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The essential in 90 seconds
The product
Let's Shine at a glance
- Spanish AI companion with human voice (ElevenLabs).
- 30 space types: couple, family, friends, grief, anxiety, parenting…
- Hardware speaker: 100 founder units (Lite €99 / Pro €229). Arrives July 2026.
- Private by design. No ads. At-rest encryption. GDPR.
The founder
Pablo Belmonte
- Madrid. 10+ years building platforms for vulnerable people.
- Founder of Diseasemaps.org (2016): 200k users in 16 languages.
- Previously: local architecture and engineering firm.
- Reader of contemplative philosophy, Gottman, Sue Johnson, Brené Brown.
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Founder reservations
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Newsletter subscribers
200K
Diseasemaps users
16
Diseasemaps languages
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Descriptive text (boilerplate)
Short version (50 words)
Let's Shine is a Spanish AI companion with human voice to grow as a person and communicate better with the people who matter. Founded by Pablo Belmonte in Madrid.
Medium version (150 words)
Let's Shine is a contemplative AI platform in Spanish. It helps people bring out their best selves and communicate better with their partner, family, kids and friends. It also walks with people through hard moments: anxiety, grief, crises. Launching a hardware speaker with human voice in July 2026 (100 founder units). Founded by Pablo Belmonte (Madrid), also founder of Diseasemaps.org (200,000 users in 16 languages, active since 2016).
Long version (300 words)
Let''s Shine is a contemplative AI platform in Spanish that helps people grow and communicate better with the people around them — partner, parents, kids, siblings, friends. It also walks with people through hard moments: anxiety, grief, personal crises. The difference with other AI assistants is deliberate: Let''s Shine does NOT seek to hook, does NOT sell attention, does NOT fake humanity. It uses Google Gemini 3.1 Pro and ElevenLabs human voice for caring conversations, remembers the user''s family history, and helps them reach the conversation they don''t dare to have. In 2026 it launches its first hardware: a smart speaker with human voice. 100 limited founder units (€99 Lite / €229 Pro), shipping estimated late July 2026. Open-source fork of FutureProofHomes Satellite1.1 (USA) with custom Let''s Shine firmware. Let''s Shine is founded by Pablo Belmonte (Madrid). Pablo has spent a decade building platforms to connect vulnerable people: in 2016 he founded Diseasemaps.org, a platform for people with rare and uncommon diseases, today with 200,000 users in 16 languages and still active. The product philosophy draws from contemporary authors on human relationships, contemplation and communication: Gottman, Sue Johnson, Brené Brown, Thich Nhat Hanh.