What exactly is Oria?

Oria is an all-in-one platform that provides organizations with the tools to find people, collect their authentic oral histories, and build a secure, lasting digital archive.

Oria is designed for any organization and individual that serves as a keeper of history.

How is Oria different from other tools?

Oria provides a branded portal, centralized campaign management, secure archiving, and easy tools for sharing the stories you collect.

How can my organization start using Oria?

Schedule a personalized demo with our team to see how Oria can help your organization build a living archive.

Where Oria Began

A personal loss.

Q: What is a 'Storytelling Portal'?

The Storytelling Portal is a custom, branded webpage where community members can view campaigns and submit their memories.

Q: What happens during a demo?

A demo is a virtual session where our team shows the platform, answers questions, and recommends how Oria can support your goals.

Hundreds of conversations.

A personal loss.

One platform built to make sure it never happens again.

Oria began with a loss. When our founder Josiah lost his grandmother's stories because the tools to capture and keep them simply didn't exist, he started asking whether others had faced the same.

After hundreds of conversations, he realized he wasn't alone. We built Oria to bridge that gap, turning fleeting moments into a permanent legacy.

See how it works

Book a Demo

Where Oria Began

A personal loss.

Hundreds of conversations.

A personal loss.

One platform built to make sure it never happens again.

Oria began with a loss. When our founder Josiah lost his grandmother's stories because the tools to capture and keep them simply didn't exist, he started asking whether others had faced the same.

After hundreds of conversations, he realized he wasn't alone. We built Oria to bridge that gap, turning fleeting moments into a permanent legacy.

See how it works

Book a Demo

Where Oria Began

A personal loss.

Hundreds of
conversations.

A personal loss.

One platform built to make sure it never happens again.

Oria began with a loss. When our founder Josiah lost his grandmother's stories because the tools to capture and keep them simply didn't exist, he started asking whether others had faced the same.

After hundreds of conversations, he realized he wasn't alone. We built Oria to bridge that gap, turning fleeting moments into a permanent legacy.

See how it works

Book a Demo

Challenge

Communities Are Losing Their Stories, From a Lack of Infrastructure.

Research shows that 90% of oral history is lost within three generations. Not because communities stop caring, but because the infrastructure to capture and preserve it was never built for them. Recordings scatter across hard drives. Consent goes undocumented. Elders pass before anyone captures what they know.

Libraries, museums, universities, and community organizations want to solve this. They have simply been handed fragmented tools and told to figure it out. Preserving shared human history deserves infrastructure as resilient as the stories themselves.

Our Solution

Allow anyone to launch their own library.

We built Oria to be the digital library your community deserves. Instead of wrestling with scattered flash drives and chaotic file folders, you can launch a campaign to collect stories instantly through text, audio, or video prompts. Whether you’re recording live at an event kiosk or through our mobile app, Oria automatically organizes the collection and does the research for you. You focus on the voices while Oria builds a searchable history.

Stewardship

We charge whats necessary to sustain our work not to maximize returns.

Privacy

No third-party sales.
Every partner submission comes with documented consent and transparency.

Speed

Minutes, not months. Oria helps you move fast when time matters most.

Accessibility

Preserving history shouldn’t require resources or expertise. Oria makes it accessible to everyone.

Partners

Designed for Keepers of History

Oria empowers any organization to become a center for oral history and community connection.

"What you have here is valuable. It would work well here at the Library of Congress."

Stephen

Library of Congress

"We want to say thank you because Oria is a great tool for us, to be honest."

Paul

Prince George’s County Memorial Library

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Our Team

Translating human experience into digital legacy.

We are an agile, technically-driven team dedicated to building impactful tools for preservation. We create intuitive digital archives that empower everyone to capture and protect their personal stories forever.

Trusted by Leading Institutions & Community Organizations

FAQ

What is Oria?

Oria is an oral history and storytelling platform that helps organizations collect, archive, and share community stories. It provides tools for outreach, guided submissions, campaign management, and digital preservation.

Who uses Oria?

Libraries, museums, senior care centers, therapists, nonprofits, cultural institutions, and local government organizations.

What makes Oria different?

Unlike basic recording tools, Oria offers a complete end-to-end system: custom community portals, organized archives, analytics, secure storage, and sharing tools—all in one platform.

What is a "Storytelling Portal"?

The Storytelling Portal is a central hub where your community members can learn about your storytelling campaigns and submit their memories directly to your archive.

How do organizations get started?

Book a demo to get a personalized walkthrough and a tailored onboarding plan.

What happens during a demo?

A demo is a one-on-one virtual meeting where our team will show you the Oria platform in action. We will answer your questions and explore how our features can be tailored to fit your specific needs, whether it's for fundraising, historical preservation, or community engagement.

Priceless Stories Are Lost Every Day

They are tragically lost because the profound act of collection has historically been vastly too complicated for everyday people.

Oria relentlessly removes those barriers completely. We provide the meticulously structured, comprehensive storytelling engine truly needed to seamlessly capture, archive, and share memories forever.

Book a Demo

Priceless Stories Are Lost Every Day

They are tragically lost because the profound act of collection has historically been vastly too complicated for everyday people.

Oria relentlessly removes those barriers completely. We provide the meticulously structured, comprehensive storytelling engine truly needed to seamlessly capture, archive, and share memories forever.

Book a Demo

Priceless Stories Are Lost Every Day

They are tragically lost because the profound act of collection has historically been vastly too complicated for everyday people.

Oria relentlessly removes those barriers completely. We provide the meticulously structured, comprehensive storytelling engine truly needed to seamlessly capture, archive, and share memories forever.

Book a Demo