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Words you've been meaning
to say — delivered when it matters.

Record a message today. We'll deliver it to the person you love — on the right date, at the right moment, or after you're gone.

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The Idea

A letter that arrives
at exactly the right
moment in time.

Messages in Time is a private platform where you record personal messages — video, audio, or written — and we hold them safely until the moment you choose to release them.

Think of the things you've always wanted to say but haven't found the right moment. A father's advice for his daughter's wedding day. A grandmother's voice, recorded before Alzheimer's takes it. A spouse's love letter to be opened on a 25th anniversary they may not share.

These words exist inside of us. Messages in Time gives them a path forward.

The Parent

Records advice for her daughter's graduation, wedding, and first child — from the hospital bed, years before any of those moments arrive. Her voice, her words, delivered on time.

The Alzheimer's Diagnosis

A husband records himself — still fully present — for the family holidays he may not be lucid for. His grandchildren will meet him as he truly was.

The Soldier Overseas

Records a message for his children to open if he doesn't come home — and a second one for their 18th birthdays, just in case he does.

The Anniversary Capsule

A couple records messages to each other on their wedding day. Sealed for 25 years. Opened together — or alone.

The Process

Four steps. A lifetime of meaning.

Simple enough to do today. Secure enough to trust with something irreplaceable.

1

Record

Video, audio, or written. Upload from any device. We accept any format and process it securely.

2

Set the Trigger

Choose a date, a life event, or designate a trusted Caretaker who will trigger delivery when the moment comes.

3

We Hold It Safely

Your messages are encrypted and held in secure storage. No one can access them — not even us — until the trigger fires.

4

Delivered

Your recipient receives a private, beautifully presented message — by email, text, or physical mail — exactly as you intended.

Three Ways to Deliver

Every kind of
when is covered.

Scheduled

Date-Based Delivery

Choose an exact date — a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation year, a future holiday. We deliver at the moment you specify, no matter how far ahead.

Event-Triggered

Life Event Delivery

Assign a trusted Caretaker — a family member, attorney, or friend — who can trigger delivery when a life event occurs: a wedding, a birth, a coming-of-age milestone.

Legacy

Legacy Delivery

For messages meant to outlast you. An annual check-in keeps your account active. If you miss it, a 30-day grace period begins. A confirmed Caretaker authorizes final delivery.

Why We Built This

The things left unsaid are the ones that haunt us longest.

"Every family has words that were never said. We built Messages in Time so they don't have to stay that way."

Start Your First Message
6.9M
Americans living with
Alzheimer's today
73M
Baby Boomers entering
legacy planning age
$99
One-time price.
No subscription. Ever.
Years your messages
remain in delivery
Who Uses Messages in Time

Built for anyone with
something worth saying.

🧠

Alzheimer's & Dementia Families

Capture the voice, wisdom, and personality of a loved one while they're still fully present. Give future generations a way to know who they truly were.

🎗️

Terminal Illness Patients

Record the messages you want delivered after you're gone — to children, grandchildren, spouses, old friends. Say everything you need to say, on your own terms.

🎖️

Military Families

Deployed servicemembers record messages for their children in case they don't return home — and for birthdays and milestones if they do. Peace of mind on both ends.

👴

Estate & Legacy Planners

Pair Messages in Time with a will, trust, or estate plan. Legal instructions handle the assets; Messages in Time handles the things that matter more.

💍

Couples & Families

Wedding day time capsules. Letters to children to open at 18. Anniversary surprises. Messages in Time is the gift that arrives exactly when it should.

Faith Communities

Record reflections, blessings, and testimonies for future generations of your family or congregation. Spiritual legacy preserved in your own words.

Partnership Opportunities

Bring your members
something they can't
put a price on.

We offer three partnership structures — built to fit the way your organization already works with the people who trust you.

Reseller
Offer Messages in Time directly to your members as a valued benefit.
$20 per account
Commission on every sale
  • Branded partner landing page
  • Co-marketed to your member base
  • Dedicated onboarding support
  • Monthly reporting dashboard
  • White-glove concierge available
Free Legacy
We provide fully-funded accounts to a specific population your organization serves.
100% free
For qualifying populations
  • Designated free account pool
  • Mission-aligned partnership
  • Joint co-branding & PR
  • Featured as founding partner
  • Alzheimer's, dementia, Gold Star families

Organizations we're building toward

Alzheimer's Association AARP USAA Gary Sinise Foundation American Legion VFW ACTEC Estate Attorneys Financial Planning Association Wedding & Event Industry Faith Organizations
Pricing

One price. Forever yours.

No monthly fees. No subscriptions. No wondering if your messages will still be there. You pay once — they're held for life.

$99
One-time. Lifetime account.
  • Unlimited messages (video, audio, written)
  • Three delivery types: date, event, and legacy
  • Trusted Caretaker designation
  • Multi-recipient delivery per message
  • End-to-end encrypted secure storage
  • FFmpeg video watermarking & archival
  • Annual liveness check-in with grace period
  • No subscription. No renewal. Ever.
Reserve Your Account — $99

We invest your payment in low-risk instruments. The returns fund operations. Your money works — so you never pay again.

Our First Mission

Before the platform launches — 500 free accounts, given to families living with Alzheimer's and dementia.

Alzheimer's and dementia steal presence while the body remains. There's a window — sometimes months, sometimes just weeks — where the person is still fully themselves. Messages in Time was built, in part, to help families use that window.

We're partnering with the Alzheimer's Association and related organizations to provide fully-funded accounts to diagnosed patients and their families — before we charge a single dollar publicly. This is not a PR strategy. It's a founding commitment.

Contact Us About This Program
500
Free accounts
reserved for
Alzheimer's &
dementia families
at launch
The Platform Vision

Where we're headed,
one product at a time.

Messages in Time (V1)

The core product. Scheduled, event-triggered, and legacy message delivery. Web-first, 500 free accounts to Alzheimer's families, $99 lifetime pricing.

Native iOS App + Unsaid (V2)

Mobile app for message recording and Caretaker triggering. Plus V2: Unsaid — a dedicated legacy delivery product for final messages, triggered by confirmed passing.

Vault (V3) — Generational Archive

A family-wide repository of photos, videos, and documents with generational transfer and inheritance designation. The family archive that outlasts everyone in it.

AI Avatar Preservation (V4)

Record yourself extensively. An AI model learns your voice, manner, and memory. Future generations can have a conversation with who you were. Built on Vault data.

Proprietary Technology

Three-Party Delivery Architecture

Messages in Time holds a provisional patent on our core Sender/Caretaker/Recipient delivery architecture — the mechanism that makes event-triggered and legacy delivery both trustworthy and legally defensible.

The Caretaker is a trusted third party — a family member, attorney, or friend — who holds no access to message content but carries the authority to trigger delivery when a life event occurs. For legacy messages, a Caretaker must actively confirm the sender's passing before any delivery begins, preventing premature or fraudulent release.

The death-triggered send is governed by a layered verification system: the sender completes an annual check-in to confirm they are living. If the check-in is missed, a 30-day grace period begins. Only after the grace period expires — and a designated Caretaker independently confirms the death — does the delivery queue activate. No single point of failure. No accidental sends.

This architecture is the foundation of both Messages in Time (V1) and Unsaid (V2), and is designed to be defensible, auditable, and deeply human in its safeguards.

Get Started

Say what you mean to say.
We'll make sure it arrives.

Reserve your account today. $99, one time. Yours forever.

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