You give it to your people

When you started, you told us who the book is for. Your children. Your grandchildren. A sister. Whoever you wanted. They're the people you'll one day want to give it to, and also the ones you designate as your safety net for heirs.

Your book is alive: it grows with you as you keep telling. There's no rushing to finish it.

When you give it

The moment is yours to choose. When you feel there's something worth handing over, you generate an edition of your book and give it to them: over a meal, for a birthday, inside a letter, or for no occasion other than wanting to. You don't wait for any date or anyone's permission.

And since your life goes on, later you can generate a new edition, with everything you've kept telling. The book doesn't close: it matures with you.

The safety net for heirs

And in case life doesn't wait, a safety net remains. When you designate your heirs, we let them know you've started your book and that, if something ever happened to you before you gave it to them yourself, they hold the key to receive the final edition.

We never assume anything. The alert comes from an heir. When they raise it, we write to you by WhatsApp and email and you have 30 days to stop the process with a single reply. Only if you don't reply is that final edition generated and delivered. It's the only one included, and it closes the service. So you can take your time, with peace of mind.

What they receive exactly

When you give it to them (or if the safety net ever kicks in), each person receives the complete book as a PDF, professionally laid out. Careful typography, chapters, your name on the cover. It isn't a folder of notes, it's a real book, exactly as you approved it.

If you left individual private letters, each heir receives the common version for everyone plus their own private letters within their copy. The others don't see those letters. Only the person you addressed them to.

The first moment

When someone opens your book for the first time, it isn't just any PDF. It's an object that has weight. The cover with your name. The list of chapters. And when they start reading, the voice. Your way of starting sentences. The expression you used when something amused you. The brief silence before telling what was hard.

That's what's preserved. And that's what arrives.

If they want to hold it in their hands

The book comes in digital form. If they want a physical copy to keep on the shelf, give to a grandchild, or take to a local print shop, they can do it with the PDF. It's designed to be printed.

On-demand printing as an integrated Legatio service is something we're studying for the future. Today it's not part of the included service, but the file they receive does allow them to do it on their own without losing quality.

What stays with them

Unlike a single message, audio or video, a book has the quality of staying. It lives on a shelf. It gets opened again on anniversaries, on difficult birthdays, when a child grows and needs to know what you thought about what's happening to them.

Twenty years later, your grandchild can open the book and read what the neighbourhood you grew up in was like, what you'd say when someone asked about your father, what you would have told them if you'd got to know each other. The voice doesn't age, it only stops existing when there's no one left to keep it.

That's what Legatio keeps.

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If you want to start telling your story, start your book.