My story

UNA is named after my grandmother.

She carried a world inside her voice. This is the place I wish I’d had.

Why UNA exists

The interview I never did

My grandmother had eighty-three years of stories inside her. Stories about leaving one life behind for another, about raising a family through impossible decades, about faith that carried her through things she never talked about — until someone finally asked.

I thought I had years to hear them all. I had six weeks.

After she passed, I realized the problem isn’t that people don’t have stories worth telling. It’s that no one builds a place worthy of keeping them. The way she said my name, the way she laughed at her own kitchen table — I never pressed record. She left me the silence that taught me what to build.

That’s what UNA is: a place worthy of what you have to say. Not a place to perform, or to chase a streak, or to feed anything. A calm, private room where the things that matter can be set down and kept for good.

Before I could build it, I had to say it out loud. So I wrote songs — a hundred and six of them, ten albums circling one question until I could finally answer it. I wrote the words; the voices that sing them were generated — the same merge of art and technology UNA itself would become. When the songs were finished, I built the place they had been asking for.

If not now, when?

A recipe card covered in handwriting on a kitchen table, an empty chair pushed back behind it

From the one who builds it

What I believe

I believe your most personal moments deserve a privacy you don’t have to configure — the kind that’s built in.

I believe family stories are the most valuable things anyone will ever own, and that they’re disappearing every day.

I believe technology should protect what matters, not feed on it.

I’m trying to build something you’d trust with your most sacred thoughts without hesitating. That’s the whole ambition.

One more thing. You won’t find my name on this site. That’s on purpose — this place isn’t about me. It’s about what you keep.

Who makes UNA

UNA is independent — built in Salt Lake City, with no venture capital and no board of directors. The only people I answer to are the ones who trust this place with their stories. I’m a member of the community I’m building for, and I keep my own record here. Unnamed on this site, but not a secret: write to me and I’ll sign my reply with my real name. And one structural promise: UNA never takes investments or donations, and nobody will ever ask you for money in UNA’s name outside the app or this site — only published prices, shown in full before you pay.

UNA is an independent work, not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Her name was Una and she carried a world inside her voice
From a song I wrote — “Her Name Was Una” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

Start your own record.

The same quiet place, waiting for what you have to say — before it’s gone.