PRODUCT · AI · STARTUP · WEB
Voice-first family storytelling platform
Smriti is a guided, voice-first storytelling platform for families whose histories live mostly in conversations, voice notes, and half-remembered anecdotes. It helps adult children, parents, and grandparents collect memories through culturally grounded prompts, native-language voice recordings, AI-assisted transcription and translation, and digital or physical keepsakes that make those stories easier to revisit and share.
Role
Co-founder, product strategy, UX, build
Focus
Voice-first story capture for Indian and diaspora families
Research
60+ survey respondents and user interviews
Output
Live web platform, digital archive, physical memory book concept
In many Indian and diaspora families, history is oral, scattered, and rarely documented beyond one generation. Families want to preserve those memories, but the work is hard to start and even harder to keep up with. Traditional memoir and ghostwriting models are too expensive, too manual, and often not designed for Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, or other regional-language storytelling.
Smriti turns memory preservation into a guided flow instead of a blank-page writing project. Families choose prompts, share them through familiar channels, capture responses in the storyteller's own voice and language, then use AI-assisted transcription, translation, and narrative editing to shape those recordings into a digital archive or printed keepsake.
The buyer is often an adult child living away from home, looking for a meaningful gift or a way to preserve family history before it disappears. The storyteller is usually a parent or grandparent who may be more comfortable speaking than writing, and who needs the process to feel natural, low-friction, and emotionally respectful.
The product is built around a voice-to-publishing workflow: multilingual voice ingestion, preprocessing, AI orchestration, human review where needed, and publishable artifacts such as shareable stories, family archives, and physical books. The goal is not just to record audio, but to turn lived memory into something families can keep, revisit, and pass on.
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