White glove family archiving

The family archive,
built for you.

No upload caps, no per-photo meters, no hourly rates — bring us everything. We can promise that because your archive isn't destined for our servers: it's built into a Memories Lockbox, a private computer your family owns outright. All year, a real archivist and your Family Intelligence build it together — until the day it comes home, engraved, filled, and ready to hand down.

A lifetime of family memories — phone photos, albums, a family tree, old drives and discs — flowing down into a walnut Memories Lockbox
  • Unlimited uploads

    Watch the archive take shape all year.

  • A memory box, monthly

    Every original comes home.

  • A real human archivist

    Working alongside your Family Intelligence.

  • Month twelve: Delivery Day

    Take your Lockbox home — or keep going.


"Where do memories go?"

It's the question that started everything — because the things you can't bear to lose deserve more than a shoebox, a dying hard drive, or an app that won't exist in ten years.


The Archive Year

A year of building.
A delivery day to remember.

This is the project your family has been putting off for a decade — done for you, one month at a time, without a $30,000 invoice at the end.

1 · Upload everything digital.

Phones, laptops, old hard drives, cloud accounts — unlimited uploads from day one. Our Family Intelligence organizes as you go: faces, moments, threads through the years.

2 · Fill the memory box.

Every month, a Memoresse box arrives at your door. Fill it with the old stuff — prints, albums, slides, film, tapes, letters — and send it back with the prepaid label. No sorting required. That's our job.

3 · We scan, curate, and build.

Your archivist scans everything at archival quality and returns every original with your next box. All year, your Lockbox is on our workbench — being built, engraved, and filled — while you watch the archive grow in the app.

4 · Delivery Day.

Month twelve: your finished Lockbox arrives — the whole year inside, your family's names machined into the base. Take delivery and graduate, or keep the archive growing. It comes home either way.

The monthly ritual

One box a month.
A decade of shoeboxes, done in a year.

Most families own thousands of photos nobody has ever organized — and a closet of media nobody can play. The box turns an impossible project into a monthly habit that takes ten minutes.


Try it first — free, in your browser

See what happens
to yours.

Drop a few photos into Moments and watch them organize themselves — faces, moments, feelings. Free, right now, no account needed. And everything you make comes with you when you begin your Archive Year.

Try Moments free →
Example memory graph showing a woman's life — her family, wedding, honeymoon, and timeline of memories organized by Memoresse

One service, one price

The in-between that
never existed.

A private archivist costs $30,000 to $100,000. The app subscriptions cost $99 a year — and leave you with a scattered pile of prompts, QR codes, and accounts. In between, where families actually live, there was nothing. Until now.

Start here
Free

Moments — in your browser, no account needed.

  • Drop photos and watch them organize themselves — faces, moments, feelings.
  • Share a memory with someone who was there, and see what comes back.
  • Everything you make comes with you when you begin the Archive Year — or leaves with you if you don't.
Start free at Moments →

An honest comparison

Three ways to save a family's memories.

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A private archivist or personal historian does magnificent work — over 18 months or more, for $30,000 to $100,000 and beyond. It's what the great families have always done.

The traditional way — if money is no object
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The apps cost $99 a year and hand the work back to you: weekly email prompts, QR codes that die with the company, an archive scattered across services that don't talk to each other.

The DIY way — if your time is no object
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Memoresse does the archivist's work — the scanning, the curating, the heirloom at the end — for about a tenth of the cost, even after a film or a printed book. That's the whole idea.

The Memoresse way — white glove, without the invoice

The irreplaceable, handled right

Every original
comes home.

You've heard the horror stories — scanning services that lost a family's only copies. We built the entire service around never being that story.

Tracked and insured, both directions.

Every box ships with tracking and insurance — on the way to us and on the way home. You can see where your memories are at every step.

Photographed on arrival.

Every box is opened on camera and its contents catalogued before a single scan. You get a record of exactly what we received — and exactly what comes back.

Archival-quality scanning.

Prints, slides, negatives, film, tape, documents — digitized carefully, by people who handle originals for a living, never run through a bulk hopper.

Built on our workbench, kept on your shelf.

Through the year, your Lockbox is being made and filled in our studio — like anything worth engraving. On Delivery Day it comes home for good: your archive on hardware you own, not on someone else's server.

Export everything, all year long.

Even while your Lockbox is being built, your archive is yours — download every photo, story, and recording as open .mem files at any time. Nothing is ever hostage, not even mid-build.

AI that notices and asks. It never invents.

Family Intelligence organizes and asks the questions nobody thought to ask — but every word of the story is authored by your family, never generated for you.



What we stand for

Three promises we'll never break.

We made three decisions at the start that no investor can change. They're built into the hardware, the software, and every Lockbox we deliver.

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Your memories will never be mined, analyzed, or sold. What's in your archive is your family's business — and no one else's.

Privacy — the non-negotiable
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The archive ends up on hardware you own, in your home. An heirloom you keep, never a rental you can lose.

Ownership — yours forever
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Your kids should inherit the meaning, not a forgotten login to a dead account.

Legacy — built to outlive us

Begin your archive

Start with a conversation.

We onboard a limited number of families each month, so every archive gets the attention it deserves. The first conversation is free — thirty minutes about your family, your boxes, and what you're most afraid of losing.