Thinking from RAGMI Labs on digital legacy, memory, life story preservation, and the technology we build to support them.
RAG is the mechanism that lets an AI agent reason with your specific memories, relationships, and history — rather than just the world's general knowledge. Understanding it is the key to understanding why a structured folio matters.
Nine years ago I started thinking about a problem that most people don't realise they have. Not a technical problem. A human one. What happens to a life when it's over?
AI is building a version of you right now — assembled from fragments you didn't choose, shaped by systems you don't control. Unless you build your own record first, that version is the one that will survive.
Neuroscientists call them retrieval cues — the triggers that bring a memory back with something approaching its original feeling. The problem is that most of us have scattered ours across formats and platforms that are increasingly difficult to reach.
Most of us assume our digital data will outlast us. The evidence suggests otherwise. Three forces work against long-term survival — and understanding them is the first step to building something that genuinely persists.