How Everleaf works

1. The film

1. 1Share. Upload photographs and clips, and answer a few questions about their life. Write as much or as little as you like.
2. 2We draft the story. Claude, an AI model, writes a documentary script only from what you shared: chapters, captions and narration, in the language you choose. It never invents dates, places, names or quotes.
3. 3You correct it. Change any word, reorder or remove scenes, then approve. Nothing is narrated before you approve.
4. 4Free preview. We make a short, watermarked preview of your own film with the narrator and music you chose.
5. 5Your film. Pay once and we make the full 1080p film. We email you when it is ready to download.

The narrator is a professional synthetic voice that speaks your chosen language. We never imitate the voice of the person the film is about, and the film never speaks as them.

2. Their memorial page

After purchase their page opens: their life story in chapters (the same words you approved for the film), the film, a gallery of their photographs, the relatives around them, and if you wish:

• On this day: posts they shared on today’s date in past years, from an export of their own social media that you upload and approve post by post.
• Questions about their life: family can ask, and an AI answers only from the approved story, in the third person, with its sources. It says so when it does not know.

Visitors can leave a memory of their own; nothing appears until you approve it. Share the page privately with invite links (you can turn them all off at any time; never shown in search engines), or with its forever address that anyone can open.

3. The forever address

A short address such as everleaf.life/their-name, easy to print in an order of service, say at a funeral, or engrave. Anyone with the address can open the page. You decide whether search engines may show it.

• Included with every package. No subscription.
• Common names are often taken, so we suggest the name with years, for example their-name-1948-2024.
• Chosen once and never changed, so printed links keep working. You can close the page temporarily at any time.
• We keep pages online for as long as Everleaf exists and for at least 25 years. If we ever had to close, families get 12 months’ notice and a full download. (Draft wording, pending legal review.)

4. The family tree

Add the people in your family and how they are related. Connect each page to the person it remembers. Every memorial page then shows parents, partners and children, and opens their pages with one tap.

• The tree is free and private to your account.
• Living relatives are only named on private memorial pages, never on a public forever address.
• The Family plan ($39 once) takes 30% off every film you make afterwards.

5. Your own story, delivered when the time comes

Make a film about your own life while you can choose every photograph and every word. A release plan ($49 once) keeps it sealed: no memorial page, no address, nothing visible to anyone but you. It is delivered to the people you choose only when they need it.

What you set up

• How often we check in: every 3, 6 or 12 months, by email, with one button: “I’m here and well”.
• A phone number: (optional) for texts and an automated call if emails go unanswered.
• Trusted people: up to 8, such as a partner, grown child, sibling or close friend. We tell them when you add them.
• How many must confirm: we recommend two.
• Who receives the film: each receives their own private link to the memorial page.

What happens if we do not hear from you

1. Check-in due

   We email you. If you do not answer, we email again on days 7, 14, 21.

2. After 30 days

   If you gave a phone number, we text and call you, twice over 7 days. Pressing 1 on the call checks you in.

3. Then

   We ask your trusted people whether you are well, again on days 14, 45 if they do not answer. Each can answer “alive and well”, “I don’t know” or “has passed away”, and change it later.

4. When enough confirm

   We send you a final notice by email and text, with a date. Nothing is shared before that date. Default wait: 14 days.

5. Release

   The memorial page opens and each person you chose receives their private link.

Safeguards

• Silence alone never releases a film. Only confirmations from people you chose can.
• Any check-in from you, at any step, stops everything and starts the interval again.
• If one trusted person says you are alive, the steps start over. If answers conflict, nothing is released automatically; a person on our team reviews it.
• Links in our emails do nothing until a button is pressed, so email security scanners cannot answer for anyone.
• You can change your people, settings or cancel at any time.

6. What it costs

• Classic: $29, up to 5 minutes and 50 photographs.
• Cinematic: $79, up to 10 minutes and 120 photographs, narrated.
• Legacy: $149, up to 15 minutes and 200 photographs, narrated.
• Family plan: $39 once, then 30% off every film.
• Release plan: $49 once.

Every payment is one-time. The preview is free.