A revolutionary approach to preserving authentic narratives through their fundamental building blocks
The Smallest Meaningful Unit is a discrete fragment of authentic speech or memory that preserves the raw, unfiltered quality of how stories are actually told.
SMUs maintain the interviewee's authentic linguistic fingerprint, including idiosyncratic phrases and emotional immediacy, while eliminating the interpretive layer between raw experience and final narrative.
Maintains the raw, unfiltered quality of how stories are actually told, including idiosyncratic phrases and emotional immediacy.
Breaks experiences down to their fundamental components—speech fragments that contain complete emotional or informational beats.
Assembles narratives from authentic fragments rather than imposing structure, allowing patterns to emerge organically.
Maintain raw speech patterns and linguistic fingerprints exactly as spoken
Let the structure form organically from the authentic fragments
Build narratives from real experiences without forced transitions
Maintain how people actually process and make meaning of experiences
"Authenticity is not achieved by crafting better narratives about our lives, but by more faithfully preserving how we actually experience them."
An SMU is a discrete fragment of authentic speech or memory that:
Extracts and processes raw interview snippets, preserving their authentic qualities while removing tangents.
Maintains linguistic fingerprints and speech patterns that reveal how individuals actually process experiences.
Organizes and stores SMUs with minimal contextual metadata for powerful retrieval and organization.
Provides an assembly environment where narrative can emerge organically from authentic components.
Experience the power of authentic narrative construction that preserves the specific texture of lived experience.