What Heartwood does today, and where it's going.
Early alpha, honestly labeled: what you can rely on today, and what's still being built. Nothing in the roadmap section exists yet, and we don't announce dates.
Here now in the current release
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Bring your tree in, keep everything
Import your GEDCOM file. Your original is kept byte-for-byte, existing citations come with it, and anything we couldn't place is itemized for you rather than quietly discarded.
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Evidence stays visible
Sources, citations, and open conflicts live on the person they concern — built on the Genealogical Proof Standard. See how Heartwood thinks about proof.
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Bring your own AI, with a review gate
Connect the AI assistant you already use. Everything it finds waits beside its source until you confirm it — and a full activity log shows exactly what it did.
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Built for toolmakers too
A documented local API and MCP tools — the same surfaces the app itself uses. Your data exports as a complete archive any time, no lock-in. Read the docs.
On the roadmap being designed and built
Roughly the order we expect to tackle it.
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Guided citation templates
Guided citation entry that feeds proof arguments, not just formatting.
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Proof arguments & correlation
The full research cycle — plans, logs, and correlating indirect evidence.
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GEDCOM export, lossless round-trip
GEDCOM 7 and 5.5.1, with a documented inventory of anything that can't carry over.
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Explainable, conservative merge
Duplicate detection that never destroys information — every merge stays provenanced and reviewable.
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Sync & collaboration
Opt-in multi-device sync and sharing, on storage you choose. The privacy policy will cover any hosted option in full before it ships.
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Charts, reports & books
Pedigree and descendant charts and narrative output, connected to the evidence behind each statement.
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Places & maps
Hierarchy-true places with historical jurisdictions, preserved through import and export.
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Media that can't break
Photo and document storage with duplicate detection and no broken links, ever.
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DNA as evidence
Structured match tracking, in the same proof workflow as documentary evidence.
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Search & hints
Search across everything you've gathered; hints you choose to follow, never fetched on your behalf.