I
The Portrait
A gift from children to a parent. A first chapter.
- Three recorded conversations
- The first chapter in your own voice
- A slim linen-bound book
- One year of custody
from
CHF2,400
Swiss Institute of Memory · Zürich
Nemory preserves the memories of a life, gives them form, and keeps them in Switzerland for the generations that follow.
I · Thesis
Medicine is learning to give us more years. It has not learned to give us back the ones we have lived. Thousands of photographs we never open, voices we no longer hear, the summer that changed everything, now a thumbnail in a folder.
Nemory exists for that second task. We gather what a life has left behind, find the moments that mattered, and give them a form you can walk through, return to and pass on.
Do not drink from the spring of forgetting. Drink from the lake of Memory, the cold water flowing forth.
II · Memoryspan
Healthspan
How long you live well.
Lifespan
How long you live.
Memoryspan
How much of your life you can still reach, enjoy and pass on.
Memoryspan is our word for the remembered life. It is not a medical measure, and we make no health claims.
III · Ritual
An archive is not uploaded. It is begun, in conversation, by someone who listens.
01
The invitation
A gift from your children, or a personal introduction. The person whose life it is accepts in a short conversation, and owns the archive from that moment.
02
The founding conversation
Two hours with your archivist, at home or in our salon in Zürich. A sealed letter records how you see your life today.
03
The first chapter
Within seventy-two hours: thirty photographs, told in your own voice, delivered as the first page of your Atlas.
04
The gathering
An insured courier collects albums, slides, letters and tapes. Everything is digitised in Switzerland and returned to you.
05
The reveal
Your life, seen whole for the first time, unveiled with your family present. The printed Atlas, bound in linen, delivered by hand.
06
Custody
An annual sitting, gentle recollections through the year, and Kleos: your instructions for what will be told of you, to whom, and when.
IV · Atlas
Not a feed, not a timeline. A topography of a life: regions of family, work, travel and friendship, where the moments that mattered rise like peaks. You walk it, approach a summer in 1974, and hear your own voice telling it.
Enter the demonstrationShown with a fictional life.
V · Commissions
II
The Life Review
A whole life, gathered and given form.
- Ten to twelve sittings with your archivist
- Collection and digitisation of your archive
- The complete Atlas, printed and bound
- A film of your life, two years of custody
from
CHF12,000
III
The Family Archive
Several generations, one archive. Through your private bank or family office.
- A dedicated family archivist
- Every generation's Atlas, linked
- Governance of the archive across the family
- Annual family sitting
from
CHF60,000
IV
Custody
For every member after the included period.
- Swiss custody, encrypted per member
- Atlas updates and recollections
- Kleos release instructions
- An annual sitting, by choice
per year
CHF690
For private banks and longevity clinics: partner programmes for your clients. You will never see their data.
VI · Science
- 90%
- recall of events after reviewing one's own captured images, against 40% with a written diary
- SenseCam case study, Berry et al. 2006
- 0.51
- effect size of savouring interventions on wellbeing, across twenty randomised trials
- Chen et al. 2026, N = 4,805
- 0.57
- correlation between peaks and endings and how an experience is remembered; duration barely counts
- Peak-end meta-analysis, Alaybek 2020
- 0
- faces or voices read for emotion. Feelings are yours to name, never ours to infer
- Barrett et al. 2019
Nemory supports reminiscence, wellbeing and social life. It does not diagnose, prevent or treat any disease.
VII · Custody
Your archive lives on Swiss soil, in a vault of its own, under a key of its own. It outlives devices, platforms and, if it ever came to that, our company.
Swiss custody
Member data is stored and processed in Switzerland, encrypted per member.
Access by your grant
Archivists see only what you open to them, for as long as you allow. Every access is logged.
AI proposes, you decide
Our tools suggest chapters, names and places. Nothing is kept without your confirmation. Originals are never altered.
Kleos
From the Greek for what is heard of you. You decide what will be told of you, to whom, and when.
VIII · Charter
Fondation Nemory holds a golden share in the institute. It exists to make these articles impossible to sell.
Art. 1
The person whose life it is owns it.
Art. 2
Member data is kept in Switzerland.
Art. 3
No advertising, and no data sales. Ever.
Art. 4
No insurer, bank, employer or partner sees any individual's data.
Art. 5
No model is trained on member data without separate, revocable consent.
Art. 6
Artificial intelligence proposes; the member decides; originals are never altered.
Art. 7
No simulated people, living or dead.
Art. 8
Exports in open formats at any time, and a reserve that keeps every archive alive.
IX · Introduction
Tell us a little about whom the archive is for. An archivist will write to you personally within two working days.
01 of 03 · For whom