The Personality Company for the AI Age
Clone U Studios was started in Oakland, California with one straightforward belief: the most irreplaceable things about a person aren't their photos or their belongings — they're their voice, their stories, and the specific way they see the world.
And most of the time, those things disappear. Not because anyone meant to let it happen. Just because no one captured them when the window was open.
We use the same AI tools that power the most advanced companies in the world — voice cloning, avatar generation, interactive knowledge bases — but we don't use them to replace people. We use them to preserve what makes each person impossible to replace.
Oakland-based entrepreneur, chiropractor, and host of the ChiroTrack podcast. Built Clone U because he saw what happened when he didn't capture the people closest to him while he still could.
The Origin
Ben has interviewed over 300 people in a professional setting. He knows how to make someone feel comfortable, how to ask the right follow-up, how to get past the surface stuff. That skill set took years to build.
He also knows what it feels like to realize, too late, that he never properly captured the people in his own life. The right questions never got asked. The stories that seemed like they'd always be there — weren't.
"The tools finally exist to preserve a person completely — their voice, their face, their stories. The only thing missing was someone doing it right."
Clone U started as that realization becoming a business. The technology is finally sophisticated enough to do this properly. ElevenLabs can clone a voice with professional-grade accuracy. HeyGen can render a photorealistic avatar. NotebookLM can build an interactive knowledge base that captures how someone thinks, not just what they said.
Put that together with a trained Session Director who knows how to run a 45-minute capture session — and you have something that didn't exist five years ago.
What We're Not
This is not a grief product. We don't want you thinking about death when you walk in. This is a life celebration. It's for people who are very much alive and have a lot left to say — and for families who want to make sure those things get preserved while everyone is still in the room.
The people who understand this fastest are usually people who've already lost someone. They know exactly what they'd give to have one more conversation, hear one more story, feel that person's presence again in some real way.
We're not building a replacement. We're building a record. The difference matters.
What We Stand For
We're not capturing a polished version of someone. We're capturing the real version — nervous pauses, tangents, laughter, unfinished sentences included. That's what makes it worth keeping.
Every Memory Capsule is created with the full consent and participation of the subject. They decide what gets preserved, who has access, and what happens to it. Always.
Every session is 45 minutes. The differentiation in our packages isn't session length — it's the craftsmanship of what gets built afterward. We'd rather do one capsule right than five capsules fast.
Our language is intentional. "Hear their voice again" — not "talk to them again." We're preserving presence, not simulating a conversation that didn't happen.
ElevenLabs, HeyGen, NotebookLM — these are the instruments. The craft is in knowing how to use them in service of something human. The tech is irrelevant if the story isn't there first.
We started with one studio, one proof-of-concept, one real capsule. The franchise model exists because this work shouldn't only be available to people who happen to live near us.
Book a session in Oakland. The whole process takes 45 minutes. What you get back lasts a lifetime.