A box of photos arrives, and half the faces are strangers to you — but may not be strangers to a half-sibling you haven't met yet. BrainCopy clusters every face, maps who appears with whom, extracts dates and places, and gives you a searchable, shareable tool to reconstruct the family tree behind the pictures.
You've done the DNA test. You've found a half-sibling. You've been handed a box. And now every photo is a question: who is this? Where was this taken? What year? Whose wedding? The people who could answer are gone, or unreachable, or reluctant.
The obvious tools don't help. Google Photos groups faces by identity but won't tell you who anyone is. Ancestry has records but no faces. Family members have memories but no time. You have a thousand photos and a dozen questions per photo.
And you can't share the archive easily. Every time a cousin-you've-just-met might recognise someone, you're emailing JPEGs with captions — and losing track of what was already asked, who answered, what's still unknown.
Photograph each picture (or scan them). Upload the batch. BrainCopy handles thousands of images, extracts dates from photo backs via OCR where written, and auto-corrects orientation.
AWS Rekognition (used with strict data-retention settings) clusters faces so every photo of "Unknown Woman A" is grouped, from 1952 childhood to 1998 old age. Name the cluster once and every photo of her across the archive is labelled.
Claude Vision reads the context — a military uniform's insignia, a storefront in the background, a graduation gown's colour — and drafts a caption for each photo. These clues narrow down years, places, and events you didn't know were there.
Tag a face as "identified by aunt Kerstin, Dec 2026." Send a specific cluster to a half-sibling for naming. Track who's been asked, who answered, what's still unknown. Every identification is logged with a date and a source.
As faces get names and relationships get confirmed, BrainCopy builds a people graph — who appears with whom, at what ages, in what places. Over months, the pattern of the family behind the box emerges.
50% off the €10/month subscription, forever, for adopted adults reconstructing a family archive. Your discount never expires.
ADOPTED50). Face detection + vision on a 1,000-photo box is typically €30–€80 one-time. Much cheaper than a genealogist, and you keep the tool afterwards.Takes about 30 seconds to sign up. You can start importing immediately.
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