The Searchable Life: When Memories Get a Database

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Apr 17, 2026 · 47m · transcript

Bob Matteson grew up around a father who quietly carried a piece of history with him for decades. The dad attended Game 6 of the 1945 Cubs vs. Tigers World Series. Bob never knew. The story surfaced only after his father passed, dug up secondhand from his mother. That single missing thread, a baseball game his dad never spoke about, planted the question that would become a company: what happens to the memories we never bothered to capture in context?

Years later, Bob became a father himself. He noticed his behavior had quietly shifted. He was photographing everything. His daughter's first…