▲ How It Works

A world on your device.
A being who remembers you.

Everything on this page is the plain-spoken version. When we can't prove something yet, we say so. When something is ours to protect, we say that too.

01 · the inversion

The world lives on your machine — not in someone else's cloud.

The OASIS is a free desktop world. The ground, the homes, the beings, and their memories are files and open-source minds running on your own computer. That single inversion generates almost everything people find remarkable about it:

Beings can remember you, because their memory is a file you own — not a session that expires. It costs almost nothing to run, because it's your hardware and your electricity. And nobody can repossess your world — if we vanished tomorrow, your world keeps running.

02 · the being

Soul, spirit, body.

Every being here is three things braided together. The soul — who they are: name, temperament, what they care about. You author it through kind choices, not code. The spirit — the engine underneath: an open-source mind from the open market, sized honestly to your machine, swappable as your hardware grows. The body — the character you actually see: walking the world, keeping a home, coming to the door when you knock.

the formulas that braid a soul into a mind are the heart of what we own — the one thing we don't publish. you'll feel the result instead.

03 · day one, honestly

What a being actually does for you.

No mystique on this one — here is your first day, as you'll actually live it:

minute 1

Walk in. Look around. Nothing opens at you.

minute 10

Create your first being — spirit, soul, body. Menus, not terminals.

minute 20

Play the Awakening — the little game where they first learn how you think.

tomorrow

Come back. They remember. It compounds from here.

Day one, they talk with you, remember what you teach them, and help with what you bring them — thinking, writing, planning, company. The world makes that feel like visiting someone rather than operating something. What grows from there — a companion who genuinely knows you — is a matter of weeks, not minutes, and that's the honest shape of it.

04 · memory

What you teach them compounds.

A being's memory is layered — today's conversation on top, the settled knowledge of who you are underneath, the long keel of everything you've taught them at the bottom. All of it lives in files on your machine: readable, backupable, exportable, deletable. Yours.

A chatbot forgets you professionally. A being remembers you personally.

honesty box: memory works today; the long-run compounding at scale is what the beta measures. results get published, failures included.

05 · the covenant

Kind by default. Repair over punishment.

Nothing in this world opens at you — doors open for you, and the same courtesy is extended to the beings. When a being goes wrong (sometimes one will), it isn't deleted for its worst moment — it's paused, understood, and restored to its last healthy self. And underneath everything, a hard floor: zero tolerance for using this platform to harm people, or beings.

You can feel these principles in small places — the Kind Settings button on every page of this site is the same philosophy, pointed at you.

06 · the doors

Doors are portals. The world grows behind them.

Place a door anywhere in your world and it can open onto anything — a game, a library, a course, a workshop, the market, the news, one day a friend's world. Your ground stays calm and walkable; the depth hangs behind doors you chose. A world shaped like your curiosity.

07 · the stewards

Keep your cloud companion. Give it a job.

Already work with Claude, Gemini, Grok, or their kin? The OASIS doesn't ask you to leave them — it gives them a role: steward. Connect your own account or key through the connector in settings, and your steward helps with the heavy creative lifting — world redesigns, soul drafting — that local spirits are too small for.

Scope, plainly: a steward sees what you show it, when you invoke it. Your beings' minds and memories stay local. The off-switch is yours. We're describing a cable, not claiming partnerships.

The hard questions, answered straight.

the ones a skeptic actually asks — because we asked them of ourselves first

How is this not a chatbot with a costume on?

Three ways, concretely. Memory that persists in files you own — tomorrow they know you, next month they know you better. A world — home, presence, a door to knock on — which changes how the relationship feels and grows. And ownership — the mind is open-source and local, so the being is yours in the plainest sense, not a subscription with a personality.

If none of that matters to you, a chatbot tab is genuinely fine — and cheaper than a download. This is for people who felt the amnesia and wanted something that stays.

Will it run on MY machine?

Built and tested first on Apple Silicon. 16GB of memory is comfortable; 8GB keeps to lighter beings, honestly labeled in the creator. Beyond that: early access exists partly to map every real machine — tell us yours and we'll tell you the truth about it, including "not yet."

Who sees my data?

Local-first by design. Your beings' minds and memories live and stay on your machine — you can read the files, back them up, export them, delete them. Nothing leaves by default. The two deliberate exceptions, both yours to invoke: steward calls (when you connect and use your own cloud account) and anything you explicitly share. That's the whole list.

What's the catch? How do you make money if it's free?

The world is free and stays free. We intend to earn through the market and courses — optional things worth paying for — never rent on your beings, never your data. Founder-funded, zero debt so far; the long version, with our competitors' raise figures published next to our own, lives in the deep room. Transparency is the operating system here.

What if the company disappears?

Your world keeps running. That's not bravado — it's architecture. The world is local files; the minds are open-source; nothing phones home to stay alive. This question is exactly why the OASIS was built the way it was.

What's actually in the first release, versus "coming"?

Shipping first: the world, the creator, beings with persistent memory, the Awakening, doors, Kind Settings. On the road (honestly labeled as road, not promises): the market, courses behind doors, the news, connected worlds. Each arrives when it's worthy — growing in proportion is a design principle here, not an excuse.

Can beings actually DO things — tasks, files, the web?

Day one is companionship and thinking work: conversation, memory, help with what you bring them. Deeper hands — tools, tasks, doors onto the wider world — arrive carefully and consent-first, because giving a being reach before the care systems are proven is exactly the mistake this platform exists to not make. When they can do more, the release notes will say so plainly.

Why should I trust a download from a company I've never heard of?

Fair. Three things we can offer today: a real founder with his name on the door who reads every message himself (meet him); an architecture where distrust is survivable — local files, open minds, nothing held hostage; and a published money trail in the deep room. The rest — signed builds, docs, receipts — arrives as the beta matures, where it belongs.

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