WHAT WE’VE BUILT
Kiln Digital Labs is a new studio — this is our first shipped product, with more case studies to come as engagements complete.
HeirLore
A family memory-keeping app for preserving personal history before it’s lost. Someone opens the app, speaks a memory aloud, and HeirLore transcribes it, writes a summary, and pulls out the people, places, and dates it mentions — building a searchable, shareable archive one story at a time. It’s Kiln Digital Labs’ first product.
One archive, two places
HeirLore lives on the phone andon the web, sharing one family vault. A Family Member records on the phone — it’s the fastest way to speak a memory the moment it comes to mind. Family members open the web app on a laptop or the app to listen to the memories, read transcripts, browse the timeline, see on the map, the stories of their heritage, invite relatives, download audio files, and export a finished story as a PDF book. Record anywhere, revisit everywhere — every story syncs to the same account.
How it works
Speak
Tap the microphone and tell a story from your life — a memory, a person, a place. No typing, no forms.
Transcribe
The recording is transcribed automatically, so every word is captured and searchable — exactly as it was told.
Organize
A short summary is generated and the people, places, and dates mentioned are pulled out and linked for you.
Share
Stories live in a private family vault. Invite relatives to listen, add their own, and keep the archive growing.
Inside the app
Voice-first capture
Built for older adults and their families. The whole experience starts with a single tap and a spoken memory — the interface stays out of the way.
Transcripts & summaries
Every recording becomes a readable transcript with an AI-written summary, so a two-minute story is easy to revisit at a glance.
People & Places
Names, locations, and dates mentioned across stories are extracted and grouped, turning scattered recordings into a browsable family map.
Story Variations
When the same story is told more than once, HeirLore clusters the retellings side by side and surfaces the differences between them.
Timeline
Stories are arranged on a searchable timeline by the dates they describe — a life laid out in the order it was lived, not the order it was recorded.
Private by default
Transcripts and summaries are encrypted at rest. Families control who can listen, and any story can be marked private to the narrator alone.