About Smriti

Why we built it

A parent stops recognising the person standing in front of them, and the family carries that quietly for years. The calls get shorter. The visits get harder to plan. What most families describe is not one large loss but a slow thinning out of ordinary contact, and a guilt that sits underneath it and never quite goes.

Smriti came out of that. You record your voice once. Every morning after, a short warm message in that voice reaches your parent on their phone, and one tap plays it. It is not a substitute for you. It is something for the days between.

Who we are

Smriti was founded by Aahana Gupta and Yashwardhan Saraf. Aahana leads the research behind how the messages are shaped and has published peer-reviewed work on how a widely used memory questionnaire performs with Indian families. Yashwardhan builds the service.

A practising neurologist reviews the research the product rests on. His name and where he works are on the research page, because a name you can check is worth more than a reassurance you cannot.

What we will not do

We do not give medical advice, and nothing Smriti sends is guidance about care. The messages are small true things you have told us: a memory, a familiar comfort, that you will call on Sunday.

Every message is spoken by an AI copy of a real person’s voice, and we say so plainly to the family before anything starts. We ask you to make sure the rest of the household knows too.

Your recordings are yours. You can stop the messages at any time, and you can ask us to erase everything, including the voice copy held by our voice partner.

Where we work

Smriti is built in India and serves families in India first, including the many who are caring for a parent from another country. The service speaks Hindi and English today.