Some people
think on paper.
In 1970 I lived and worked in Kandy. My place of work was about six miles or so from Kandy town.
The same three lines, as StoryRoom read them.
WisGen AI builds the engines that turn handwriting, dictation and typing into work other people can read. The first one is live, and someone uses it every day.
Opening soon
You upload your pages and get the text back. No subscription and no monthly fee — prepay from US$5, read until it runs out, and top up whenever you want more.
Prepaid because that is how people actually have this problem. Most of us have a box of pages once — a parent's letters, a diary, a manuscript that never got typed — not a steady monthly supply of them. A subscription would charge you for every month you weren't reading anything, and reading a page costs real money to run, so free isn't honest either. Pay for the pages you read, and stop.
- Upload your pages. Photographs from a phone are fine. You don't need to flatten the paper, remove the crossings-out or tidy anything up — the marked-up page is the one this was built for.
- It reads them. You see what it read, with anything it was unsure of marked, so you can check it rather than trust it — and correct whatever you want.
- Keep the result. The pages, the text and your corrections stay together as one piece you can come back to, add to, and take out again as something finished.
WisGen AI is in private beta while the last of this is built. If you have pages waiting, tell us and we will let you know the day it opens — info@wisgen.ai.
Live
StoryRoom
Photograph a page, speak into it, or type. StoryRoom turns each of those into a section of one story that you can reorder, edit in place and publish.
It reads the working draft rather than the clean copy — the marked-up page an editor would read — and it keeps the writer's own words instead of smoothing them into something else. Every reading reports what it cost to produce, in cents, inside the product, so you always know what you are spending.
Compare and edit inline. You don't have to take its word for any of it. Every page sits beside the text read from it, so you check by looking from one to the other instead of flipping between a photograph and a document — and you fix what's wrong in that same view, right where you spotted it, without opening anything else.
And then the work stays somewhere. Reading a page is the beginning, not the point. The pages, the text read from them, the recordings and every correction live together as one piece you keep coming back to — reorder it, write the next chapter by hand or speak it, and take it out again as something finished. That is the difference between a scanner and a place to work.
StoryRoom has been running on AWS in Sydney since 24 August 2026. It is in private beta while we work with our first authors — write to info@wisgen.ai for an invitation.
How it learns
Every reading is checked by the person whose writing it is, and every correction they make is kept — the machine's version and the human's, side by side, tied to the hand that wrote the page. That is happening today, on real pages, not as a planned feature.
It matters because of what those pairs are. A page of difficult handwriting beside the text its own author accepted is exactly what you need to teach a model to read that hand — and it is the one thing no public dataset contains, because nobody has been sitting with the writer while they correct it.
So the engine that reads your pages today runs on general-purpose vision models. The one that reads them next year will be trained on the corrections themselves: smaller models, tuned to one person's handwriting, cheap enough to run for a single writer. Archives have been able to buy that for years. Individuals never have.
What we're building
WisGen AI is an engine company. StoryRoom is the first engine with a product wrapped around it. The plan is a set of engines that other products can be built on — ours first, then other people's.
Engines
Capabilities we build, run and price by usage.
- Live Reading a page of handwriting
- Live Dictation, and composing spoken, typed and handwritten sections into one piece
- In build Correction that learns from what the writer accepts
- Planned Teaching material, publishing, and readers tuned to one person's hand
- Planned Illustration, for the stories the other engines produce
Products
Our own products, each one a different door onto the same engines.
- Planned Teach — English lessons built from an author's own writing
- Planned Publish — manuscripts into online books, blogs and newsletters
- Planned Archives — drafts, letters and notebooks, for families and institutions
Studio
The same engines, for sites we don't build ourselves.
- Planned Describe the site you want and have it built and hosted, with the engines already inside it
- Planned Engines a developer can call directly, priced by use
Why we started here
The first person to use StoryRoom is a retired English lecturer in Sri Lanka. He is writing a memoir of the years he taught in Kandy, in longhand, the way he has written everything. The pages on this site are his.
Nothing available to him could get that work off the paper. Scanners and note apps read a working draft as though it were clean print. Writing tools offered to improve the sentences, which is the one thing a memoir does not need. So the words stayed in the drawer.
That is where the name comes from. WisGen AI is short for wisdom generation, which reads two ways on purpose — the work of generating it, and the generation whose wisdom is sitting in a drawer waiting for someone able to read it.
If you write by hand, or you have a parent, a teacher or an archive whose pages are sitting in a drawer, we would like to hear from you.