Your project outgrew your memory.
Genora is a thinking space for one long-running project — a book, a dissertation, a multi-year investigation, a large strategy document.
You sit down after two weeks away, open the file, read your last three paragraphs — and still can’t move.
You know where the file is. That was never the problem. What’s gone is why. Why you wrote it that way. What you’d already ruled out. What was supposed to come next.
That never got written down. It was in your head when you stopped, and then it wasn’t.
So the next session starts with forty minutes of archaeology. Then you stop opening it on a free Tuesday, because a free Tuesday isn’t enough to get back in.
Serious work rarely dies of difficulty. It dies of re-entry cost.Most projects like yours don’t fail. They go quiet.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
How it works
Bring what you already have.Drafts, notes, sources, transcripts — the material that exists right now. No migration, no reorganizing, no new system to maintain alongside the one you have.
It reads across all of it.Not one file at a time. Your project as one body of work — and when you ask, it argues with the whole of it, not with the file you happen to have open.
You come back and continue.What you decided, and why, is waiting where you left it — the open threads, the things you deferred, the tension you never resolved. Instead of forty minutes of archaeology, you pick up where your best thinking stopped.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
Who’s building this
I’m Bethany Warren, and I’ve built Genora alone for two years — because I kept hearing the same failure described the same way by people doing serious long-form work, and because it kept happening to me.
I don’t design it in a vacuum. I sit with dissertation coaches and with the people doing this work to learn how the work actually goes, and that decides what gets built next.
25,000 people have signed up, knowing it was in beta. More than 40 pay for it today, mostly researchers and long-form writers. No paid marketing, no outside funding.
What I’m building
Genora is a thinking space for one long-running project — a book, a dissertation, a multi-year investigation, a large strategy document.
It holds the state of the work across months: what you established, what you decided, and the reasoning that would otherwise disappear between sessions.
It will argue with you when you ask. Where your argument stands. Where two things you wrote disagree. What it makes of the whole thing.
It won’t decide for you. It proposes; you decide what’s kept. Nothing you didn’t approve becomes part of the record of your work. You do the thinking. Genora keeps it whole.
What exists today, and what doesn’t
The workspace, uploading your material, conversation with your own documents in context, and the workbench where you keep what matters. The free version already does this — you can upload your material and talk to it about your project.
The continuity layer — the part that holds the state of the work across months and hands back the reasoning you’d lost. This is what founding access is for.
Anything not named above.
The free version on this site today does not do this. That’s why I’m not sending you there.
I’m not going to give you a date I don’t believe. You’ll get a build update every two weeks with where it actually stands, and the moment there’s a date I’ll hold myself to, you’ll have it.
I’m telling you the continuity layer is unproven because it is. Nobody has used it through months of real work and come back to tell you it solved the problem. That’s the risk in this, and it’s why founding access costs less than it will later.
The limits, verified against what’s actually running
| File size | Up to 50 MB |
|---|---|
| File types | PDF · Word (.docx) · Excel (.xlsx) · PowerPoint (.pptx) · CSV · RTF · plain text · Markdown |
| Not supported | Old .doc and .xls — save as .docx or PDF |
| Per document | Up to 500,000 characters, roughly 200 pages |
| Documents per project | No limit |
| How much it reads per answer | Up to 50 documents and about 120,000 characters |
Two things most tools won’t tell you.
It knows every file you’ve added — the full list is always in front of it — and its answers are limited to what it actually read, not what it wishes it had read.
Large PDFs are the weak point. 50 MB is what Genora accepts; it isn’t a promise about what will extract. Image-heavy PDFs can fail well below that gate, and no PDF over 30 MB has succeeded yet. When a file fails, Genora tells you which one and why.
Nobody has run a 400-document corpus through the continuity layer yet. If that’s your situation, I’d rather you knew before paying than found out in month four.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
The founding terms
$399 for the first year. Your twelve months begin the day access opens — not the day you pay. Renews at $499. Or two years for $749, same terms and same refund rights on the full amount.
60 days, money back, no conditions. The clock starts at access. One email. No explanation, no proof, no exit interview. A refund doesn’t delete anything — your export stays available for 30 days after.
Export any time, without asking. Your record and your material, in a form that opens without Genora.
If I lose your record through a failure on Genora’s side during your founding year, I refund your full year, even past 60 days. And I won’t argue the point with you — if you tell me your record is gone, that’s the end of the conversation.
Room for five projects. Each one gets your material, the conversation, the workbench, and the continuity layer.
Email me directly through your founding year. There’s no support department and I won’t pretend there is — no promised response time, no 1:1 calls. The upside is that the person building it is the person reading the feedback.
Nothing is charged today. Founding access opens at launch, and you decide then.
Why apply now instead of at launch
You get to watch me build. You have no relationship with me and no track record to check. That’s the honest problem with this page. Every two weeks between now and launch, you’ll get what shipped, one decision and what I rejected, one thing that was harder than expected, and the ship window restated. Applying now means deciding on observation. Waiting means deciding on faith.
You get to affect what ships. Only possible now — once it’s built, it’s built.
The founding price is locked — and it’s the least important of the three.
Applications close about two weeks before launch, and people who applied get the first chance to buy.
No countdown. No seat counter. No cap. No fake scarcity.
This isn’t for you if
- Your project is short, or you’ll be done in a few weeks
- You want something that writes for you, edits for you, or tells you what to think
- You want a general AI assistant — this holds one body of work, not everything
- You need it today. This isn’t ready, and I’d rather you know that now
Apply for founding access
Every application is read by one person: me. Some won’t be a fit, and I’ll say so.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
There’s a free version that lets you upload your material and talk to it about your project. It does not hold the state of the work between sessions — that’s the part being built.