A few common questions.

A growing record of ordinary dads. Each entry is built from member answers, photographs, and small details added over time. The archive is private by default; the member decides what becomes part of any public piece.

No. Entries begin free. Founding members (the first 1,000 accepted entries) are permanently named in the archive and receive a numbered card when shipping begins.

By default, only Dad-Scaped editorial. Nothing moves forward into anything public (a film, a print piece, a sponsored story) without the member’s permission, in writing.

Yes. Email hello@buildsomething.co at any time. We’ll confirm and remove the entry from the archive.

You’ll be invited back throughout the year, sometimes on a birthday, sometimes around a holiday, sometimes because a photograph turned up in a drawer. Members can add photographs, notes, and updates to a record at any time.

No. Beginning a Record is free, today and going forward. There is no subscription. The first 1,000 entries become Founding Members and receive a numbered card, free.

One numbered card, given free to the first 1,000 people who begin a Record. It ships at launch and is the key to your archive: your Record and the artifact built from it. It isn’t a subscription; it’s the mark of being early.

You can write your own record about him. Create His Record and choose “Tell us about your dad.” The entry is yours; it doesn’t require his answers.

Yes. Create His Record and choose “Send him the interview.” You enter his name and email, and we send him a link to the record on your behalf. He answers when he’s ready.

A record can be written about him by anyone who knew him. The archive exists for everything that happens before anyone realizes it matters, including the things only the people closest to him still remember.