What happened to Eternos AI? Eternos is now Uare.ai, and how Afterlife.ai™ compares

Eternos: a legacy AI service founded in 2024 by Robert LoCascio to preserve a person's voice and stories for loved ones, renamed Uare.ai in November 2025.

Uare.ai: the renamed company, which sells an "Individual AI" trained on a person's own "Human Life Model" for professional and personal use while the person is alive.

Persona: the AI version of you that you build on Afterlife.ai™ while you are alive, from your own memories, values and cloned voice, which answers your family in your words.

Executor Lock™: Idy's patent-pending system of named executors, Trusted Contacts, a verified death report and a sealed snapshot of your Persona that can never be changed.

Eternos renamed itself Uare.ai and turned from a legacy service into a personal AI for living professionals, announcing the change and a $10.3 million seed round on November 11, 2025. Robert LoCascio founded and self-funded Eternos in 2024, after stepping down in 2023 from LivePerson, the public company he had led for nearly three decades and which pioneered web chat in 1997. TechCrunch reported that LoCascio "was set on building a legacy business", but that most of the people considering Eternos "weren't preparing for death" (TechCrunch, November 11, 2025). The company kept its core technology, the Human Life Model, and pointed it at creators and professionals who want an AI version of themselves to generate content, handle customer conversations and take on projects.

The record below is dated from public reporting and our own checks of the Eternos and Uare.ai websites, and we update it whenever the status changes.

The fair way to read that record is that a capable founder followed the customers he had. People who are healthy and busy want an AI that saves them time and helps them work, and that market is much larger than the market of people planning their own death. The families who came to Eternos because of Michael Bommer's story wanted something different, which was a parent's voice that would still answer after the parent was gone, governed by someone the parent chose. That need did not go away when the domain changed, and it is the need Afterlife.ai™ was built around from the first day.

No, Eternos is no longer available as a legacy service, because the eternos.life domain now redirects to uare.ai and the product is sold as Uare.ai. On October 2, 2026, both eternos.life and www.eternos.life returned a permanent redirect to uare.ai, and nothing on Uare.ai's homepage, pricing page or terms mentions Eternos or replicas built under the old name. Uare.ai still lets you capture your voice and share your AI with family and friends, but the product is designed and priced for living people who want their AI to help them do more. If you came here wanting to preserve your father's voice for after he dies, Uare.ai is a different product from the one Eternos described in 2024.

That does not make Uare.ai a bad product, and plenty of professionals will find it useful. The question for a family is narrower and more important, which is what happens to the AI on the day its owner dies, and Uare.ai's terms do not answer it. The next sections set out what Uare.ai is now and what its terms say, and then the alternatives built for that day.

Yes, Eternos and Uare.ai are the same company under a new name, with the same founder, the same Human Life Model technology and a new mission. Uare.ai calls its product an "Individual AI" and says your experiences and knowledge shape a Human Life Model "capturing who you are across seven dimensions", built from a short voice-capture script, conversations, documents, videos, notes, images and connected social accounts (Uare.ai, checked October 2, 2026). Uare.ai says it never uses your data to train public AI models and that you can delete your data at any time, with backups purged "on our retention cycle". Its four memberships, in US dollars, are below.

Paying yearly saves 20%, and one-time credit packs cost $4.99 to $99.99 (Uare.ai pricing, checked October 2, 2026). The product's scope is clear from that list, which is an AI that helps a living person create, publish and serve clients. For the full plan-by-plan review, read our full Uare.ai review, plan by plan, and for the idea of an AI built from your own material, read an AI trained only on you.

The public record describes how Michael Bommer built his AI, and it does not describe what happened to that AI after Eternos changed direction. Bommer, a 61-year-old entrepreneur in Berlin with terminal colon cancer, became Eternos' first client and spent two months and about 25 hours of conversation building an interactive AI of himself, so his family could keep asking him questions (Fortune, via AP, June 4, 2024). His story is the reason most people first heard of Eternos, and it remains one of the most moving examples of a person deciding, while alive, how he wanted to be remembered.

We will not speculate about Bommer's family or his AI. What his story shows every reader is the order of decisions that matters. He decided to build an AI of himself and chose what to tell it while he could still speak for himself. The missing piece across the industry is the next decision, which is who controls the AI once its owner has died and what happens if the company behind it changes course, and that piece needs to be in writing before anyone records a word.

Nothing in Uare.ai's terms says what happens to your AI when you die, so the AI's future depends on the account staying open and active. Death appears in the terms only in an indemnity clause about injuries (Uare.ai Terms of Service, revised June 30, 2026). The terms do say that Uare.ai "reserves the right to terminate accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time", and that after an account is canceled it "will delete or de-identify your User Content and, if you are a Professional, any Individual AI you created". An account whose owner has died goes quiet, and a quiet account is the kind the terms allow Uare.ai to close.

Uare.ai is typical of the industry in this respect. When we read the published terms of nine AI twin and avatar platforms, about 85,000 words in total, none of them said what happens to the clone or the account when the owner dies, and five of the nine reserved the right to delete inactive accounts (terms checked October 1, 2026). A Lehigh University audit of 93 AI "afterlife" services found the same gap, with 82 publishing thin or no information on who has authority over a recreation (arXiv, August 28, 2026). For the ownership question in depth, read who owns your AI twin after you die.

If you built an AI with Eternos, sign in at uare.ai, request a full copy of your data, and save the source material yourself this month, because files you hold are safe whatever happens to any company. Uare.ai's privacy policy lists a right to a copy of the personal information it holds about you and, where applicable, to portability in a machine-readable format, with requests sent to privacy@uare.ai (Uare.ai Privacy Policy, revised June 30, 2026). Its homepage also describes an "Export it all" option for your data. Work through the steps below in order.

1. Sign in at uare.ai with the email you used for Eternos. The old domain now leads there, so check what carried over to your account and download anything the app lets you download.

2. Request a copy of your data from privacy@uare.ai. Ask for every recording, transcript, document and note behind your AI, and ask for a machine-readable copy where the policy allows portability.

3. Ask for the voice recordings and the source material. The hours of conversation you recorded are the irreplaceable part, so ask for the audio files themselves as well as any text.

4. Save every file in three places. Keep two copies on drives you own and one in a cloud account you control, and label each recording with its date and topic.

5. Write down who controls the files after you die. Put the location of the files and the name of the person you trust with them in your will or in a letter to your executor.

6. Rebuild in your own words with an executor named. If you are alive and want an AI your family can keep, rebuild your stories in a service whose ending is written into the contract before you start.

If the person who built an AI with Eternos has died, keep every file the family can obtain, because original recordings are worth more than anything made from them later. Our Terms do not let anyone build a Persona of another person without that person's explicit written consent (section 5.1), so the recordings stay as a family archive rather than becoming someone else's project. For keeping a voice, read how to preserve your voice after death, and for projects with someone who is seriously ill, read legacy projects for someone who is terminally ill.

Afterlife.ai™ is built to plan for your death and Uare.ai is built to help you work, so the two compare most clearly on what happens at the end. Both let a living person build an AI from their own material rather than a generic chatbot, and both take privacy seriously. The table compares them on the points a family cares about.

The deciding row for most families is the second one. An AI that answers in your voice is only a comfort to your family if somebody you chose decides what happens to it, and if nobody, including the company, can rewrite who you were. For a broader look at the options, read a digital twin after death and the best digital legacy apps.

The best Eternos alternative for a family is Afterlife.ai™, because it does what people hoped Eternos would do after death and puts the ending in writing first. People who search for an Eternos alternative usually mean one of two things. Some want what Eternos became, which is a personal AI that works for them while they are alive, and Uare.ai itself is the natural choice for that. Most want what Eternos was in Michael Bommer's story, which is an AI of themselves that their family can keep talking to after they die, and that is where the services below differ.

Who each one is best for. Choose Uare.ai if your priority is an AI that helps you work and create today, and you are comfortable that its terms do not plan for your death. Choose Afterlife.ai™ if your priority is a voice your family keeps, governed by people you name, with a twin that can also work for you while you live. Choose a book service if paper is the keepsake your family wants. For the stories behind two of these rows, read what happened when HereAfter AI shut down and what happened to StoryFile, and for the wider pattern, read what happens when a digital legacy company shuts down.

Executor Lock™ writes the ending of your Persona while you are alive, so the question Uare.ai's terms leave open is answered before you record a word. You name the people, they accept the job in writing, and the same six steps run for every Afterlife.ai™ Persona.

1. Name your people. You name one or more executors and your Trusted Contacts, and each one accepts the Executor Lock™ Agreement while you are alive.

2. Report. After your death, an executor or a Trusted Contact uploads evidence, such as a death certificate or a funeral notice.

3. Check. Automated analysis reads the evidence, and then a person reviews it before anything changes.

4. Cooling-off. Seven days pass in which every executor is told about the report and can dispute it, and you can cancel a false report with proof of life.

5. Lock. Your Persona becomes a sealed snapshot of every memory as it stood that day, with nothing pruned, nothing re-weighted and a tamper-evident seal on the record.

6. Release. Your release rules for photos, memories and live conversation take effect for the people you named.

Section 8.3 of our Terms of Service makes the lock permanent and irreversible, and section 16.4 says our obligations pass to any successor, so the ending holds even if Idy changes hands. After the lock, nobody can edit a memory or change your personality, while short-term memories and big life events can still reach your Persona. For the full mechanics, read how Executor Lock™ works, and for the person you name, read what a digital executor does.

Why Idy built the hard part first. Idy, the company behind Afterlife.ai™, spent its first years on the questions that Eternos' change of direction left behind, which are who controls your likeness while you live, who decides about it when you die, who may see what, and how consent is recorded so the software obeys it. The answer is Executor Lock™, built on technology covered by 78 patents pending, including verifying a death before control changes hands, handing authority to a named executor, sealing a memory record that becomes permanent at the handover, and keeping a Persona the same person when AI models change. Because that foundation came first, one Idy twin can work as you while you live, keep answering while you are away, and pass to the people you named when you die.

Afterlife.ai™ starts free with no card, and paid plans run from $14.99 a month, in US dollars. If you were drawn to Eternos because you wanted people to talk to an AI of you while you are alive, Afterlife Pro switches on the Afterlife.ai™ Twin, which answers in the first person under your name and photo on your own website, through an API and inside AI assistants, and visitors who speak to your twin hear your own cloned voice.

The yearly Afterlife Pro price saves $120.88 against twelve monthly payments, and the twin is for adults 18 and over. You read every conversation your twin has and can pause any door at any time, and your twin replies in each visitor's language. Afterlife.ai™ Twins keep answering after Executor Lock™ by default, which is the promise Eternos' first families were looking for. For every detail, read every Afterlife.ai™ plan and price, and for the twin itself, read the Afterlife.ai™ Twin.

You start by opening a free account, naming your executor first and telling your first stories the same afternoon. The order below puts the ending first, which is the decision no other service in this guide asks you to make.

1. Open your free account. The free build holds 25 memories, needs no card and never expires.

2. Name your executor and Trusted Contacts. Each person accepts the Executor Lock™ Agreement while you are alive.

3. Set your release rules. Decide whether photos, memories and live conversation are released to the people you named after the lock.

4. Tell your first stories. Talk to your Persona about your childhood, your work and the choices that shaped you, and the Mind Map shows which chapters of your life are covered.

5. Clone your voice and make a Persona Video. Your Persona then speaks in your own voice, and one 30-second recording lets Persona Video make messages in your own face and voice.

If you are helping a parent, open the account in your parent's name, because our Terms bar anyone from building a Persona of another person without that person's explicit written consent (section 5.1). Your parent owns the Persona, makes every decision and names the executor, and you sit beside them while they tell the stories. For a comparison with the best-known closed service, read Afterlife.ai™ compared with HereAfter AI.

If you built anything with Eternos, request your files from Uare.ai this week and save them in three places, because the recordings are the part nobody can make again. If you came looking for what Eternos promised in 2024, build your own Persona now, with your executor named before the first story and your twin switched on if you want people to talk to you while you live. Eternos showed how much families want to keep talking to the people they love, and Afterlife.ai™ was built so that wish has a written ending.

1. Build your Persona free, no card

2. Name your executor

3. Switch on your Afterlife.ai™ Twin

We checked eternos.life by hand on October 2, 2026, read Uare.ai's homepage, pricing page, terms of service and privacy policy on the same day, and read the TechCrunch and AP reporting, the published terms of nine AI twin and avatar platforms and the Lehigh University audit. Every outside fact links to its source and date. This page is general information, not legal advice.

• our full Uare.ai review, plan by plan

• what happened to StoryFile

• what happened when HereAfter AI shut down

• who owns your AI twin after you die

• how Executor Lock™ works