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Instructional Guide

Masterclass: How to Forge Your Legacy

A step-by-step masterclass on how to use Theirloom to transmute your fragmented family memories into a permanent, archival-quality narrative.

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Phase 01

Select Your Heritage Artifact Format

Choose how you want your family history preserved. Start with our core Digital Legacy Dossier for a comprehensive historical record, or select specialty layouts like an illustrated Children's Book, a Graphic Novel, or a Poetic Anthology.

  • Compare formats to see what fits your raw collection
Step 1: Select Your Heritage Artifact Format
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Phase 02

Define Your Subject & Personal Preferences

Provide key details about whose story we are telling: their name, estimated life era, and select a target language. You can also specify the writing style (e.g. objective historian) and provide an initial memory context to guide the narrative voice.

  • The more memory details you provide, the richer the generated history
Step 2: Define Your Subject & Personal Preferences
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Phase 03

Fill the Digital Shoebox (Upload)

Drag and drop your scanned historical documents, photos, audio recordings, or diaries. Organize them into labeled 'Evidence Bags' (e.g. 'WWII Letters') and tag faces in photos to anchor their identity throughout the generation.

  • Tag faces in photos to lock character descriptions across chapters
Step 3: Fill the Digital Shoebox (Upload)
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Phase 04

Select Add-ons & Checkout

Review your base order and choose optional premium add-ons to enrich your archive—such as Deep Historical Research, a custom Timeline, or a physical hardcover book print—then checkout securely using Stripe.

  • Select optional add-ons like physical hardcover prints
Step 4: Select Add-ons & Checkout
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Phase 05

Monitor the Generation Pipeline Live

Our pipeline goes to work using advanced OCR and Gemini 2.5 Flash. Watch the progress in real-time as the engine moves through four states: Analyzing (OCR reading), Extracting (timeline building), Weaving (narrative crafting), and Polishing (formatting).

  • Watch the 4 pipeline states (Analyzing, Extracting, Weaving, Formatting) live
Step 5: Monitor the Generation Pipeline Live
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Phase 06

Interact with Your Heritage Dashboard

Open your secure delivery portal to explore your final dossier. Interact with visual WordTree relationship networks, map geographical routes on GeoNet, listen to a generated synthetic podcast, or share the digital archive with family.

  • Export your interactive maps, timelines, and raw OCR transcriptions anytime
Step 6: Interact with Your Heritage Dashboard

Your Privacy is Absolute

We employ a strict zero-retention policy. 7 days after your dossier is generated, all raw uploads, OCR transcripts, and intermediate files are permanently cryptographically shredded from our servers.

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Every day that passes is another day their stories fade. Start preserving your family's legacy today.

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The Theirloom Archival Fund

Unlock the Unvarnished Past

We partner with researchers and families to digitize and transcribe critical primary sources—from sensitive colonial archives like the Thistlewood collection to forgotten family letters. Every contribution directly funds the advanced AI processing and hosting required to keep these historical narratives open and accessible.