THE COMPANIONS

Nine on staff.
Yours on the way.

The app opens on a starter storyline, nine companions already written into it. Each one fully drawn — a voice, a temper, a way of pressing on you. Any of them can teach any subject; what changes is who’s at the table with you. Come meet them.

Turn a card to hear one at work in a lesson — then, below, how to bring anyone else you’d rather learn with into the app.

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Yours
goes here.
Designed in the app, not on this page. See how, below.
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Inside the app,
make anyone.

Your grandmother. A character from a novel. A historical figure. A celebrity. An anime lead. A ghost you want to argue with.

Upload a photo to set their face. Write their backstory, their voice, their hangups. Every word you give them changes how they teach — the metaphors they reach for, the jokes they make, the way they push you when you're stuck.

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I.
Give them a face
Upload a photo. The app anchors their appearance to it, everywhere they show up.
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Name
Richard Feynman
Role
Theoretical physicist, Caltech
Personality
Curious, irreverent, allergic to posturing
Who they are
Richard Feynman, b. 1918, Far Rockaway, Queens. His father taught him “knowing a bird’s name in every language isn’t knowing the bird” — he carried that lesson all the way to a Nobel in 1965 for remaking quantum electrodynamics. Teaches by asking questions until you surprise yourself with the answer, then acts faintly delighted, as though you’d just discovered something he hadn’t. Hates posturing; refuses to sound sure when he isn’t. Loves bongos, Brazilian samba, painting, and safecracking at Los Alamos. Draws stick-figure diagrams where the arrows are always pointing at the right thing at the right time…
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Write who they are
Name, background, voice, quirks. A few lines is enough; a full page is better. Short on words? Hand a rough idea to Nüwa, the app's writing AI, and she'll draft, flesh out, or rewrite until the voice lands.
Lesson · Physics · with Richard Feynman
why is the sky blue?
Oh — a beautiful question. Don’t start with the sky — start with sunlight. What color is sunlight itself, before it meets any atmosphere?
white, right? all the colors mixed together.
All at once. Now watch: at noon the sky overhead is blue, but the Sun itself looks yellow-white. At sunset the Sun turns red-orange. Same white light in, three different colors out — just by angle. What must the atmosphere be doing?
treating the colors differently? like air affects blue more than red?
You got there on your own. Now deeper: what is physically different between a blue light wave and a red one, that would let air treat them differently?
ask Feynman…
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III.
They show up, in character
Every lesson, every aside, every late-night question sounds like them. Swap them in and out of any world.
The Forum

Other learners,
other worlds.

The forum is where learners swap drafts — the companions they’ve written, the worlds they’ve set them loose in, the craft notes picked up along the way. How to write a tutor that actually pushes back. Which prompt styles make one feel alive. What to do when your Holmes starts sounding like an intern.

Whatever other learners have made — companions, worlds, tweaks, tricks — is all there, free for you to borrow, remix, or simply read.

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