How I use AI here

Updated August 2026

I use AI in this business, and I'd rather you hear that from me than wonder about it.

Short version: it helps me get things made. It doesn't decide what I think, it doesn't write in my voice, and it never touches your family's photos without you asking.

Making the blog, the podcast, and the pins

What it helps with

  • Getting my own thoughts into shape. I write in circles. AI helps me turn a pile of notes into an outline I can actually work from.

  • Pinterest pins. The layouts are built from my own brand — my fonts, my colors, my photos. Titles and descriptions start as drafts and I rewrite the ones that don't sound like me.

  • Podcast transcripts and show notes, so every episode has a readable version.

  • Planning. Keeping my calendar honest and arguing with me when I'm about to take on too much.

What it doesn't do

  • Generate photos. Every image here is a real photograph or a design built from my own materials. Nothing on this site is a made-up picture of a family that doesn't exist.

  • Speak for me. The voice on Postcards for Posterity is mine. No synthetic audio, ever.

  • Replace my judgment. The tools I recommend are ones I've personally used. The research I cite, I've read. If I haven't tried something, I say so.

If you're buying something

The templates and books I sell are designed by me. The layouts, the prompts, the questions inside the Grandparent Interview Book — those came out of my own head and my own testing, not a generator.

Where AI helps on the product side, it's the unglamorous part: formatting, proofreading, building the listing copy. Nothing you'd hold in your hands.

If we work together one-on-one

Your family's photos are yours. That means:

I don't put your images through any AI tool unless you ask me to. Not for restoration, not for tagging, not for anything. If you'd like AI help repairing a damaged photo, I'm glad to — but you decide, and you tell me first.

The original always stays untouched. You keep an unedited copy of whatever we started with. Nothing gets overwritten.

For older photos, I'll ask first. The relatives in the box in the closet can't weigh in on what happens to their picture. Some families feel strongly about that, and I'd rather bring it up than assume.

Because this brand is about the real stuff — the blurry ones, the terrible haircut, the birthday where everyone cried laughing. It would be strange to build something about keeping what actually happened and be cagey about how it gets made.

Questions about any of this, just ask: hello@lovemaddily.com