About Chronicle

Why Chronicle exists.

A note from the founder.

My grandad was a Birmingham boy. He served in the RAF, spent time in Singapore in his twenties, and came back to England to raise four sons in Essex. By the time I knew him, he was a man who believed children should be seen and not heard. We loved him – but we didn’t really know him.

We loved him – but we didn’t really know him.

One year, I drove him from London to my parents' for Christmas. Four hours in a car together. For the first time, I got to ask him about his life properly – and he answered. The nerves of the RAF postings. The worries about my dad and his brothers when they were small. The love stories he never told us. The laughter at things that had only been funny in retrospect.

He’s gone now. My only wish was that I had any of it in a book somewhere to reference. Not for me – for my children, and theirs.

That’s why I built Chronicle. He would never have written a memoir himself. He would never have answered a weekly email. But being guided through the conversation – by someone who loved him – got so much out. That is the experience Chronicle is built around.

Chronicle is made in London, and printed in the UK. The first Chronicles are my own family’s – my mum and dad are telling theirs, and my uncles and I are telling my grandad’s together.

Charlie

Founder, Chronicle

Charlie, his dad and his grandad Ken standing together outside a stone house, all smiling
Ken’s cover as Chronicle draws it: a forest-green cover with a black-and-white photograph of a smiling older man in a checked flat cap and glasses, the title "My Life Story" in cream serif above it, on plain linen
What I wish I had

This is the book I wish I’d had.

My grandad would never have written this himself. He wouldn’t have answered a weekly email or filled in a form. But if someone had sat down with him, asked the right questions, and put it in a book – this is what I’d want to be holding now. So we built Chronicle so my children could hold the one I’m making for my parents. And one day, theirs for me.

What we are

What Chronicle is for.

Chronicle is a UK memoir company. We help families capture the life stories of the people they love – through guided conversation and AI-assisted writing – and publish them as real, physical books. Stories that would otherwise fade. Books that last for ever.

Chronicle is not a subscription. Not a weekly-email memoir tool. Not a generic AI chatbot applied to memories. Not a scrapbooking app. We make books, one at a time, for families who would otherwise lose the stories that matter most.

Every chapter is built from what the storyteller actually said. Chronicle shapes and structures; it invents nothing, and they refine and approve every page.

We never use what is shared with Chronicle to train AI.

Our four lines

What we will not become.

The four lines we drew at the start, and have not crossed since.

  • The story always leads. The technology stays quiet behind it.
  • We will not pressure anyone to start. The urgency comes from the situation, not from us.
  • We will not make the interview feel like a form.
  • We will not cut corners on the book. If you would not keep it for fifty years, it should not be a Chronicle.

Where we are

London, UK. We print and bind in the UK. Storyteller data is hosted in the EU.

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