A personal AI biographer
You live the story.
We help you tell it.
Most people mean to write it all down one day. PenBliss asks the questions instead. You answer out loud, twenty minutes at a time, in your own kitchen. We listen, keep track of every name and year, ask the follow-up a good biographer would — and turn it into a book with your voice still in it.
No writing required. Nothing to install. Speak in any of 30 languages. Or start in your browser.
Three things happen, and only one of them is your job.
- 1You talk
We ask, you answer out loud
Open PenBliss whenever you have a few minutes. One question at a time, read aloud and asked gently. Ramble, backtrack, stop mid-sentence — that is what recordings are for. Nothing has to be said well the first time.
- 2We listen
Every name, year and place, kept straight
Each answer is transcribed and read closely. We build a quiet index behind the scenes — the people in your life, the addresses, the dates that keep coming back — and use it to ask the next question properly instead of starting over each time.
- 3You hold it
A book, in chapters, in your voice
When there is enough, we set the material into chapters: shaped, tightened, punctuated, joined. You read each one, change what is wrong, ask for another pass. Then it goes to print.
534 questions, asked in the order a life is actually lived.
The corpus runs from your grandparents' villages to what you want said at your funeral. You will never see all of it — the interview follows you, skips what does not apply, and returns later to whatever you rushed.
- Childhood
Describe the first room that was entirely yours.
- Work
Who taught you how to work?
- Family
What did your family never talk about?
- Turning points
What were you certain about at twenty-five and wrong about by forty?
- The senses
What did your mother's kitchen smell like on an ordinary Tuesday?
- Inheritance
Which of your parents' habits do you catch yourself repeating?
The movements
- iOverture18
- iiBefore you30
- iiiChildhood34
- ivSchool and learning26
- vFamily life28
- viComing of age28
- viiLove30
- viiiWork32
- ixMaking a home28
- xChildren28
- xiTurning points30
- xiiHardship28
- xiiiFaith and belief24
- xivThe world28
- xvFriendship and community24
- xviJoy26
- xviiThe body and time24
- xviiiReckoning24
- xixWhat you know22
- xxLegacy22
Answer one question and the next three change. Mention a brother you have not named before and we will come back for him.
Some books are written.
These are rescued.
The same interview serves whether you are telling your own story or drawing one out of someone you love before it goes.
Your own memoir
The book you have been meaning to write since you retired.
A parent or grandparent
Sit with them on Sundays and let PenBliss ask the questions you would not think to.
A family history
Several relatives, one interview, one volume — the same story from four angles.
A gift
An anniversary, an eightieth, a retirement. Something that is not another watch.
An elderly relative
Short sessions, large type, a voice that waits. Start while there is time.
A life worth an example
Founders, migrants, survivors, teachers — experience turned into something readable.
A real book, not a transcript with a cover on it.
Chapters you approve one at a time. Change a line, cut a paragraph, ask for the whole chapter again in a different key — it is your book until you say it is finished.
- Included
Digital book
PDF and EPUB, typeset properly, yours to keep and send.
- Included
Print-ready manuscript
A 6×9 interior with real running heads, folios and a title page.
- Included
Amazon KDP package
Interior, cover spec, blurb and metadata, formatted to their requirements.
- Included
Hardcover, delivered
Cloth case, foil-stamped spine, printed and shipped to the door.
- On the workbench
Audiobook in your own voice
Read by you, or built from your recordings.
- On the workbench
Private family archive
Every recording, transcript and photograph, on a timeline, for whoever comes next.
You are about to say things you have not said before.
Your recordings stay yours
We do not sell them, publish them, or use them to train models. Ever.
Private until you say otherwise
Nothing is shared with family, printers or anyone else without you naming them.
Leave with everything
Export every recording, transcript and draft in one file, at any time, in one click.
Name who inherits it
Say now who should receive the archive later. It is the point of the whole exercise.
Pay while you are telling it.
Every plan includes the interview, the transcription, the writing and the editing. Stop whenever you like — the book and the recordings leave with you.
Chapter
One storyteller, one book, no rush.
€49.00a year
- 4 hours of recording a month
- The 200-question core interview
- Automatic follow-up questions
- Chapters you review and approve
- Digital book — PDF and EPUB
Volume
Most chosenFor a full life, told properly.
€99.00a year€149.00
Save 34%
- 12 hours of recording a month
- The complete question archive
- Unlimited chapter rewrites
- Print-ready manuscript and cover spec
- Amazon KDP publishing package
- One hardcover a year, delivered
Legacy
A family, not a person.
€199.00a year
- Up to five storytellers
- Group interviews — one story, four angles
- Audiobook in the storyteller's voice
- Private family archive and timeline
- Three hardcovers a year
- A named heir for the archive
Printing and shipping beyond the included copies are charged at cost. Annual billing saves two months.
One question is enough to begin
Somebody in your family will want to know this.
Best if they hear it from you.
Takes about four minutes. Nothing to write.