Bottle on the Sea

Live demonstration

See what a memory becomes inside the vault.

Two working demonstrations: an archivist that structures a told memory, and a vault entry you can explore — provenance, access rights and future transmission.

Memory archivist

Tell the memory. Receive the archive.

Families rarely arrive with files — they arrive with a story. Write it the way you would tell it, and the archivist turns it into a structured record: people, places, timeline, what is attested, what should be asked before it is lost.

This demonstration runs on AI and produces a draft. In the product, every record stays under the family's control: nothing is published, shared or released without an explicit human instruction.

My grandfather kept a wooden box under his bed. Every summer in Gdańsk he would open it and…

Vault demonstration

One memory, seen from inside the vault.

A fictional entry, shown exactly as a family would see it: the memory itself, how its authenticity is established, who may open it, and what happens to it later.

The wooden box in Gdańsk

1968 – 2011 · Custodian: Anna K., granddaughter

A shipyard photograph, a letter from a brother who emigrated, and a brass key nobody can explain. Recorded by Anna in 2026 from her grandfather's account, with three scanned objects and a twelve-minute voice recording.

Objects

3 scans · 1 voice recording · 1 transcript

People

Stefan K. · Anna K. · Tadeusz K. (Canada)

Places

Gdańsk shipyard · Montréal

Integrity

Sealed · hash verified 4 days ago

Fictional data, shown for demonstration. In the product, keys are held by the family and the platform cannot read the content.