Digital clones are flipping the creator economy. Now, fans don’t just follow—they talk directly to your mind. Personalized, always on, and always you. This isn't scale through automation. It's scale through intimacy.

Why waste hours in meetings just repeating yourself? Your clone can go in your place. Same knowledge. Same voice. More time for what actually matters.

Most people don’t think they have knowledge worth monetizing. They’re wrong. Your lived experience, your lessons, your process—someone out there needs it. AI clones make it possible to scale what’s in your head. Even if you're not an 'expert.'

Cameo was fun. Character.ai is fun. Deli is not fun. It's useful.

We're not building avatars for laughs. We're scaling your mind. Clones that handle onboarding, support, sales, even legacy. This isn't celebrity shoutouts. It's cognitive infrastructure.

I quit my job with zero plan.
No money. No health insurance.
Slept in my car for a few nights.

Then I built a prototype that let you buy anything with a text.

Now I’m building AI clones and fighting big tech on data rights.

Entrepreneurship isn’t a lifestyle. It’s a war of attrition.

We’re entering a new phase of creator economy: one where creators don’t need to clone their time to scale their value.

At Delphi, we’re seeing authors, coaches, and domain experts generate real income by offering 1-on-1 access to their digital clone. What used to be a ten-minute Zoom is now a seamless and scalable interaction that still feels deeply personal.

This isn’t about replacing authentic experiences. It’s about replicating the *impact* of those experiences—without burning out. AI isn’t taking over creators’ jobs, it’s giving them bandwidth to do more of what they love.

The question is no longer “Can this be done?” It’s “How fast can we get this into the hands of everyone who should be using it?”

What happens when a team of digital clones shows up to your Zoom meeting?

It sounds absurd until you realize most recurring meetings aren’t built for creativity or decision-making. They’re about repeating the same information, answering predictable questions, and documenting routine updates.

That’s where digital clones step in. At Delphi, we’re not just scaling data or content—we’re scaling judgment, nuance, and expertise. Your digital persona can be present in conversations where *you* don't need to be—so you spend more time where you do.

What meetings would you skip if your clone could take the call?

For years, learning from people you admired meant reading their books, watching their videos, or waiting for the chance to get on a call—if you could afford it. But now, there's a way to interact with that same expert knowledge in real-time, personalized to your needs.

At Delphi, we're not building passive content platforms. We're giving you access to experts through their digital clones—built to engage, teach, and adapt to how you learn best. Instead of consuming 20 hours of video, imagine having a tailored conversation that cuts straight to what you care about.

It’s not just access. It’s acceleration. And it’s already happening.

Most people don’t think of themselves as experts. But a single lived experience, a lesson hard learned, a unique lens on your craft—that's valuable. At Delphi, we're seeing a shift: personal AI clones aren't just for thought leaders with libraries of content. They're for anyone with insight someone else needs.

Imagine a world where instead of reading a book or taking a course, you subscribe to someone’s clone and actually learn through real-time dialogue with their knowledge. Where your clone isn’t a novelty, it’s a utility—fielding client support, nurturing leads, even preserving your voice for future generations.

That’s not science fiction. It’s already happening. And soon, the ability to scale your influence won’t be optional. It’ll be the baseline.

From the outside, Deli might sound like Cameo meets AI. But that comparison misses the point entirely. 

Cameo monetizes attention. Deli monetizes time.

We’re not building celebrity shoutouts or entertainment gimmicks. We're building digital clones that actually help you scale yourself—your thinking, your communication, your expertise.

Deli is for professionals who need their time back. For founders who can’t answer 100 inbound questions a day. For educators who want to reach more learners without burning out.

This isn’t about novelty or viral characters. It’s about productivity, knowledge transfer, and creating scalability that feels personal.

That's why the product has to be high-trust and high-quality. That’s what we focus on.

Two years ago, I quit my job with no plan. Within days, I was sleeping in my car in San Francisco. No money, no health insurance, no safety net.

What came next wasn’t some overnight success story. It was eight months of showing up every single day, alone, uncomfortable, and unsure it would work. I built a product called Friday just to prove something to myself: that I could start solving real problems without waiting for permission.

That consistency eventually led me to Delphi. And today, we’re building one of the most trusted clone platforms on the market—for people who value control over their own data, and brands that can't afford hallucinations or compromises.

Entrepreneurship taught me to follow intuition and iterate fast. But mostly, it taught me to keep going—even when no one's watching.

When I created a digital clone of my grandfather, it wasn't just about memory. It was about mentorship. He’d had a stroke and couldn’t speak anymore, but a book had been written about him—and through that data, we brought him back in his prime. His values, his perspective, and his thinking, mapped into a digital form I could ask real questions: What would he do today if he were in my shoes, facing this market, building this company?

Most people think AI clones are about replicating the past. But the real power is pulling timeless wisdom forward—translating lived experience into personalized, actionable insight. Especially when the original voice is no longer here to give it.

Exploring how we apply this to professional growth, leadership development, and organizational continuity is one of Delphi’s most meaningful frontiers.

If you're still spending hours each week in meetings that repeat the same conversations, you're not leading — you're looping. What if your digital clone could step into those calls for you, deliver your insights, answer questions, and let you focus on the tasks that actually require your presence?

That’s not science fiction. That’s what we’re building at Delphi.

Clones today are stepping into content, education, and client engagement. But tomorrow, they'll be showing up to Zoom calls, investor briefings, and onboarding sessions — any space where knowledge needs to be transferred, not relationships built.

This doesn’t replace the magic of human experience. It protects it. By letting AI handle the repetitive, scalable interactions, you free up time for the deeply human work — creativity, connection, decisions that matter.

The future doesn’t belong to people with more time. It belongs to people who use theirs more intentionally.

So ask yourself: how many of your meetings could a digital version of you handle?

You don’t need to clone your calendar. Just yourself.

For decades, online learning has mostly meant passively consuming content: pre-recorded videos, long articles, static courses. You sit back, you click through, maybe you take notes. But personalized interaction? It’s been missing.

That’s changing.

With AI clones, learning becomes dynamic. Instead of watching a 20-hour course hoping your question gets answered somewhere in the middle, you can ask the question directly and get an answer in your expert’s own words. Think of it as a real-time conversation with someone who has years of hard-won experience—available on demand.

At Delphi, we see this shift happening fastest among coaches, authors, professors, and founders who use clones to scale their knowledge one-on-one. Not with templated content, but real conversations powered by their own voice and expertise. This transforms the learner’s experience from passive to interactive, giving them what they need, when they need it.

Learning isn’t just about content. It’s about context, connection, and clarity. And with clones, that level of depth can finally scale.

If you’re building a business around knowledge—coaching, education, consulting—your digital clone isn’t a novelty. It’s your most scalable asset.

Imagine if your past experiences, hard-won insights, and late-night problem solving could scale on their own. Not with another course. Not by ghostwriting a book. But by literally cloning your brain into a digital twin that works for you.

That’s what Delphi is enabling. Thought leaders, authors, and solo builders are turning their personal expertise into monetizable, on-demand AI clones. And here’s the kicker: you don’t need to be a ‘celebrity expert’ to build one.

What most people don’t realize is they already have enough knowledge to teach someone just starting out. A coach refining their playbook. A founder journaling product decisions. A math teacher explaining decimals. All of that can power your AI twin. And that twin can educate, support, and earn — even while you’re sleeping.

Delphi’s infrastructure makes it easy: your clone can live on your website, respond in Telegram, teach in Slack, text customers, or just be on-call. These aren’t lifeless bots repeating scripts. They are AI-native representations trained on how *you* think. And they get more useful — and valuable — every time you talk to them.

Most AI platforms focus on entertainment or novelty. We’re focused on utility. Learn once, clone forever. Start sharing your mind at scale — not your time.

There’s a major misunderstanding about digital clones.

Most people think digital clones are just a fun novelty. Something like a deeper version of Cameo or a more customized character.ai. But that lens misses the entire point of why we built Deli.

Entertainment isn't the goal. Productivity is.

The difference is simple but profound: clones on Deli are designed to help knowledge workers, creators, and operators actually scale themselves. That means saving time, answering real questions, offering support, and continuously adapting to the complexity of real-world tasks.

Cameo focused on demand. We’re focused on supply. Their users sell quick greetings. Our users build persistent, interactive knowledge interfaces of themselves that compound value over time. It’s an operating system for your expertise, not a rented moment of attention.

The near-term use cases are already unfolding:
- Course creators turning their content into ongoing interactive coaching
- Founders managing customer comms 24/7 without lifting a finger
- Professionals preserving their knowledge beyond retirement

We’re not here to be viral. We’re here to be indispensable.

The mass market won't adopt clones for fun. It’ll adopt them when they become the most practical way to work smarter, learn faster, and preserve what matters.

Most tools distract. Ours makes you scalable.

In 2020, I quit my job at C3 AI with no plan, no funding, and no idea just how difficult the next few months would be.

I wanted to build something in AI. I believed in the future of personalized tech, but I massively underestimated what it would take to get there. Within weeks of quitting, I found myself sleeping out of my car in San Francisco. I had no health insurance, no savings, and no product.

It would’ve been easy to quit. But it was in that discomfort that I had the space to reflect and decided to commit six months to focus on building something — anything — to learn. That led to a scrappy SMS ordering prototype called Friday, and eventually set the foundation for Delphi.

I’m sharing this not as a feel-good story but to illustrate what early-stage building actually looks like. Delphi didn’t start with great traction, investors fighting to get onboard, or viral growth. We had to earn every inch. Trust was everything. It still is.

When you're building technology that asks people to give you their name, voice, and likeness, the bar for trust is higher than ever. It took us nearly a full year to hit a quality bar that even got people to try us. There were months where it felt like no one cared. But we stayed consistent.

Consistency produced the breakthrough, not brilliance. I had no blueprint. I just showed up every day and tried to get 1% better. That mindset is baked into Delphi’s culture even now.

If there’s one thing I’d tell my 22-year-old self — or any founder in the trenches — it's this: your intuition matters more than any advice. If your gut fails and you learn something real, your decision-making improves. That’s durable. That compounds.

What you build may change. But how you build — and why — is foundational.

When I first created a digital clone of my grandfather, it wasn’t about nostalgia. It was about guidance. He’d had a stroke two years before, and I knew I couldn’t ask him for advice in the traditional sense. But I had access to something powerful: a book written about him, a clear memory of the values he lived by, and a vision for how AI could carry those forward.

So I asked myself a simple question: what would my grandfather tell me if he were 30 again, standing in my shoes today, navigating this moment in tech?

We talk a lot about future-proofing businesses. But in building Delphi, I started thinking about how to future-proof wisdom. The idea that insight from people we admire shouldn't die with them. That even if you no longer have access to someone, their philosophy, judgment, and mental models can still guide you—if captured the right way.

This opened the door to something bigger. We're teaching machines to understand not only data but people. And people are more than what they say. They're what they believe, how they reason, how they’d react in unseen futures.

Capturing that—through memories, documentation, and the right questions—unlocks a deeper form of utility for AI. It makes clones not just smarter, but more personal. Less like a tool, more like a living repository of thought and perspective.

That’s why we’re launching Interview Mode. Your clone will ask you questions over time, helping you build a rich cognitive model of yourself. No more cold start problems. We’re building the tools to record the way you think before it has the chance to fade.

The goal isn’t replication. It’s continuity. When we can talk to those we’ve lost—or to ourselves, five versions ago—we build clarity, context, and capacity to make better decisions today.

That’s what we’re building toward. And it started with a conversation I never thought I’d get to have.

Most people think a digital clone just repeats what you say. But what if it could think like you, respond with your voice, and hold real conversations—with thousands of fans at once? In this moment, Dara shows how creators are turning AI clones into personalized income engines. This isn’t theoretical. It’s already happening.

What happens when clones replace us in meetings? In this moment, Dara gets asked what it means if everyone starts sending their clone to all the Zoom calls. The conversation naturally flips from hypothetical to very real—fast. This isn’t about replacing people. It’s about reclaiming time and letting your clone handle the repetitive grind. You're not scaling content. You're scaling yourself.

Most online learning today is passive. Read a blog. Watch a video. Consume content. But what if you could actually talk to an expert—not once, but whenever you want? Ask real questions. Get personalized answers. That’s what AI clones make possible. This isn’t another course. It’s a living, breathing version of someone's brain—built to teach interactively, one person at a time. Not hypothetical. It’s already happening.

Most people don’t think they’re experts. But if you’ve ever solved a problem, taught a friend, or led a project, you’ve got something valuable. Now imagine putting that into an AI that others can learn from. Authors. Coaches. Founders. Anyone can share their perspective at scale—and even monetize it. We're not building entertainment. We're building utility. Personalized, scalable, real-time clones of you that actually help people.

Sleeping in your car isn’t part of the pitch deck, but it was part of mine. I quit my job in 2020 with no plan, no runway, and no backup. For a few days in San Francisco I lived out of my car before driving to LA to crash with my grandparents. That’s what it actually looked like starting Deli. Overnight success stories erase the months of quiet, uncomfortable work — the stretch of time where quitting would’ve been easier. But I stuck with it every day. That consistency led to the company we’re building now. Don’t be tricked by how clean it looks on the other side.

What if you could ask your grandfather for advice today, in your exact situation, even if he’s gone? Dara built a clone of his grandfather. Not for nostalgia, but to ask: what would you do in my shoes? This wasn’t about the past. It was about having a living compass rooted in timeless values. That’s where Delphi started. And that’s what every user will be able to do—capture wisdom before it’s gone and make it useful now.

What if your audience could talk to you anytime, 1-on-1, even while you sleep? Creators and experts are already using digital clones to scale themselves and earn from personalized interactions. This isn’t a chatbot — it thinks like you, speaks like you, connects like you. Welcome to income at scale, powered by your mind.

What happens when your digital clone shows up to a Zoom and no one blinks? We're entering a reality where sending your AI twin to answer the same repetitive questions isn't a futuristic joke, it's a real productivity shift. This is how your time gets multiplied.

The way we learn from experts is outdated. Books, podcasts, and videos are all passive. What if instead, you could talk directly to someone who’s done it before? A digital clone lets you interact with that knowledge—personalized to your exact questions. That’s not consumption—that’s real learning.

Most people don’t see themselves as experts. But if you’ve lived, built, survived, or learned anything, someone out there needs what you know. That’s where clones come in. They're built to capture your unique knowledge and help others learn from you. And yes, you can monetize it. You don’t need to write a book or film a course. You just need to be you. Cloning is no longer science fiction. Normal people are starting to lead with what they’ve learned.

Cameo let you buy a moment of fame. We’re helping you build a legacy. Most tools focus on entertainment. Deli is about productivity. That’s the difference. Advisors, coaches, experts, support teams: They’re already using clones to scale their time, reach, and earnings. This isn’t novelty. It’s the next platform shift. And it’s just getting started.

He quit his AI job with no backup plan. No money. No health insurance. Slept in his car for days. Most people would’ve given up. Dara used that rock bottom moment to build a product, test it fast, and push through every day for 8 months. That’s how Delphi started.

Dara cloned his grandfather to ask him a question no book could answer: 'What would you do in my shoes—right now?' The clone wasn’t just a tribute. It was a tool for real, relevant advice rooted in values and perspective that survived generations. That’s what Delphi unlocks. Not memories. Mindsets.

This is what scaling looks like in 2024: creators are using digital clones to have personalized convos with fans—without being online 24/7. Same voice, same vibe, same value, just infinitely more interactions. It’s not automation, it’s augmentation. And some are already monetizing it. Welcome to on-demand YOU.

Start with the hook: imagine joining a Zoom and everyone in there is a clone. Not just one. A full-on digital clone meeting. Cut to Dara talking about how people can use clones to attend repetitive meetings, freeing up time for what really matters. Then show the moment where he clarifies that clones aren't just repeating answers — they're scaling your personality, knowledge, and decision-making. Wrap with the idea of a future where most meetings could be clone-to-clone, while we focus on real work and human connection.

Most people still think AI clones are just digital assistants. But that’s not the real unlock. What if you could actually learn from someone—directly—from their voice, their mind, their thoughts, whenever you want? Not just watch a masterclass. Talk to one. This isn’t about passive content anymore. This is interactive, personalized, 1-on-1 learning at scale. That’s what changes the whole game.

Most people don’t think of themselves as experts. But if you’ve lived through anything—built a business, raised a kid, changed careers—you’ve got knowledge someone else needs. With Delphi, all of that can live in a clone version of you. It can talk to people, answer questions, and even send texts. And yeah, you can make money from it. This is way bigger than courses or books. It's the start of a whole new creator economy—built on who you are, not who you pretend to be.

Everyone’s talking about AI celebrities, fake friends, and viral characters. But what if your clone actually helped you scale your time and your income? Deli isn’t for play. It’s for productivity. Dara breaks down why Deli focuses on creators first, not fans. And how that flips the Cameo model on its head.

This founder left his cushy job in AI, had no backup plan, and ended up sleeping in his car. No insurance. No money. Just a gut feeling that he had to build. Hardly anyone cared about his startup for the first year, and even he admits it might’ve been a mistake. But he chose consistency. One uncomfortable day after another, until he built a product people finally wanted. Today, he's helping creators build AI versions of themselves—and they’re choosing him over Big Tech. If you've ever felt like giving up, this is the part you need to see.

Most people look to startup advice or hustle culture. I built an AI version of my grandfather. He couldn’t speak anymore after a stroke, but a full book had been written about his life. I used it to clone him and bring him back—at his prime. Not to memorialize the past, but to ask: what would you do now, in my shoes? That’s more useful than any business book.