We’re a small team building the thing we wished we’d had.

Mourning began the way most things worth building begin: with a death in the family, and a stack of paper, and a group text that became unmanageable, and a feeling that none of the tools we already had were quite right for any of it.

We are a small team. Some of us are designers. Some of us are engineers. All of us have lost someone, and most of us were too embarrassed at the time to admit how little we knew about what came next.

We are not affiliated with any funeral home, cemetery, insurance company, or estate firm. We do not sell ads. We do not sell data. We do not have a sales team that will call your grieving uncle. The product is built for the families using it, and that is the only way it can be built without becoming something else.

The longer arc we are working toward is a permanent digital home for memory, legacy, and family history. The first weeks after a loss are the moment a family is most likely to need shared software — and the moment they are least likely to be able to build it themselves. We want to be useful in those weeks, and we want to still be there in twenty years.

If any of this resonates, write to us. The address is hello@mourning.io. A real person reads it.