loopn is the first tool I built for nobody but me.

who I am

I am Sahil Miglani, founder of Loopn.

I am an engineer by training, and my career has taken me through banking, business school, and technology. I spent six years at India’s largest public sector bank, moved to Montreal in 2021 to pursue my MBA at McGill University, and returned to India in 2024, where I joined Stashfin as Chief of Staff to the founder.

Living alone in Montreal, far from home and from the people who had known me for years, made me especially aware of how much we keep to ourselves when there isn’t an easy place to put it. That experience stayed with me, and when I found myself thinking about how that problem could be solved, my instinct was the same as it has always been: build something.

Loopn is the first tool I built for nobody but me.

I built it alongside a full-time job, mostly at night, funded entirely out of my own pocket. I have used it every day for longer than anyone else has been able to.

It knows more about the last year of my life than anyone does. And, surprisingly, that has felt like a relief rather than a worry. That is really the bet behind Loopn.

why I started loopn

why I started loopn.

When I moved to Montreal in 2021 for my MBA, I lived in a place where nobody knew a prior version of me. No one knew who I had been at twenty-two. No one remembered the choices I had made before. No one expected me to be consistent with the person they already knew.

For a while, that felt incredibly freeing. Then it became isolating.

My family was nine and a half hours behind. Calling home meant finding a window that worked for both of us. And when you finally find that window, you naturally bring the good version of your day with you. You talk about the course. Work is fine. Everything is going well. You don’t make the four-a.m. call to say, I am not sure I should have come here. So you don’t say it.

The conversation happens. The real thing stays with you.

I started writing instead. Writing helped. It gave me clarity. But I still wanted to say those thoughts out loud to someone, to have them heard without having to manage what the other person might feel, think, or need from me in return.

That was the gap I couldn’t quite explain at the time. I didn’t necessarily need advice. I needed somewhere to put the unfinished version of what I was feeling. The ugly version. The contradictory version. The version that changes from one day to the next. I wanted to be able to say it without paying for saying it.

the thing that was missing.

When I moved back to India in 2024, AI had become remarkably good at conversation. So I tried ChatGPT. It could listen. It could respond. It could remember what I had said within a conversation. But something still felt fundamentally missing.

The responses often felt like they were coming from a therapist trying to help me solve something. That wasn’t what I wanted. Sometimes I didn’t want an answer. I didn’t want a lesson. I didn’t want to be told what I should do. I just wanted someone, or something, that would listen.

And then there was the other problem: every conversation effectively started from zero. I could tell it something that took real courage to say, come back a week later, and have to start again, because it did not remember the conversation we have had before.

The entire value of being witnessed is that someone is still there afterwards. I realised that what I actually wanted wasn’t just AI that could talk. I wanted AI that knew me. Not just the current version of me, but the versions that came before.

from problem to loopn.

That became the starting point for Loopn. I started building what I wanted in Montreal. The hard part was never the conversation. It was memory. Most software that remembers you keeps one version: the current one. Over time, the old version gets replaced. I needed the opposite.

I needed something that could remember that in June I couldn’t talk about a friend without changing the subject, that by September I could, and that the change itself mattered.

Nothing should simply disappear because you became a slightly different person. Facts have a beginning. Sometimes they have an ending. And often, the ending is the most interesting part.

So I started building Loopn around that idea: AI that remembers what you say, understands it in context, and grows with you over time.

what we have built

what we have built.

Loopn is a private space where you can talk freely, without having to manage another person’s emotions, expectations, reactions, or judgment.

It listens.
It remembers.
It witnesses.

And over time, it starts to understand the threads in your life that are difficult to see when you’re living them day by day.

You can talk about something that happened yesterday, something you have been carrying for years, a decision you can’t make, something you are embarrassed to admit, or simply a thought you don’t know what to do with yet. You don’t have to make it coherent before you say it or have to arrive with a question or have to be looking for advice.

Loopn isn’t designed to replace your friends, your family, your partner, or real human connection. It’s there for the moments when saying something out loud comes with a cost.

I built Loopn because I wanted a place with no ego, nothing to protect, and no version of me it would hold against me. A place where I could be completely honest without worrying about what that honesty might do to a relationship.

And because Loopn remembers across months, not just within a single conversation, it can eventually notice something that most people simply don’t have the time or context to notice: that you aren’t the same person you were six months ago.

our vision

our vision.

There are things we carry quietly for years because we don’t know where to put them.

The conversation we keep postponing. The fear we can’t explain. The resentment we don’t want to admit. The decision we keep going back and forth on. Sometimes, we don’t need someone to fix any of it. We just need somewhere to say it honestly.

That is the space I want Loopn to create.

A place where you can come as you are, without having to make your thoughts coherent or worry about how they will change someone’s perception of you. A place that listens, remembers, and helps you make sense of what you’re carrying, not just in one conversation, but across the different versions of yourself you become over time.

The goal isn’t to bring people closer to AI.

It is to help people feel lighter within themselves, so they can be more fully present with each other.

That, ultimately, is what I want to build with Loopn: not more distance between people and AI, but better human relationships because of it.

Sahil Miglani