Services FAQ & Scenarios

Afterlife AI™ is a consent-first AI digital twin service for adults who want to preserve their voice, memories, personality and presence in a private Persona while they are alive to shape every decision about it. The Persona captures eleven dimensions of who you are. After your death, it can be accessed by your designated Trusted Contacts and Executor on the exact terms you set in advance, enforced cryptographically by Executor Lock™.

Afterlife AI™ differs on three things: structure (eleven dimensions versus a single biographical interview), governance (Executor Lock™ cryptographic authority-transition versus custodial trust) and the consent framework (a contractual relationship between creator, Executor and company versus a service agreement with the platform alone). HereAfter AI is primarily a memoir-recording service. StoryFile records a pre-scripted conversational video. Replika is a companion AI not designed for posthumous use.

A starter Persona can be created in a few hours of focused work. A detailed Persona is typically built across several weeks to several months of regular recording, returning to dimensions and refining them over time. The service is designed to be used at the creator's pace. There is no expiry on the Free tier and there is no rush.

Yes, while you are alive. You can record new memories, revise existing ones, change access settings, update Trusted Contacts and revise Executor Lock™ rules at any time. The Persona is locked at the moment of authority transition (your death), not before.

Your designated Executor, on the exact terms you set in advance. The Executor cannot override Executor Lock™. They can only operate within the boundaries you defined. Trusted Contacts have whatever access you granted them. The Persona itself is cryptographically constrained.

Continuity protections are contractual, and they apply to every Persona with Executor Lock™, not just the top tier. If the service is materially changed or discontinued, the Executor Lock™ Agreement requires at least 12 months notice to the Executor and full export of the Persona, and on any business transfer IDY™ must use reasonable endeavours to have the successor assume the material obligations for existing Post-Lock Personas. The 20-Year and 80-Year plans add prepaid terms on top of those baseline protections.

Yes. The service operates under explicit, informed and revocable consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)) for personal data and Article 9(2)(a) for special-category data. Data subject rights under Articles 15 to 22 are honoured. International transfers to non-EEA jurisdictions are governed by Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.

Yes. The service complies with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. It also operates within the broader legal framework analysed in The Conversation by Wellett Potter (UNE Law), which identifies the consent-first contractual approach as the most legally robust path through a domain where Australian law has not yet established personality or publicity rights.

Yes. The service complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) amendments for California residents. Across the broader United States, posthumous publicity rights vary by state but the consent-first contractual approach is compatible with all of them because the foundational mechanism is contractual rather than dependent on state-by-state personality rights.

Yes. For EU and EEA users the service operates under the GDPR. For UK users the service operates under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK GDPR. The substantive requirements are aligned across all three regimes.

No. A Persona is not a legal instrument, and its outputs are not statements of fact, evidence of intent or advice; the Terms say this in so many words. Wills and estate disputes are resolved by the courts under succession law. What the Persona can do is carry the recorded reasoning behind your decisions, in your own voice, which is the context that stops families guessing. The will governs; the Persona explains.

No. Afterlife AI™ does not offer reconstruction-after-death from a deceased person's data. The service is exclusively for living adults creating their own Persona with their own consent. This is a category boundary, not a feature gap.

Executor Lock™ is designed to minimise this. The Persona is constrained to the boundaries you set during your lifetime. Generative AI is probabilistic, so absolute determinism is not achievable, but the boundaries on what topics the Persona can address, what it must refuse and what authority it has are enforced at runtime. You can also designate topics the Persona must remain silent on entirely.

You can withdraw consent and request deletion at any time during your lifetime; deletion is processed within 30 days, including backups, and the lawfulness of prior processing is not affected. After your death, deletion is governed by the Executor Lock™ Agreement: your Executor can request it in writing after a minimum post-lock period, with notice and an export opportunity before anything is destroyed.

The Free plan is $0. Legacy is $14.99 a month and Eternal is $29.99 a month, with an optional one-time continuity policy at checkout that banks 12 or 24 months for your family. The long-term plans are one-time payments: 20-Year Legacy at $1,299 and 80-Year Immortal at $2,999, with the family inheriting whatever remains of the term. Prices are in USD. The service is not advertising-supported and does not monetise user data.

Afterlife AI™ is operated by IDY™ Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in New South Wales (ABN 22 688 561 042). The founder and CEO is Chris Williams. The platform has been covered by Channel 10 News+, Tom's Guide, ABC News, The Daily Telegraph (in a feature by Data Journalism Editor Melanie Burgess), The New Daily (in a profile by Samantha Butler), ABC Radio Melbourne with Ali Moore, ABC Radio with Nikolai Beilharz, the Passing Thoughts podcast on Radio 2RPH, and analysed in The Conversation by Wellett Potter (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of New England), syndicated across the UNE website, phys.org, Yahoo News Australia, The Times AU, world.edu, newenglandtimes and more than ten additional outlets.

At contact page. Signup begins with email verification, and identity verification applies at the steps where authority matters, such as designating your Executor. From there you build your Persona at your own pace.

The Afterlife AI™ Persona captures who you are across eleven dimensions: identity and core beliefs, values and principles, relationships and family, life events and stories, work and contribution, health and wellbeing, adversity and what you learned, joys and delights, legacy messages, estate decisions, and family instructions. Each dimension is a structured entry point for the people who will interact with your Persona later.

No, not in the everyday sense. A chatbot is a probabilistic conversation engine, often unbounded. A Persona is a structured archive across eleven dimensions, governed by Executor Lock™, constrained to respond within the boundaries you set during your lifetime. The interaction is conversational but the substance is structured rather than improvised.

No. At the moment of authority transition the Persona is frozen: write access is permanently blocked, a cryptographically signed attestation of its exact state is generated, and nothing can be added, retrained or supplemented afterwards, by anyone. It does not learn from later interactions. What it can do is draw on everything you recorded, which is why creators keep adding to it while they are alive.

Yes. The legacy messages dimension supports scheduled message delivery on specific dates or at specific events. Scheduled messages are recorded in advance and released by the system at the moment they are due. This is one of the most-used features.

Yes. The Persona is for adults with anything they want to leave behind, whether that is to children, siblings, nieces and nephews, close friends, mentees, professional successors, or no specific person at all. The dimensions are structured but they are not parent-specific.

Yes. People who have received a serious diagnosis are one of the use cases the service was specifically built to support. The eleven-dimension structure gives a map, the prompts give a rhythm, and the service is designed to be used at the creator's pace. Many creators in this situation work with an end-of-life doula or counsellor while recording, which the service supports.

No. The substantive content of the Persona can only be created by you. Your Executor's role is governance, not authorship: they manage access within the parameters you set, and they cannot add to, modify or record content on your behalf, before or after authority transition.

Yes. The Persona is exportable in standard formats at any time during your lifetime under the data portability rights granted by GDPR Article 20 (for EEA and UK users) and equivalent regimes elsewhere. The Executor Lock™ Agreement also guarantees export, with at least 12 months notice, if the service is ever materially changed or discontinued.

No. The Persona is a specific, identity-controlled construct, not a corpus that gets folded into a wider model. There is no cross-user training pipeline, and no buried exception: the only way your data could ever train anything else is a separate written agreement that you choose to sign. The data you provide trains your Persona only.

Voice recordings are encrypted in transit and at rest and are never sold, rented or licensed to third parties. The voice profile is bound to your Persona: nothing in the platform exports it as a stand-alone voice clone, and Executor Lock™ constrains what the Persona is permitted to say in your voice after your death.

You can revise your Trusted Contact designations at any time during your lifetime, and the platform's periodic reviews prompt exactly this. There is no automatic succession chain: access never passes to someone you did not designate. If a designated contact is unavailable at the time of authority transition, the remaining designated contacts hold whatever access you granted them, and nothing more.

Yes. The Terms of Service are at Terms-of-service. The Privacy Policy is at Privacy Policy-policy. The Trust framework page is at Trust is our Foundation. The Executor Lock™ Agreement is presented in full at the time you designate your Executor, and you can read every word before you accept it.

General enquiries: hello@idy.ai. Privacy enquiries: privacy@idy.ai. Press enquiries: press@idy.ai. Or use the contact form at contact page.

Only if you explicitly authorised it. The default is no. You can designate specific people, classes of people (for example, descendants who reach adulthood), or institutional recipients (for example, a research archive after a defined date) as permitted interlocutors. Without explicit authorisation, the Persona communicates only with the people you named while alive.

No. The service supports recording in any language. Many creators record in more than one language across different dimensions, particularly in diaspora families where different generations have different language fluency.

You can authorise public release of specific dimensions or specific content during your lifetime if you choose. The default is private and remains private. Public release options include partial release (specific dimensions only), full release after a defined date, and release to designated institutional archives. Each option is configured through Executor Lock™.

Yes. The Free tier is the test. You can build a partial Persona, interact with it, share access with a Trusted Contact and decide whether the service is for you before upgrading. There is no obligation to upgrade and the Free tier does not expire.

Two answers, architectural and contractual. Architecturally, the long-term plans commit the Persona to private, encrypted vault storage engineered for multi-decade preservation, and the 20-year and 80-year terms run from purchase with the family inheriting whatever remains at the Executor Lock™ event. Contractually, the Executor Lock™ Agreement guarantees that if the service is ever materially changed or discontinued, the Executor receives at least 12 months notice and the Persona is fully exportable. If a term ends after death, conversation closes and the captured memories remain readable. Long-horizon preservation is a design constraint here, not a marketing line.

Recording while you have capacity is the protection, and it is one of the reasons the eleven-dimension structure exists. The platform does not currently treat incapacity as an authority-transition trigger; transition occurs following verified death under the Executor Lock™ Agreement. If you are facing a degenerative diagnosis, the pattern that works is to record early and deeply, keep your designations and access rules current while you can, and put formal incapacity arrangements (enduring power of attorney, guardianship) in place through the legal instruments designed for them.

The platform sends you periodic reminders to review your access settings, update your Executor Lock™ rules and add new material. These are administrative and clearly marked as such. The Persona itself does not autonomously initiate contact during your lifetime.

Not currently. The service is accessed through the web application and the mobile applications. Integration with smart speakers and other devices is a roadmap consideration, subject to the consent and governance constraints that the rest of the service operates within.

Enterprise enquiries (for example, from family-office services, institutional estate planners or specialist legal practices) can be sent via contact page or to support@idy.ai. There is no standard enterprise product as of mid-2026. Enterprise arrangements are structured case by case.

Yes, if you authorise it. The service supports time-bounded release of designated dimensions to designated institutional archives. This is a less common use case but it is supported and is configured through the Executor Lock™ Agreement.

The Afterlife AI™ tagline. The idea is that the work of recording your Persona is done once, while you are alive, and the value of having done it persists for the rest of your family's life. Build the record once. Live in it twice: once in the act of building it, which is itself meaningful, and again in the value it provides to the people you leave behind.