the conversation — no preparation needed.
02

Capture the moment

Answer in words, voice, or video. Add old photos. Everything is transcribed, tagged, and kept — nothing slips through.
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Write a time capsule

Seal a letter for a future moment — a wedding, a milestone, the birthday you won't be there for. Narratrace delivers it automatically.
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Share with your circle

Send your completed interviews and letters to the people who should have them. They see the story — you stay in control of who that is.

Someone you love remembers a world you never got to see.

A home before you knew it. A decision that changed everything.

A small moment they still carry — or one from your own life.

You do not need to wait for the perfect conversation.

You only need to ask the first question.

Narratrace public beta access is opening. Your invitation includes a 14-day free trial — no card required.

How it compares

Files fade.
Voices don’t have to.

Photos sit in boxes. Videos go unwatched. Narratrace captures the story behind the moment — in the person’s own words, searchable and preserved for everyone who comes after.

Photos Videos Journals Narratrace
Guided interviews ✕ ✕ ✕ ✓
Time-locked delivery to loved ones ✕ ✕ ✕ ✓
Future letters written today, delivered on a meaningful date ✕ ✕ ✓ ✓
Legacy preserved across generations ✕ ✕ ✕ ✓
Privacy & Trust

Your family's memories
belong to your family.

Sharing deeply personal stories requires trust. We've built Narratrace around the principle that your memories are yours — completely.

AI never trains on your memories

We use AI to help you, not to learn from you. Your private memories don't train any model.

Encrypted in storage and transit

Your memories are encrypted at rest and in transit. Nobody reads your family's stories but your family.

No ads. Never sold.

Your family's data is never used for advertising and never sold to third parties. Period.

Export anytime

Download everything — photos, transcripts, voice recordings — in full, at any time, forever.

Start today

What they know
is still here.

Every day is a chance to capture something that would otherwise be lost. You don’t need a plan. You just need to start — Narratrace does the rest.

Narratrace public beta access is opening. Your invitation includes a 14-day free trial — no card required.

✓ Private by default ✓ Your family owns every memory ✓ Never used to train AI ✓ Export anytime