The vault

The stone is the key. This is the door.

Granite will hold a name for a thousand years and will never tell you what the person sounded like. So we stopped asking it to.

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  • Editable For as long as you keep it
  • Code Dynamic, re-pointable for life
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a life well lived

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Sierra

The Heart of the Herd

1998 — 2013 · Buckskin Mare
Sierra, a buckskin mare, at the arena fence

Though she has crossed the pasture to greener hills, her spirit is timeless. This stone anchors her memory, her photographs, and her wild, loving heart to the earth — forever.

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Dayna, on the twenty-eight nights

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  • Voice

    Audio memories

    The voicemail you never deleted. A laugh caught on a home video. A bark, a whinny, a name being called across a yard. This is the one people are not prepared for.

  • Image

    The whole gallery

    Not the six photos that fit on a headstone. All of them — the blurry ones, the ones with somebody's thumb in the corner, the ones nobody has scanned yet.

  • Text

    A life, written down

    As long or as short as it needs to be. Written by whoever knew them best, and edited by anyone in the family who remembers it differently.

  • Time

    Still being added to

    A grandchild uploads something in 2049 and it appears on the same stone. The page is alive. The granite is what keeps it findable.

Who can see it

Open Anyone who scans the stone sees the page. The default for a garden marker.
Unlisted Only people with the code. Not indexed, not searchable, not linked from anywhere.
Private A passphrase you give to family. Useful while a page is still being written.

What it takes

  • Photographs JPEG, PNG, HEIC · no count limit
  • Audio MP3, M4A, WAV · voicemails included
  • Video MP4, MOV · up to 20 minutes a clip
  • Writing As long as it needs to be
  • Documents PDF — service sheets, letters, certificates
  • Export A plain archive you keep a copy of

See one that is already finished. Sierra’s page.

Open Sierra’s page