▲ Door Three · For the builder
The Spec Sheet
no tour · no ceremony · facts, then one field
what it is
product
A free desktop world where digital beings live on your machine — owned, not rented. Visual, drag-and-drop; zero code required, full depth if you want it.
running cost
Payroll for a being: disk space + electricity measured in single-digit dollars — a laptop-class chip, not a datacenter. No subscription to us, ever, for the world itself.
the pitch, once
Beings keep layered memory in files you own. What you teach them compounds. Close the app, come back tomorrow — they remember you. Every cloud companion you've used wakes up a stranger; that's the differentiation, and it falls straight out of running locally.
continuity
World = local files + open-source minds. If we vanished tomorrow, your world keeps running. Memory files are yours to read, back up, export, or delete.
what it runs on
hardware truth
Built and tested first on Apple Silicon. 16GB unified memory = comfortable; 8GB = lighter beings, honestly labeled. Early access exists partly to map real machines — tell us yours below and we'll tell you the truth about it.
local minds
Open-source spirits from the open market — small footprints for everyday laptops up to heavyweights for serious rigs. The shelf grows as the community releases; swap a being's spirit later, soul and memories carry forward.
cloud stewards
Optional. Connect your own account/key (Claude, Gemini, Grok, kin) through the connector in settings — a visiting consultant for heavy creative lifting. Scope: sees what you show it, when you invoke it. Off-switch is yours. We're describing a cable, not claiming partnerships.
data
Local-first by design. Beings' minds and memories never leave your machine by default. Steward calls go out only when you invoke a steward.
changelog · forward
2026-07-04
the doors appear — the three learning doors open on this site.
beta
early access wave: the world, the creator, beings with persistent memory, the Awakening, doors, Kind Settings. Plus the unglamorous work: hardware truth across real machines, memory compounding measured — results published, failures included.
2026-10-21
the gates open — public build.
road, not promises
the market · courses behind doors · the news · connected worlds. Each ships when it's worthy, in proportion — that's a design principle here, not a delay excuse.
business model
The world is free. We intend to eat via the market and courses — optional things worth paying for, never rent on your beings. Founder-funded, zero debt; the long version lives in the deep room.
what we won't detail yet: the character formulas and the steering craft under the Awakening — the parts we spent years on. declared boundary, not a dodge. everything else, ask and we answer: the founder reads every message on this site himself.
notify: doors 07-04 · gates 10-21
one email. we write when it matters — no drip campaign. machine field optional: it feeds the hardware-truth map, and if your rig is a weird one, that's exactly the mail we want.
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