Career story
A working life worth preserving.
Whether through employment, entrepreneurship, or both, a career story captures the ambitions, decisions, achievements and setbacks that shaped a professional life.
From £19 for a digital edition · £49 softcover · photos included · read it all before you pay
A working life is full of decisions, risks, lessons and quiet achievements that rarely get told outside an office or a workshop. A career story book preserves them: how the path began, the roles that shaped it, the business built from nothing, the mistakes that taught the most, and the mark left behind.
Sage interviews you the way a good business biographer would. Early ambitions, first roles, the transitions and turning points, the achievements you are proudest of, the setbacks and what they taught, and the identity the work gave you. You talk, and Sage writes it into readable chapters with real narrative rather than a timeline of job titles.
People make one to mark a retirement, to pass hard-won lessons to the next generation of a family business, to preserve the founding story of a company for its people, or simply because a life’s work deserves setting down. It makes a standout retirement gift and a genuine piece of a family’s or a company’s legacy. As always, you read the whole book before you pay, and choose a digital, softcover or hardcover edition.
What Sage explores
The things worth remembering.
Through a warm, unhurried conversation, Sage gently draws out the details that make the story yours. You never need to know where to begin.
A glimpse of the writing
“David left school at sixteen and walked into a joinery yard because the foreman knew his uncle. He was given a broom before he was given a chisel and spent a month sweeping sawdust without complaint.”
Who it is for
People who make a career story
The finished keepsake
Something to keep forever.
A focused record of a working life, to keep, share, or pass on.Choose a printed hardcover or softcover, a digital edition, or add an audiobook narrated by a professional AI voice, or in the subject's own voice, recreated with AI voice cloning.
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Career story questions
- Is a career memoir a good retirement gift?
- It is one of the most meaningful. Instead of another token present, it captures the whole arc of someone’s working life in a book they and their family can keep. One person tells the story to Sage, so many people gather memories from colleagues beforehand and bring them into the conversation as a surprise.
- Can I tell the story of the business I founded?
- Yes. Sage can focus entirely on the founding and building of a company, covering the early risks, the turning points, the people and the lessons, so the origin story is preserved for your family, your team or your successors.
- Will it read like a CV?
- No. Chapternity writes a narrative, not a list of roles and dates. The result reads as a story of a working life, with the decisions, setbacks and achievements shaped into chapters.
More questions? See the full FAQ or how it works.
Before you begin
Free guides that help
Practical advice on gathering the memories, asking better questions, and deciding what to include.
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