Everyone carries an inner light — a way of laughing, loving, and seeing the world. LanternKin captures that light — your voice, your stories, your wisdom — and keeps it glowing for the people you love, long after you're gone.
Join families keeping the light alive
“Dad, what would you tell me about choosing a partner?”
“Oh honey, the most important thing isn't finding someone perfect — it's finding someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. Your mom did that for me from day one...”
87% Likeness Match
Why We Built This
Right now, someone's grandchild will never hear the story about how their grandparents met. A daughter will never get her father's advice on her wedding day. A son is already forgetting the sound of his mother's laugh.
Photos fade. Memories blur. The specific way someone told a joke, gave advice, or said “I love you” — that warmth, that glow — it flickers and goes out.
LanternKin keeps that light burning.
How It Works
Building your lantern takes minutes a day. Our guided process makes it easy — even meaningful and enjoyable.
Answer guided questions about your life, values, and wisdom. Record your voice. Upload photos and documents. Every piece adds light to your lantern — the essence of who you are.
35 guided questions across 7 life categories
Our AI absorbs everything you share — your stories, your speech patterns, your beliefs, your humor — and forms a living reflection of how you think, feel, and communicate.
Powered by advanced AI personality modeling
When the time comes, your family can sit by your lantern and talk to you. It responds in your voice, with your personality, drawing from your actual memories and values.
Text, voice, and video conversations
Your Likeness Score tells you how well your AI can represent you — how authentically it can think, feel, and respond the way you would. It grows as you share more of yourself across six key dimensions.
When you're satisfied with the score, you release your lantern — authorizing your AI to speak on your behalf. Your kin can then seek your counsel, hear your advice, and feel your presence, knowing you approved it.
Your lantern burns bright
Lantern Released
Your kin can now gather around your light
Features
Upload recordings of yourself speaking naturally, and our AI captures your voice with remarkable accuracy. When your kin gathers at your lantern, they hear you — your tone, your warmth, the way you say things. Your light carries your voice.
“Let me tell you about the time your grandmother and I got lost in Rome...”
Voice cloned from 28 minutes of audio
See their face. Hear their voice. Feel their presence.
Upload photos from different periods of their life and our AI creates lifelike video avatars. Your family can choose to talk to “Dad in his 30s” or “Grandma as I remember her.” The avatar speaks with their cloned voice, with natural expressions and emotion.
Pre-write messages delivered at life's biggest moments — wedding days, graduations, hard times. A letter from the past, arriving exactly when it's needed.
Use your lantern while you're still here. Your family can talk to your AI now — and you can review the conversations and improve accuracy in real time.
Every lantern shows a seal confirming: "Personally built and approved by [Name] at [X]% likeness." Your family knows this is really you.
Map your family and set different access levels per relationship. A spouse gets deep access. Grandchildren get stories. Future generations get an introduction.
Our AI interviewer adapts to your answers, asks follow-ups, and digs deeper into your stories. Like a conversation, not a questionnaire.
Invite family to confirm your memories. "Did Dad really build that treehouse in '92?" Verified memories boost your likeness score.
Store letters, legal instructions, and important documents. Delivered to the right person at the right time.
You decide how long your lantern shines. Set it to dim after 20 years, reduce to stories-only, or glow forever. Your choice.
Your lantern honors your traditions. Choose from 8 cultural presets — Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Indigenous, secular, and more.
Step into a virtual room and sit with them one more time. A garden bench, a kitchen table, the front porch at sunset — pick a place that meant something, and have a conversation that feels like being there.
Living Room
Garden
Porch
Stories
“My dad passed two years ago. If this had existed then, I'd give anything to sit by his lantern and hear him say he's proud of me one more time. I'm lighting my own now so my kids never have to wonder.”
Sarah M.
Mother of two
“I spent 30 minutes answering questions about my childhood, and when I read back the AI's responses, I cried. It sounded exactly like me. My wife said it was uncanny — like my light was already glowing.”
James R.
Lantern keeper
“The voice cloning gave me chills. My family is going to hear ME — not some generic AI voice. My lantern will carry my actual voice. This is the most meaningful thing I've ever done with technology.”
Maria L.
Lantern keeper
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
Light your first flame
Your full light, preserved
A light that never fades
FAQ
Our AI learns from everything you share — your answers to guided questions, uploaded recordings, documents, and photos. It builds a detailed model of your personality, values, speech patterns, and memories. The more you share, the more authentic it becomes.
Absolutely. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit. You control exactly who can access your legacy, what level of access they have, and when it becomes available. We never share or sell your data.
Your legacy is yours. You can export all of your data — recordings, transcripts, memories, and profile — at any time. We are building this for the long term and are committed to ensuring your legacy persists.
No. Our AI is designed with strict guardrails. When it doesn't have specific information, it says so gracefully — using phrases like "I'm not sure I ever talked about that, but knowing how I felt..." It never fabricates specific memories.
You can start meaningful with just 15-20 minutes answering a few questions. For the best experience, we recommend spending a few sessions over weeks or months. There's no rush — you can always add more.
Yes! Many people use LanternKin as a way to share stories with family now. You control when and how your legacy is accessed. It's a beautiful way to connect across generations even today.
Every day that passes is a story that might not get told, a piece of advice that might not get shared, a voice that might be forgotten. Another flicker, dimming.
Light your lantern today. It's free, it takes minutes, and it glows forever — for every generation of your kin.
Light Your Lantern