Public Presence
Close to it, if the assistant is grounded: it answers only from material you have approved and declines when it lacks support. That removes invention, not error, so you still need review, refusal boundaries, and a log of what it said.
Public Presence
A chatbot is an interface for completing tasks, an AI persona is a character defined by a description, and a digital twin is a model kept in correspondence with something real. The distinction that matters commercially is not the label but the grounding: whether answers come from approved material about a specific subject, or from a written description of one.
Public Presence
Find the source carrying the error and correct it where it lives, because there is no way to edit a model directly. Then publish a clear, well-structured version of the correct fact on a property you own, and re-test on a fixed schedule. Where the source cannot be edited, publishing and waiting is the honest remedy.
Public Presence
Category answers are assembled from third-party sources rather than your own site, so being accurate on your own pages is not enough. You need to exist, described the same way, in the places an engine consults when nobody has named you.
Living Self
The most valuable thing to keep is a recording of them talking in their own words, because it is the one part that cannot be assembled from anything else later. Photographs, letters, and voicemails matter too. Accounts and permissions are a separate task, and one worth arranging gently while it can still be done together.
Organizations
Interview them before they go, and capture the answers as something the next person can question rather than a document nobody opens. Most of what an expert knows is undocumented judgement, which is why handover notes fail.
Organizations
Capture it while they are still working, not during their final week, and capture the reasoning rather than the procedure. What leaves with a graduating student is mostly tacit knowledge: why an approach was abandoned, which failures look alike, who to ask. Documentation holds procedures well and holds judgement badly.
Living Self
It depends almost entirely on whether the person agreed while they were able to. Researchers place consent at the centre of this question, and where it is absent the honest position is to keep the archive and be slow about making it speak. Where consent exists, the second question is whether it helps the people who are still here.
Public Presence
A self-serve subscription is under twenty Canadian dollars a month. A commissioned build is a project with people in it, and it is quoted case by case, because the largest cost driver is how much material exists and what state it is in. The model itself is the cheap part; preparing sources and reviewing answers is where the money goes.
Public Presence
Ask what you will hold in your hands after thirty days, how success is measured, and what happens when an engine states something false about you. Then ask what the exit looks like. Any supplier offering a guaranteed citation or mention is selling certainty that nobody owns, and that answer alone should end the conversation.
Living Self
A will needs an explicit clause authorising your executor to access and manage digital assets, because in most of the United States a fiduciary has no automatic right to them. Keep passwords out of the will itself, since it can become a public document. Set the platforms' own legacy tools too, because those can override what the will says.
Public Presence
Usually because it is quoting a real page that is out of date. Find the source the answer cites, correct the fact at that source, publish a current page you control that states it plainly, then re-ask the question on a schedule.
Public Presence
Put a complete, self-contained answer in the first screen, phrase headings the way people ask questions, and make sure the page is readable without JavaScript. Retrieval systems lift passages rather than whole pages, so the unit worth writing is a paragraph that still makes sense after it has been taken out of context.
Public Presence
Publish a source AI systems can actually reach: a structured, factual, regularly updated page you control that describes who you are in the words people use when they ask about you.
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