Alava AI Archivist
A living timeline for your family.
The Alava AI Archivist builds it from the photos, voices, recipes, and conversations you would not put on social media. The timeline lives on the family’s devices, so the data stays private. It can move through the cloud encrypted. It does not live there.
Scan and talk
Capture a photo album. Say where it was and who’s in it.
Recipes and voices
A kitchen, a phone call, a story — dated and kept with the family.
Their own pace
A question for an elder. Their answer becomes the next memory.
Ask the timeline
Talk to the archivist. It answers from the life it has arranged.
The problem
A family has memories. It does not have a timeline.
Photos, recipes, and voices sit in different places, and a feed is the wrong one. Nothing is arranging them into the life they actually were. The years stay a pile.
Not for a feed
A birthday post is not a record of the year.
No order
Albums, threads, and someone’s memory never line up in time.
Unasked
The story that would fill a gap on the timeline never gets told.
What the archivist does
Turn 1,000 photos, stories, and recipes into memories on an organized timeline.
Photos
The album, the camera roll, the box in the closet, placed in the years they belong to.
Stories
Voices and conversations set beside the moments they explain.
Recipes
The ones that lived in a kitchen, kept on the same timeline.
The Alava AI Archivist does the arranging.
The solution
The AI Archivist builds the timeline as you live.
You talk while you look. You leave a voice, a recipe, a name. The Alava AI Archivist turns each one into a memory and sets it on the family timeline. Later you ask, and it answers from that timeline.
The timeline lives locally and keeps growing. When it moves between people, it moves through the cloud encrypted, and it does not stay there. You own it privately on your device.
How the timeline grows
You talk. The archivist places it.
Open the album
Capture a photo album. Say where it was and who’s in it.
Leave the rest
A recipe. A voice. A conversation you want kept.
It joins the timeline
People, place, and story take their spot in the family’s years.
Someone else adds
A gentle question goes out. They answer when they can.
You ask the timeline
One conversation with the archivist, across every year the family added.
What fills it
Everything a family remembers, in order.
- Photo albums, scanned while you talk through them
- Voice conversations, kept with the moment they belong to
- Recipes, the ones that never got written on a card
- The people in the family, then the extended family
- All of it placed on one living timeline by the AI Archivist
- A timeline you own privately on your device
It lives on the family’s devices, not in the cloud. If it has to travel, it travels encrypted, and the cloud does not keep it.
How it keeps living
The timeline grows through conversations.
Some years are thin because nobody asked. The AI Archivist sends a small question, daily or weekly, to an elder, and waits. Their answer becomes the next point on the timeline. The same prompt can open a talk you have been meaning to have.
A question that waits
Short, regular, easy to answer on a Tuesday afternoon.
Their pace
The timeline lengthens when they feel like answering.
The wider family
More relatives, more years filled in, one timeline still.
The AI Archivist
Many people. One timeline. You can talk to it.
A photo from a phone, a story from a kitchen, a recipe from a cousin, an answer from grandma. The Alava AI Archivist wrangles those details into the living timeline. Walk the years, or skip the browsing and ask.
From everywhere
Albums, voices, recipes, and people, brought into one place.
Into the timeline
Names, places, and stories set in the years they belong to.
By asking
Ask who was there, or how she made the pie. Get the family’s answer.
The role
Founding engineer. Keep the timeline alive.
- Scan and talk A narrated album page takes its place on the timeline.
- Elder rhythm Daily or weekly questions whose answers extend the years.
- One timeline Recipes, voices, photos, and people arranged as one life.
- Ask it A conversation with the archivist, answered from the timeline.
- Stays local The timeline lives on the family’s devices. The cloud only carries it, encrypted.
Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and Expo are already the product. The job is the living timeline: natural to add to, a little magical when the family asks and the AI Archivist answers from the years.
Reach out
Write to one of us.
If you want to build this, tell us what you’ve made that people came back to. If you might back it, ask to watch the AI Archivist turn a family’s album into a timeline, and then ask that timeline a question.