“I started CLIO because I realized how much we lose when a life story is never truly told.”
— András Batiz · Founder
About us
CLIO was founded on a simple but urgent belief: the stories of older adults are among the most valuable things our society has, and we are losing them at scale.
We are a Budapest-based team of journalists, technologists, and psychologists, brought together by a shared mission to solve a problem too often overlooked.
CLIO was built from the ground up: bootstrapped, tested across five countries, and shaped by the real people whose stories we help preserve.
How we work
Four principles. Held without exception.
01
Human first, AI second.
Our interviewers bring warmth and depth no technology can replace — AI ensures structure, consistency, and quality.
02
Dignity in every detail.
We work with older adults in sensitive environments. Respect, discretion, and genuine attentiveness are not optional — they are the foundation of everything we do.
03
Scale without compromise.
Quality must remain consistent whether we deliver 10 memoirs or 10,000. We built our own narrative AI because generic tools fall short of the standard every life story deserves.
04
Impact over optics.
We measure success by the people who feel heard, the families who reconnect, and the institutions that truly improve wellbeing — not vanity metrics.
Backed by science
Our scientific advisor.
András Horváth M.D., Ph.D.
Dementia & brain researcher
“Structured life story work can simultaneously support the accessibility of autobiographical memory, the coherence of identity, and the quality of person-centred care. What makes CLIO unique is that it doesn’t try to reconstruct a personal narrative after the fact. It helps preserve it in time, with dignity.”
Dr. Horváth brings scientific rigour to CLIO’s mission, ensuring our approach to life story preservation is grounded in current research on memory, identity, and person-centred care.
Neurocognitive Research Centre, Budapest
Semmelweis University
Junior Prima Award laureate
EU MindShift Initiative
AD/PD 2026 Speaker
Meet our core team
People who really listen.
András Batiz
Founder
After losing his father, András realized how much more a life story could give if it were preserved — not just in photos, but in words. With a background in television journalism, psychology, and communication, the emergence of AI brought these threads together into the idea behind CLIO. As founder, he is committed to making life stories accessible and meaningful for as many people and families as possible.
Sándor Madovy
Founder
Sándor brings 12+ years of experience leading international, technology-driven storytelling and platform projects. With a background in communication, he plays a key role in ensuring that CLIO’s technology remains deeply human — translating complex systems into meaningful, accessible experiences.
Katalin Zöldi
Operations Manager
Katalin is a psychologist with 10+ years of experience across sales, customer success, learning & development, and operations. She brings a rare combination of psychological insight and people-first thinking to CLIO’s processes. For her, CLIO is also personal: preserving the wisdom and values of previous generations in a fast-moving world.
Zsigmond Máriás
Chief Technology Officer
Zsigmond is a serial software entrepreneur and CTO with over 20 years of experience building and scaling digital products – from enterprise solutions to AI-driven SaaS. For him, joining this venture is a natural next step: combining deep technical expertise, a passion for algorithm design, and a lifelong drive to turn bold ideas into working products.
Dóra Papp-Gyuris
Marketing Strategist
Dóra is a marketing strategist with over 10 years of experience in B2C and B2B marketing and go-to-market execution, including leadership roles at Green Fox Academy, formerly one of CEE’s leading coding bootcamps, and Bobcats Coding, leading go-to-market strategy for the US market. She’s drawn to projects that truly make a difference, and at CLIO, she’s helping the company reach care homes and institutions ready to bring meaningful life-story programs to the people they serve.