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Ardan Labs Podcast

AI, Legacy, and Reflekta with Miles Spencer

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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57 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Bill Kennedy talks with Miles Spencer, founder of Reflekta, about using AI to preserve the stories and legacies of loved ones. Miles explains how Reflekta enables meaningful, ongoing conversations with elders through AI while prioritizing privacy, ethics, and emotional responsibility. They explore the technical foundations of the platform, the challenges of building trust around deeply personal data, and the business model behind Reflekta. Miles also...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the OnLabs podcast, our special guest today is Miles Spencer. Miles, thanks for

0:23.4

hanging out with us today. Hey, my pleasure, William. Give everybody the two-minute spiel on

0:29.2

what Miles is doing today, but keep it to today because I'm going to throw you in the time

0:34.0

machine and I don't want to hear anything yet about past or future.

0:38.3

So just what is Miles doing today?

0:40.7

Well, I had lunch with a very nice gentleman who's almost 100 years old.

0:44.5

And what I asked him was what was his greatest wish?

0:48.0

And it was to pass on his legacy and values to his children,

0:53.3

grandchildren.

0:53.9

He actually has a great grandchild, and he's still

0:56.1

alive, which is really cool. And so I'm working on a platform that allows him to do that.

1:02.0

Right. So the platform is reflecta. How do you pronounce your platform? You got it right. It's called

1:08.7

reflecta.reflecta.i. And it is a basically it's a platform. You got it right. It's called Reflecta. Reflecta.a.a. And it is a, basically, it's a platform that

1:15.6

synthesizes all of this data and media that we have up in our attic. I mean, we've got the

1:22.3

journals and we got the Polaroids and we've got the books and tapes and it's all gathering dust and when people

1:29.3

die all their stories kind of like burn and go away right and these boxes are passed on to the next so

1:37.7

we've had these recording devices for a long time but reflect that actually synthesizes it all into what we call an elder,

1:47.5

which is capable of a spontaneous and dynamic conversation anytime like.

1:52.4

Are you on the technical side of this? Do you have any knowledge on the technical side of

1:58.3

the techies think I'm like the gray matter business dude and the gray matter

2:07.1

business dudes think i'm really tech savvy so my answer is somewhere in between but i'm sure my 12 year

2:17.2

old kid has got more tech jobs.

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