Our Story
LifeScribe began with a loss — and was built, line by line with AI, so no other family has to wonder what was never recorded.
LifeScribe began with a loss.
When my aunt died in 2022, she took with her the stories no one else knew — not the big ones, the small ones. The details that make a person real. I spent the year that followed wishing I'd asked better questions while I had the chance.
On the first anniversary of her passing, I made a decision. If I couldn't get her stories back, I could at least keep another family from ever wondering what their grandmother's voice really sounded like — or how their father truly felt the day he came home from the service.
The problem was clear. The tools didn't exist yet.
So I spent a year planning. Sketching what the product needed to be. Interviewing families. Watching AI research announcements the way most people watch the weather — waiting for it to get good enough.
In the summer of 2024, it did.
Two months on YouTube, teaching myself. I'm not a career engineer — I'm a founder with an idea and a notebook full of specs. Then I opened Claude and Cursor, and for the next nine months I built LifeScribe alongside AI, line by line. Every microservice. Every screen. Every illustration pipeline. Every voice-clone integration.
The app you're holding was built — in its entirety — with AI.
That feels important. Because the point of LifeScribe was never the code. The point was what the code made possible: a grandmother in Nebraska, who has never written a word of fiction in her life, can open this app, speak for ten minutes about the summer she turned sixteen, and hold a professionally written Chapter in her hands moments later. In her voice. With her meaning. Preserved.
My aunt's stories are gone. That door is closed.
But if LifeScribe keeps one family from standing at a funeral and realizing how much they never asked — if it replaces one four-paragraph obituary with a four-hundred-page Life Book — then every hour of the last three years was worth it.
Every story deserves to be told.
And every story deserves to be told in time.
— Grant Schick
Founder & CEO, LifeScribe