Started by the person themselves
The foundation is their voice, their words, their truth. Not a tribute written in haste by someone trying to remember everything at once.
The Living Biography
Everyone deserves one
Every person who ever lived deserved one. HELAÜLOOM is the first product that makes it possible for everyone.
While Alive
The owner builds the foundation
Inside the app, a dedicated section. Not a form. A conversation. HELAÜLOOM asks gentle prompts and the person answers in their own words, voice, or video.
Where were you born. What did your childhood smell like. The best decision you ever made. The thing you wish you had said sooner. What you wanted to be at seven years old. The meal you made better than anyone. The moment you knew you were in love. What you believed in.
These become the anchored, owner verified sections of the biography. Marked with a small seal: Written by their name. Immovable. Family cannot edit them. This is the person's own voice, permanent.
When the page opens
The community builds the rest
The page opens. Anyone with the link can submit a contribution. A section, a story, a memory, a photograph, a voice note. Structured like a living document: titled sections, chronological where appropriate, searchable.
Early Life. Career. As a Parent. As a Friend. What They Taught Me. Their Legacy.
Every submission goes to a family moderator queue. They approve, request edits, or decline. Once approved it joins the biography permanently. The contributor's name and relationship sits quietly below their section. Added by Sarah, his daughter's best friend.
What Makes It Different
Not like any static page
It grows over time
Ten years later, a childhood friend finds the page and adds a story no one in the family knew. The biography gets richer. More complete. More true.
Structured, not scattered
Not a social wall of condolences that disappears into an algorithm. A real document. Organised. Permanent. Readable in one sitting or explored over hours.
Beautiful by design
Warm ivory and brown. The HELAÜLOOM aesthetic throughout. Typography that honours the weight of what is inside. Not a database. Something that feels like opening a treasured book.
Searchable and shareable
helauloom.com/name or a custom URL the family chooses. Shared at gatherings. Linked in announcements. Sent to people who could not attend.
It never disappears
Hosted permanently. The endowment fund guarantees it. A person's biography outlives every social platform, every hard drive, every filing cabinet.
Owner Built
Foundation sections
Sealed. Uneditable.
- In My Own Words
- Where I Came From
- What I Believed
- What I Built
- What I Want You To Know
Community Built
Family approved sections
The family can add custom sections. His Record Collection. Her Garden. The Advice She Always Gave.
- Early Life
- Career & Calling
- As a Partner / Parent / Friend
- Stories People Tell
- What They Taught Me
- Their Humour
- Their Kitchen
- Their Legacy
Free tier
Where it begins
The Remember tier includes 3 foundation sections and up to 20 community contributions. The page exists and is beautiful.
Paid tiers unlock more sections, voice and video contributions, custom URL, family moderation tools, and export to PDF.
See all tiersThe Physical Book
Held in your hands
Heirloom tier and Perpetual: the Living Biography can be printed. Hardcover. Linen bound. The person's name embossed on the cover. Every section, every photograph, every contributed memory. Delivered to the family. The most meaningful object a family will ever own. Sitting on a shelf next to the photographs. Passed to the next generation.
The Promise
Why this changes everything
Right now, too often, the knowledge of who someone truly was begins to fade before anyone writes it down. Within a generation most of it is gone. The stories no one captured. The jokes only their friends remembered. The way they laughed.
HELAÜLOOM stops that from happening. For everyone. Not just the famous. Not just the wealthy. Your grandmother gets a biography as complete and permanent as any figure in history.
That is the promise. That is what no product has ever delivered.
Begin
Begin your legacy
The internet never forgets, so let it remember you.