Story Session
A guided conversation that captures the stories only you or someone you love can tell.
See Story Sessions →Preserve what matters most
Some things should never be lost.
Photographs show what happened. MIA helps preserve the voices, stories, people and meaning behind them — so your family can understand more than a camera roll ever could.
Explore the working MIA prototype → Local browser demonstration — cloud accounts are not live yet.
Real voicesOriginal filesFamily storiesPortable archive
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Your life.Your people.
Your story.Kept for when it matters.
A photograph shows what happened.MIA keeps why it mattered.
Why MIA matters
A lifetime can live in ten seconds.
Photos matter. But the voice, the laugh, the people and the story around them are what make a memory human.
Read why MIA exists →10 secondsSome things should never be lost.
Simple by design
How MIA works.
Gather what matters, add the human story, organise it into a family archive, and keep it portable for the people you love.
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See the MIA experience
From one memory to a family archive.
See how photographs, voice, video, people, places and timeline come together in the MIA workspace.
10 secondsSee how MIA becomes a family archive.
Available now
You do not have to wait for the full platform.
MIA can already help families capture stories and organise important material as a human-led service. The software grows around real work, not the other way round.
Archive Rescue
Photos, phones, documents, voice notes and old folders organised into something your family can actually use.
Start an Archive Rescue →Life Story
A deeper multi-session project bringing together voice, photographs, people, places and a life timeline.
Explore Life Story →Story by Phone
A gentle option for older relatives who would rather talk than learn another app.
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From scattered to meaningful
Turn boxes, phones and half-remembered stories into one family archive.
Many families already have the material. The problem is that it is spread across albums, devices, cloud exports, notebooks and people's memories. Archive Rescue starts with what you already have.
Receive→Preserve original→Organise→Add context→Export
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Stories & voice
Sometimes their voice is the memory.
A photograph can preserve a face. A voice recording preserves the laugh, accent, pauses and way somebody told a story. MIA keeps the original recording alongside anything created from it.
“Tell me about the house where you grew up.”One question can unlock a story nobody else knows.
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Their words. Not ours.
If they said it, preserve it. If they did not, say so.
MIA's future interactive experiences are being designed around genuine source material — not invented memories or a system guessing what somebody “would have said”.
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For Later
Some words belong to another day.
Record a message, story or wish now and keep clear instructions beside it: who it is for, what you intended, and when you would want it considered for release.
Important: the current prototype can record release instructions. Production release, identity verification and post-death workflows are still being developed and legally reviewed. AI will not decide whether somebody has died, is “ready”, or should receive sensitive material.
1You chooseWhat, who and your instruction
→2MIA records itYour instruction stays with the material
→3People verifyHuman review, identity and authority
→4Release or holdNever an AI welfare decision
Trust before technology
Your memories stay yours.
MIA is being built around clear permission, source preservation, optional publicity and portability. We would rather tell you what is not live yet than make a promise the technology cannot support.
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Credentials & accountability
Trust should be visible — and verifiable.
MIA is a product of ORVIA Oversight Ltd. These are public trust signals you can check for yourself; they are not presented as endorsements of every MIA feature.
Companies House
ORVIA Oversight Ltd
Company 16123685 · verify the company record
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Registered with the ICO
Registration ZC152311 · verify the data-controller record
Armed Forces Covenant
ORVIA publicly supports the Armed Forces Covenant
VETERAN-OWNED
Trust A Veteran®
ORVIA identifies publicly as a veteran-owned business
The founder behind MIA
Built inside ORVIA’s human-first approach.
John McGill founded ORVIA Oversight around a simple idea: paperwork is rarely the whole story. His background includes senior operational responsibility across independent ambulance services, regulated care, local government and overseas security, alongside ongoing professional development in safeguarding, health and social care leadership and strategic management.
MIA takes that same discipline into something more personal: preserving the real words, photographs, voices and context that make up a person’s story — without manufacturing what was never there.
Founding Families
Help shape the service while we build the full platform.
Founding Families are the first households helping MIA learn what families actually value. Assisted onboarding and early benefits come first; hosted cloud subscriptions will only be sold as live once the production security, storage and legal gates are complete.
£59proposed first-year founding membership
Membership scope and payment terms are confirmed with you before payment. It is not a promise of currently unavailable cloud storage.✓ Assisted start✓ Founder updates✓ Early service access✓ Input into the product✓ Migration benefits when hosted accounts launchJoin Founding Families
Real product status
What works now — and what is still being built.
No future feature is presented as operational simply because it appears in the vision.
Working prototype now
- Create, edit and delete memories locally
- Photo, video, audio and documents
- SHA-256 and source/provenance fields
- Timeline, people and places
- For Later instructions
- Archive export with originals
Production build next
- Secure accounts and cloud storage
- MFA and account recovery
- Multi-device sync and contributor permissions
- Backups and production monitoring
- Verified release workflows
- Subscription archive plans
Start with one story
You've probably been meaning to do this.
It does not have to begin with a huge archive. Start with one conversation, one box of photographs, or one person whose stories matter to you.
