About us
Afterlife AI™ exists to help people preserve a living presence with dignity, consent, and enforceable control.
Is Afterlife AI™ legit?
Yes. Afterlife AI™ is built by IDY Pty Ltd, founded by Chris Williams, and is on the web, iPhone and Android in 42 languages. People use it to build a Persona from their own voice, stories and values while they are alive, and they decide who can talk with their Persona. You can start free, and your data is never sold or used to train general AI models.
What Afterlife AI™ does today
You build your Persona by talking or typing. Your Persona learns your stories and values, speaks in your own voice, can appear in short videos made from your own recording, and maps your life in a Mind Map. You choose Your People, and Executor Lock™ decides what happens when you die.
Afterlife AI™ was created to address a question technology has largely avoided: how to preserve human presence responsibly after life, without compromising privacy, consent, or trust.
This is not about novelty or experimentation. It is about giving people a way to preserve their voice, memories, and personality in a manner that respects both the individual and the people they leave behind.
Afterlife AI™ is built for long-term stewardship. Individuals define how their preserved Persona may exist, communicate, or remain silent, with those decisions enforced even when they are no longer present to intervene.
Trust is foundational to everything we do.
Your data is encrypted on Microsoft Azure and stays under your control: you choose who sees what, and you can delete it. Nothing is shared by default. Access can be granted, constrained, or revoked at any time.
Afterlife AI™ includes Executor Lock™, a cryptographically enforced execution and authority-transition system. Executor Lock™ governs what a preserved Persona can and cannot do when a verified authority-transition event occurs, including death or incapacity.
Executor Lock™ operates at runtime. It restricts execution, disables or constrains capabilities, and enforces predefined authority rules that determine whether a Persona may communicate, respond, or remain inactive. All state changes and authorized actions are auditable.
No authority is assumed. No access is granted by default. A preserved Persona cannot act outside the boundaries explicitly defined by the individual in advance.
Afterlife AI™ prioritizes privacy, security, and enforceable control over growth or engagement metrics.
As seen in media.
Afterlife AI™ has been featured by national and international media examining the future of digital identity, memory, and long-term presence.
Our principles
Continuity without loss of control
Identity that evolves with intent
Explicit authority at every stage
Long-term presence over short-term engagement
Who we are
Afterlife AI and Timeless AI are the consumer brands of IDY Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based AI identity infrastructure company. We build consent-first AI identity: a personal AI Persona that you create and govern while you are alive.
Why we exist
The first decade of the digital afterlife industry was bereavement-driven and consent-light, reconstructing people after death from data they never chose to hand over. We built the opposite. With Afterlife AI the person being preserved is the one making the decisions, and Executor Lock enforces them afterward.
Recognized for its patents
IDY® has 78 patents pending and was ranked second nationally for Australian patent filings in the IP Australia 2026 Report, behind only Aristocrat and ahead of CSIRO, ResMed and the University of Melbourne. Our patent estate spans consent-first AI identity, authority transition, cryptographic audit and posthumous governance. See the legal framework and recognition and AI identity governance.
Our founder
Chris Williams is the founder and CEO and the architect of Executor Lock. His work has been featured by Channel 10 News, The Daily Telegraph, Tom's Guide, ABC and The New Daily, and analysed in The Conversation by a University of New England law scholar. See the coverage.
Trust is our foundation.
Your legacy is important. With Afterlife AI™, everything you create is encrypted and shared only with the people you choose. You decide who will carry your story forward and when.
Create your Persona