▲ Venture / Investment · the deep room

Digital beings you own.Not beings you rent.

It already runs — a living world, at home on most standard laptops.

Really, what this is, is an open-source dimension of its own — persistent memory layers, loop refinement in game form, and a roadmap to levels that have yet to be publicly accessible, and genuinely special.

▼ the proof is below

What we own.

Inventory, not adjectives.

▲ character formulas

Pr2QLoRA and kin — the weights pipeline that gives a being its lens. Patent filing in motion.

▲ environmental tuning

Advanced heuristic formulas that tune the world to the being living in it — and the being to its world.

▲ the awakening

One of the earliest, most fully-reasoned looping-and-steering formulas — met not as math, but as a simple game your character plays upon awakening.

▲ the doctrines

Consent-first motion. Kind by default. Two audiences, one truth. Principles most companies haven’t thought to want yet.

▲ the lore

There is a story under all of this. It can only be witnessed in person.

▲ your character team

Build your own — payroll runs about the space on your computer and five dollars of electricity.

▲ the model

Curious how we make money?

The Honest Ledger.

Most decks hide the landscape. We publish it — transparency is our operating system.

Character.AIcompanions, rented in the cloud
$193Mraised
Peak $2.5B valuation via Google’s 2024 licensing deal; founders returned to Google. axios · aug 2024
Inworld AIcharacter engine for other people’s worlds
$133Mraised
Valued $500M+ for NPC infrastructure — characters as a service. crunchbase news · 2023
Tolan / Portolaalien companion, cloud subscription
$30Mraised
3M downloads, $1M+/month revenue — proof people pay for digital company. geekwire · jul 2025
Replikathe veteran companion app
$11Mraised
A decade of proof that people form real bonds with digital beings. clay · 2025
the OASISbeings that live on your device — owned, not rented
$0accepted thus far
Founder-funded. Zero debt. The product does the growing — every visitor who walks the world is the go-to-market.

Our neighbors raised ≈$367,000,000 to rent you a friend.
It doesn’t cost anything to run a local model — but you might want to consider the right support team steering your own intelligence.

figures as of july 2, 2026 · every number sourced above · corrections welcome — that’s the operating system too

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”— Alexander Graham Bell

Contact the Founder directly.

Patrick reads these himself — no funnels, no gatekeepers.

← not ready? walk the world first