Send the tap link.
Pick the call cadence, family context, and safe topics. Your elder receives one clear link by SMS, email, or WhatsApp.
A heritage publisher for Pakistani family memory
ان کی کہانی، ان کی اپنی آواز میں
A dedicated Pakistani caller phones your elder in Urdu every week, asks one patient question at a time, and turns those calls into a private family book with photos, audio, and the lines nobody wrote down.
One caller per family. Pause any time. They set the pace. Pricing in PKR for families inside Pakistan.
The thing families keep postponing
Every year, the stories get shorter. A name is forgotten. A street turns into "that old place." A recipe becomes guesswork. A joke nobody else can tell goes missing from the room.
Most elders do not sit down to record a memoir. They laugh, deflect, change the subject, or say there was nothing special about their life.
"Bas, aam si baat thi." That ordinary thing is usually the inheritance.
How the ritual works
The family sets the rhythm. The elder keeps control. The book grows one conversation at a time.
Pick the call cadence, family context, and safe topics. Your elder receives one clear link by SMS, email, or WhatsApp.
A real person, same caller each week, trained on your family context. Patient, consent-led, paced around their energy. They speak. The caller listens. Stories surface slowly.
Months later, audio, photos, transcripts, chapters become a physical family book made to be held. One per elder.
Pictured: Dada Jan. The patient listener on every call.
The moat is the photo memory
The intake link connects Google Photos, iCloud, WhatsApp media, or manual scans with consent. During calls, Dastaan can surface a wedding photo, a shop sign, a school uniform, or a cousin nobody has labeled yet.
Photos become prompts. Prompts become chapters. The family reviews what goes into the book before anything is printed.
Start light. End with a book.
Subscribe and let the calls accumulate, or buy a one-time gift package for the full ritual. Half of every subscription dollar credits toward a gift upgrade. Every elder ends up with a real book.
1 AI-only call per month, 20 minutes, transcript saved in your family vault. A taste of the ritual before the real thing.
2 sessions per month with your dedicated Pakistani caller. Softcover book delivered when the story feels complete. Private NFC archive. Pakistan-resident families only.
4 sessions per month with your dedicated Pakistani caller. Softcover book delivered when the story feels complete. Private NFC archive for life.
8 sessions per month with your dedicated caller. Hardcover book + family-tree appendix + 5 photo restorations + 3 printed copies. Private NFC archive for life.
60 to 100 page softcover, up to 12 human caller sessions, digital PDF, 1 printed copy, private NFC archive.
120 to 160 page hardcover, up to 20 human caller sessions, family-tree appendix, 5 photo restorations, 3 printed copies, private NFC archive.
200+ page cloth book with gilt edges and slipcase, up to 30 human caller sessions, professional editor pass, 10 photo restorations, 5 copies, private NFC archive, hand-written dedication.
Conversion credit: half of every subscription dollar credits toward a one-time gift upgrade. Three months on Dastaan Membership ($177) takes a Standard Gift down to $211, or a Premium Gift down to $461. half of every subscription rupee credits toward a one-time gift upgrade. Three months on Dastaan Membership (PKR 23,997) takes a Standard Gift down to PKR 28,001, or a Premium Gift down to PKR 63,001.
Early family signal
They open up when the question is respectful and the family has made room for the answer.
My father did not want a big interview. He was fine with a phone call after chai. That changed everything.
The Urdu mattered. The pauses mattered. It sounded like him, not like someone cleaned him up for a brochure.
The photo prompts brought out stories we had never heard, from a picture we had all seen a hundred times.
One elder. One voice. One book.
Subscribe from $59/mo or gift the full ritual from $299 (one-time). PKR pricing for families inside Pakistan. Dedicated Pakistani caller, transcription, photo restoration, and printing all included.
کہانی مکمل ہونا ضروری نہیں۔ سننا ضروری ہے۔
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