Every life deserves a great interviewer
Omoide listens to someone you love across many unhurried conversations — by ordinary phone or in the browser — remembers what matters across weeks, and turns their stories into a family biography and a beautifully printed book.
“I told them I don’t know where to start. So we just started with the house I grew up in, and it all came back.”
Bob’s first conversation — forty unhurried minutes about a kitchen in Chicago. Omoide noted three threads to return to: his father’s truck, the bakery, and someone named Ruth.
“You remembered I mentioned Ruth. Nobody’s asked me about that summer in sixty years.”
A name mentioned in passing in week one became this week’s whole conversation. Omoide waits for the right moment to return to what matters — and never forgets it.
“Every July we drove to the lake house. The whole summer smelled of pine and my grandfather’s coffee.”
The lake house has now appeared in five stories across three months. Together they are becoming a chapter — and Sarah heard this one the day her father told it.
“I told them I don’t know where to start. So we just started with the house I grew up in, and it all came back.”
Bob’s first conversation — forty unhurried minutes about a kitchen in Chicago. Omoide noted three threads to return to: his father’s truck, the bakery, and someone named Ruth.
“You remembered I mentioned Ruth. Nobody’s asked me about that summer in sixty years.”
A name mentioned in passing in week one became this week’s whole conversation. Omoide waits for the right moment to return to what matters — and never forgets it.
“Every July we drove to the lake house. The whole summer smelled of pine and my grandfather’s coffee.”
The lake house has now appeared in five stories across three months. Together they are becoming a chapter — and Sarah heard this one the day her father told it.
How Omoide interviews
A real interviewer with a method — not a question-a-week app.
Facts → Memories → Stories → Relationships → Choices → Challenges → Meaning → Legacy → Joy.
Join the waitlistIt starts with facts
The first conversations are easy ground: names, places, dates, the house they grew up in. A great interviewer earns trust before asking for meaning — and Omoide never rushes.
Facts become stories
Omoide remembers every thread across weeks — a name mentioned in passing, a summer left unfinished — and returns to each one at the right moment. Sensitive ground is entered by permission, never by ambush.
Stories become meaning
Later sessions reach reflection, legacy, and joy — in the storyteller’s own words, at their own pace. The family hears each story as it happens, and the book takes shape from what was truly said.
A life, carefully mapped
Every conversation becomes part of a living portrait. Here's what twelve weeks with one storyteller looks like.
Bob keeps returning to the lake house — five stories now. This week Omoide followed the thread to the summer of 1958, and a name first mentioned in week one finally got its story.
His favorite hour: 9–11am · calls are scheduled around it
Their story. Their rules.
The storyteller can keep anything private — in the moment or long after — and reads every word of their own transcripts. The family hears stories, never raw conversations.
“There are things about those years I want to say out loud — but they’re mine, not for the book. Keep this part just for me. The lake house stories, though, tell everyone.”
One story, three editions
Essential
The full Omoide interview program and a hardcover book. Everything a life story needs, nothing it doesn’t.
- —The complete interview program
- —By phone or in the browser
- —Stories shared as they happen
- —The voice archive
- —One printed hardcover book
Signature
The Omoide most families choose. A longer program, photographs woven through, and a book made to be kept.
- —Everything in Essential
- —An extended interview program
- —Photos & documents woven in
- —Premium binding & paper
- —Gift presentation
Legacy
The archival edition. An extended program with human editorial partnership, for a story told completely.
- —Everything in Signature
- —The archival edition
- —Extended program
- —Human editorial partnership
Common questions
How does it work for someone who isn’t good with technology?
Omoide calls them on an ordinary phone, at the hour they like best. No app, no account, no passwords — just a warm voice and an unhurried conversation. If they prefer, the same conversations happen in the browser on a tablet or computer. A human is one tap away whenever they want one.
Is it really a good interviewer?
It is built on one conviction: every life deserves a great interviewer. Omoide follows an emotional arc — facts first, meaning later — remembers every thread across weeks, asks the follow-up a good listener would ask, and knows when to simply stay quiet. Sensitive topics are entered only by permission.
Who controls what goes in the book?
The storyteller does — always. They can keep anything private in the moment or long afterwards, read every word of their own transcripts, and retract anything from everywhere, silently. Family members hear the stories the storyteller chooses to share, never raw conversations.
What does it cost?
Three editions: Essential at $299, Signature at $499 — the one most families choose — and Legacy from $1,299 with an archival edition and human editorial partnership. Extra copies of the book are $89. Payment happens on the web; there is no subscription trap.
What languages does Omoide speak?
English at full quality, with Japanese and Spanish interviews available as a newly introduced option. Books are printed in English at launch — interviews in their language, a book in yours.
When can we start?
The waitlist is open now. Founding families begin their interview programs first, and checkout opens in spring 2027 — in time for Mother’s Day books.
Their stories deserve a book.
The waitlist is open. Founding families begin their interview programs first — and hold their books first.
No payment now · Founding families first · Checkout opens spring 2027