About Lifestoria
Built by people who know what it means to miss a story.
Every person behind Lifestoria has a question they wish they had asked sooner. That shared regret became our mission: to help families preserve a loved one's memories, voice, and wisdom while they are still here.
Through gentle recurring calls and a guided Life Arc, Lifestoria turns conversations into a growing story archive — one chapter at a time.
Why we built this
The conversations we postpone are often the ones we miss most.
Most families don't lose stories because they don't care. They lose them because asking can feel hard, time passes quickly, and no one knows exactly where to begin.
We tell ourselves there will be another dinner, another holiday, another quiet afternoon to ask. Then one day, the person is gone — and with them, the stories only they could tell.
Lifestoria was built to make those conversations easier to start, easier to continue, and easier to preserve.
"We're not archivists. We're not historians. We're a team of people who lost something we can't get back, and decided to make it easier for others not to."
— Constantine "Gus" Spathis, Founder & CEO
Our founding story
This started with the stories we couldn't get back.
Lifestoria began with a feeling many families know — realizing too late that someone you loved carried an entire world of memories you never fully asked about. For our founders, that feeling was personal.
Founder & CEO
Constantine "Gus" Spathis
"My grandmother spoke three languages and lived across two continents, but I only have a handful of her stories. That loss is the reason this company exists."
Gus grew up in a Greek family where stories were everywhere — passed across dinner tables, told in fragments, rarely written down. They carried everything his family had lived through: war, displacement, immigration, and survival across generations.
By the time he understood how much those voices mattered, some were already gone. Lifestoria is his answer to that regret — a way for any family to preserve a life's full weight, in their loved one's own words.
Co-Founder
Stathi Spathis
"I only ever knew my grandfather in the role he played in my life. But he was also an 18-year-old who left everything behind. I wish I could have known that side of him too."
By the time Stathi was old enough to be curious — to wonder what it felt like to leave everything behind and start over somewhere new — his grandfather was already gone. What stayed with him wasn't just the loss, but the conversations they never had.
That absence led him to co-found Lifestoria. He didn't want others to carry that same quiet regret — the feeling of missing a whole lifetime that existed just out of reach.
Co-Founder
Alexandra Spathis
"I know my Yiayia as a grandmother. But she was also a seamstress, an immigrant, and a girl my age once. I want to know that version of her too."
The idea for Lifestoria started when Alexandra's cousin lost his grandfather — and they both realized how many stories they'd never get to hear. That feeling stayed, and they decided something should exist so other families don't have to feel it too.
Alexandra loves writing and stories — especially the ones her family tells at dinner that always seem to end with "ask your Yiayia." So she started asking. And the more she heard, the more she realized how much she almost never knew.
Our mission
To make every life story easier to preserve.
Lifestoria helps families capture the memories, relationships, values, lessons, and voice that make a person who they are — and turn them into something that lasts for generations.
Preserve their voice
A written story matters. But hearing someone tell it in their own voice preserves something no summary can replace — the pauses, the laughter, the accent, the person.
Capture the full arc
From childhood and family roots to love, work, values, and legacy — Lifestoria helps capture the chapters that shaped a whole person, not just the highlights.
Make it effortless
Families shouldn't need to become interviewers, writers, or archivists to preserve what matters. Set it up once — and let their story archive grow.
Build with care
These stories are personal. The experience should be respectful, private, and designed around the comfort of the person sharing — not the convenience of the technology.
Meet the team
A team shaped by the questions we still carry.
Everyone building Lifestoria brings a question they wish they could ask someone they loved. Those questions guide the care, patience, and responsibility we bring to the product every day.
What we believe
The beliefs behind everything we build.
Belief 01
Every life deserves more than a summary.
A life is not only where someone was born, whom they married, or what work they did. It lives in small details, turning points, private jokes, family rituals, and lessons only they can explain.
Belief 02
Stories unfold over time.
The most meaningful stories rarely appear all at once. Memory needs space, patience, and the right questions. That's why Lifestoria is built around recurring conversations — not a single interview.
Belief 03
Technology should make people feel more human.
AI shouldn't replace family connection. It should help families ask better questions, preserve more memories, and create something they can revisit together for generations.
Belief 04
Preservation should be simple.
Families shouldn't need to manage recordings, organize transcripts, or conduct interviews themselves. They should be able to start once and watch their story collection grow.
Belief 05
Consent and care come first.
A person's memories belong to them. They should feel informed, respected, and in control throughout the experience — at every step, in every conversation.
The philosophy behind recurrence
The best stories are rarely told all at once.
Memory opens gradually. One conversation might begin with a childhood home. Another might reveal a friendship, a migration, a heartbreak, a recipe, a belief, or a turning point that shaped everything after.
Lifestoria was designed to give those stories room to unfold. Each recurring call focuses on one part of a larger Life Arc — helping their story archive grow from scattered memories into a fuller portrait of a person's life.
The Life Arc is the carefully crafted chapter path that guides conversations across the major seasons of a life: beginnings, family, coming of age, love, work, values, and legacy. Not a questionnaire — a journey.
Our responsibility
We know these stories are personal.
Family stories can include joy, grief, migration, love, regret, identity, conflict, faith, loss, and wisdom. Preserving them requires more than good technology. It requires consent, privacy, respect, and care.
Every decision we make — about how Lifestoria conducts a conversation, stores a recording, or presents a chapter — is guided by the weight of what's being shared.
Consent-first conversations
Your loved one knows what Lifestoria is, why the call is happening, and that they remain in control at every step.
Private by default
Families decide who can access recordings, transcripts, and story chapters. Nothing is public unless you choose it.
Sensitive by design
Conversations move gently. Questions can be skipped. No topic is required. The experience is built around comfort, not completeness.
Review before sharing
Families can review every chapter, clarify details, and decide what to share — and with whom — before anything leaves the platform.
Built for long-term preservation
These are not disposable files. They are family artifacts — and we treat them with the permanence and care they deserve.
What makes us different
Not another genealogy tool. A guided way to capture a living voice.
Not just
A family tree
Family trees show where someone came from. Lifestoria helps capture what it actually felt like to live that life — the emotion, the texture, the voice.
Not just
A blank journal
Your loved one doesn't need to sit down and write their story. Lifestoria gently guides the conversation for them — in their own language, at their own pace.
Not just
A one-time interview
A life is too rich for one sitting. Lifestoria builds the story gradually through recurring calls — each one opening a new chapter in the Life Arc.
Not just
A folder of recordings
Each conversation becomes part of their growing story archive — shaped by chapters, themes, transcripts, summaries, and preserved audio.
Lifestoria is designed for families who don't want to become archivists. They just want to make sure the stories aren't lost.
Start while there's still time
Ask while they're still here.
Lifestoria begins with one simple setup. From there, recurring calls guide your loved one through their Life Arc and gradually build a story archive your family can return to for generations.
One setup. Recurring conversations. A story archive that deepens over time.