Organize your Italian family documents — on your computer

If you’re gathering birth acts, marriage records, and name variants for Italian citizenship — or helping a parent or client do it — Atto is a calm place to keep that packet. Files stay on your computer. Atto does not decide anyone’s eligibility. It gives you a private, approve-only place for the documents you collect.

Atto is a private desktop organizer for Italian civil records, family-history research, and citizenship document checklists. It is not a law firm.

Buy the DIY kit — $299

Mac and Windows · pay once · your files stay yours · platforms & downloads

Built from a real family story — not a faceless SaaS.

Desktop app preview (synthetic demo vault — no real family PII). Click to enlarge.

Is Atto legit?

Yes. Atto is a paid desktop organizer for Italian civil records and citizenship document checklists. Files stay on your computer. You approve every tree change. Atto does not decide anyone’s eligibility. It is not a law firm and is not affiliated with any government. You pay once on Stripe, then import the license from your claim page. Questions: support or [email protected].

How it works

Bring documents in → get gentle warnings on gaps or mismatches → you approve changes → export when you’re ready. A “soft-flag” is a heads-up, not a legal decision. New? Run the built-in practice loop on Find before your first real archive evening.

Import
Spot gaps
You approve
Tree

Whole loop (~2.5 min) · narrated · Home → Find → screenshot → Approve → Tree. Demo page + voiceover notes

The paperwork is the hard part

Caring about Italy is easy. Keeping the packet straight is not — scanned PDFs in five places, a birth spelling that does not match the marriage act, a missing civil record from a small comune, a FamilySearch result that looks perfect until you compare it with the paper your aunt mailed. A chat thread that cannot remember the town name three days later is not a packet. Government fees are usually non-refundable. A focused organizer costs far less than a full-service retainer. Atto doesn’t promise any outcome. It helps you see what you have and what’s still open.

What Atto is (and isn’t)

This is

  • A private, approve-only place for documents you collect
  • Find help that suggests — you decide merges
  • Gentle flags on gaps — not legal verdicts
  • Files on your computer in open formats you can take with you

This isn’t

  • An attorney or “do I qualify?” service
  • A magic genealogy bot that quietly upgrades a maybe into a fact
  • A cloud tree that auto-merges your family
  • A consulate appointment bot (no Prenot@Mi scraping)
  • An Ancestry-style hosted family tree
  • Cloud AI that must touch your vault to work

What you get

Download the kit + Setup guide — Mac and Windows are both desktop kits; Linux is clearly labeled on the kit pages. Your license file comes from the claim page in email (not from this download list). Optional AI helper for Cursor/Claude is also claim-only — skip it unless you want it.

Optional extras

The desktop kit works alone. If you already use Cursor or Claude Code, you can optionally plug in a local MCP helper for strip-safe research context — never required, never auto-approves. Private family share is optional too; see the FAQ.

One kit. One price.

$299 pay once

Full-service citizenship help from a law firm often runs into the thousands. Atto is the organizer layer — for DIY families and for paralegals who need a clean desktop workflow for client packets. After checkout you get a license claim link and kit download instructions.

Buy the DIY kit — $299

Mac = Apple Silicon only · Windows = x64 (Azure Authenticode-signed) · Linux = CLI / invite-only desktop. Read Terms (EU withdrawal + platform compatibility) before checkout.

More questions → FAQ