Waitlist opening soon
We are not ready to be trusted with this yet
An archive is a promise about time, and the only honest way to make it is to have the preservation process proven and the succession plan written down first. Neither is finished, so nothing is being accepted. When the form opens it will ask for an email address and nothing else.
Nothing held yet
No archives, no early access, no pilot. The process is still being tested on our own material.
Succession first
The plan for what happens to the archive without us has to exist before the first record does.
Come back
The blog carries the decisions as they are made, in enough detail to be argued with.
Why there is nothing to fill in
Because collecting somebody’s life before you can guarantee you will keep it is the failure mode this whole project exists to avoid. Plenty of services will take your material today. The question worth asking any of them is what happens to it when they stop, and most of them have no written answer.
What the waitlist will be for
One field, an email address. One kind of message: that the preservation process has been proven, or that the succession arrangement exists, or that something has been published worth reading. Not a launch sequence and not a list that gets sold.
What the first conversation will cover
What you want kept and what you deliberately do not. Who may see it and from when. And the uncomfortable part — what happens if we are gone, which has a written answer or the conversation does not proceed.
In the meantime
The blog carries the reasoning: why your life is in accounts that end when you do, why a terabyte of photos is not a memory, which formats will still open in a century, why we will not build a chatbot of your grandmother, and what it takes to design a record that survives its own context.
No form, no data collected, no sales follow-up — just work in progress.