Ryan
May 22, 2025
Why I Built Confinity
A personal journey to preserve what matters — memories, identity, and legacy.
In a digital world built for engagement and distraction, I wanted to do something different. Confinity is my way of creating a privacy-first space to safeguard the stories, identity, and cultural heritage that make us who we are.
This didn’t begin in a boardroom. It began with me, a son trying to preserve my mother’s voice. One night, as my mum was battling cancer, I realised I needed to do more than just hold onto photos and half-remembered stories. I wanted her voice – her real voice – to be there for her grandchildren, so they could know her beyond fading photographs and secondhand tales.
“I want my two boys to know who I really was, not just what’s left in pictures,” my mum said.
That hit me hard. It made me see just how fragile memory is, and how easily it can slip away. Her voice became the very first entry on what would become Confinity. Soon, relatives were adding their own archives, and I realised we were planting the seed for something bigger.
Confinity isn’t just an app. It’s a digital home for legacies, built with the same care we give to our most treasured heirlooms. Rooted in empathy, permanence, and privacy, it brings together a global team and a growing community of advisors, creators, and cultural advocates. All of us share one purpose: to protect identity and legacy in a world that too often forgets.
What We’re Losing in the Noise
My story is personal, but it reflects something much bigger – a quiet, global pattern of digital forgetting.
Did you know that around 60% of people today can’t name all four of their grandparents? Most family histories vanish within just two generations. As technology accelerates, memories are lost in social feeds, broken links, and outdated platforms. Nearly 90% of historical documents before 1900 are gone. Almost 40% of webpages from just a decade ago have vanished. Even our milestones are buried within months.
Without care, the stories, values, and voices that define us could be lost forever. Confinity is my response to that loss – a secure, human-centered space where memories are preserved alongside the culture, relationships, and experiences that give them meaning.
In a world that fragments our attention and strips away identity, I’m building something lasting: a space where stories and heritage are not just remembered but deeply connected.
A Global Team with a Shared Mission
This isn’t a product of Silicon Valley. It’s a mosaic of cultures, values, and stories that define what Confinity is and who we serve.
Confinity started as my personal project, but it quickly became a global collaboration. I was fortunate to meet Neeraj Vir during a trip to India, and we immediately connected over a shared belief: memory deserves more than digital noise. “The digital world feels disposable,” Neeraj said. “I joined Confinity to help build a platform shaped by culture, place, and human connection – not one built to exploit attention.”
Together, we brought on engineers, designers, and cultural thinkers from around the world who understood that memory can’t be preserved in fragments.
Our advisory board has grown into a diverse group of thinkers and leaders – Rami Sharaf, a Southeast Asian trade leader and former CEO of WorldBridge International; Jeelan Poola, Chief Product Officer at Hive Pro and a former engineering leader at Couchbase; Nahid Ferdous Mohit, a senior engineer at 10up and a core contributor to WordPress; Brendan McKittrick, CEO of The Internet of Aviation and Awni Etaywe, a linguist and former UN expert in ethical storytelling.
Along with a growing network of ambassadors, we’re shaping a future where memories are preserved with dignity and depth.
A Digital Home for Life’s Stories
At the heart of Confinity is Cherish – our secure platform where you can capture, preserve, and revisit your most meaningful stories. Cherish offers a private archive, an interactive family tree, and a personal profile for sharing milestones, memories, and connections – all free from algorithms or ads.
You own your memories. Not advertisers. Not algorithms.
We’re working on features like Legacy Books and AI-powered curation to surface the right memories at the right time, helping deepen connection and reflection.
Cherish is free to use, with optional premium features, and we’re partnering with governments, museums, and cultural institutions to help protect endangered histories, landmarks, and oral traditions.
For me, this isn’t just about preserving personal memory – it’s about safeguarding our shared human story.
Preserving Historical Legacies and Global Heritage
Confinity is helping preserve stories across the globe – from endangered landmarks in Palestine and Cambodia to elders’ wisdom and oral traditions in vulnerable communities. The Legacies Archive highlights voices like Rosa Parks and Alan Turing, offering a trusted resource for those who want to understand the stories that shaped our world.
We’re creating a living archive of humanity – one that protects identity, culture, and the threads that connect us across generations.
“My mother’s voice is now saved forever. That’s a gift I can’t explain,” said Lynn Ward, a relative from the UK. “We’re using Confinity to preserve our elders’ wisdom before it’s lost to violence and destruction,” added a cultural partner from Palestine.
I believe that everyone’s story deserves to be cherished, no matter where they come from.
Join the Movement to Preserve What Matters
I’m inviting you to help shape the future of remembrance. Your support will help preserve the stories that matter – from personal memories to endangered cultural legacies.
Whether you’re chronicling your own story, preserving your family’s legacy, or standing up for forgotten communities, Confinity offers a home for what matters.
Join me in building this movement. Together, we can preserve what matters most – our memories, our identity, and our shared humanity.
🌱 Let’s build the future of memory, together.
Preserve your story today — visit our Crowdfunding page to join the movement, or learn more about investment opportunities.
