The biographer who asks the right questions
They tell it. We write the book.
An AI interviews them chapter by chapter. In six weeks you hold the book of their life, hardbound.
Nothing to prepare, no need to know where to begin. The interviewer takes care of that: one question at a time, unhurried, and if they get tired they pick it up another day.
One free trial chapter. No credit card.
- Six weeks
- A human editor
- Three languages
- Hardcover
How it works
Three things for you to do. One for the person telling the story: answer.
Tell us whose story it is
Name, year of birth, how you're related. Two minutes. We build a chapter outline made for them: childhood, work, love, children, losses, the things they've learned.
The interview, one chapter at a time
Our interviewer doesn't hand over a form to fill in — it reads the answer and asks what comes next, the way a curious grandchild would. It carries on until the chapter is full, and stops whenever they want.
You get the book
We write the chapters in their words, give them back to read, then hand everything to a human editor. You approve the PDF. We print it in hardcover and ship it to your door.
A real chapter
This is how it writes
This passage was written by the interviewer after a twenty-five-minute conversation. The words, the facts and the point of view belong to the person who told it; the order and the prose are ours.
Try your first chapterChapter 1 · Where I come from
The house had a single window, and it looked onto the alley. The good light came in early; then the sun swung behind the bell tower and we sat in half-shadow until evening. My mother sewed by that window — she said you could see the thread better against the light. There were seven of us in two rooms and I never thought it was little, because I knew nothing else. In winter the sheets were warmed with a pan of embers, and my sister Teresa, the youngest, always slept in the middle.
Stories don't wait
Eleven thousand four hundred Americans turn 65 every single day, and one in nine of them is living with Alzheimer's. The reason almost nobody writes down their family's memories isn't indifference — it's that it keeps getting postponed, until it's too late.
The right time to start is while the memory is still there.
Why this isn't like anything you've seen
Questions, not a form
Other services send one prompt a week and wait. Here the interviewer reads the answer and asks for the right detail: the colour of a room, who was there that day, what the weather was like. That's where a chapter worth reading comes from.
Six weeks, not a year
Subscription services run for 52 weeks and two out of three people drop off along the way. We finish the book before the enthusiasm runs out.
Written in their language
English, Italian and Spanish are all first-class here — not one product translated into the others. It understands the turns of phrase of someone who is eighty.
An object, not a file
At the end there is a hardbound book that goes on a shelf and gets handed to grandchildren. That's the difference between a memory and a PDF in a folder.
A human signs off on it
Every manuscript goes through a real editor before it's printed. That's a quality guarantee — and it's also what makes the book protectable as a work.
The names are right
Before we start, we build the family name tree with you. The AI never invents them: if something's missing, it asks rather than filling the gap.
What it costs
A ghostwritten memoir runs from $18,000 to $42,000. This is the same craft, done in six weeks.
Digital
The book, without the paper
$169one-time
- 8 chapters of interview
- Complete book in PDF and EPUB
- Human editor review
- Online archive for 1 year
Complete
What almost everyone picks
$449one-time
- 15 chapters of interview
- One hardcover bound book
- Up to 40 restored photographs
- Digital version included
- Human editor review
- Online archive for 1 year
Heritage
For when it's a whole family's story
$799one-time
- 25 chapters, with several family voices if you like
- Three premium copies with dust jacket
- Up to 120 photographs restored and colourised
- A dedicated human editor from the start
- Custom illustrated cover
- Online archive for 10 years
Tax included. Shipping included in the EU, UK and US.
Split the cost with your siblings: everyone pays a share, the book belongs to all of you.
If you want more afterwards
Extra copy$89
For a brother, a daughter, a grandchild.
Additional volume$229
More chapters, a second book.
Living Archive$49per year
Keep the material and add new chapters whenever you like. The first year is included in every plan.
It makes a gift
The book takes six weeks — the gift doesn't. We ship a box with a printed certificate: that's what gets unwrapped, and the book follows.
Give a bookWhat people always ask
My mother isn't good with technology. Is that a problem?
She gets a personal link: she opens it and the first question is already there, with nothing to install and no account to create. If she prefers, many sons and daughters sit beside her and type the answers while she talks — the result is identical, because what matters are her words.
Who actually writes the book?
She does: the words, the facts and the point of view are hers. An AI conducts the interview and shapes what she said into prose, and a human editor reads the whole thing before it's printed. We invent nothing — if a detail is missing, we ask.
What if she gets tired, or doesn't want to talk about something?
She can stop whenever she likes and pick it up another day — the chapter stays where it was. At any moment she can say "don't put this in the book" and that passage is excluded and deleted within twenty-four hours. She decides, always — even if somebody else paid.
How long does it take?
Six to eight weeks from the first chapter, depending on how many you chose. We send you the PDF before printing: the book only goes to press once you've approved it.
What happens to what she tells us?
It stays in Europe, encrypted, and it is never used to train AI models. The person who told the story can ask at any time to download everything, or to erase everything.
Can you do it in Italian or Spanish?
Yes. Interviews and the book can be in English, Italian or Spanish. We can also interview in one language and print in another, when the children speak a different language from the parents.
Can I do this for myself?
Of course, and it's more common than you'd think. It works the same way: the questions come to you.
What if the person has already passed away?
If there are letters, writings or accounts from relatives we can still build a book, but it's a different kind of work and we'd need to look at it together. Write to us and we'll talk it through.
Let's talk
If something's unclear before you start, write to us — a person answers.
Or write to info@biografo.net