About
A product for turning family materials into a private diary volume that is traceable, askable, exportable, and deletable.
Why we built this
Volvence's earlier figure-vertical was used by museums, universities, and publishers — they can afford the cost of compiling a corpus. But for most families, the oral histories, letters, and footage left by elders, if never organized, will scatter across hard drives and old phones within a decade.
Family Diary turns the same corpus pipeline (L0 raw → L1 clean → L2 verify → L3 grounding → L4 refusal) into a home edition — upload material, wait for platform review and compilation, then family can search, organize, and ask about elders' stories, while every sentence stays traceable and unsupported claims are honestly refused.
How we differ from HereAfter AI / Storyfile
Many products do something similar; the mainstream route is "realistic performance" — collect a relatively small set of interviews and dress it up with a general language model + character prompt.
Our difference is not "likeness" but "trustworthiness":
- L3 grounding (grounded_verify): every assertion must be traceable to a specific recording segment, letter page, or photo caption in the corpus. The UI lets you expand to see the original evidence with one click.
- L4 refusal (scope_refusal): if a question exceeds the corpus, the system explicitly refuses rather than fabricating.
- Dual approval + audit log: authorization documents require two platform reviewers' signatures, and any answer can be re-checked in the audit.
This is the contract a family-memory product should have — you would not want the system to turn unsourced material into something a relative supposedly said.
Scope and boundaries
- Deceased relatives only. Living people are refused (politicians, celebrities, and public figures are all refused).
- Family authorization only. Submission requires a death certificate + family relationship declaration, and only enters compilation after two Volvence platform reviewers sign off.
- Private use only. The bundle is not listed, not made public, and not reused for other training. A family can delete + export everything at any time.
- No minors. Minor family members appearing in material must be masked or not entered.