AI Companion Design
Not a chatbot. A companion: voice, personality, memory rules, and a safe operating envelope.
Safety-first— guardrails included
Core capabilities
- Persona: tone, style, boundaries, and role
- Memory rules: what’s remembered, for how long, and why
- Voice + presence: wake phrases, interruption, turn-taking
- Tooling: web lookup, file ops, scheduling, workflows
Builds can be local-first, cloud-assisted, or hybrid — depending on your security posture.
Three build tiers
Starter
Persona + prompt system, basic memory rules.
Sentinel
Voice, identity checks, workflows & logging.
Prime
Full presence engine, autonomy modes, safety layers.
Operating envelope (what we define upfront)
To keep an AI companion usable, safe, and consistent, we specify:
Boundaries
Explicit “will / won’t” behaviours.
Memory
Retention, redaction, and recall policy.
Voice UX
Turn-taking, wake words, interruptions.
Audit
Logs + explainability for actions.