Legatio

How it works · Step 1 of 3

You talk. We listen.

A person in their early fifties sitting in a warm living room, mid-conversation, telling a memory with a soft natural smile and a gentle hand gesture. Warm afternoon light through a window.

What the first conversation with Legatio looks like (and why you don't need to have anything prepared).

All you need is WhatsApp. Nothing to install, no account to create, nothing new to learn. If you can send a voice note to your daughter, you can use Legatio.

How it begins

When you join, you receive a welcome message. On the other side there's an artificial intelligence agent trained with the judgement of a good interviewer: it greets you, asks your name, and then asks you the first real question. It isn't a form, it isn't a rigid sequence of steps. It's a conversation.

The first question isn't about your life. It's about why you want to leave it all said. Something like:

Before any specific memory, I'd like you to tell me one thing: what has led you to want to leave all this for the people closest to you? What do you want them to feel when they read what you're leaving them? It doesn't have to be beautiful or long. Just true.

That question opens the door. From there, it's all conversation.

One question at a time

The rule is simple: we ask you one question at a time. Never two in a row. Never a questionnaire. You answer when you want, in audio or in writing, and we listen.

If your answer is short, we ask follow-up questions to get the details that matter: the name of that childhood friend, the song that played that summer, the smell of your grandmother's house. Those concrete details are what survive fifty years in the head of a grandchild. That's what we're after.

If your answer is long and overflows, we let you talk. We don't interrupt. We don't reorganise. We don't give you back your answer "tidied up". That's the work of the book, not the conversation.

When you can and how you can

Legatio has no calendar. There's no weekly session, no fixed time slot. You log in when you feel like it, send what you have, a five-minute memory, a single sentence, a letter for someone specific, and we keep it.

If you don't log in for days, nothing happens. When you come back, we pick up where you left off. If you log in five times the same Sunday because it all came to you at once, that's also fine.

What WON'T happen

  • We won't ask you to sit down and write. Most things you'll tell in short voice notes.
  • No forms or templates. You won't have to fill in fields or pick from options.
  • We won't pressure you. If one day you don't want to continue, you say "stop for today" and that's it.
  • We won't judge you. What you tell is yours. There are no right answers.

How you stop

At any moment. If a question touches you and you'd rather not answer, you say so and we move on. If you're tired one day, you say so and that's it. If you want to stop entirely, you say so and we respect that.

What you've already told stays saved. Never lost, whether the book is finished or not.

What happens on the other side

While you talk, everything is saved. Each audio is transcribed word by word, each message archived. And from there, the artificial intelligence agent, trained with editorial judgement, identifies themes, connections between things you told at different times, the details worth going deeper on. It doesn't improvise later: the book is built on what you said, word by word.

How the book is composed from your answers is the next step: How we craft your book.


If you want to start, all you need is to tell us where to send you the first message. Start my legacy.

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