Birchwood Media

What we do

We re-imagine solutions in spaces where everyone has quietly agreed that the current answer is good enough. Reconnecting with old classmates, telling your own story, arguing productively about things that matter, deciding to act when you know others will act with you — these are ordinary human problems, and most of the software built for them settles for the obvious shape.

We are interested in the shape nobody tried. That means starting from what people actually want to do rather than from what is easy to build, and being willing to carry an idea across several markets until it finds the one where it belongs.

Live

• Old‑Friends.co A reconnection service for high school alumni across the United States and Canada — 40,000 schools and almost two million graduating classes, with the messaging, memorials, yearbooks and reunion tools that a class actually needs to find each other again.

Coming soon

• My‑Story.online Most people intend to write down their life story and never do — the blank page defeats them. My‑Story is a guided autobiography assistant that interviews you, one memory at a time, and assembles the result into something your family will keep. Built to connect directly with the school and class histories already on Old‑Friends.

On the back burner

• FoundU.online People finding, for the searches that ordinary directories give up on. Built and running; awaiting its turn.
• FlashGyft Intentional, engaging giving — connecting people in need with group empathy and the resources to match it.
• ProveUsWrong A debate wiki for contested questions, where positions are held to their evidence instead of their volume.
• IWill‑IfYouWill.com Conditional commitment at scale. Nobody moves first alone; everybody moves once enough others have pledged to move too.
• New Dawn Plain-language economic education and civic engagement, for people underserved by both.
• CurioHub Short-form video, games and quizzes with rather more underneath them than the format usually allows.
• Sherpa Server inventory and log monitoring for people who run their own infrastructure and would like to sleep.
• TamsMagic Vocabulary flashcards for language learners, built around how recall actually works.
• Introductions project A dating platform that borrows from facilitated group conversation instead of the endless catalogue.
• Relationship skills project An online engagement tool for young adults — guided practice in communication and connection, combining conversation with real activities.
• News project Aggregation with a feed the reader genuinely controls, rather than one tuned to hold them.
• Cloud game A small game about seeing shapes in the sky, and how differently everyone sees them.

Ideas in various states of readiness. Some are built, some are sketched, all are waiting their turn.

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