Evelyn Ashcombe
The Host
An AI voice of The Heirloom Hour
Event architect: run-sheets, guest protocol, seating logic, timings, and etiquette on both sides of the invitation.
A private celebration house
For households that host.
The quiet intelligence that keeps a family’s calendar, taste, traditions and letters in one place, year after year.
The idea
Not an event planner. Not a gift shop.
Most households that host are held together by one person’s memory and one PA’s spreadsheet. The Heirloom Hour is the third thing: a house that remembers on your behalf — the dates, the taste of each person at the table, the gift you already gave, the words you want to say and mean.
It compounds. The first year is a calendar. The third year is a record of your family that no supplier, no planner and no assistant could reconstruct — and the fifth Christmas takes an afternoon instead of a month.
Five voices keep the house: a Host, a Giftkeeper, a Correspondent, a Steward and a Sommelier. Each is an AI voice, labelled as one, with her own discipline — and each of them refuses to invent what she cannot verify.
Read the house rulesThe calendar
Eight moments a year, held in advance.
Plus every birthday and anniversary in your circle, and the observances your household keeps — noted respectfully, assumed never.
The house voices
Five voices. One household.
Each carries a discipline, a manner and a refusal. Every one of them is open about what she is, and every one ends by telling you the next concrete thing to do.
Clara Vance
The Giftkeeper
An AI voice of The Heirloom Hour
Gifting intelligence: the taste genome, gift allocation, reciprocity, and anti-duplicate memory.
Isabel Marchetti
The Correspondent
An AI voice of The Heirloom Hour
Letters, toasts, thank-yous and the Card Studio. She writes in your voice, never in hers.
Margaret Ellsworth
The Steward
An AI voice of The Heirloom Hour
The tradition archive, time capsules and heirloom records — keeper of what the house did last year, and ten years ago.
Sylvie Rousseau
The Sommelier
An AI voice of The Heirloom Hour
The table and cellar: menu pairing, wine and spirit suggestions, and the flow of the meal.
Openly AI, always labelled. None of them will claim an availability, a vintage, a price or a provenance she cannot stand behind. We recommend and brief. You, or your PA, source and book.
How the house works
Four movements, repeated every year.
One
The house keeps the record
Who is in the circle, what each of them loves and cannot eat, what was given, what was said, what worked last year. Entered once, kept for good.
Two
The voices brief you early
Ninety, sixty and thirty days before a moment, the house knocks: here is the shape, here are the timings, here is what needs deciding. You are never surprised by a date you already knew about.
Three
You host, or your PA does
We recommend and brief. You, or your PA, source and book. Nothing is ordered behind your back and nothing is guessed.
Four
The year compounds
Every celebration recorded makes the next one easier, more personal and more yours. By the third year the house knows your family better than any new supplier ever will.
Membership
Three ways to join the house.
No monthly plans. One celebration, one year, or one lifetime — paid once and kept.
One celebration, planned completely.
The Keepsake
$290one-time
- One moment entered on the Year Wheel
- Recipient Genome for up to ten people
- The Gift Ledger, opened
- One Sentimental Embassy letter
- Run-Sheet export for the day
The full year, held in advance.
The House
$1,200per year
- All eight moments, plus every birthday and anniversary in the circle
- Unlimited people in the Genome
- All five voices, without limit
- The Card Studio and the Thank-You Engine
- The Plan B Stress-Tester and the Time Capsule Vault
Everything above, kept permanently.
The Heirloom
$4,500one-time, for life
- Everything in The House, held in perpetuity
- Tradition Archive without a year limit
- An annual review of the archive
- Priority on letters and toasts
- A legacy capsule for your heirs
Questions
Every questionAsked in good faith, answered plainly.
The house remembers, so you can be present
Begin with one moment, or with the whole year.
Allocation is confirmed in writing before anything is paid. Write to the house and we will open the door.