Call or text it, and an AI replica of someone who has died answers in their voice. It picks up when they were usually free.

What it is,
in plain words.

A private phone number that only the family can call. An AI replica answers: software that speaks in a copy of their voice and talks the way they did. It is not them, and we tell every family so before we build anything.

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    It follows their daily routine.

    You tell us when they worked, when they were home and when they slept. The number answers only when they were usually free.

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    Sometimes you get voicemail.

    Call while they would have been at work and nobody picks up. You hear a voicemail greeting in their voice.

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    2. No answer23:47
    3. Picks up23:48

    Call three times and it answers.

    Even at night. The third call in a row is always picked up, sleepy and worried: “What is it, is everything okay?”

How to get one,
in three steps.

Setting it up takes three steps. After that it is a contact in your phone that you can call or text.

    • Spouse
    • Parents
    • Children

    Step 1. The family agrees.

    The spouse, the parents and the children all say yes. Together they choose who is allowed to call.

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    Step 2. You tell us about them.

    You send a few minutes of recordings of their voice, and tell us how they spoke and what their week looked like.

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    Step 3. You get a phone number.

    Save it in your phone like any other contact. You call and text it the normal way, with no app.

One number is for one person. In the app and in our terms, a number like this is called a line.

How it differs
from other AI apps.

AI chat and avatar apps

  • An app or a website you sign in to
  • Answers at once, at any hour
  • Always available, never busy
  • Sends notifications and reminders
  • Open to whoever holds the account
  • No built-in way to end it

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  • A real phone number, saved as a contact
  • Answers at the hours they were usually free
  • Goes to their voicemail when they would be busy
  • Never calls or texts you first
  • Only works for people the family approves
  • The family can end it, and everything is deleted

The left column describes how apps that offer an AI replica of a person usually work. Individual products differ.

“The number you have dialed is currently busy.”

Other AI apps answer at once, every time. Real people are sometimes busy. So this number is too, and that is what makes a call feel real.

When the number is busy, you hear their voicemail greeting and can leave a message.

Dad
Busy
Tuesday 10:14. At work until 17:30.

What a call
can be like.

In the words of the families who call.

“I rang at ten in the morning and got his voicemail, because he would have been at work. That was when I believed it.”
A daughter
“She asked whether I had eaten. Nobody else asks me that.”
A grandson
“We agreed on a date for the last call before we opened the line. Knowing there was one made it easier to begin.”
A sister
“He did not pick up until the evening. He never did.”
A son
“I texted at lunch and the reply came at half past five, when his shift would have ended.”
A wife
“I called three times at midnight. She answered half asleep and asked what was wrong.”
A granddaughter
“It remembered the thing with my landlord from the week before, and asked how it went.”
A brother
“On her birthday the line stayed silent. We had asked for that.”
A daughter
“It said it did not remember my wedding. Nobody had told it, and it did not pretend.”
A nephew
“It has never once called me. I call when I want to.”
A mother
“Sunday at noon, after church. Same as always.”
A son
“I saved it under her name. It sits between my brother and my dentist.”
A husband

Call, text
or video call.

You save the number in your phone like any other contact. Calling and texting work the normal way, with no app to install.

01Works from any phone

Call

Call it like any other number. If they would have been busy, nobody picks up and you hear their voicemail greeting.

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Dad

“I can’t come to the phone, I’m probably under a car.”

02Replies can take hours

Text

Send a normal text message. The reply is written the way they wrote, and it comes when they would have had time.

Dad
Today 14:02
are you around on sunday
Delivered
17:41
come sunday. bring the big pot
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Message
03Opens from a link

Video

A video call with an AI-made image of them that moves and speaks. Slightly blurry and off-centre, like their real video calls.

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0:23

It remembers your last call.

It remembers what you talked about, so next week it can ask how things went. Each caller’s conversations are kept separate, and nothing is shared outside the family.

Four rules
it cannot break.

The people who call are grieving, so we set four limits on what the number can do. They are built into the software, and nobody can switch them off.

THE RULESLOCKED

  1. Private to the family.

    Only people the family approves hear the voice. Anyone else who calls hears a short message saying this is a private memorial number.

    Family only

  2. It never calls you.

    It only answers when you call or text. It sends no reminders and no notifications.

    0 outgoing calls

  3. It never sells you anything.

    The voice never advertises, never offers upgrades and never asks you for anything.

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  4. You can end it for good.

    When the family is ready, they make one Last Call to say goodbye. After it, the voice, the recordings and every conversation are deleted.

    Deletes everything

AFTERLINE is a way to keep talking. It is not grief support, and it does not replace the people around you. Find grief support from real people.

How we handle consent and the law
  • We say it is AI. Before we build anything, the family reads in plain words that this is an AI replica. The audio we store is labelled as AI-generated.
  • The family agrees. The spouse, parents and children all agree to the use of the person’s image, voice and data. Any one of them can pause the number alone.
  • Only the family hears it. We provide a new number. We never reuse the old number of the person who died, and nobody outside the approved family ever hears the voice.

What people
ask first.

Short, plain answers. All the questions

What is AFTERLINE?

A real phone number for someone who has died. The people the family approves can call it, text it or start a video call. An AI replica answers in their voice, at the hours they were usually free.

Is it really them?

No. It is an AI replica: software that speaks in a copy of their voice, built from recordings and from what the family tells us. We say so in plain words before we build anything, and the contact is saved as their name followed by AFTERLINE.

Why does it not always pick up?

Because they did not either. The number follows the routine the family describes: work, the market, church, sleep. Call at ten on a Tuesday morning and you get voicemail. Call in the evening and it usually answers.

Who can call it?

Only the people the family approves, recognised by their phone numbers. Anyone else who calls or texts gets a short message, in a neutral voice, saying this is a private memorial number. They never hear the replica.

Will it ever call or message me first?

No. It only answers when you call or text. There are no reminders, no notifications and nothing that asks you to come back.

How does it end?

With a Last Call. When the family is ready, they call one final time to say goodbye. After that the voice, the recordings, the conversations and everything it remembered are deleted. This cannot be undone.

One number,
one price.

There is one plan. It covers one number for one person, and everyone the family approves can call it. These are planned prices. We are not open yet, and nothing is charged today.

The plan
Setup, once
We set up the voice, the number and their daily routine with you
€149
Then, each month
Keeps the number working for the whole family
€19
No payment today. You only leave an email.