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Wisavi records a lifetime of experience, and the judgement that came from it, in their own voice — the decisions they made, the reasoning behind them, and the lessons they learned. It then makes that thinking something your family can understand and learn from, for years to come.
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No charge until they record their first answer. Every answer is private when it is saved, and they decide who can hear it.
Everything they said, in their own voice, for as long as your family keeps it. Download it any time.
Fictional example
Her granddaughter asked
How did you know whether to trust someone?
Her own words
“I watched what they did when it cost them something. Anybody is straight with you when it is free.”
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Play this recording · 2:14
Marion is fictional. This example shows how a real recording would be presented in Wisavi.
What gets lost
Your family will remember what they did. Almost nobody records how they decided anything.
Families usually keep the stories. What is rarely captured is how someone decided. Photographs keep the faces and stories keep what happened; the thinking underneath is often left unrecorded — what they believed, why they believed it, the times it cost them something, and the moment they realised they had been wrong.
That judgement is hard won and easy to lose, because much of it is never written down or said out loud.
Years later it is often the part someone wishes they could still ask about, usually when they are facing a difficult decision of their own.
Three kinds of answer. One rule: show the evidence.
Composed by Wisavi from recordings
Her own words are shown in the boxed quotations, and every one can be played. Anything Wisavi has worked out is shown separately and labelled as such, so the two are never mixed up. Marion is invented, and so is everything she says here, but the answers are put together exactly as they would be for a real family.
Her granddaughter asked
Was she ever worried about money?
2 recordings, both from 2024
Her own words
“People say we lost the farm and we did not lose it. I sold it, in the March, and I got a fair price because I asked three people what it was worth instead of one.”
Her own words
“Your grandfather would have held on another two years and we would have gone under in the second one.”
Her granddaughter asked
Should I take the job in Perth?
They never talked about this directly.
3 recordings, between 2019 and 2024
What she believed, in her own words
“I have never once regretted going somewhere. I have regretted staying twice.”
What she believed, in her own words
“You want to know what it costs to go and what it costs to stay. People only ever add up the first one.”
A time she acted on it
“I told your mother to take the Adelaide job and she did not, and she was cross about it for ten years.”
What Wisavi worked out from this
Marion repeatedly weighs the cost of staying as well as the cost of going. She says people tend to count only the cost of going.
She also remembers urging your mother to take the Adelaide job; your mother did not take it and, in Marion’s account, remained cross about it for ten years.
Her granddaughter asked
What did she really think of me?
They never talked about this, and there is nothing in the recordings that comes close.
Why Wisavi will not answer this
It could put something together from the way she talked about other people, and it would probably sound convincing. It will not. What somebody thought of their own family has to come from them, in their own words, or not at all.
More than a recording
It keeps what they said. It also connects how they decided.
Anyone can record a conversation. Wisavi connects recurring beliefs, decisions, trade-offs and changes of mind across everything a person has recorded, and the source recordings stay underneath every one of them.
It finds the thread
A decision made in 1987 and a piece of advice given in 2019 can come from the same thinking. Wisavi notices, and shows you both recordings.
It answers what was never asked
Years from now, someone facing a hard decision can ask a question that person never heard, and see how they thought about problems of that kind.
It knows when not to answer
If the evidence is not there, Wisavi says so. Refusing is part of the trust model rather than a failure of it.
They talk. Wisavi listens properly.
Fifty questions across eight conversations, adapted from published protocols that researchers have used for decades to draw out how people remember their own lives. One question appears at a time. They answer out loud, in their own words, for as long as they want. There is nothing to type and nothing to prepare.
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They are asked the questions nobody thinks to ask
About the decisions, the turning points, the risks that worked and the ones that did not, and the things they would do differently.
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Wisavi shows them what it understood
In their own words, with the recording there to play. They correct anything that is wrong, or remove it. Nothing is invented about them.
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Their thinking becomes something your family can understand
Not just something to listen to. Ask a question and get an answer built only from what they actually said, with the recording underneath it.
There is no interviewer waiting, no right answer and no rush. They can stop mid-sentence, come back next week, or skip a question they would rather not answer.
The questions are not small talk. They ask about the decisions that shaped a life — the risk that paid off and the one that did not, the advice they find themselves giving again and again, the time they were completely certain and later thought differently. Every question asks about a particular occasion rather than a general view, because that is what produces a real answer. The result is not only what went well, but what was learned along the way, which is usually the part worth passing on.
When the programme is finished, ten further conversations are there for anyone who wants to keep going.
The questions are adapted from the Life Story Interview (McAdams, Northwestern University), Dignity Therapy (Chochinov), the Cognitive Interview (Fisher and Geiselman), and published research on life review and autobiographical memory.
They decide who hears it. Every time.
Nothing is shared automatically. Being family gives nobody access to anything. The person recording chooses, one recording at a time.
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Everything is private the moment it is saved
A recording belongs to the person who made it before anyone else knows it exists.
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They choose after each answer
Straight after saving, Wisavi asks one plain question: share this, or keep it private for now. There is no settings screen and no reminder to nag them.
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They invite people by name
A son, a daughter, a grandchild, a sister. Each person gets their own account and can ask their own questions. There is no charge per person.
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They can change their mind
Access can be taken back at any time, and when it is, that answer is no longer available to that person inside Wisavi.
Some things are for everyone. Some things are for one person. Some things are for nobody yet. Wisavi is built for all three.
Who families record
There is usually one person a family turns to when something matters. Sometimes it is a parent. Often it is not.
A parent
A great deal of what they know has never been said out loud.
A grandparent
What they record can be asked years from now, by a grandchild who was not there for any of it.
An aunt, an uncle, a friend of the family
Close enough to have seen the family from just outside it.
Recording your own
Recording your own wisdom? It works the same way, with you in control. Every answer is private when saved. You can skip questions, stop and return later, delete recordings, and decide exactly who can hear each one.
Record my own wisdom
What it costs
One initial payment. Family access renews after the first year. They can keep adding to their Wisavi for as long as they choose.
You are not charged until they have recorded their first answer. Enter your card, send it, and nothing is taken until you hear their voice. If nothing is recorded within thirty days, you are not charged at all.
One person
$299 initial payment
The full guided programme, at their own pace. The first year of family access is included.
Two people
$479 initial payment
Bought together, each getting the full programme. Adding somebody later instead is $249.
After the first year
$99 a year
Or $12 a month. It covers the whole family, not each person.
The whole family reads it at no charge per person.
Without renewal after the first year, the archive becomes read only for ninety days. Everything can be read and downloaded in full, free, throughout. After that it is deleted.
No advertising. Your family is never the product.
The artificial intelligence, and where the data goes
Wisavi carries what they said, and shows how they reasoned. It never fills in what they did not say.
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Never an imitation of them
Wisavi does not synthesise speech and never writes in the first person as them. There is never a copy of their voice.
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The evidence stays visible
Anything Wisavi has worked out is shown separately from their own words, with the recordings it came from underneath it.
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It can refuse
Where the evidence is not there, Wisavi says so rather than assembling something plausible. Refusing is part of how it works.
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Never used to train models
Family recordings and transcripts are not used to train or fine-tune any model, ours or a provider’s, and are not sold. That is a contractual requirement on our providers, not only our own policy.
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Recordings stay in Australia
Recordings and transcripts are stored in Sydney, on Australian infrastructure. Transcription is done by Speechmatics in its Australian region, so the audio does not leave the country. Reading across the recordings uses Anthropic, outside Australia, and only the text of a transcript is ever sent there — never the audio. Neither provider trains on what it is sent.
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Yours to take away
One download, the whole archive, whenever you want it. Free, whether you are paying or not.
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The recordings stay theirs
Everything a person records belongs to that person — not to whoever paid for it, and not to us. They keep every right they have in it, and we take only the permission needed to run the service for them.
Questions people ask
What if they are not sure about it?
Nobody has to decide anything up front. The first question is a small one, and it takes about five minutes to answer. Being asked properly about your own life, by someone who wants to know, is a rare thing. Nothing reaches you unless they choose to share it, so there is nothing to be uneasy about. And you are not charged until they have answered.
Is it easy to use?
Wisavi asks a question out loud, they press to answer and talk, and they press again when they are finished. There is nothing to type and nothing to set up.
Does it only suit older people?
No. It suits anyone whose judgement is worth keeping. Plenty of families record somebody who is still working.
What if a question is difficult to answer?
They can skip it, or come back to it later. The questions are ordered so the harder ones come after the easy ones, and nothing has to be answered for the rest to work.
Do I have to think of a question?
No. You can write one if there is something you have always wanted to ask, choose from a few suggestions, or send it with no question at all. They simply start at the beginning.
What does the artificial intelligence actually do?
It organises and interprets the recordings. It keeps its own interpretation separate from the person’s words, so you can always see which is which, and it shows the recordings behind anything it has worked out. Where the evidence is not there, it refuses to answer rather than assembling something plausible.
Keep how they thought, not just what happened.
Invite someone you care about to record the experience and judgement behind their life. You are not charged until their first answer is recorded.
Wisavi
Wisavi is a Wisdom Intelligence platform. It keeps how a person thought, not just what they remembered.
In plain terms: Wisavi records someone answering questions about their own life, then organises what they said so their family can ask about it later and always see which recording an answer came from.
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