The experience of one life
should help another.

When you’re facing a difficult decision, someone has been through a version of it before. But access to their experience often depends on your money, your network, or their availability.

Delphi helps you find people with experience relevant to what you’re figuring out, then learn from them through interactive versions of their minds.

Our name comes from the Oracle of Delphi, where people in Ancient Greece brought life’s biggest questions. Personal mentorship offered another way to seek guidance, as Alexander the Great did with Aristotle. We believe that kind of personal access - the chance to ask questions, explore someone’s reasoning, and apply what you learn to your own life - should be available to everyone.

Today, books, podcasts, videos, and social networks let people share what they’ve learned with millions. But even when you find someone worth learning from, you often can’t ask:

What would you do in my situation?

My first mentor

The person I wanted to ask was my grandfather.

He had been one of Iran’s most successful businessmen, known for both what he built and his integrity. After escaping the revolution and losing almost everything, he rebuilt his life.

Years later, as a founder facing difficult decisions, I turned to his memoir for guidance. A stroke had made meaningful conversation with him impossible. I could read what he had done, but I couldn’t ask how he would think through what I was facing.

So I used his memoir to build a digital version of him that I could ask questions and learn from. It couldn’t replace my grandfather, but it gave me a new way to learn from the experience he had left behind.

That experiment became Delphi, built around a simple belief: no one should have to walk alone through a decision someone else has already survived.

How Delphi works

A Delphi is an interactive digital version of your mind, grounded in your own knowledge, content, and experience.

Every person carries a library of lived experience. You can create your own Delphi by bringing together your writing, books, podcasts, videos, and the lessons you want to pass on. It becomes an interactive profile where people can get to know you, explore your ideas, and pick your brain without needing you to be available.

You choose what to share, can update it as your thinking evolves, and retain ownership of your content. Answers include citations to the source material, so people can see where an idea came from and explore its context. Your Delphi is designed to stay grounded in what you’ve shared and acknowledge gaps instead of guessing. When it doesn’t have enough information to answer, it can say “I don’t know” and notify you, giving you the chance to add your perspective.

When you want to learn from someone else, start with what you’re trying to figure out. Delphi helps you find people with relevant experience and talk to their Delphis by text or voice. You can explain your circumstances, ask why, and follow up until you understand how their perspective applies to your situation.

A world connected by experience

Over time, we want Delphi to help you understand who to learn from, work with, hire, fund, meet, or build with, and why.

Shared experiences, ambitions, struggles, and complementary paths can reveal connections that a resume or follower count misses.

A conversation with someone’s Delphi could be the beginning of a mentorship, a collaboration, or a friendship.

The goal is to create more human connection. To preserve and scale human judgment so that the experiences of one life can help another. To keep people, not AI, the main characters of history.

Not every mistake needs to be repeated. Not every lesson needs to be relearned alone. Not every person needs to start from zero.

There is more that connects us than keeps us apart.
Our job is to make that visible.

Dara LadjevardianCEO, Delphi