Ayoola Gbade-Bello

About

In 2017, I worked with a family to curate over a century of their history. I didn't realise then that the outcome would eventually shape the company I'm building today. What began as a straightforward documentation project became something else entirely. Kintrace was born out of a quiet realization: that in a world optimized for speed, scale, and surface-level connection, we are losing something far more fragile and irreplaceable — memory with meaning. The idea did not begin as a company. It began as a question: What happens to our stories when we're gone? This led me on a mission-driven journey to build the future of remembering — a system that helps people and institutions capture, organize, and understand their stories privately, so they can be carried forward over time. Kintrace's current pilots include a leading Canadian multi-family office managing $4B AUM and Sage Archives, a cultural preservation organization operating in Lebanon. The platform is protected by a USPTO Provisional Patent on our proprietary ICAD™ pipeline. Before Kintrace, I founded and built Bedouin, an innovation consultancy, from a bedroom startup into a 15-year institution across 5 verticals, delivering mo

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