The Kizuna experience
Life deserves to be told.
Talk with Emma, our AI biographer. She turns your memories and experiences into inspiring books for all ages.
The Life Story, Kizuna's flagship experience.Have your parents' and grandparents' story told.Discover Kizuna in 25 seconds
Your life is the raw material.
Your voice gives it shape.
Kizuna turns it into a creation.
Try the experience
Get to know Emma.
Ask your questions about Kizuna, tell her a memory: Emma, the AI biographer, listens like someone close to you.
Emma doesn't fill in a questionnaire. She listens, asks questions and guides you. One memory calls up another, with nothing to prepare.
Emma currently speaks French. An English version is on its way.
Talk to Emma
Tap the orb to start a 5-minute voice conversation. Limited to two 5-minute sessions on this site.
Your conversations with Emma stay private: they are only used to create your story, never to be shared.
DEMO
Your story takes shape
What if your memory became a story?
Try it: tell Emma a memory, 90 seconds is enough.
The demo below unfolds in three steps:
- 1
I tell my story
I talk to Emma, at my own pace.
- 2
Kizuna transforms it
Your words become a story.
- 3
I discover my book page
A demo excerpt.
Discover it as a book page, add your own photos to illustrate it, then, if you like, as an illustrated page for children.
Tell a memory
Try it in 2 minutes!
Your memory becomes a page of a book.
Emma asks you a question. Tell her a memory: she writes it before your eyes as a page of a story.
Two writings will be proposed for the same memory: Natural and Literary.
Emma currently speaks French. An English version is on its way.
This is a preview: a single question, 90 seconds to answer. The full experience happens in the Kizuna app.
Your voice is not kept.
Why Kizuna?
Simple
One button. Just talk.
Nothing to write, no long questionnaire, no keyboard to master, no complicated app. Emma asks the questions and you simply answer out loud.
Free-flowing
A story, at your own pace.
Tell whatever you want, whenever you want. You can pause, pick up later, skip a topic or take time to tell a memory in full detail.
For the whole family
One life. Many ways to pass it on.
A story becomes a life story, but can also be adapted into a comic book or children's books. Each generation can discover the same life in a form that speaks to them.
Illustrative examples of possible results, for guidance only.
Simple. Free-flowing. For the whole family.
The Kizuna experience
The book is the result. The experience begins long before.
Oswald, 75 — L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (in French)
A Kizuna user talks about his first conversation with Emma.
“It's like a spotlight on the past.”
“It's like sitting on a bench and telling your life story to a stranger.”
“She guides the story with kindness and restraint.”
Brigitte — Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche (in French)
A Kizuna user talks about her first conversation with Emma.
“I didn't want to stop”
“Emma is very kind, she really encourages you to talk”
“So many pleasant things came back to me that I hadn't thought about in ages”
“Whenever I have a moment, I do it”
Available in November
The Kizuna Life Story.
Tell your whole life.
From childhood to today, Emma guides you through in-depth conversations. Memories, anecdotes, encounters, choices and lessons gradually find their place in your story.
Kizuna turns it into a structured story you can add your photos to: to read digitally, to share, then to keep in a beautiful printed book.
Keep your loved one’s voice with the optional €39 voice preservation service.
€99 · first book included
For now, enjoy the free trial of the digital story until 31 October.
A story told, turned into a book.
Illustrative example of a possible result, for guidance only.
Give the Life Story
A gift for the whole family: grandparents' life story.
Giving a grandparent the Life Story means giving them far more than a book. It gives them the pleasure of telling, of reliving their fondest memories through conversations with Emma, and of passing on what mattered in their life.
Their story then becomes a shared treasure, to keep and to share.
Why tell your story?
Telling your story also gives meaning to what you live.
We don't tell stories only to preserve or pass them on. Telling also gives something back to the teller.
Relive
Memories come back as you speak; you relive the moments with emotion.
Learn about yourself
Step back, connect the moments and discover their common thread, realise the value of every moment lived, the role each person played, and make peace with yourself.
Contemplate
Turn your own life into a true raw material to transform into beautiful creations. Give your life an artistic dimension, see your life as a story.
Share
A personal story shared brings people closer and helps your loved ones understand you better.
Your memories are precious. So is protecting them.
Your transcripts and your story are hosted in Europe on Kizuna's infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest. Your story is not public: you choose which loved ones to share it with.
Coming soon
And tomorrow, every story of your life.
Kizuna starts with your life story. But a life doesn't fit in a single book.
A journey. A birth. The children's adventures. A meeting. A project. An idea. Some thoughts. A memory told on the spot.
Life is a wonderful raw material for creation.
Kizuna is developing new ways to transform what you tell: free-form stories, journals, poem collections, songs, novels and other creations to listen to, watch or share.
Because a story can be told in more than one way.
Live. Tell. Share.
What story would you like to tell?
An adventure. A meeting. A childhood. A whole life.
Start simply by telling it.
Start my Life StoryKizuna — Reveal the beauty of a life.
The Kizuna team
Kizuna is also a team that believes in the power of stories and the bonds they create between generations.
Anh Soubry
Founder
Passionate about people and convinced that every life is a story worth telling, Anh created Kizuna with one ambition: to turn our experiences into creative raw material, revealing the meaning and beauty of each journey.
Jonas Malka
Acquisition & Growth
Jonas supports Kizuna’s development and imagines the best ways to introduce this new experience to as many people as possible.
Claire Gillette
Content & Community
Claire brings Kizuna’s world to life on social media and helps build a community around the pleasure of telling and sharing.
A word from our founder
I have always seen every life as a novel.
A novel made of encounters, choices, joys and hardships. I am convinced that every journey has something special about it, and that even the most ordinary one can inspire us, make us think or teach us something.
It is also what drives me to take an interest in each person’s story, to discover who people really are, beyond appearances.
This way of seeing life also helps me through difficult moments. It reminds me that what I am living is only a chapter, sometimes even a paragraph. That it will come to an end, and that it is up to me to write what comes next.
Telling your story means stepping back from it, giving it meaning and revealing its beauty. But it also means finding the words to be understood, expressing what matters and building deeper connections with others.
Kizuna was born from this belief: allowing everyone to turn their experiences, ideas, thoughts and emotions into creations that look like them — for themselves, or for those they love.
I believe in technology that brings us closer together, rather than technology that isolates us. Technology that helps us know ourselves better, understand one another and share what makes us human.
Because every life matters. And because our stories have the power to bring us closer.
Anh Soubry
President of The Happiness Institute, and creator of Kizuna
"Kizuna" (絆) means "bonds" in Japanese — the invisible ties that unite generations. That's our purpose.