Every life is a path of memories.
We help protect the way back.

Families gather the stories that made a life, so they can be asked for and heard again, in the voices that told them.

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A Walk down Memory Lane

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Down this lane lives a lifetime of memories.
Some days the path back is hard to find.
Memory Lane helps protect that path back.

Seven things no photo album can do

An album holds what a camera caught. Memory Lane was built to hold the rest, the stories, and to keep them the way a mind keeps them. Here is what that takes, and who stays in charge of every part of it.

A watercolor of an elderly woman at a kitchen table speaking gently toward a small vintage microphone, steam rising from her cup of tea

It listens

Voice first: tell the story out loud and it is kept in that voice. Add photos by the shoebox, type when it suits, and a soft illustration is there for any memory that needs one.

A watercolor of three generations in a warm sitting room adding memories together: a woman speaking into her phone, a young man typing on a laptop, and a teenage girl sorting old photographs with her grandfather, steam rising gently from their teacups

A person always reviews first

Nothing goes straight to the person you love.

A watercolour of a young couple walking home through the rain along a coastal lane, sheltering together under his coat, cottages glowing ahead

Illustrations that anchor, never deceive

It paints what was never photographed. Always an illustration, never a fake.

The People and places map in Memory Lane: Nora's memories, people and places connected as a living map of her life

It remembers every story eight ways at once

Which is why asking for the farm finds Grandpa's homestead.

A watercolour of an open handwritten book beside a lamp, with a fountain pen and a moonlit window

A life, written nightly

While the house sleeps, the memories are woven into chapters.

A watercolor close-up of aged hands resting on a photo album as a page turns softly

It speaks, and never invents

Read back from the memories the family approved, or in the family's own voices.

A watercolour of a vintage wooden wireless radio on a dresser lined with blue and white willow-pattern plates

Even the music remembers

Songs from when they were seventeen, because a song can reach a memory that words cannot.

All of it for one calm screen.

Their screen opens straight into their own memories, already playing. No menus, no wrong turns, no error states, and at most a few large buttons.

Every piece above exists so that all of that machinery disappears for them. Just a calm morning. Their day, their music, their people, and their stories one at a time, in the voices they love.

An album holds what a camera caught. Memory Lane holds the rest.

A warm watercolor farmhouse kitchen, steam rising gently from the teapot and the range glowing

And when a day drifts out of reach, there are many ways back.

A watercolour of an older man telling a story across a sunlit kitchen table while two smiling family members listen over tea

Ask in your own words

Ask in your own words and it finds the right memory. Memory Lane searches by meaning first and exact words second, searching out the people, places, or things that made that memory special.

The knowledge graph map view: Nora's memories, people and places as a constellation of linked nodes

Connected like a mind

Stories link to the people and places inside them. From thousands of memories, Memory Lane creates and connects pages and can even build a private wiki of a person's life story, every line tracing back to the memory it came from.

A watercolour of a calm farmhouse kitchen: a navy teapot and two cups of tea on the table beside fresh bread on a board

Gentle by design

No quizzes and no wrong answers. Sessions quietly notice what brings calm and what soothes, and adjust accordingly. Carers see the data and doctors can use it, printed and plain.

The People and Places map in Simple view, live: selecting the story Summers on Lahinch Beach draws animated connection lines to its people and places, then a second selection moves the connections to Our Wedding Day
Nora’s life, connected. The People & Places map exactly as a family or carer sees it, working.

Ask, and the story comes home.

A watercolor illustration of the patient screen: Good morning Nora, a card reading It's Tuesday 7 July and John is visiting at 3 o'clock today, a story card with lamp, teacups and old photographs, and three soft buttons reading Music from my time, Chat, and Ask me about your life

“Tell me about that day at Lahinch.” Memory Lane finds the memory and reads it back in the contributor’s own voice or, if none is available, a personalised voice can be selected, with the pictures and photos that go with it.

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See it working

These are real screens from Memory Lane, shown with our demo family so no real memories are on display.

The Share a memory screen with three choices: Speak it, Start with photos, and Type it
Three gentle ways in: speak it, start with photos, or type it.
A memory called The kitchen ceilidh showing its date, place, people and story
Each memory keeps its people, places and story together.
The People and Places map showing memories, people and places connected as a map
The People and Places map shows how a life connects.

Be among the first families

Memory Lane is welcoming a small number of families during our pilot. Tell us a little about yours, and we'll be in touch when there's a place for you.

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Built with love, for the ones you love

Memory Lane was created for families navigating memory loss together. We believe every memory matters, and that sharing them can bring connection and joy to everyone involved.

An honest note: Memory Lane is a way for families to keep and share their stories. It is not a medical device, does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or therapy, and is not a substitute for professional care.

The people behind Memory Lane

Audrey O'Neill

Co-founder and CEO

Audrey leads Memory Lane with a scientist's care. She is an ASCP board certified medical laboratory scientist with a BSc in Medical Laboratory Science from West Liberty University, and degrees in Analytical Science and Applied Chemistry from Ireland. Quality and safety thinking runs through everything we build.

John Mc Bride

Co-founder and CTO

John is an AI and UX leader with more than 20 years building products where people and technology meet, from enterprise AI platforms at SAE International to web services used by millions of New York City families. He is a named co-inventor on US Patent 11,520,470.

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Memory Lane is made by Global Quest AI LLC, registered in Pennsylvania, USA (entity 14027826) since December 2024. You can verify us on the Pennsylvania Department of State business search.

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