Once a month, three short questions about your child by email. Reply in 90 seconds from your phone. On their next birthday, your year of small observations becomes a print-ready letter in your own voice — quoting them word-for-word.
$36 per child per year. One Stripe Checkout, prepaid annual.
From the sample — Year 4 — a letter to Theo, age 4
Month 1. You told the cashier at Trader Joe's that you were "a pretend pirate but a real boy." She gave you a sticker. You say "wow wow wow" every time we open something — not "whoa whoa whoa." The Ws are important to you. This month you poured your own cereal without spilling, holding the bowl with two hands right at the edge of the counter.
Month 2. You tried to convince me that Greg, your stuffed dinosaur, has a job. "Greg works at the office, mama." You've started saying "I'm thinking about it" before answering any question at all. You buttoned your own pajamas — just the top one, it took ten minutes, and you wouldn't accept help.
Month 3. I found you in the bathroom "shaving" with a tongue depressor and a cup of water, your face very serious. You started calling Mira "my best baby." She's technically your only baby. You mean it as the highest praise. You drew the letter T on your own — crooked but recognisable — and it's on the fridge.
On the day you choose each month, you get an email with three short prompts about your child: something that made you laugh, a phrase you don't want to forget, something they did that they couldn't before. Reply from your phone in 90 seconds — one or two sentences each is plenty.
On your child's birthday, your twelve months of replies are compiled into a single warm, specific letter in your own voice, quoting your child's actual words verbatim. It arrives as a private page laid out to print, with a few small watercolor illustrations painted from objects in your replies.
Year after year, the same cadence: twelve small moments, one annual letter. A 15-year subscription becomes a 15-volume archive your child can read when they're older. No app, no dashboard, no willpower required.
After signup, you tell us your child's name, birthday, time zone, and which day of the month you'd like the prompts. Each month on that day we email you three questions. You reply with one to three short sentences per question. On your child's next birthday, we compile your twelve months of replies into a ~700-900 word letter and email you a link to its private page, which is laid out to print.
It sounds like you. Your child's actual phrases are quoted verbatim — never paraphrased. The compile runs a fidelity check on every quoted span; anything that doesn't trace back to your reply triggers a regeneration. The closing paragraph is optionally yours to write directly.
Nothing bad. The annual letter only includes the months you replied to. At month 6 you'll receive a halfway preview — the first six paragraphs in draft form — so you can see what the cadence is producing before the year is out.
Each letter comes with up to three small watercolor pictures and a cover, painted from objects in your replies: a cereal bowl, a stuffed dinosaur, a plate. They never show your child or anyone else, never contain names or words, and are never made from photos. On your archive page you can redraw any of them (twice each) or remove them.
The letter comes to you, not to your child, so nobody else sees it until you share it. You can redraw or remove the illustrations on your archive page. Editing your replies or the letter's wording is not available yet.
Yes. Each child is a separate $36/year subscription with its own archive token, prompts, and annual artifact. Cancel either one independently at any month boundary.
If a monthly prompt fails to send, or the annual compile produces output that doesn't trace to your replies, the failure is verifiable in our logs and we refund. If you stop replying for several months and want out, the unused months are refunded — you keep only what we delivered. We don't offer a blanket time-window refund on years where the annual letter was actually compiled and delivered.
One Stripe Checkout. Two minutes of intake. The first monthly prompt arrives on the day you choose.
Start — $36