KindredKeep — coming later this year

A family's story, woven by you.

Local-first family genealogy with AI research agents — so the long work of remembering stays yours.

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The story

Remembering a family is long, quiet, careful work.

Cassette tapes with a grandmother's voice sit in a shoebox. A census page sits in an archive three states away. A photograph sits in a drawer, nobody quite sure who's in it.

KindredKeep is built for the people doing the real work of remembering — with AI that searches the records, transcribes the tapes, and connects the threads, and a tree that never forgets where a fact came from.

And all of it runs, by default, on your own machine. The cloud is an opt-in boost, not a lock-in. Your family's story stays yours.

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What you can do

Four kinds of work, one place to do them.

Build your tree

A flexible family tree for biological, adoptive, blended, and chosen families. GEDCOM in, GEDCOM out, with every fact source-attributed.

Preserve voices & memories

Record interviews in the browser. Transcribe on-device. Upload photos, certificates, scanned letters. The shoebox becomes a searchable archive.

Let AI do the research

Autonomous agents search FamilySearch's 9B records and public archives, returning confidence-scored findings with citations you can review.

Ask questions of your history

Chat with your family archive. Every answer links back to the person, record, or recording it came from. Run it locally, or use cloud models for more power.

Meet the features

Eight named pieces. One connected product.

Tapestry

Your family, visualized and interactive.

Local · FreeLearn more →

Vault

Every photo, document, and recording — safely yours.

Local · FreeLearn more →

Loom

Documents in, structured memories out.

Local + CloudLearn more →
Differentiator

Weave

Git for genealogy.

Cloud · PremiumLearn more →

Campfire

Ask your family history anything.

Local + CloudLearn more →

Scout

AI research agents that work while you sleep.

Cloud · PremiumLearn more →

Whisper

Every voice, every letter, read aloud.

Local · FreeLearn more →

Echo

Hear the stories again — in the voices that told them.

Local + CloudLearn more →

Pricing

Free on your device. Premium in the cloud.

KindredKeep is local-first, so the core experience is free forever. A paid tier unlocks cloud-powered research, collaboration, and AI generation — for when the cloud is genuinely worth the tradeoff.

FeatureFree · LocalPremium · Cloud
TapestryYour family, visualized and interactive.
✓Full tree, versioned, source-attributed
✓Same — with cloud sync across devices
VaultEvery photo, document, and recording — safely yours.
✓Photos, docs, audio — on your machine
✓Same — plus optional cloud backup
LoomDocuments in, structured memories out.
✓Local OCR (Tesseract), entity extraction
✓AI vision models, document enhancement, richer entity linking
WeaveGit for genealogy.
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✓Cross-tree merge, offer/receive workflow
CampfireAsk your family history anything.
✓Embedded local models
✓Enhanced cloud models — ask across documents, richer answers
ScoutAI research agents that work while you sleep.
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✓Autonomous AI research across 9B+ records
WhisperEvery voice, every letter, read aloud.
✓Record voices, interviews, letters read aloud — transcribed locally
✓Same
EchoHear the stories again — in the voices that told them.
✓Playback of your Whisper recordings
✓Upload a family member's voice and have AI narrate other stories in it

Free

Your family, on your device.

  • Installs on Mac, Windows, or Linux — works offline, forever
  • Tapestry tree, Vault archive, Whisper voice recording
  • Local OCR and embedded-model Campfire chat
  • Full GEDCOM import and export — your data, always
  • No account required

Premium

When the cloud is worth it.

  • Scout — AI research agents across FamilySearch, archives, newspapers
  • Weave — cross-tree collaboration without overwrites
  • Loom+ — AI vision models for hard-to-read documents, scan enhancement, richer entity linking across records
  • Campfire+ — enhanced cloud models, ask across your whole archive at once
  • Echo+ — upload a family member's voice and have AI narrate letters and stories in it (even for someone no longer with you)
  • Optional cloud backup of your Vault

Exact plans and pricing will be announced at launch. Subscribers will get early-access notice.

Offer · Receive

Spotlight

Weave — git for genealogy.

Every genealogy tool today forces the same bad choice: share one tree and watch a careful collaborator's work get overwritten, or fork and never reconcile again. Families stop collaborating at the moment a second serious maintainer appears.

Weave removes that failure. Each maintainer keeps a sovereign tree and offers contributions fact-by-fact. The recipient accepts, rejects, or branches — nothing is auto-applied. Source attribution follows every fact across every boundary, and privacy tiers gate what crosses at all.

How Weave works →

From the HITS lab

KindredKeep is built by Howard Intelligence Technology Systems, a small studio that builds ingestion engines for meaningful data.

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