WHY HERITA
We have never left so many traces.
And yet a family can still lose its history.
A photograph. A voice. A message. A recipe. A document. A place. An object passed from hand to hand.
A family leaves behind thousands of fragments. But no single fragment tells a family's story.
A HUMAN STORY
8.2 billion
human beings are alive on Earth today.
As many lives written into families, places, languages, and generations.
Humanity is not passed down only in history books.
It is passed down in families.
FAMILIES ON THE MOVE
304 million
international migrants were counted worldwide in 2024.
When a family crosses a border, it carries far more than luggage.
Names. A language. Habits. Photographs. Recipes. Stories told from one generation to the next.
And transmission, too, must now cross distances.
THE DIGITAL PARADOX
6 billion
people use the Internet today — 74% of humanity.
A photograph on a phone.
A conversation in a messaging app.
A document in the cloud.
A family tree somewhere else.
A video on an old device.
A story only one person still knows.
We have digitized our lives.
Not yet our continuity.
Digital documentary heritage remains vulnerable to technological obsolescence and requires deliberate preservation strategies.
All of this led to a question.
What if the family finally had a place built to last through time?
HERITA was born from that question.
Not from the idea of adding one more platform.
The tools around family life remain fragmented between communication, preservation, genealogy, organization, and transmission. HERITA seeks to bring these dimensions together into one family House, built with future generations in mind.
HERITA
A family is not a collection of files.
It's a story that continues.
HERITA is a digital House built for the family.
A place where a family can bring together the people who make it up, connect its generations, tell its story, preserve its memories and documents, and prepare what it chooses to pass on.
Here, nothing begins with a profile.
Everything begins with the family.
INSIDE THE HOUSE
It begins with a few names.
Then, little by little, a whole family takes shape.
You start with the people.
Parents. Children. Grandparents. Brothers and sisters. Those who are here today. Those who came before them.
The ties appear. The generations connect. Dates and places find their place. The family tree takes shape, and the paths the family has walked begin to emerge.
A family begins with people.
Its story begins with the ties between them.
A NAME
A PLACE
A DATE
A PHOTOGRAPH
A name in a tree doesn't tell a life.
A first name. A birth date. A place.
It's a beginning.
Photographs, memories, events, and stories gradually help uncover what lies behind these few lines.
Genealogy helps find a place in the tree.
Family memory seeks to preserve the life behind it.
A family doesn't live only in the past.
It keeps talking, sharing, reacting, creating new memories.
In its House, a family can open conversations, form groups, share photographs and media, and stay connected around what it's living today.
Family memory doesn't begin when something disappears.
It builds while life goes on.
A PHOTOGRAPH
A DOCUMENT
A PLACE
A VIDEO
A MEMORY
The fragments find their story.
A photograph changes once you know who it shows.
A document, once you understand which family story it belongs to.
A place, once it becomes a step in a family's journey.
A memory, once it can be found and shared by those who carry the story forward.
HERITA brings a family's memory together in one place, so it can be understood, preserved, and passed on.
WHAT A FAMILY CARRIES
In HERITA, a family gathers everything that makes up its life.
It passes down faces and stories. Memories and documents. Bonds, places, knowledge — sometimes a health history, sometimes an estate. And always something the next generation will need to understand.
THE PEOPLE
Who makes up the family.
Parents, children, grandparents, generations, family ties, dates and places that let the family's story take shape.
THE STORIES
What each person leaves behind.
Photographs, memories, documents and accounts gradually help preserve what lies behind the names.
FAMILY LIFE
What the family keeps living together.
Conversations, family groups, photographs, media, reactions and shared moments.
WHAT MUST BE PRESERVED
What deserves to be found again tomorrow.
Memories and documents, but also, for some families, a health history or an estate — information that deserves to be carefully organized.
WHAT IT CHOOSES TO PASS ON
What must continue after us.
A family can prepare, starting today, what it will pass on — a message, a Moral Testament — so its memory continues to be understood after it.
PASSING ON
Preserving is not enough.
You still need to know what must continue.
A family can prepare, starting today, a message intended for someone it loves.
It decides who it is for, and under what conditions it should be delivered — a chosen date, or the age reached by its recipient.
It can also write a Moral Testament: not the division of an estate, but what it wants to be understood about itself.
Memory looks toward the past.
Transmission looks toward those who come after us.
HERITA EDITIONS
Some stories deserve to become objects.
Over time, a family accumulates photographs, documents, dates, places, memories and testimonies.
HERITA Editions exists to help a family turn a chosen part of that memory into a composed patrimonial work.
The Guardian chooses what should be told.
HERITA supports its editorial shaping.
The resulting Edition becomes a distinct object in its own right — composed from the family's memories.
Discover HERITA Editions →THE INFRASTRUCTURE
For the family, a House.
To make it last, an infrastructure.
HERITA is not merely trying to place several family tools side by side. The ambition is to build the connective infrastructure through which identity, family governance, preservation and transmission can coexist over time.
This infrastructure moves on two registers.
IDENTITY
HERITA TODAYThe people, bonds and generations that define the family's structure.
PROTECTION
HERITA TODAYThe access rules that determine who, within the family, can see what — and, for certain content placed in the Vault, encryption applied on your device, before it is sent.
GOVERNANCE
HERITA TODAYThe Guardians, the permissions they receive, and the responsibility the family shares.
TRANSMISSION
HERITA TODAYThe ability, starting today, to prepare what must be delivered — and to set the conditions under which it must be.
PORTABILITY
HERITA UNDER CONSTRUCTIONThat every family should one day be able to export the whole of its House, in a readable form, independent of HERITA.
CONTINUITY
HERITA UNDER CONSTRUCTIONThat a family's memory should never depend solely on the existence of the company HERITA.
THE GENERATIONS
Generations are our unit of time.
Products are measured in versions, sessions and cycles.
A family is measured differently: in births, departures, reunions, legacies and generations.
HERITA chooses to build with this horizon in mind.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
A family's memory is not data like any other.
It can hold faces, voices, bonds, documents, confidences — and sometimes what a family holds most intimate.
Building a House for this memory demands more than technology. It demands a responsibility.
That is why HERITA formulated the Guardian's Oath.
OUR MISSION
Every family deserves to cross time.
HERITA builds a House where families can gather who they are, preserve what they love, and pass on what they choose to make last.
Our ambition is to make it a global House of human memory — an infrastructure conceived not for one generation, but for those that follow.